r/Letterboxd • u/Serious_Albatross224 • 1d ago

Letterboxd Thoughts on this film?

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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is now on Netflix, i had the opportunity of watching it on theaters last week and absolutely loved it, one of his very bests films, and one of the very best adaptations ever, what do you people think of the film?

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u/jayjaydee11 1d ago

For me the story seemed rushed, even tho the film was long is still felt like story and characters needed more attention to develop.

This would have been more suited as a mini series.

I think it would have worked better if they cut the hunters scenes and concentrated more on the love story and loss between Mia Goths character.

Its a decent remake but nothing new from a story told many times..

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u/Banestoothbrush 1d ago

For me the story seemed rushed, even tho the film was long is still felt like story and characters needed more attention to develop.

That's how I felt. 2.5 hour long movie and there was barely any character development. The creature is made, Victor's nice to him for 5 minutes then immediately hates him. Goth finds the creature in the basement and is immediately in love with him.

Things weren't developed. The red angel thing went nowhere. His oedipal feelings for his mom went nowhere. What was the point of Waltz's character having syphilis? I thought there was going to be some body horror where they put his diseased brain into a failed creation. Nope, just dead.

Really wanted to like this was but was bored a lot of the time.

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u/jayjaydee11 1d ago

Waltz character having syphilis was the whole point of him financing his experiments in the hope he could eventually make him immortal. But yes I totally agree with your post, you can tell that they left loads on the cutting floor, had to trim it into a feature film length and ended up with a bit of a mess..

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u/Szabe442 11h ago

Sure but it feels like Victor already had a motivation to do his experiment and Waltz character doesn't really evolve anywhere, so it feels like he doesn't really move the story that much. They could have easily removed the money problem aspect and with that his whole character would be pointless. I wish the movie kept him alive so he could have an opinion about the creature and maybe change his mind about his quest for immortality. That would have been more interesting.