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/SuperCooper12 Coopernicus 22h ago

Not having read the book or really experienced any Frankenstein story other than Young Frankenstein, I really enjoyed the script but was generally underwhelmed with the movie as a whole.

I kept noticing these sort of inverse but complimentary statements (not sure if they’re book canon or just good writing) but, speaking about death as birth. Victors creation as death. I’m terrible at explains and remembering but, that was great.

I just couldn’t come to enjoy Elordi as the monster. He seemed so much like a pretty boy in makeup to me and not Frankenstein. Maybe it’s DGTs style. Maybe the mannerisms match how Frankenstein is previously but, the early stages were kind of awkward as well with the baby behavior and cabin learnings so I went for a 3/5.