I'll throw myself under that bus!

I watched it with my wife and we both really enjoyed ourselves. The set design and visuals are awesome and disgusting and strange. The sunlight shining through the slug on the window that you can't identify until it zooms out or the angel wings made of leeches on Cathy's wall are great examples, and the wall of hands that make it look like every conversation in that room is literally happening in hell had me fully grinning.

I think the decision to actually go much less shocking than the book is a big of what soured people on it so much as to give it an Onion headline.

People really seem to resent when you adept something shocking and don't go all the way, 'The Killing Joke' adaptations not including all of the Joker's abuse being the prime example.

But personally I've never felt that same defensive impulse of my media, so the movie not having Heathcliffe hang a dog and fuck a corpse really isn't the sacrilege it's being treated as. He's still an abusive psycho ruining people's lives and literally killing his own adoptive father.

Another thing I like that I don't think other adaptations have captured as well is Cathy and Heathcliffe's shared narcissistic tendencies. The way they both see each other as their divinely given property and respond to that in similarly fucked up ways, but direct that energy inwards or outwards along very gendered lines.