In fact, the movie has got my curiosty.  I'm going to get a copy of the book.  My wife wants to read it too.

Look, you're entitled to your opinion regarding tie-ins or other forms of works, but you're starting to sound like a broken record.

I teach high school and I'm always telling my kids not to see the movies based on works of literature as they will never get the whole point of the work.  But there are plenty of movies that catch the spirit of the work.  There is one good thing that can come from such works.  If it brings you back to the original, then it is a good thing.  I've got kids who want to read Their Eyes Were Watching God because they saw the Halle Berry movie and the movie wasn't even that good.

I liked it a lot.  I probably would have liked it more if I didn't have the book so deeply burned into my brain, because I kept thinking, "Well, THAT didn't happen!"  But it was visually amazing, especially because we saw the 3-D version.  It's been so long since I've seen a movie in 3-D that I was astounded by how cool and solid the glasses were (yes, the last ones I used were made out of cardboard, why do you ask?)

But the message of the story is the same, and that's what's most important, especially with a movie bringing it to a wider audience (including the kids who don't read as much as they should, or who aren't at that reading level yet).  When we walked out of the theater, my boyfriend and I were discussing the movie and he pointed out that it was frightening but in a good way, in a way that would make the audience think and remember.  I bet it will make kids think twice before complaining about their parents, at least ...