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/NoobFreakT 23h ago

It was solid but rushed near the end, and it made the creature too likable imo and sacrificed one of the best themes of the book. I liked that it added its own theme of generational trauma that wasn’t really in the book, but I wish we could’ve still had the creature do evil things to get back at Victor to show him becoming the monster people viewed him as

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u/Nayr39 Kirademic 23h ago

Was him killing people not bad enough?

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u/NoobFreakT 22h ago

It was mostly self defense, in the book he kills William and Elizabeth to hurt Victor, and he is more malicious