I had very similar feelings about the first film, which I went to see with my brothers and sister and Mum at Christmas. Then we went to see the second one the next year, and when we got out my sister and I were both boiling with anger over what they did to Faramir. As it happend we saw it shortly after with my aunt, her husband and son; having warned them that there were things we strongly disapproved of, it was quite heartening to have our aunt come out of the cinema and her first words being "They wrecked Faramir!". :-)