It comes out officially Friday (at least in the US). But yeah, the ending was really shocking. Of everything I was worried about, that they would lose the entire ending never even occurred to me. That was my other question- why bother filming this movie when it's clearly not a story the people in charge were interested in telling? I suppose they just wanted to build on the popularity of the books.

It's a very, very pretty movie; the special effects and sets are gorgeous, and all the actors are awesome. So it's well worth seeing, in a way.

Thank you, hee. I suppose anger is inspirational.