Let me start out by saying everyone is tearing this movies a part for not being like the books.....but it's not a book it's a movie. To perfectly adapt this book into a movie it would have been 5 or 6 hours long if not longer. My feeling is you have to go in knowing the movie is not going to be as good as the book. It is truly a rarity when movies are better than books. They did leave out a lot and I won't go into all the details of exactly what but I will simply say that this movie is well worth the 9.75 I payed and recommend this to anyone who wants to see a good movie without caring about whether or not it completely follows the book!