Not at all, well... OK... sometimes.
But this is not such a choice. PJ's presentation was hardly *evil*, in that it was somehow diametrically opposed to Tolkien's vision. One can quibble about some fine points of things included and excluded, or characters that were stronger or weaker. Some of those quibbles are reasonable. But the truth I think remains that in order to make a movie that was *only* nine hours long, certain license is not just appropriate, but inevitable.
Any of us that were in PJ's position would have had to make the same sorts of choices. We might have made different choices, but the criticisms would have been equal to or more than what can reasonably be levelled at PJ. It's for this reason that I think PJ pretty much nailed it. Not that somebody else couldn't have done it, but then it would have been merely different, not necessarily better.
my .03