Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, my friends, and welcome back to Movie Deputy Reviews, where we are talking about a new Netflix movie that, needless, let's just say this gave me goosebumps. This, this particular director doesn't usually leave me with goosebumps. Usually leaves me with wanting to wash my eyes out after it was done just because I want to just wipe away. Wipe it away. But that's my personal opinion. This one, however, blew me away. Are you curious which movie I'm talking about? Well, if you come over to our YouTube and our rumble, you will know as soon as the video starts, because I always have either the poster or the podcast image right up to begin with. So over here on the side, you can see that we are going to be talking about the new Netflix movie, Frankenstein. Now, maybe you're not into the monster type movies or into the Frankenstein type stories, or maybe you're not even familiar with the original Mary Shelley novel of Frankenstein.
And if that's the case, I hope that you are going to enjoy this because this is going to be a bit of an adventure for me as well as for you, because I sat down with this, I saw it was two and a half hours long, and I'm like, it's Guillermo de Toro del Toro. I know I mispronounced that, by the way, but I just, I don't get very excited when I see his name on something. I mean, there's been more than a few times that his movies have been on my Top or My 10 Worst Movies of the year list. And this has happened multiple times.
So I, I didn't have a lot of hope for this, especially with it coming straight to Netflix. I'm like, okay, what did they expect? Or what do they want from us? From this.
And then I sat down and this started. And within the first few minutes, I was just captivated or beyond. And it was like, it didn't feel like a two and a half hour long movie.
It had such flow and there was such a beauty to the story. And yes, I'm talking about Frankenstein. The story like this has such depth and such beauty and so much.
It's so well rounded and so well thought. Now mind you, it's not with it, with, not without its flaws. And it's a bit gory, it's a bit intense. So if you're not into stories like that, this one definitely wouldn't be for you.
Obviously, I am giving Frankenstein a guilty rating. And if. But the score is going to surprise you. It's going to be a score that we have seen in Recent movies. So if that kind of gives you a little bit of a hint of kind of what to expect.
One of the things with this movie is it says only monsters play God. And a lot of people think of Frankenstein as the monster and don't realize that Victor Frankenstein was the doctor.
And so the monster just took on the name of the doctor. But people automatically assume the monster is Frankenstein, but the monster is not. The monster is the creation of Dr. Frankenstein. And so that's something that a lot of people always get confused on or just kind of jumbled up in their heads a little bit.
So I do want to go ahead and share with you the trailer before I actually show you the podcast image. The podcast image. I didn't really make a lot of changes. I just kind of shrunk it down a bit. But let's jump in with the trailer, and I want to kind of see what you think about that.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: My maker told his tale, And I will tell you why.
I remember pieces, Memories of different men.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Imagine being pieced together from different, different persons and then having the memories of all of those different persons and how that would affect your psyche.
That's just one of the areas that the story goes.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Then I saw it.
Your name, Victor Frankenstein.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Just even watching this, I'm getting goosebumps again, because I know what's happening, and it's like. It just in a good way. Like the shivers in a good way.
This scene gave me totally Beauty in the Beast vibes because the whole thing of who could ever love a beast? They don't use that line in the movie. But that just this entire scene in the movie reminds me of that.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: My creator.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Only monsters can play God.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: I don't want a single grace from you, you, Big point.
If you are not to abort me, Then I will indulge Enrage.
Now run.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: I've never really been a huge fan of the Frankenstein story. I've never really been a huge fan of the Frankenstein movies. They're all just like Frankenstein. I'm gonna be all scary.
I'm gonna torment people. I'm just a monster put together by other people that was more robot than Frankenstein, but you kind of get my drift with that.
But this one, there is so much heart you feel for the monster. It's like you have empathy for this monster as the story is told. It's like you. You ache when he aches. You just. It's. Your heart breaks when his does.
And knowing when seeing everything that he's going through and seeing what's happening, and then It. The movie wraps up in such a beautiful way, but it almost leads into that there could be more. And for once, I am begging, Del Toro, this is the best you've ever done, in my personal opinion.
Please make a sequel to this. Please follow this up with another story.
Let us see what else happens to him.
I want. I want more of this. I want to see where he can take this from here.
And I want you to keep the same passion. I want him to. I want the same passion brought forth into another story. I want more films like this that delve into stories that have been told before and told in a new way, that brings it to life in an entirely different way. There is so much to that. When a story goes into this much depth and this much imagination and this much just everything to this.
Why does that matter? Well, it matters because of who Dr. Frankenstein was.
And the thing is, it's the. It's reference that only. Only monsters play God. So it's referencing that Dr. Frankenstein is the monster and not the monster that he creates. So what does that mean? What. Where. Where does that take the story? Where does that lead on from here? Where does that lead you?
If you have walked away from Netflix in the past, I completely understand why, with some of the content that they have on there. But as of now. Sorry, I hit my microphone. But as of right now, this story is only available on Netflix. So I'm not sure if this is going to be available on other digital platforms.
But if it is this, like I said, this is one that you do not want to miss out on. There is just something special if you live in one of the rare cities where this is playing on the big screen. I. Sorry, I kind of forgot about that. Go check this out. I cannot even imagine the power of seeing this on the big screen, especially if you're surrounded by like the Dolby Atmos sound and kind of that whole thing where you feel the movie or if in like one of the four DX types things in some of the theaters where you feel the movie that as it's happening there. I can only imagine what this one is like in something like that. But we get to see Frankenstein from Dr. Frankenstein's perspective of pre monster and his life, of how he comes to be a bit of an aristocrat that gets the power to do something like this and what inspires him is very macabre, very dark, very. Almost gory of. Not almost gory. It is gory.
And then we see as this monster is created and then what he expects of this monster, because he doesn't expect this monster to have any knowledge or any like, sense of his own mind and his own will.
And as that develops, we get to see just a mindless beast created by Dr. Frankenstein turn into this emotional, well rounded, just not well rounded necessarily in a healthy way, but just there is so much to this character beyond just the monster that he is. And we see that come out through the different people that he interacts with. And like I said, the scene that reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, because it's the whole thing of who could ever love a beast. And we see that beauty and that love and that pain that comes with that and it takes you through all these different emotions and all he wants is just one thing. And even when he finds it, he realizes it's still even beyond his grasp. And don't worry, you know me, no spoilers ever. But just when they finally get to that point and how this is told in the way that it is told, it's just beautiful.
Now you may be thinking, wait, it's Frankenstein. What is she talking about?
It's just the way this is done. I, if, if you can get past the gore of it and you in these type of. It's, it's worth it. It really is.
Score wise. This is where I'm going to surprise some people. Remind you, I want to just remind you, on the movie deputy scale is 7 is memorable. Good story, plot with some questionable content and an 8 is memorable.
I'm trying to remember what the 8 is off the top of my head, but basically it's really good. And so I'm coming in with Frankenstein at a 7.25 out of 10 on the Deputy scale.
If you are curious about the Deputy scale, that can always be found on moviedevity.com's About Me page. And that's always on there. And then I always try to explain it a little bit on here as well.
I did not. When I sat down to start watching this, I honestly was thinking four, maybe five if we're lucky. Ish.
And I try not to come in with that heavy of a mindset right off the bat, but seeing who the director was and everything, I was just as like, it's just one of those. I just, I'm very reluctantly hit play.
And I'm so glad I did. I'm so glad I did. And I'm so glad I, I sat through the whole thing because like I said, it left me wanting more. And I'm sure it's going to leave you wanting more. Not, not in the typical bad way where it's like, oh, that left me wanting more and just kind of unfinished. No, that's. This finishes. But that I want more. I want to see where this goes. I want to, I want to see the evolution of this monster and that, that matters and that's important because of the way that this is told.
So if you are into stories like this, please check this out. If you don't, if you're not, if you don't want to sign back up for Netflix, that's perfectly fine. Maybe you have a friend that you can go over to their house and watch it. Or if you want to just sign up for like a free trial, watch this and then cancel.
Just this one's worth it. It really is. So, but you, like I said, you got to get past the blood and gore because it is, it is pretty gory and it's a little intense at times when it comes to that. I definitely not safe for younger kids. Like I said, this is guilty through and through. I would not recommend this for a younger audience at all, but for, for an adult audience that likes these really in depth stories. There, there's something special here, so I hope you have a chance to check it out. And as always, I will be back this weekend with some new movies for you. And be sure to come back and stay tuned because we have some information about our 12 Days of Christmas coming up. So you don't want to miss out on that. And as always, I'll talk to you later. Bye. Bye.
