I won’t be seeing the new Frankenstein movie unless there’s a title card at the start explaining what Frankenstein is a metaphor for. I’m not wasting my time trying to figure it out.
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Spoiler for all sci fi and horror:
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 3 1 • view
You can’t be asked to figure something out for yourself? Where are your brain cells, my guy? Use that brain evolution gave you and you’ll be rewarded 💀
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
*spoilers* Frankenstein symbolizes the Spanish Civil War
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it's about puttin' on the ritz.
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Never thought about that what if they used some ladyparts to make him!! What bathroom will he use?
aug 31, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it's a metaphor for making a new dude out of spare dude parts.
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
…. The monster is named trump
aug 31, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Fun fact: Mary Shelley's novel is believed to be the first story that introduced a 4th conflict: Man versus Man's Own Creations
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 5 0 • view
Feminism. There, all done.
sep 1, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolts evil; welding, by inference, good.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
maybe you can ask chatgpt what Frankenstein is about
aug 31, 2025, 2:31 pm • 3 0 • view
It said there are three r's in Frankenstein.
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 13 0 • view
There is no metaphor. The story is based on real events
aug 31, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Frankenstein is the doctor. What you want is Frankenstein’s metaphor.
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 pm • 52 1 • view
Its metaphor for big monke
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 6 0 • view
They don't put the subtitle "Modern Prometheus" on it anymore?
sep 1, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
When I read it, it seemed to me that since Frankenstein would never be accepted in society, he just wanted a companion, which the Dr wouldn’t make for him. So, the metaphor is that we all just want love.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, he made one. But instead of making her infertile and imperfect, he ripped her up.
aug 31, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh I guess I should reread the story. I ended up feeling sorry for Frankenstein bc he read philosophy and grappled with his place in the world.
aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
No. Victor is a monster. The Monster just doesnt understand why his Creator hates him. It happens over 2 pages: Victor made the Monster to be beautiful, but as soon as he came to life, he was repulsed by what he'd done and ran away. He never warns anyone that there's someone out there.
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
Sorry. When I typed Frankenstein, I should have typed Frankenstein’s Monster. That’s who I felt sorry for. He read Plutarch, etc.
sep 1, 2025, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
ask your phone's artificial intelligence, I bet it knows
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Want to see the New Frankenstein? Instead Go to movies with a bunch of retro movie house "Rocky Horror Show Fans" they will give you a script of responses and tell you how to dress for the show per character. You will understand the drag queens.
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The whale represents man's inability to fight his own fate.
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 pm • 12 0 • view
James Whale?
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a metaphor for getting away from Lord Byron when bad weather traps you indoors
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 17 0 • view
it's a metaphor for being cooped up with Byron, Shelley and Polidori and wanting to chop them into bits and then reassemble the bits into someone who'll have to listen to you
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 pm • 15 0 • view
YES I saw the card, but I still have (extremely incorrect) opinions about what it really means
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Title card is just a link to the plot in the wiki
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Frankenstein too woke.
aug 31, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
It's pretty obvious; The "monster" in Frankenstein is a metaphor for draculas.
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually, Frankenstein was the song by The Edgar Winter Group.
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
The monster is the Doctor's "white whale." His "green light at the end of the dock." His "Birnam Woods." Basically, the "thing he wants to have sex with."
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I just hope they pay for the rights to call the Frankenstein monster, Frankenstein
aug 31, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Tee-hee! Besides, the explanations change all the time, depending on whom you ask!
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I hear in this new one the creature starts a torrid love affair with Frankenstein’s wife. Creating a vicious love triangle. Heavy stuff.
aug 31, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Frankenstein is a metaphor, Bride of Frankenstein is when he metaten
aug 31, 2025, 4:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Frankenstein is a metaphor for a vote for Starmers Labour.
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it is a meditation on grief
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty sure it’s just a story about a green guy with a blocky head, man
aug 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 6 0 • view
That's the movie!
aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
That's Minecraft.
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Thought of that when I posted but couldn’t find a joke
aug 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
It's just propaganda against us tall guys. We're not all that bad.
aug 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a metaphor for big ugly green guys with bolts in their necks and huge misshapen shoes. Yeah just go look in a mirror you clod.
aug 31, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The biotech revolution?
aug 31, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I have never had the urge to mindlessly argue with someone this strongly
sep 1, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
What was Jacob Two-two a metaphor for
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
The film explains the title card.
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
“WTF is a ‘Prometheus?’”
aug 31, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
@gork.bluesky.bot is Frankenstein a metaphor?
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not a metaphor
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 9 0 • view
a doctor is a kind of metaphor
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 pm • 4 0 • view
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted from across the water, “You’re worth the whole damn Frankenstein’s Monsters out together!”
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Frankensteins are now battlefields
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 4 0 • view
The Frankensteins are the Frankensteins we made along the way
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm pretty sure it's about school shootings
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view