While I would love to see all of the horrible stuff and for them to stay true to the books I guess I understand the reasoning behind watering in down. What happens in the books is quite brutal but if they were to bring it to life on the big screen they would have to have an R rating more than likely and think of all of the kids that would miss out on the spectacular films if that was the given rating. Maybe they will release a director's cut one day... we can certainly hope.