Wish I could have watched the entire movie!

Rating: 4/10 (28 March 2012)

I LOVED the books and I thought that the movie could have been excellent BUT the shaky camera killed it for me. It was so shaky at some points that I couldn't watch it because it made me so sick I thought I was literally going to puke on the person sitting in front of me at the theater!! I went to the theater with about 20 other people. We all bought our tickets ahead of time so that we could all see it together. Everyone but about 3 people felt the same way about the shaky camera. We were all a little surprised that this was not mentioned in the reviews that we read prior to going to the show. Had the movie not been filmed like that I would have given it an excellent rating!! I would have even gone back to the theater to see it again. They did a great job including just about everything from the book. The changes that they did make or left out were not detrimental to the story and were not a big deal. I REALLY hope that the shaky camera work is not in the next films because I would love to be able to watch them. If you can get past the shaky camera then I don't see why you wouldn't love the film as they did a great job on everything else!