Movie of the Week: I Frankenstein
Feb. 20th, 2014 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyModerate spoilers ahead.
This is every bit as cliched as you might expect but - hey it was a slow week and we get the twofers on a Wednesday.
OK, it's not all bad. I mean, we didn't walk out or anything - which means it scores higher than Tron 2. Aaron Eckhart majkes reasonably good Adam - Frankenstein's monster still alive in the present day, but sad to say Bill Nighy seems to dial in his performance from a distance. Scenery-chewing villainy is not really his style.
My lack of comic book savvy meant I hadn't realised this was a comic book movie, but no matter if it's a movie it should be able to stand on its own anyway. Anyhow, the guardians of good are the Gargoyle Order, standing against Naberius who is trying to have legions of demons ascend to be reborn into (currently dead and therefire soulless) human bodies if only he can figure out how Frankenstein made Adam in the first place.
Throw in a pretty human scientist (female, of clourse) and the scene is set for Adam to deside which side he's on.
Yeah, right, I guessed the ending, too.
But it was a wet Wednesday afternoon, so what else were we going to do with a couple of hours?
This is every bit as cliched as you might expect but - hey it was a slow week and we get the twofers on a Wednesday.
OK, it's not all bad. I mean, we didn't walk out or anything - which means it scores higher than Tron 2. Aaron Eckhart majkes reasonably good Adam - Frankenstein's monster still alive in the present day, but sad to say Bill Nighy seems to dial in his performance from a distance. Scenery-chewing villainy is not really his style.
My lack of comic book savvy meant I hadn't realised this was a comic book movie, but no matter if it's a movie it should be able to stand on its own anyway. Anyhow, the guardians of good are the Gargoyle Order, standing against Naberius who is trying to have legions of demons ascend to be reborn into (currently dead and therefire soulless) human bodies if only he can figure out how Frankenstein made Adam in the first place.
Throw in a pretty human scientist (female, of clourse) and the scene is set for Adam to deside which side he's on.
Yeah, right, I guessed the ending, too.
But it was a wet Wednesday afternoon, so what else were we going to do with a couple of hours?
