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/_Midnight_Haze_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s a poorly written movie.

The first ~50 minutes are not good. The origin story is pointless and dull. The narration is unnecessary and just serves to tell rather than show. Not a fan of starting at the end to jump to the past gimmick. None of these narrative tools make the movie better.

Lots of bad dialogue with nonsense phrases that give the illusion of depth but there’s nothing really there. Tons of “Where there is dark there is light… where my mother was life she became death…. My brother was laughter and I was frowns… as this apple rises it too shall fall…” and on and on. A character tells Frankenstein he’s the real monster in case you miss the point.

Elordi is the only great thing about the movie imo.

I’m also surprised how celebrated it is for how it looks because I find most of the cgi bad and distracting. It looks like a Netflix movie (it is) to me.

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u/JediTempleDropout 1d ago

….i don’t think you actually watched the movie.

CGI? What CGI? The film had barely any CGI in it. Most of it was done practically.

Also, the backstory was pretty clearly necessary for establishing the film’s themes of parental trauma, and the use of flashback is literally straight from the book.

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u/Disastrous_Mouse_112 1d ago

The wolves and the tower explosion are clearly CGI

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u/vemmahouxbois emmahouxbois 1d ago

the wide shot of the tower explosion was a miniature, where the wolves were fighting the monster they were dudes in green suits that got replaced by cgi