pathetic ... how can someone not like that movie  
 
that movie is almost as good as the books, and that's something considering the masterpiece tolkien's work was! 
tanker, pure marketting... they save money by making the 3 movies at once, and they gain money by putting them all 3 in the Xmas season, the best season for movies...
if they had put it all in the same week, people would have forgotten the movie one year from now, hence lower toys/commercials, etc. profits..
 
 
but they should have done it lol..
read the two first books back to back in less than a week... but now I'll have to wait a year for the sequel to this movie hehe