[Corin Stormhands]

Have you read the books?

Yes. And I wouldn't recommend seeing the movie without reading the books first. I think what I liked best about the movie were the visuals. And I just like Maggie Smith.

[JenB]

Right, I don't think you'd enjoy the HP movies at all without having read the books (I have read all of them and oddly they haven't led me into satanism. Too bad, I was looking forward to actually learning some curses.)

I guess it's just the quality of material - LotR is so much better than HP, naturally the one movie is going to be superior to the other.