I know this is going to make me wildly unpopular with a lot of people, but I honestly don't think that, as a movie, this film was constructed well at all.

I fully understand and accept that huge chunks of the book had to be cut out in order to make the movie less than 10 hours. I get it, it makes sense. Unfortunately, the bone I'm picking is with the basic cinematography.

On more than one occasion (actually, on the majority of them) I found myself fumbling during scene changes, as there seemed to be little or no continuity between many of them. (I'm pretty certain that, when the dvd comes out with an extended edition or a stack of deleted scenes, it will be fairly ABC to point out where the deleted portions will go.)

Furthermore, I'd like to propose using something other than cuts as a form of scene transition. Not to mention, let's not spend 10 seconds shooting images of something that, although important, doesn't get explained, and doesn't need to be looked at longingly.

Enjoyable, but not nearly good enough.

FIrst and foremost, I'd get a really good lawyer. You never know when someone is going to come out saying that you owe them such and such for this or that reason, and it's good to have some legal protection. I'd follow that by paying off every bit of debt that I or my loved ones had, and start looking for an incredibly bitchin house. And maybe a boat.