My mother was very helpful to me with this batch of movies. When I told her how I was wrestling with my feelings regarding one of the movies, she immediately sent me the book it was based on and, of course, I read it.
It did make me appreciate the film more as a largely successful adaptation of an impossible-to-adapt story, yet at the same time, the book's own shortcomings pulled into focus what I didn't like about the movie.
But it wasn't the worst movie I saw...
