Oh, it looks awful. I have not seen the film, nor read the book - I think I somehow intuitively knew that they would make me want to vomit copiously. Not even Javier Bardem could make me sit through the film, and that is saying something 
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silverfrog, 'I had to read it for a book club I was in (so had to finish it, even thugh it was shite), and then had ot sit for an evening listening to everyone else gush about how much they had loved it'. Oh, that is nasty! I do feel your pain - I once had to go to see SATC 2 in the cinema. Well, didn't actually have to but all of my female colleagues were going to see it, and were very insistent that we must all go, on a 'girls night out' (I should have know, tbh, I have never been the 'girls night out' type). We had to see it in the cinema, then go for cocktails (urgh) in some over-priced, pretentious, Manhattan wannabe bar. I spent the duration of the film cringing at the contrived, badly-written offensiveness of it - and then 2 hours in a bar listening to my colleagues discussing how it was 'brilliant', 'amazing', 'one of the best movies ever' and 'fabulous'. It was around then that I decided I had to find a new job 
. Disclaimer - am probably a miserable, cynical bitch. It still made me want to throw things, though.