I have read the whole trilogy lots of times since I was 13. I have a very definite version of how the events in the book unfold and what the characters are like. I did not really like the movies at all. It was very strange experience. I simply had to watch them because I wanted to see how someone else has imagined them. Yes, they were not badly made, but somehow it did not work for me.
I felt the same about Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Just not quite good enough. The books are so much better.
I am under the assumption that lightening does not strike twice in the same place, so Mary..
*waits for the thunder to finish*
..if you don't mind, could we please switch places?
-KB