Lindsay nails it here. It was joyless and offered nothing new or of interest.

Shouting with all of my chest that Frankenstein is an awful, miserable experience of a movie

Between this and Nosferatu I'm just tired of people with plenty of money and skill taking very familiar stories and just...not really doing much that's new with them. Lean into the weird HARDER, for the love of God.

This! This right here. Thank you.

he clearly just wanted to make some other dumb monster movie, it had nothing to do with the book, why bother

...he pulled it out, read it, masturbated, and then, once he was finished, threw it in the fire, so as not to sully his book collection with it.

Samuel Pepys & his wife found this book in French in a bookstore, and he asked her to translate a bit for him while at the shop. Aghast, they left, but he returned at some point later and bought himself a copy (apparently one in English). Then one night, drunk after entertaining friends...

The squandering of so much to produce something so middling

Every single choice made was bad

I’m stubbornly supportive, theoretically, of GdT, who if nothing else is working from his own idiosyncratic vision and makes films that are definitely reflective of a personal style, and that’s all too rare these days and worth supporting.

It’s just that I happen to hate his style, fanatically so.

Oh that’s so nice to hear!

I liked writing this one

Her friends and supporters on here aren’t publicly going to the mat for her but I’ve started to see them post various scolds like “discourse is bad now” and “don’t you have anything better to be doing than trashing Nuzzi”

Are you trying to get back at SK for plagiarizing you

*Richard Flanagan, not Patrick

Eeek, whoops

I’m sorry for dragging it into your TL, I truly am

That all tracks

Utterly incoherent, baffling nonsense. None of these people can write, all of them need to go take a basic undergrad composition class