02-01-2026, 09:32 AM
Why do you keep using BdT? Inquiring minds want to know.
Seen it. I think it should win the Oscar for Production Design, maybe cinematography. A lot of it looked great. But as DM said, it was long. Long. Long. Long. But it didn't feel too bad. The movie kept moving. And there wasn't a lot of horror. There were a few sanguineous bits but I think the movie leaned more heavily into melodrama than anything else. The most scared I was in the film was when Elizabeth first meets the creature. I thought for sure bad things were going to happen.
The movie makes me want to read the book to see how faithful was the adaption. I kept asking myself how was this in the book.
One thing that was odd to me was I don't know where they were in the world. The lab was supposed to be in Scotland. Yet, it seems like Victor is getting bodies from a French-German battlefield. And when the creature wanders off, he ends up on the Russian Steppes. And how do you walk to the Arctic from Scotland?
In the end, the film was fine. Very much a companion to Del Toro's Crimson Peak.
Seen it. I think it should win the Oscar for Production Design, maybe cinematography. A lot of it looked great. But as DM said, it was long. Long. Long. Long. But it didn't feel too bad. The movie kept moving. And there wasn't a lot of horror. There were a few sanguineous bits but I think the movie leaned more heavily into melodrama than anything else. The most scared I was in the film was when Elizabeth first meets the creature. I thought for sure bad things were going to happen.
The movie makes me want to read the book to see how faithful was the adaption. I kept asking myself how was this in the book.
One thing that was odd to me was I don't know where they were in the world. The lab was supposed to be in Scotland. Yet, it seems like Victor is getting bodies from a French-German battlefield. And when the creature wanders off, he ends up on the Russian Steppes. And how do you walk to the Arctic from Scotland?
In the end, the film was fine. Very much a companion to Del Toro's Crimson Peak.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm