Will this be a good movie?

If you like Guillermo del Toro films.

You may find some opinions here:

I shoukd add that wanting to fuck one of the actors is a legit reason to see a movie.

He would have an enormous schwanzstucker!

[quote] He would have an enormous schwanzstucker!

[quote] —Inga

Sorry to disappoint you, Inga.

No.

He looks like a thumb.

[quote] Will this be a good movie

Its a Netflix original so probably not.

I'm looking forward to it.

R5 *laughs and points*

I already know I’m going to have an issue with this film based on what the actors have said.

In this version, Frankenstein raises the monster, turning it into a father/son story. But adding parenting, nurturing, or betrayal completely contradicts Mary Shelley’s core themes.

The novel isn’t a warning about “bad parents.” It’s a warning about creators, inventors, and societies that pursue power without taking responsibility for the human consequences.

Guillermo del Toro seems to be taking the story literally without grasping the message. To me, that’s as misguided as Halle Berry’s Catwoman, where the writers took Selina’s rooftop fall literally. In Batman Returns, she falls through awnings, survives, and convinces herself she was “reborn as a cat.” It’s psychological — not supernatural. But in the Berry version, they actually turned her into The Crow with cat powers, completely missing the point.

Same situation with Rob Zombie’s Halloween, which misunderstood the whole point of Michael Myers being evil. I hate when filmmakers do this — they don’t understand the story.

Why were they so stupid as to glue their heads together?

R11, good post. Seems like they’re missing an opportunity here, given that we’re living in an accelerated moment of power grabbing without responsibility for human consequences.

R11 Sounds like someone's "fix-it" fan fiction.

Interesting choice for Elordi, breaking away from roles where being a sexual object at least part of the character's point. That's assuming that Frankenstein isn't baffling hot, after all.

I’m reading an article now where he talks about how he made Elordi a “beautiful creature” and that the experience of Frankenstein creating him was joyous and fun.

Like totally misses the point.

A lot of people don’t like Kenneth Branagh’s version with De Niro but at least it stuck to a closer interpretation of the novel. The message of that movie was “don’t play God” which is an obvious element in the novel. Wasn’t the exact message but still understood the moral spine of it.

Whereas this is just missing the mark and it’s annoying because today Hollywood, Gen Z, millennial, social media is constantly rewriting narratives and history to twist it into today’s modern progressive culture of anxieties and trauma (like Stonewall Riots or that recent shitty Marilyn Monroe movie) and I’m sick of it.

I don’t want to see a “Daddy Issues” Frankenstein. It’s just dumb.

R15 He will absolutely be sexualized, didn’t see the photos?

He’s gonna be Emo.

R17 No wonder, with a cock like that.

I'm very tired of broken-record "remakes". How many Frankensteins, Draculas, Supermans (or Supermen) and Batmans do we need? Could some of this energy be expended on something new? Instead of Superman, why not do film of the Bizzaros. They were far-from-perfect copies of Superman characters.

A couple of repeats that went wrong:

There was The Penguin series, but it strayed too far from the source material. Reminded me of The Sopranos.

Riverdale was based on the 1940s comic Archie, but it was hard to tell.

[quote] Whereas this is just missing the mark and it’s annoying because today Hollywood, Gen Z, millennial, social media is constantly rewriting narratives and history to twist it into today’s modern progressive culture of anxieties and trauma (like Stonewall Riots or that recent shitty Marilyn Monroe movie) and I’m sick of it.

We live in anxious times, so our art reflects this. It’s not “progressive.” MAGA is built on anxiety.

As for trauma, talk to Oedipus and Hamlet.

R19 Good stories are taught to every generation.

Saying ending Batman movies is like saying end Romeo and Juliet.

I'm surprised they didn't get Nicholas Hoult - he's got a monster/creature history at this point.