Okay! I'll probably skip the movie this weekend, then, but hopefully by next weekend I'll be far enough in the series I can see it.
Glad you liked it. Yeah, Gary Oldman is a good villain--was pretty scary in Dracula.
It shouldn't take you long to read the books, the first two are easy reads and then the third is complicated. But great.
Gary Oldman reminded me at times of Johnny Depp from "Pirates of the Caribbean", but it worked! Sigh... if only he had been just a little cleaner.