Oh man... I just finished Two Towers. I forgot just how troublesome some parts of the story are to my psyche. A few moments make my heart cringe so bad that I want to charlie horse Peter Jackson. Don't get me wrong, I love the man. But he deserves a charlie horse or two for the Two Towers. The movie also has the worst pacing issues of the three. I may have to throw down at editing this at some point. It hurts too bad to watch it in its present form.
Even if I only removed Legolas swinging the wrong way onto the horse and Aragorn dropping down into the middle of the horde at helms deep, this movie would be about 100% better in my eyes. But there is much more than that that needs to be done. Jackson's treatment of Frodo with Faramir doesn't work on a number of levels. 1st, it makes Frodo appear way too weak for this middle movie. 2nd why the hell would Faramir ever think to himself that he should let Frodo go to Mordor after just witnessing Frodo try to hand the ring of power to a nazgul? Also the timing of the Ent scenes needs to be adjusted, at minimum.