I 'm always happy to learn that a film has been adapted from a novel.
Most novelists still know how to tell a story.
And many retain the ability to create characters who talk and act like real human beings. Not so your average writer of original screenplays. Today's screenwriters are cartoonists. They substitute action sequences for plot, and their characters are as flat as the figures in a comic book panel. But female audiences still prefer a plausible story line within which fully realized characters actually converse with one another.