The good points? Gollum is fantastic, probably the best-realized character in this movie version of the Trilogy(so far). The scenery and settings, both digital and real, are incredible; you DO feel like you're in Middle Earth.The bad points? Everything else! Why, why, WHY did Peter Jackson and his co-writers feel a need to "improve" upon the original material with new plot devices that manage to spoil the suspense and dialogue that makes George Lucas' STAR WARS scripts read like, well, J.R.R. Tolkien by comparison? The only thing I was left with at the end of THE TWO TOWERS was a sense of dread, scared stiff by the thought of how Jackson's going to mangle THE RETURN OF THE KING!I don't care a bit if my opinion is in the minority: based upon what's been released so far, the only thing that could have been worse than this version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS is if Walt Disney Studios had tried doing it instead.