Flutterings

I've been watching with ever-increasing horror since info about this movie started trickling out. I had almost convinced myself we could go see it and I would just pretend it had nothing whatsoever to do with the book (which, from recent accounts, probably isn't that much of a stretch), but...no. Just...no. I really don't think I could sit through it without throwing things and/or bursting a major blood vessel somewhere.

Why do the Hollywood Powers That Be even bother to buy the rights to a great book, when all they want to do is gut it, shove in a bunch of crap, and extrude a crappy movie out to theaters under the title of the book it no longer reflects?!!? They can't expect to please fans of the book, surely, and if they claim the book fans are such a small group, then why bother pretending they're making a movie from the book to begin with? Why not just cut out that step entirely and use a random title generator?

*fumes*