Frankenstein
Only monsters play God.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Wokeness: 30%
Overall Score: 70%
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Surprisingly good
I remember seeing set images with a bunch of DEI but the movie doesn't reflect those i personally didn't see any (there might have been in the background) but still impressively accurate demographic wise for a movie this days.
Created: 11-07-2025
Good movie in a sea of mediocre hollywood!
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This movie surprised me! I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's artistic (which is par for the course for a Del Toro movie) and entertaining. Starts out a little slow due to how they chose to tell the story, but it's definitely worth watching all the way through. It's a great twist on a modern classic. It basically has no woke nonsense. 7.5/10!
Created: 11-19-2025
Another Girl Boss?
Elizabeth moves through the 1800s with the attitude of a 3rd-wave feminist accidentally teleported from 2025. Her constant strong-willed defiance toward Count Frankenstein isn’t period-authentic—it's a modern template wearing a costume. She feels less like a Victorian woman and more like a time-displaced empowerment trope, breaking the story’s believability. Instead of Victor who could have given her a life of luxury, or his brother who gave her his heart, like a spoiled brat, she chose the monster, a choice that would have destroyed her.
Created: 11-20-2025
This isn’t free of woke content.
It’s not a bad movie, but yeah, it definitely has woke elements.
Just because it’s a Guillermo del Toro film doesn’t mean it avoids that kind of stuff. Pretty much everything he makes is heavily rooted in social symbolism, and in this case the female character is clearly shaped by a kind of feminism that doesn’t really line up with the time period the movie is trying to portray. The messaging is there from the very start, and it’s distracting. At times it’s so on the nose it almost feels like a modern day "Karen".
That said, the movie still has strong craftsmanship, great cinematography and solid execution. But at the end of the day, it’s just another Frankenstein story, nothing more. Way too much hype for a filmmaker who tends to get overpraised in that space. And that's fine, he does his job very well.
But, it doesn’t break new ground or redefine anything, it’s just well put together, and that’s it.
P.S.: I do like his movies, but this one feels like a straight-up cash grab.
Created: 04-01-2026
