{"id":18177,"date":"2025-11-24T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:03:24","slug":"frankenstein-2025-guillermo-del-toro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18177","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein (2025, Guillermo Del Toro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GdT&#8217;s third remake in a row, but excuse me, it&#8217;s less a remake of the 1930&#8217;s version than a new over-faithful adaptation of the novel.  I watched at Movieland, with the new Emma and Yorgos playing next door, on their second victory lap after their smart, modern, oscar-winning <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16278\">semi-Frankenstein<\/a>.  Big physical acting from both men in this, but the superior second half following Monster Elordi can&#8217;t make up for a draggy first hour spent with Doctor Oscar.  Script mostly bad, but I appreciate some del Toro touches (cool set design, the monster brought to life with a battery vest like a steampunk Iron Man).  Did not appreciate the CG wolf fight, can&#8217;t recall whether the novel had so many explosions in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GdT&#8217;s third remake in a row, but excuse me, it&#8217;s less a remake of the 1930&#8217;s version than a new over-faithful adaptation of the novel. I watched at Movieland, with the new Emma and Yorgos playing next door, on their second victory lap after their smart, modern, oscar-winning semi-Frankenstein. Big physical acting from both men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1582,293,909,2811,2078],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-christoph-waltz","tag-frankenstein","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-mia-goth","tag-oscar-isaac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18194,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions\/18194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}