Sometimes, the adapter goes that extra little bit further and they seem to go out of their way to do violence to the original text. Famous examples include Stanley Kubrick when adapting The Shining or Paul Verhoeven when adapting Starship Troopers (to the point that, when I eventually got around to them, it affected how I read Heinlein's original work).

In many of the communities I operate in, in the past few years, there has been rotating discourse over what to do about Joanne (JK) Rowling. Like, a lot of discourse. Be it from the people rightly disturbed by her bigoted beliefs or those who grew up with her fantastical world of Hogwarts that refuse to let it go, to the person herself who refuses to just let one single sleeping dog lie, it seems like Rowling is never far from the thoughts of someone in the communities I oper

This movie is incredible. In another year it'd be my favorite movie of the year, but this year is stuffed with Spider-Man Brand New Day, Backrooms, Obsession, The Odyssey, and so many others that it'll get crowded out, but it's still a phenomenal movie that all involved should be proud of. Definitely in my Top 5 DC movies, maybe my Top 10 Superhero movies.