Quote Originally Posted by escobert View Post
I never bothered watching it after hearing how butchered it was and how they weren't sure if they'd even produce the other two books.
Yeah, you aren't missing anything. Apparently toward the very end of production the corporate suits at New Line ordered the production team to make massive changes and remove all the references to Catholicism, among other things.

It's not a horrible movie. It's just unremarkable and boring. You can tell while watching it that it's not the result of what the people making it originally had envisioned.