I walked into this movie thinking - no, knowing - that I would HATE it. I knew that it was going to be a horrible interpretation of the book. But I was very surprised to see that it was very similar to it. I do, however, agree with one of the reviewers in that you should probably read the books to understand everything going on. You don't HAVE to... but I'm sure that you'll like the movie more if you do because you'll get a lot of stuff that aren't explained so well. Yeah, sure, not everything is the same of the book. I was looking forward to a few parts that never came along. But, overall, I think it was a good movie.