...well, here's what going past the Pillars of the Argonath is like in the text of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring:
Sheer rose the dreadful cliffs to unguessed heights on either side. Far off was the dim sky. The black waters roared and echoed, and a wind screamed over them...The chasm was long and dark, and filled with the noise of wind and rushing water and echoing stone. It bent somewhat towards the west so that at first all was dark ahead; but soon Frodo saw a tall gap of light before him, ever growing. Swiftly it drew near, and suddenly the boats shot through, out into a wide clear light.
it's dark and windy and scary and that's the point, because Aragorn strikes a kingly figure amid the fear.
and here's what Peter Jackson and his gang made it look like:
it's some boats floating placidly through a CGI theme-park ride. if you look at the images carefully, you'll see that they didn't even bother to make the front of the Argonath models consistent with how they look from behind (look at the position of their arms.)
garbage. just...garbage. Peter Jackson ruined movies with this crap. now everything's a CGI theme-park ride.
~Chara