I'm a huge pedant when it comes to adapting books to movies, but I have to say after forcing myself through the ordeal that was reading the first Bourne book, it was a rare exception where the film was vastly better. I seriously found Ludlum's writing so dull - but to be fair I haven't read anything else by him, so maybe that's not the best?

I am skeptical about The Hobbit film - what perspective I did enjoy from LotR was the visuals of the battle scenes, which I always find hard to imagine to scale in books - but the nit picking over large and small details caused my sister to elbow me in the ribs quite a few times in the cinema With The Hobbit, there's no need for anything so epic, I feel - except of course Smaug and the Battle of the Five Armies. It's a really intimate book to me, I even imagine the initial goblin encounters to be small army rather than teeming like insects as I'm sure they may transpire in the film. I'm nerding out too much now.

On the positive side, Aidan Turner. Mmmm.