Yes. I’d say for a movie, solid, maybe a bit heavy handed, but so was the source material from what I know of it. Compared to Netflix usual CGI duds though it’s truly phenomenal.
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I also found it clever how they’re obviously setting up Mia Goth for the Bride sequel :::
I did, whatd you think?
It was OK. I thought it was kinda’ sloppy though. I didn’t like the fairytale (almost Marvel with his Superman powers) style it had where it’s just constantly reinforcing how innocent he is. I haven’t read the book, but from adaptations or incorporation of Frankenstein/'s monster I’ve seen it feels like the original story has way more going on with it.
Another Marvel aspect I felt was how straight-forward a lot of the dialogue and visual metaphors were. Which has me wonder how much films going forward are going to have this kind of storytelling.
gorgeous, great music but pretty heavy handed. its a shame that it didnt get a longer theatrical release, it stopped showing here the moment it dropped on netflix, but its prettier than most netflix productions
i wish it wasnt as heavy handed and i wish victor frankenstein motivations in the movie were more interesting, but once the monster appears in the movie as a character, i started liking it a lot more
I’ll probably see it at some point, but I’m just not a big Del Toro guy. He seems like a cool guy making great genre movies, but for the most part there’s just something about them where I don’t like the way they look. I dunno, I’ve only watched three of his movie (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and The Shape of Water, and I like the first two quite a bit) and I’ve been meaning to sit down sometime and just blitz through his whole body of work and try to figure out my issues. Like, maybe I was just in a bad mood when I saw The Shape of Water, you know?
Just to be clear, not an issue with the stories or the scripts, purely the, like, lighting choices.
Blade 2 fucking rules
Not del Toro’s best movie, and the dialogue was pretty heavy handed. But I loved the visuals and i liked it more when I stopped thinking of it as historical sci fi and instead pictured it as part of a high fantasy setting.
Maybe my expectations were too high but I was pretty underwhelmed. Frankenstein was a bit too much of an asshole and the Creature was too innocent. I know Victor is obviously supposed to be the villain of the story but his portrayal could have used some nuance.
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And it just felt feckless to remove the parts where the Creature kills out of revenge - like yeah technically he does kill William but it was more of an accident and not premeditated like in the book. It’s way more interesting when the Creature does truly immoral things, leaving the audience to ponder whether he can be held accountable for his actions. In the book you could argue that Victor kills Elizabeth by creating and spurning the Creature but in the movie he just literally does kill her lol.
Speaking of Elizabeth, I’m not sure about the change to making Frankenstein an incel lusting after his little brother’s fiancee. It’s not an uninteresting development but it really gets at my point of Victor being too much of a sack of shit. And it removes the element of jealousy with the Creature wanting a companion like his creator has.
I also thought it was weird how everyone knew what Frankenstein was up to the whole time, though I didn’t totally hate that change because it shows how society enables wealthy assholes to do evil shit.
The Creature being cursed with immortality was an interesting addition but the super-strength was too much. I don’t need cool epic setpieces in a Frankenstein movie, I’d rather it be moody and unsettling.
I guess I was expecting a closer adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, and while it can be good or even necessary for adaptations to make changes to the source material (and that’s part of the fun with Frankenstein adaptations in particular) I just felt like too many of Del Toro’s changes made the story worse for me. Also it should have been a horror movie.
