a new award shouldn't be introduced - at least not in any main category. a nice "hey good job" trophy, maybe, but no "best supporting digital character". too much is split between the tech aspects and the actual acting aspects. :
saw the film for a second time this afternoon, and it fixed a lot of my complaints i had earlier. i could watch it as a movie instead of comparing it to the book. two things i noticed: when the elves march into helms deep, one of them is black! and during the battle of helms deep, theoden...
i'm going to have to back up craig. grima's tear seemed more like a tear of "holy god, what a sight" rather than joy or distress. of course, i could be projecting the way I felt during that shot, so who knows?
i saw it last saturday late at night when i was dead tired and i still loved (nearly) every second of it. however there was one thing i was disappointed in: the pull-out shot going through saruman's army was too fast and too short! i was really hoping for a long deep shot to show just how...
dj is right on. they couldn't (or didn't want to, or couldn't afford to) show 'gore', so they had the victim just fall over. that kind of thing still happens in movies, but now they can afford squibs.