Even though I'm a fan of the books, I kind of think that the ending could of been cut and saved for the EE. When all of Gondor bows to the hobbits, that could of been the ending and left 90% of audiences very happy.
Still ROTK was great, not quite as good as FOTR, but much better then TTT, and all around the best paced of the three with a lot of solid entainment value.
I liked Mystic river when I saw it, but the more I think about it, it was actually pretty bad.
Still haven;t seen Seabiscuit either.