Why do most people think the Two Towers movie is better than the Fellowship of the Ring movie?

And Tom Bombadil is cool, but not essential to the plot

Yeah, but so is Darth Vader, and they kept him out of the LOTR movies.

@jdh1, they leave out huge gaps and add dumb stuff

Let me give you some examples

Tom Bombadil-left out

good character but not that important to the plot, yes I know about the swords but they weren’t going to add 10+ minutes to the film to account for that tiny detail

The Scouring of the shire-left out

yes this was a huge mistake

For some weird reason, all of Rohan goes to Helm's deep. In the book, the warriors go there, and the women and Children go to Dunharrow-add

Faramir takes Frodo to Osgiliath, with the intent of taking the ring to Minas Tirith-add

This was definitely a mistake, Faramir would never have done that

Boromir and Faramir both have blond hair in the movie, while they have dark hair in the book (Minute detail, but I noticed and it bugs me) 

In the book, the army of the Dead only go to the attack the Corsairs of Umbar, and then leave. In the movie, they just go and attack on the field of Pellenor-add

Yeah this makes them way too good

At the entrance to Mordor, Frodo sends Sam away for 'eating' all the lembas waybread. In the book, nothing of the sort happens.-add

yeah they should have done the scene that was actually in the book here

In the movie, Pippin and Merry at first fail to convince Treebeard and the Ents to go to Isengard, but in the book, they convinced them practically right away. -left out

honestly I think this may have been a good change for the films (it would not be a good change for the book) but I’m not sure

In the movie, they leave the Shire like in a day, but in the book it's literal years.-left out

yes they were totally going to make the movie 17 years long

I could go on. And on. And on and on and on.