I liked it, DP not so sure but he hasn't read them and was puzzled about a few things that will be explained in the next one, so he felt it didn't work as a film in it's own right, which is fair enough.
I think it's quite a difficult book to film cos what I liked in the first half of book is the struggle and monotony and hopelessness of what they're trying to do - which as a film would be pretty dull.
AIBU to really quite fancy Ron these days??? He's very good in it. Daniel Radcliffe needs to be a whole lot angrier IMO.