Yes indeed. A film that did wander off quite considerably from the beaten path of the book but was quite awesome and did, in some versions at least, contain the best implementation of subtitles I've ever seen in a foreign language film. Take something normally dull and 2 dimensional and make it very very cool.
Whilst I enjoyed the films the books are still to my mind infinitely cooler, although without the film I doubt an English translation of the books would have ever seen print. Even then the last book was hampered by being printed with a chapter missing. Thankfully this has now been rectified and that is the book I am now going to wander back to, having nothing to challenge me today other than untangling the duvet and maybe making a cup of tea.