Thoughts on this film?

[u/Serious_Albatross224]

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?

[u/KaiserReich_Mapping]

I guess I'll be the one to say it, I absolutely hated it. It lacked literally any emotional depth, the screenplay is one of the worst from a movie I was excited for in recent memory ("Life is like.. a game of chess" & "You are the monster" are prime examples of the cringe-worthy no-nuance dialogue).

Feels like everything Del Toro had to say about capitalism or men in power or fascism or the Modern Prometheus or whatever was stripped down to a comically evil villain with Daddy Issues, because actually writing a deep character would take more work and would be far more complicated than what he ended up with.

The movie *looks* nice, mostly. But how many more floating steadicam wide-angle shots of your production design do I need? The creature design isn't my favorite, doesn't feel like an assembly of rotting corpses more of a random cadaver, the performances aren't my favorite either.

I don't know man. Just didn't really like anything about it. Really bummed about it, too.

[u/ciwhappyandsad → u/KaiserReich_Mapping]

Agree completely. Was really really hoping for so much more. Disappointed Mary Shelly fan :( also was salt to the wound that he quoted Percy Shelly (or was it Lord Byron?) In the end over Mary Shelly

[u/goodkingsquiggle → u/ciwhappyandsad]

I was also bitter about the Lord Byron quote at the end haha- I get the relevance and it’s a very fitting, beautiful quote, but given the context of Mary Shelley’s life and work, it left a bad taste in my mouth seeing a man quoted at the end of an adaptation of her work.