Yes, I'm sure this is why people didn't like the movie. I have mixed opinions, but I also try to look at movies as "riffs" on books as opposed to page-by-page retellings (because they never are; why get disappointed?). What Hollywood's done to the Hobbit is pretty shitty and gratuitous, though. However I still have seen it in theaters and will go see the last one...can't not. It's true. V for Vendetta is just totally different all the fuck over the place. Sometimes I find it very interesting to see what they change and why. Can we blame at least some of this on the MPAA, though? I'd like to. Though - the would-be Watchmen KB talks about, that just makes me shudder. I'm very glad that's not what happened.and magickally
Hollywood has a history of screwing up Moore's work. KB's right - this is the least worst adaptation