Screw that....I watched it last night and fell asleep twice....ok, like ANY of those scenes HAD to be that long?!?!?! C'mon 3 and 1/2 hours??? How many times did we hafta see Froto's tired and frustrated "am I gonna make it?" face? Not to mention half of the last half hour were in slo-mo??? How annoying is that! I was ready to scream. It's CGI was amazing but the directing was horrible....ok, they left out SOME parts, but we still had to see the whole Sam gets married section? Yeah, that was real important....couldn't they have at least taken pity on my ass and made it four 2-hour movies? I mean if a teacher asked a student to sit still for four hours s/he'd be arrested....the horrible editing/direction ruined a great story....unless you're a freakin' TOTAL LOTR geek, you had no reason to like this movie at all....seriously...pick out 1 shot....just 1, and tell me it couldn't have been cut in half while delivering the same impact, from a film-making perspective it was awfully done!