Well of course you could end up with that, but that's the risk of not just doing a strict adaptation, no risk, now reward, and I don't believe there is a reward with this picture.
I don't believe I've implied to throw out everything, but this movie was too much of a strict adaptation, the book was good but there are tons of places for improvement as with any work especially 20 years later and in another medium. The facts are nothing was either expanded upon or radically changed except the ending.
