Imagine describing what sounds like an insanely faithful adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English language and coming to the conclusion “and that sucks.”
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Now I'm thinking about how you'd even construct a Frankenstein story where, like, the doctor is a well-meaning father figure and the monster is just, by his very nature, an awful evil piece of shit.
sep 2, 2025, 9:16 pm • 7 0 • view
That would be really hard! I could see ways to do it, and maybe even ways to do it that don't come off as Boomercore like season 3 of Picard, but damn, that is not an easy story to assemble
sep 2, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Victor Frankenstein, hard-working and underappreciated Raytheon employee, who is totally not responsible for his murderous, weapon-of-mass-destruction creation. At the end, he turns to the camera and says, "Grey."
sep 2, 2025, 9:20 pm • 9 1 • view
I think at that point it’s just a different story
sep 2, 2025, 9:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Basically Pet Semetary
sep 2, 2025, 9:33 pm • 3 0 • view
??????????????/
sep 2, 2025, 9:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I almost feel like it’s some kind of marketing ploy
sep 2, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
There's also something about calling GDT as just "The Mexican director" instead of his name that rubs me the wrong way.
sep 3, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not great!
sep 3, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
me reading this and nodding along, like yeah, that's Frankenstein, what's the critique here exactly lmao
sep 2, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
This person needs to see Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.
sep 2, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
sounds very GDT too!
sep 2, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
If there is one working director with the capabilities to knock Frankenstein out of the park, it’s GDT. The man simply Gets It.
sep 2, 2025, 8:04 pm • 3 0 • view
What is this person talking about? That's the book!
sep 2, 2025, 7:53 pm • 13 0 • view
It’s so on the nose exactly what the book is like and about that this feels like satire
sep 2, 2025, 7:58 pm • 11 0 • view
Lol I know! It's definitely making me a little crazy how accurate the description is, and how incongruous what the reviewer was expecting. . . Just pure cognitive dissonance
sep 2, 2025, 8:08 pm • 7 0 • view
The especially crazy thing to me is it’s not one of those cases where the most famous film adaptation of a book misses the point. The monster is painted sympathetically in most adaptations, including the most notable one with Boris Karloff
sep 2, 2025, 8:20 pm • 9 0 • view
yeah it isnt even a have you read the book as much as "have you seen anything frankenstein related"
sep 2, 2025, 8:22 pm • 7 0 • view
We've found a non-reactionary alternative to "why is every show with demons about how humans are the real monsters? just say the monsters are the monsters"
sep 2, 2025, 8:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Mary Shelley: imagine, if you will, a brutish, and uncaring creator who recoils from his creation, casting it out into the wilderness, condemning it to a life of loneliness and alienation. . . Reviewer: oh, I see. . . Casting the scientist as a villain smdh
sep 2, 2025, 9:08 pm • 11 0 • view