[Professor S]

Everyone calm down, here. This is a movie, not the comic book, and there will be changes made. Its inevitable even if for the sole reason that film is not a medium conducive to creating mythos. Mythos is basically what comic books try and create and movies cannot duplicate it, especially in a book that has spanned 40 years, so sacrifices must always be made in the translation.

The point isn't whether or not the movie accurately portrays the book, it whether or not the movie is a good movie on its own. Comic books and movies are two separate mediums with two very different ways of telling a story. If you try and compare them to each other you are setting yourself up for disappointment.