It's all "this isn't normal guys!" this and "I'm standing up for you!" that until his literal job is completely circumvented (I don't remember congress authorizing us going to war!) and then he's quiet as a kitten because oil is on the line. What is even the point of you?

Ty she used to be a nun

Unfortunately I've heard it sucks except for the porn

Uhhhhh if she wasn't perfect then how could the Creature ever love her back men only like quirky, perfect women who tell them they're perfect and leave their perfectly nice and suitable fiancees before dying on Pride Rock

Evil choice to end with a Lord Byron quote. Adapting a story by a woman, refusing to explore the misogyny within, and then capping it with a quote not by her but by one of her male contemporaries was just thoughtless and, again, misogynistic.

Anyway, bad script that prioritizes patronizing the viewer and making sure you "get it" over telling a story to get. Having a character literally drop "You're the real monster" was an insane choice. The writing functions on the principle that you're probably on your phone while watching.

Jacob Elordi did wonderful. I wish he were in a better Frankenstein movie. Oscar Isaac got the raw deal of being the character GdT clearly did not enjoy writing, and he does fine with it, but Elordi really shines.

Also just strange because she meets him as a weird, naked toddler and then next time she sees him she's in love with him? Very odd. Anyway, Victor isn't even worth mentioning. Like fr not even a character, he's just a cartoonish assemblage of evil traits all packed into a guy.

Because the men are killing the women in each other's lives to damage each other. Because they are perfect toys to take away from each other. And refusing to explore that, and instead having her willingly manic pixie dream girl her way into sacrificial lamb-dom was a stupid, misogynistic angle.

In the book, her death is a culmination of misogyny. Victor idolizes her and infantilizes her, often comparing her to animals or saying he loves her like a "favorite pet". When he tears apart the lady monster (omitted, btw), she becomes next on the chopping block.

Elizabeth's handling is grotesque. Completely removed from the emotional incest of the story, her being played by Mia Goth felt like a gimmick more than anything. She is perfect and never wrong and never human, because women aren't allowed to be perfect AND human. She dies to protect a man.

Frankenstein as a story relies on shades of grey. The Creature is not simply a kicked puppy, he is capable of cruel, gruesome things. But in trying to show the viewer he's sympathetic and human, GdT refused to show me a person capable of human flaws and misdeeds. Stripped him of humanity.