You argue your points from the standpoint of reading the books. Fair enough. However, my comments relate strictly to it's impressions on me
as an adult seeing the movie
without reading the books....as will 99.5% of viewers.
If they are going to make a movie into a book, and much more so it it's from a series, the producers and director must do it such a way as those who haven't read the books will understand and accept the plot, as well as bond with the main characters.
All I'm saying is this movie didn't do that.
If you ad to read the books to get the movie, i would agree with you -- that's a bad movie. No, I think everything I said was in the movie I saw. And about 99% of the other people who saw it.
But, you didn't see it. Fair enough. As the Professor pointed out, that only means you didn't see it. :-)