Attention: Small spoiler.
I saw this last night and thought it was a great movie for the most part. There was one scene that I thought was pretty dumb though. There's this girl who is the daughter of King Theodin. During a battle she gets attacked by a dragon and somehow manages to chop of it's head with her puny little sword even though she's skin and bones. But whatever, she's a heroine or something. That wasn't the part that bothered me. The part that bothered me regarded her fight against the immortal witch king who is the most powerful of the evil ring holders and which no man can kill (tolkien originally meant no huMAN, ie. the realm of men). So the girl and the witch king are fighting for awhile and I guess because she's a heroine that she isn't instantly butchered, ok that's fine. So after a little while the witch king decides to walk up to the girl for a little chat for no apparent reason. Keep in mind that she's wearing a helmet and you can't tell her gender at this point. He says, "silly little man, no man can kill me". While he's doing that up sneaks a hobbit behind the witch king and sticks him with his sword and he can hurt him because he's not a man (huMAN). And as the immortal witch king falls to his knees the girl takes off her helmet and says, "I am no man, woohoo girl power!" and sticks him in the head with her sword and he dies. Ok so I added in the "woohoo girl power" but it just annoys me that they had to do something so out of context in such a great movie. It's like a blemish on a great thing and it's obviously not in the book because that's not what Tolkien meant by 'man', he meant 'huMAN'. Am I alone on thinking this is stupid? I was so happy about how they managed to keep the first two movies without this kind of crap and just made them good movies.