Guillermo del Toro Sets His Next Film, 'Frankenstein', at Netflix

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Del Toro been overrated

 

[Ribbs]

Need Oscar Isaac needs to leave that English accent at home.

I enjoyed this Jacob and Mia were great. Everything on the ship worked for me. A bit long in the tooth though.

 

[FlyRy]

Yeah, I don't really love Del Toro's work, but I respect him as an artist, and visionary and this seemed good. I could tell 30 seconds in, I wouldn't like it. It's that really washed out, lifeless quality. Very few movies have that naturalistic feel from the 90's, or even early 2000's. At some point around 2015, a lot of movies toom on this weird visual quality. It's very interesting to me, where this even comes from. I even read a whole REDDIT thread on it, WHY DOES FRANKENSTEIN 2025 LOOK LIKE THAT a few days later. I guess people said it looked great in 35MM.

Like you said, I guess Del Toro has been saying how he built all those sets and all this, but it didn't look like that at all.

As a movie, it still doesn't really work. The lone lurches all over the place. Del Toro loves the gothic imagery, but his movies don't breathe long enough for the audience to live in that world. It's all surface level imagery. Of course there is a bunch of bullshyt in there about trauma and abuse and whatever, but it wasn't engaging at all. This is maybe on me, but I was expecting something a little closer to the 1994 version.

I actually left about 100 minutes in, it wasn't that bad, but I was pretty tired, and I couldn't see the next 90 minutes making up for the first 100.

 

[patscorpio]

I liked this...def reinforced to me how truly demonic Frankenstein really is as a story lol

 

[FaTaL]

Watching, so far so good

 

[King_Kamala61]

Movie was great until they went against the book.

And wtf do we need the monster's point of view???I had to check it wasn't directed by Ryan Coogler...shyt falls off a cliff after a terrific start

 

[summwunn]

..... I Just . . .Want . . . A .... COMPANION !!!!!!!

 

[FaTaL]

Movie was great until they went against the book.

And wtf do we need the monster's point of view???I had to check it wasn't directed by Ryan Coogler...shyt falls off a cliff after a terrific start

The monster has feelings too

 

[King_Kamala61]

The monster has feelings too

We don't care I wanted to see him kill everyone that he loved and eventually make Frankenstein hunt him and then at the end the old maid, Mary Shelley leaves him as he is dying to fetch water and come back to see the monster crying over Frankenstein.

This movie is why I question y'all taste and the dikk sucking of Ryan Coogler on this board.

Y'all have shytty taste in films

 

[Mister Terrific]

Really good. The guy who played Frankenstein’s monster was insanely good at conveying the behavior of a child.

 

[summwunn]

Really good. The guy who played Frankenstein’s monster was insanely good at conveying the behavior of a child.

.... in real life . .. . he conveys the behavior of a non-Harlem resident . . ..

 

[Mister Terrific]

.... in real life . .. . he conveys the behavior of a non-Harlem resident . . ..

Makes sense. Got some homoerotic vibes in his portrayal.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

This shytS all over Nosferatu.

Just give GDT the whole monster universe

I really dug this movie but

They are about even to me.

 

[Scaaar]

Just finished it up and it was really solid and beautiful movie. I watched it on my OLED and the colors were just jumping off the screen

 

[Conz]

it's weird, i'm always excited about Del Toro projects and i'm always whelmed by them. i love the dude himself and i love his mind, but his actual movies are always ok. the shyt he never makes always sounds so much better than the shyt he actually makes. still think the 2 Hellboys are better than everything that came after. wasn't excited for this, but ended up really liking it. Elordi was as advertised, dude killed it