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Okay. As I said before, we're going to talk about
a movie that I think has an interesting concept.
just fell flat in the execution this was supposed
to come out a couple weeks ago uh i've been busy
just flat out that's what it's been i have gotten
busy with a couple things with our son a couple
things with work a couple things with life liberty
pursuit of happiness all that good stuff so this
was supposed to coincide with the bride coming
out unfortunately just didn't happen at the right
time that being said it's happening now This
is I Frankenstein. I Frankenstein came out in
January of 2014. It is an hour and 32 minutes
long. It is a movie about obviously Frankenstein's
monster. It deals a little more. How do I say
this? It's a little more about. A superhero Frankenstein's
monster is what I will say. Let me give you the
Rotten Tomatoes quick description. Two centuries
after Dr. Frankenstein assembles and reanimates
his creature, Adam is still living. He becomes
embroiled in a war between two immortal races,
gargoyles, the traditional protectors of mankind,
and evil demons. Since Adam is neither human
nor demon, gargoyle queen Leonore Like I said,
interesting concept. I like the gargoyle point
and everything like that. We'll get into all
of that and everything. Here's where it falls
short. It is a 5 % critic score and a 38 % audience
score on Rotten Tomatoes. truthfully, I think
the audience score is a little high. The critics
score, I think we'll say is a little low. I don't
think it's necessarily a 5%. If I were to give
a number to start off, I'd say probably 16, 17%,
probably that feels about right. But yeah, so
5%, 38%, that's where it falls. This movie had
a 65. Is that million -dollar budget? Yes, $65
million budget. That's an estimation. The gross
in U .S. and Canada was $19 million. Not great.
The gross worldwide was about $76 ,801 million.
So $76 ,801 ,179. So it made its money back,
kind of. Yeah. It was produced by Lionsgate.
It filmed mostly in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It's got a pretty good cast. I will say that.
There's a lot of people you would recognize.
And it falls into the category of action fantasy
sci -fi. I will say that normally this does not
do things for me. I am not usually a fantasy
sci -fi person. So this is a little tough for
me. I'm not going to lie. I may be a little harsher
on this than somebody that likes those kind of
things might be. We'll see what you think of
it. The director is Stuart Beatty, and he also
was one of the writers. Stuart Beatty is an interesting
person as far as it comes to writing. Writing,
he has a lot of weird ones, but the thing he
mostly hit on... is he is one of the writers
of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He wrote
the screen story for The Curse of the Black Pearl
and then basically has been like a character's
writer for the rest of the Pirates of the Caribbean
movies. He also wrote Collateral, 30 Days of
Night, Australia, G .I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra,
and then he wrote and directed both This and
Tomorrow When the War Began from 2010. Those
are his only directing credits. He had a co -writer
on this one. That co -writer is... I'm going
to say this wrong. I'm going to try my best.
Here we go. Kevin Grievio. Something a little
more like French, probably. Kevin is more of
an actor, I would say, than he is a writer. He
has a few writing credits to his name. A lot
of smaller things, most of which are the Underworld
movies. He wrote the story for the original Underworld
and then was a character writer for a lot of
those. He also has written a couple episodes
for Ben 10 Ultimate Alien, Young Justice he wrote
an episode for, and then he did the screenplay
and directed King of Killers and War Dogs with
a Z. So, yeah. But then he has 65 acting credits
as well to his name. And of course, there's writing
credit as well for Mary Shelley, as she so rightly
deserves for writing the original Frankenstein
novel. This movie stars Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy,
Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski, and Jay Courtney.
Those are the big names in this one. There's
a couple other people that are in this. Not many
people that you'd recognize after that. Those
are the big names that take up most of the screen
time, honestly. I'm going to say those are the
ones that you see on screen majority of the time.
You see some of these other people, but truthfully,
if you're going to see a character on here, it's
one of those five, pretty much. Before we get
started talking about this movie, just a little
fun fact. I actually rented this from our library
and I let it go three days past its due date.
So I actually did pay a little bit of money for
this. It's going to be a small fee. It's not
going to be a lot, but I did actually pay a little
money to watch this train wreck. All right. So
let's get started talking about this movie. So
you do not have to watch it. First note I have.
is there was a commercial on here. Like I said,
I got the DVD. There was a commercial on the
DVD for Fearnet .com, and I wanted to see where
this takes you. Unfortunately, the website does
not still exist. It takes you to SyFy's network
now, like the SyFy network, which is a little
disappointing, but it's fine. SyFy, whatever.
This movie was also widescreen on the DVD, which
was kind of funny as well. We start on a mountain
where we see a man carrying a body and he is
walking up this mountain. He is trying to destroy
the creature. This is Victor Frankenstein. Victor
Frankenstein is played by a relative. Nobody.
Not a big deal because he has like three minutes
of actual screen time. The creature, of course,
survives. He kills the creator's wife, runs to
the north. And when the creator runs to chase
after him, he dies in the cold, freezes to death.
Then the creature takes him to his family's graveyard
and buries him. And this is where the story truly
begins. And if you feel like that was a lot,
real quick, it was. It happened quickly. Like
in a minute and a half, this happened. And it
was all done over with like some exposition.
It happened real quickly. It just assumes you
know the story of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's
monster. Like, you know it right off the bat.
You know everything that happened. So Frankenstein
tried to kill the monster. Monster got away,
killed Frankenstein's wife. Frankenstein chased
after it, froze to death. And now we're here.
So the monster tried to bury Frankenstein in
the family's graveyard. And now there are some
beings that are watching him bury. uh frankenstein
in the graveyard and these three beings we don't
know what they are but at first they are stronger
than the monster but he is able to like dismantle
one of them um and when he does so there's like
these gargoyles that appear and they kind of
come to life and those gargoyles are able to
handle like the other two and These gargoyles
then turn to humans and start talking about why
Nibirius and the demons wanted this creature
or wanted this human. They think it's a human
at first. They then learn that it's not a human.
It's Victor Frankenstein's creation. So they
bring back the creation. They take it with them
to their majesty, Miranda Otto or Leonore. So
Leonore is the gargoyle queen. Leonore is Miranda
Otto, as I said. The monster, by the way, I didn't
say it, but it's Aaron Eckhart. And the two gargoyles,
their names are Ophir and Kezia. Those two are...
kind of important but not really they're they're
nobody's in the acting world i can give you a
little bit of what they've done but truthfully
they haven't done a whole lot besides like this
movie the guy who played ophir was in the marco
polo tv show for 20 episodes and also has been
the witcher for 18 episodes as uh vilga forts
i haven't watched the witcher so i actually couldn't
tell you but he's vilga forts of rogovine If
that means anything to you, I'm sorry if I butchered
that as well. Like I said, I have not watched
The Witcher, so don't hate me. The person who
plays Kezia, for her, she was in Smile as Laura
Weaver. She's been in a couple things here or
there. Like I said, it's probably the big thing
was she was Laura Weaver in Smile, but other
than that... she's been in a few tv shows here
or there for like a couple episodes mayans mc
mayans mc like motorcycle club uh she was in
four episodes of that that's probably two things
you may know her from she plays kazia that's
caitlin stacy and ophir was mahesh jadu or jadu
again i'm trying not to butcher these names i'm
trying guys i'm trying Gideon, the right -hand
man to Leonore that's played by Jai Courtney,
he wants to kill it. But Leonore wants to keep
him alive. Leonore is giving a rundown of what
the Order of the Gargoyles is. Basically, it's
this organization that was created by the Archangel
Michael. And it's to protect humans from demons
and to stop the war. And so this is to protect
humans from demons, stop the war that may happen.
and make sure that the demons don't gain control
of earth um leonore also knows that the monster
never had a name she wants to call the monster
adam and believes that he has a higher purpose
and also knows that he killed frankenstein's
wife but believes it was out of passion like
didn't know how to control himself didn't know
what to do decided he wanted to kill because
He was just so mad at the world and didn't know
what to do. So he kind of is like going along
with the motions and everything like that. So
Keziah and Ophir give him the rundown of what
the gargoyles do. And they tell him that like
sacramental objects are the only things that
can kill demons. And any object can be made sacramental
by marking them with the blessed symbol of the
gargoyles. Adam, of course, asks how to kill
a gargoyle. and they're just like uh no we're
not going to tell you that but they give him
weapons and as he's looking around the room he
takes these like crude ones that are like very
heavy and he takes like these blunt ones so they're
kind of like okay you don't want to take these
beautiful ones you want to take the blunt crude
ones that are heavy to wield got it so he takes
these weapons and then he like walks away and
Gideon we also get that he doesn't trust or like
Adam So Leonore is kind of like, I know you don't
trust him, but maybe get to learn his history
and has this book that was created by Victor
Frankenstein about his whole process of creating
Adam. And so she's like, this proves that God
is not the sole creator of man. Why don't you
study this? Why don't you learn? And maybe we
can understand Adam better. And after getting
these weapons, Adam's like, cool, I'm out. I
don't want to deal with you gargoyles anymore.
I work alone. So he's done. He's just like, cool,
I'm going to go. Bye. This all happened in like
the 1790s. And now it's present day. And so he's
just kind of been in like hiding for a while,
like 200 years. And now Nabarius's demons are
out finding him. But he's no longer hiding anymore.
Now he wants to draw attention to himself. He's
been, like, training or whatever. And his scars
aren't as noticeable. They've kind of healed
a little more. So, like, he still has them on
his face. He's still, like, a monster. But he's,
like, a little more handsome, I guess. I don't
know. So he now wants to go out and find these
demons before they find him because he wants
to get rid of them and make sure that they don't
just like fuck up his day. So it's the first
present day hunt that we get to see and it's
behind a nightclub and it becomes like this chase
scene on the rooftops. And what I've said is
basically like he just hits these demons once
and they become flame balls and like go back
to the pit of hell. What they were explaining
to Adam was that gargoyles descend demons. And
the demons try to ascend the gargoyles. So the
gargoyles are trying to descend the demons to
hell. The demons are trying to ascend the gargoyles
to heaven. That's what they're trying to do.
So the demons he's fighting are these lesser
demons. So that's why they're... basically one
hit and they're dead the one he's chasing is
a bigger deal and so he runs off and gets to
this fancy mansion and it's just like surrounded
by people and this turns out to be demons it's
they're all demons and everything like that but
it's this fancy mansion and then when adam sees
the mansion he turns around and he's grabbed
by a flying creature and we don't see what this
flying creature is we just know it's a flying
creature So now it goes to a lab. And in this
lab is Dr. Wade. And Dr. Wade is Yvonne Strahovski.
And she is doing a demonstration for Mr. Wessex.
We don't see Mr. Wessex. You hear the voice.
It's obviously Bill Nighy. I don't know who they're
trying to fake out here. It's obviously him.
But especially if you know he's in this movie.
It was easy enough, I think, even if you didn't
know he was in this movie. It's very easy to
know his voice. But basically, she's doing this
experiment. She also is working with a partner
named Carl. Carl's not that big a deal. She just
has this partner named Carl. He comes back later
in the story. That's why you need to know about
Carl. So Dr. Wade, her name's also Tara, just
in case I... Confuse those two, Dr. Wade Tara.
I think I called her Dr. Wade pretty much throughout,
but Dr. Wade Tara. This experiment is a reanimation
experiment. It's to bring something back to life.
The experiment at first fails. And like they,
even though like this, they're doing it on a
rat. And even though this rat is dead, she kept
like, bring the electricity up, bring the electricity
up, bring the electricity up. And finally, like
it short circuits. And they're like, well, it
didn't work. And then after a couple seconds,
it worked. The rat starts moving. It got brought
back to life. So it kind of worked. They're so
happy because they finally had a breakthrough.
They have reanimated something from the dead.
So this is good. This is what Mr. Wessex wants.
This is what Dr. Wade has been trying to do.
Great. Then Mr. Wessex gets told they have a
situation, and so he walks off to his office.
The situation is the demon telling him that he
got attacked by a possible gargoyle. And Mr.
Wessex is pissed because this demon didn't try
to capture it. Because he knows it wasn't a gargoyle,
it was Adam. And he knows it was the creature
he's been trying to get his hands on for over
200 years. And so the demon's like, I'm so sorry,
Prince Nabarius. Duh. Shocker, Mr. Wessex is
Prince Nabarius. And we also see that it's Bill
Nighy. Both of a reveal at the same time. Then
we get flown to a cathedral where the winged
creature brings Adam and he is immediately shackled
up by the gargoyles. That's all we see in that
moment. Basically, Adam's just shackled by the
gargoyles. Now Wessex is back talking with Dr.
Wade and they're talking about Frankenstein and
Victor Frankenstein. And basically, wouldn't
it be nice if they could prove like if they could
see his experiment, see his monster up close
so that Dr. Wade could study the monster and
learn how he was reanimated. And learn about
all the process and everything like that. And
Dr. Wade's just like, but Victor Frankenstein
was an old wives tale. It doesn't really exist
and everything like that. And Mr. Wessex is like,
no, I can provide you the creature. And if I
could do that, would you like to study it? And
Dr. Wade's just like, yes, of course. If you
can do it, sure. So Mr. Wessex wants to capture
Adam to give to Dr. Wade to study, pretty much.
So now we go back to the cathedral. The gargoyles
are pissed because Adam is now fighting in the
open versus in the shadows. And why they're pissed
about that is because if the humans see, that
would be bad. This is a war they've been fighting
in the shadows. The humans aren't supposed to
know about the demons, and they're especially
not supposed to know about the gargoyles. So
the gargoyles are pissed. And Leonor even says
she wanted to destroy Adam at first, but she
saw the potential in his eyes that a soul could
be there. Like he could eventually get a soul
there. And so she decided to spare him. And he
kind of admits at this point that he doesn't
feel like he belongs in any of the worlds. Like
he doesn't belong in the human world. He doesn't
belong in the gargoyle world. He doesn't belong
in the demon world. And so that's why he goes
alone and does his own thing. and so that's kind
of like the whole reason why he's on this like
vigilante mission now we go back to the mansion
and we go to this guy zuriel zuriel is essentially
nabirius's right -hand man and zuriel is explaining
that he knows that adam got picked up by one
of the gargoyles and now knows that adam is in
the cathedral and so they're going to lead a
full -on charge of the cathedral and nabirius
is kind of like we're going to lose a lot of
demons and he goes i know but if we get this
monster we can reanimate them and bring them
all back and so nabirius is kind of like good
point so zuriel leads a full -on charge Into
the cathedral. So here is where. I get to my
first. Problem with this movie. And it's a problem
that happens. A lot during this movie. So like
they lead into this battle. And like the gargoyles
change. Into their gargoyle self. And they go
into like this fight. So like the demons go and
like actually storm the cathedral and they show
like the beginning of this fight where the gargoyles
become gargoyles and then they go to fight them.
And then they kind of like pan off or they like
have a camera that's like not necessarily looking
at the battle. It'll be like looking over the
top of it. So you don't see the battle, but you'll
see like, So if the battle's happening in between
two buildings, you'll be looking on top of the
building, like on top of the buildings, and you'll
just see the flame balls kind of exploding. Like
you'll just see the light from it in between
the two buildings. And it's totally like a trick
to save money. And it drives me insane. Because
it is very noticeable. It's not one of those
like. I understand trying to save money sometimes.
I understand that in certain movies and stuff
like that. But like this is very apparent. Like
where they show you the beginning of the fight.
And then they don't actually show you the fight.
And so like there's moments of it. You do see
some of the moments of the fight. But for a lot
of this fight you don't see a lot of it. A lot
of it's focused on like the smaller parts of
it, like Ophir and Keziah are protecting Adam
because they're both in like the top of the tower
in the cathedral making sure that nobody gets
to Adam. And so it's just like Adam trying to
convince Ophir. Like Ophir, you know, if you
give me a weapon, if you free me, I can fight
these things. I can help you. I can, I can win
this for us and everything like that while the
fight's going on. Or it's focused on Gideon and
his like two buddies talking about the fact that
they need to protect Leonor no matter what happens,
you know? So there's a lot of those moments while
a fight's going on. and even when this thing
finishes they mention at the end that they lost
16 gargoyles 16 like it's not a huge number but
they don't have a lot of gargoyles don't get
me wrong but it's like you just lost 16 of them
it's it's not like it was a huge fight or anything
like that and they just don't show us half of
them and it's one of those things that just absolutely
drives me nuts about this movie because it happens
multiple times where they kind of go off the
main fight to not show you anything whether it's
money or it's just they think it's not important
that you see it because there's one time where
i would say they don't think it's important maybe
but especially this time it was very apparent
like they wanted to show you oh we'll show you
these like fireballs flickering off the buildings
but not actually show you the fight Well, like
I said, Ophir and Keziah are defending Adam.
And then Ophir, of course, swings a weapon towards
Adam. But it's to free him from his binds. And
then he gives a weapon to Adam. And Adam's just
able to, like, hand -on -hand combat. Like, one
of the safest, easiest fights to show that's
cheap. And hit the demons one time and turn them
into fireballs. And all of them are descended.
He gets rid of a majority of the demons that
are in the cathedral. But both Ophir and Keziah
ascend in the fight. And Keziah is dying and
Adam is trying to save her. And she's like, no,
let me be together. This was forbidden by the
order. Let me be together with Ophir. We need
to be together on the other side. So Keziah and
Ophir both ascend in the fight. Gideon and the
two others fly off to take out the millions of
demons left, but they left Leonor unprotected.
So Zuriel was able to like ambush around and
get Leonor. And one of the demons that was left
there is able to tell Adam that she was like
brought to the Walton Theater. and that he must
exchange himself for her. And then Gideon and
the two other gargoyle bros, because that's what
they really are, they're gargoyle bros, they
get to another spot, and another demon is kind
of waiting for them, and is just like, I have
a message for you. Leonore's at the Walton Theater.
You guys are idiots for leaving her unattended.
So Gideon's pissed. He flies back to the cathedral
and he's kind of like in charge without Leonore.
So he decides that he's going to go to the vault.
The other two gargoyles are like, this is forbidden.
Don't do it. And inside the vault is Frankenstein's
journal, which Gideon grabs. Gideon flies over
to the Walton theater. And this is one of the
things I will give this movie. This movie has
had a lot of bad so far, like a lot of bad. this
was one that was really cool so gideon flies
as a gargoyle through the theater roof lands
like swoops his wings and he is jai courtney
like human version and it actually was a pretty
good transition i actually thought that was a
pretty cool one that was one where i was like
okay this was this was well planned this is this
is one of those things where you like see it
on the storyboard and you're like that went exactly
how they wanted it to go like you saw the whole
transition everything that was cool so that one
was pretty sick so gideon arrives like heroically
you see adam is like hiding in the theater and
gideon says he brought the journal in exchange
for leonore You see some like demons surrounding
Gideon and Zerial tightens his grip around Leonore's
throat. Adam's also listening in and this is
where he first discovers that this journal exists.
He never knew this journal exists. So Gideon's
like, I will give you the journal. Leave Leonore
alone. Zerial's like, deal. Throws her to the
side. Gideon catches her, leaves the journal
and like Gideon. Flies off of Leonore. And. Zuriel.
Grabs the book. Runs off. Adam starts fighting
the demons. That are in the theater. And starts
descending these demons. Zuriel's obviously got
a head start. But Adam's able to follow him.
And is able to. See Zuriel. Go to the secret
lair. Sees how he gets into. The mansion. And
then Adam's able to like descend one of the demons
quickly, get into the secret lair, follow down
to the secret part of it. And he's also able
to see the handoff of the journal to Nibirius.
So he knows Nibirius is. Mr. Wessex. He knows.
It's pretty obvious. It's not like it's going
to be a secret later. There's not going to be
some big reveal like, oh no, Mr. Wessex was Nibirius
the whole time. He knows who it is. He lets them
kind of do their thing. He follows Nibirius to
an elevator. Nibirius gets in the elevator. He's
like, okay, I need to see where he's going. But
then he sees that there's this curtain and he
walks to the curtain and it's just this massive
like area of pods and bodies in these pods and
like all these bodies are dead and just like
waiting and so he's trying to figure out like
what's going on here it's just these massive
pods and bodies And now Mr. Wessex, Nibirius
brings the journal to Dr. Wade back to the cathedral.
Leonore is like having a full meltdown because
now Adam knows about the journal and she, she
regrets not showing Adam the journal because
now she knows he's going to figure it out about
it. He's going to read it. He's going to see
all this stuff and he's never going to trust
the gargoyles again. And Gideon is just like,
we lost 16 gargoyles. Get ahold of yourself,
woman. dr wade is reading the journal and she's
learning through it while she's talking to carl
that electric eels is what brought the monster
to life and they're like wow if that's what brought
it to life i wonder what it would take to kill
it and this is when adam kind of like walks through
and sees that they're holding the journal and
like adam's been sneaking through this facility
the whole time and he could easily get into the
doctor's lab like by sneaking through but instead
he sees the journal he sees the doctor holding
it and just decides screw it breaking the glass
he sets off an alarm and immediately a bunch
of security come in but wessex comes in too and
he's like you know you could have just knocked
and like he's playing nice and he wants to convince
adam to stay and so they're like talking about
it and he's like Mr. Wessex is like, like I said,
playing nice. He's trying to convince him to
stay. He wants him to be a part of this. He's
not giving anything away. Like he's not saying
you're trapped here. He's like actually trying
to be like, look, you can sit with Dr. Wade.
She may do some tests, but it's just kind of
like to see how you work and operate and that
kind of stuff. Like I'm not trying to do anything
like this or that or anything like that. You
know, so it's not trying to be. weird or creepy
or anything like that so then mr wessex kind
of reaches out a hand and adam grabs it and then
it reveals wessex's demon eyes like his demon
eyes come out so adam's like nope so adam grabs
the journal jumps from the window and crashes
straight through the earth and hits the subway
so he ends up on the subway and he starts reading
the journal while he's on the subway Zuriel and
Dr. Wessex are outside the lab. And they're talking
about what to do next. But Zuriel is confident
that Adam is going to come back. And Mr. Wessex
is just like, how are you so certain? How are
you so certain? And this is when Dr. Wade walks
out of the lab. And Zuriel is just like, Dr.
Wade, there's nothing for you here now. You should
go home. You should take a rest. And Dr. Wade's
just like, no, no, we got to do all this work,
all this and everything like that. We got to
do all this work. And Mr. West kind of sees what
he's getting at and goes, no, you got to go home.
You got to take a rest. And when she leaves,
Zeriel goes, Adam's going to come for her because
he can't make sense of everything in the journal.
So now we know we've set up the trap. We're going
to watch her. And so Dr. Wade is walking home,
but she can sense that someone is onto her. Someone's
watching. Who that is, what's happening, is going
to have to wait for after a quick break. Because
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which we are back with right now. So Dr. Wade
feels like she is being followed. So she slips
into a dark alley and she finds out that Adam
has been following her. And he explains that
he went to her because there is a war between
gargoyles and demons and that her boss has been
hunting him for over 200 years. Definitely not
crazy like that. That makes complete sense, right?
Like you'd be following her too. Yeah, that makes
complete sense. So she, of course, is just like,
yeah, sure, whatever. No, thank you. But he then
sees that Zuriel is also following them. So he
kicks a door open barely away from them. So Zuriel
hears it and knows exactly where to follow them.
He also explains that there are corpses and that
Wessex is going to make these human corpses demons.
Like he's going to put demon souls inside these
humans. This is the only right reaction. She
goes, look, I'm guessing that reanimation process
probably gave you brain damage, but I don't believe
in these gargoyles and demons or whatever. As
if on cue, Zeriel runs in and yells, Frankenstein!
And then changes into his demon form immediately,
which looks more like an alien than a demon,
but it's fine, whatever. So now we fight in an
abandoned warehouse. Gotta save on that set dressing.
Like, we just go into an abandoned warehouse
and we're gonna fight. I said it was good that
Zeriel isn't dying with one hit, but they also
just established that, like, it's going to take
a lot to kill Adam. So as they're fighting, I
don't really feel worried for Adam because they
just addressed it in the movie's logic. It's
going to take a lot to kill him. Zoriel does
get the upper hand, and he takes the journal.
And so he's standing over Adam, and he has the
journal, and he is about to deal the killing
blow. Again, I don't feel anything because, I
don't know. Maybe because movie, maybe because
just they just established that he probably is
not going to die. He goes, now that I have the
journal, I don't need you alive. But Dr. Wade
pops out of nowhere because Adam told her to
run. She didn't run, but she pops out of nowhere
and she goes, I need you to keep it alive. I
need to study how its body functions. And this
gave. Adam just enough time to slip out like
this tiny dagger that he had up his sleeve and
he stabs Uriel killing him so Uriel's dead uh
Dr. Wade was able to help Adam and they go to
this like tiny bad apartment that happens to
have a sewing needle in it or sutures or whatever
and she stitches him up so able to help the cut
on his back and you know just another stitch
for our frankenstein monster so he has the journal
he's good kind of um she understands now that
there are demons in the world and it's not just
like he's making it up he has brain damage so
We're good. Our heroes actually believe each
other. They're kind of working together. Cool.
Adam explains the need to get to the gargoyles
so the demons can't win. And she says, what about
you? And he throws a little pity party because
he's different. And he's like, I'm a monster.
I don't really fit in this world. And she gives
the line, you're only a monster if you behave
like one. which changes his whole output on life
he's like i've never thought about that pretty
much and so he tries to like thank her kind of
in a weird way and then she kind of like walks
away awkwardly to like wash off the sewing needle
or sutures or whatever it was and then she kind
of like tries to like say something but before
she can he falls asleep so you know it's one
of those like a will they won't they but be kind
of one of those like ah this is we missed our
shot we missed our awkward moment so maybe next
time well while he's sleeping she decides that
she's going to read the journal and everything
in it so we don't get everything about the journal
we do get bits and pieces the two things that
we get From Dr. Wade reading the journal. These
are the two important bits, I guess, were that.
He killed Frankenstein's wife, which she's kind
of like about. She doesn't really trust him,
thinks maybe he is a monster. And the second
thing was that part of the reason he was pissed
was because. Frankenstein was supposed to create
a partner for him. And so she's kind of like,
do you think I'm just going to make you a partner?
Which he says no, kind of, but not convincingly.
It's not like a convincing, no, I don't think
you're going to just create me a partner. It's
not a convincing answer, if you want to know
the truth. But that never gets brought up again,
so I don't know. Well, so she's on edge. He's
like, we need to get to the gargoyles. She's
like, I will meet you, but I need to get Carl
out of Wessex's mansion. And he's like, who the
fuck is Carl? Because all of us forgot about
Carl. And he's right, too, because nobody remembered
Carl. But he also goes, OK, fine, you can save
Carl. So Dr. Wade, Carl's Carl. and tells him
to meet her at the train station and he's kind
of like what why why am i meeting you at the
train station we have so much work to do we have
like don't we have the journal don't we have
like the monster aren't they getting us the monster
like that kind of stuff and she's like i can't
explain just meet me at the train station he's
like okay fine i'll be right there hangs up turns
around security shows up of course because they
know that carl Is now going to meet Dr. Witt.
So. Adam's like. I am going to talk to Leonore.
About the journal. And the fact that Niberius.
Can reanimate corpses. And possess them with
demons. Because. All I want them to do. Is I
want them to handle this issue. And then. I'm
going to get us out of here. So you go get Carl.
I'm going to get us a way out of here. And then
we'll meet up and we'll get out of here. So that's
the plan. Dr. Wade's going to meet Carl at the
train station and Adam's going to go find them
a way out. Adam gives his tiny little dagger
blade to Dr. Wade as protection. And then goes
to the gargoyles. When Dr. Wade gets to the train
station, Carl, they're like separated by like
this, like. rain wall kind of thing like it's
a water feature kind of thing and carl's on the
other side and he like is going i'm sorry they
caught me and basically like the demons show
up around uh dr wade she drops the tiny dagger
blade on the ground but now they have the journal
that she had and they have dr wade so they have
the journal they have wade they have carl Adam
goes to Leonore and the rest of the gargoyles.
And he's kind of like, they can reanimate corpses.
They can possess them with demons if they get
the journal or me. And why didn't you tell me
about this journal? And she goes, I was protecting
you. I didn't think it was important that you
read that because there was nothing good that
came out of it. and he's like it was just my
whole life you know blah blah blah whatever it's
fine he's willing to forgive it because he now
has a human that he cares about and he's protecting
i need you to get me dr wade and carl out of
here and then we'll never be a problem again
you guys can go about your war and we will never
be a problem to you again and she's like fine
get here and we will get you out of there as
he leaves Leonore says to Gideon, because Gideon's
like, you let your emotions get the best of you.
You let him push you around. You put us on the
line, everything like that. And Leonore goes,
no. Once they find the journal and Gideon gets
it, you need to kill Adam. Oh, I'm wrong. So
I was wrong. Sorry. The journal was left at the
apartment. Sorry. That's wrong. So Wade is the
only one. Wade and Carl are collected at the
train station, not the journal. So Adam goes
back to the apartment, recollects the journal
from the crappy apartment. And then he kind of
like get here. Something is kind of like on edge
and then gets tacked by Gargoyle Gideon. So he
grabs like a fire axe from the wall and it's
on. And basically Gideon is just kind of like
flying up outside of the building and then like
choosing his moments and kind of like swooping
in and attacking. Swooping in, swooping in, swooping
in. And they basically destroy like an entire
building as Gideon goes full gargoyle like attacking
from above. He plows through the walls and gets
him. And then he plows him like straight through
this hallway. Like straight through. They go
and they fall like straight down. And they're
falling towards a car. And Gideon's axe is facing
towards Adam. But Adam is able to, while they're
in the air, turn it towards Gideon. And at first
we don't see anything. And then all of a sudden
we see the light of like a gargoyle ascending.
So we know that Gideon got jabbed by the axe.
And Gideon like looks at him and goes, God will
surely damn you. And Adam goes, he already has.
So Gideon's dead. His sash falls because his
body like ascends. His sash falls. Adam runs
away. The remaining gargoyles see Gideon's sash
and they bring it to Leonore. and they go to
the cathedral, and, like, they're all standing
around Leonor with the sash, like, what do we
do now? Gideon, our strongest soldier, is dead.
And, like, Leonor gave the order. Like, they
all know this was Gideon. Like, you told him
to kill Adam. We know it was Adam that did it.
Adam gets to the train station. He finds, like,
his small little dagger on the ground, and he
knows that Dr. Wade has been captured. Like,
this is the sign. dr wade and carl are with wessex
and at first they're not going to help him so
wessex just straight out chokes out carl like
just straight up carl gone and this okay like
i've said this movie has a lot of bad a lot but
this was fucking badass He chokes out Carl, kills
him. He looks at Dr. Wade and goes, you want
him back? Show me how. Like the first guinea
pig of your reanimation process is going to be
Carl. So Dr. Wade is now working on the process
for a human reanimation. And I think that the
human is Carl. I really do. as they're doing
the one experiment up top it is powering all
of the pods underneath so it is doing all of
it at the same time it is not just like one and
done it is powering all of it uh adam is reading
the journal outside of the cathedral instead
of you know going to wessex and after he's done
reading it he now knows everything he walks to
the cathedral And he gets the attention of the
gargoyle outside. And he like gets full attention.
And then he leads them through the streets. To
the Wessex building. Like he fully leads them
there. And it's like five blocks away from each
other. Like this is not far. They're not going
a huge distance. And once he sees it down the
road. He takes off running. Because the gargoyles
are trying to attack them. They think he killed
Gideon with, like, nefarious purposes. So he,
like, doesn't attack any of them, but he does,
like, this stylish run to try to, like, avoid
getting killed. And essentially, like, he uses
one of them to, like, ride through into the gates.
So he, like, grabs, he, like, dodges one by,
like, spinning off a car, and then he flips in
the air and, like, grabs onto one and, like,
pulls him. And like gets him to crash through
the gates. And so now they're in the compound
of the Wessex mansion. And when they get through
the gates. That's when the demons start like
exiting into the courtyard. And the head of security
says it's here, which Dr. Wade says him, not
it. and the gargoyles are like on the building
and they now realize oh shit like this is the
place and the battle commences and they start
fighting in their human forms instead of their
gargoyle forms this is why i'm like okay so they
ran out of budget like what what's what's happening
and they also kind of this is where i'm saying
they decided maybe it wasn't important because
they kind of Adam walks into the building and
we follow Adam. And like, yeah, he is the main
character. Don't get me wrong. But again, it's
another battle we don't kind of see because we're
focused on Adam versus like the battle outside.
We do see a little bit. It does go back out.
It does do a little bit of it. But again, it's
the gargoyles are human, not their gargoyle selves.
So, you know, save money or whatever. So he just
waltzes into the lab with Nibirius. Dr. Wade
tries to terminate the program so that they aren't
going to bring back dead Carl and the millions
of dead bodies underneath. But Nibirius has locked
her out of it. And then he tries to stop her
completely by throwing her into the chamber.
Like of where Carl is and the electricity from
like the program. But Adam launches, catches
her, blocks her and takes the electricity. And
he starts to bleed. And this is only important
because he's also kind of like knocked out. It's
important because Nibirius uses that blood to
draw like a satanic symbol on his head. And he
starts doing a chant. he's going to fill his
body with a demon. And what's also happening
is Leonore and her two security gargoyles, the
two security gargoyle bros, they go around the
building and go underneath and they find the
pods and they start destroying the pods. They're
trying to destroy as many pods as possible so
that they can kill as many reanimated demons
before they even reanimate. So Adam, like I said,
they're chanting. Nabarius is chanting, trying
to bring a demon into Adam and a smoke cloud
envelops Adam. And it's like this black smoke
cloud that's like going into his nose and his
mouth, you know, like kind of thing. But somehow
Adam is able to still beat it out. And it turns
out that Adam got his soul. While they were fighting
earlier, Adam was able to make a couple gashes
across Nibirius' chest. Like three gashes across
his chest. Well, the three gashes and then one
long one across, that's the sign of the gargoyles.
And he needed to get close to Nibirius, so he
kind of let this happen. And he just makes one
long middle gash, making the gargoyle symbol.
which destroys Nibirius and burns down the whole
factory and brings it down like this giant chasm
to descend into hell. Like all the bodies, all
the other demons, everything that was in this
area is going down into this chasm in hell. And
it's all crashing down. So Leonor and the other
two bro gargoyles need to get out of there. So
they're like flying up and they're trying to
get out of there. Adam and Dr. Wade are like
stuck in the lab too. They're trying to get out
of there. And at the last second, Leonore and
the two bro gargoyles fly out and they each have,
one of them has Adam, one of them has Dr. Wade.
They get to the cathedral and Dr. Wade is just
like, but where's the journal? And Adam says,
I don't need it anymore. Apparently at some point
he had gotten rid of it. He had burned it. He
left it. I don't know. Then she grabs his hand.
She does trust him. He can be trusted. He's not
a monster. He doesn't behave like a monster.
And this is where the final outro goes. And he
does this one last monologue. And the monologue
concludes with, I, descender of the demon horde.
I, father of my son. I, Frankenstein. And the
credits roll. Motherfucker. Oh my God. Okay.
So there's a quote that somebody had said, and
I think this makes complete sense, especially
with a movie like this one about how we need
to stop remaking good movies and start remaking
bad movies with good concepts. Cause I think
this would be, fitting one for that I like the
concept of this movie I think there's an interesting
story there however I think they really flubbed
it like there's a lot wrong with this one I think
there's a very interesting story that could be
fleshed out and what was created here that being
said I do not think we have it in this particular
story um as i was looking also on reviews here
one of the critics said that aaron eckhart couldn't
save this and his valiant efforts i disagree
with that entirely and i like aaron eckhart uh
honestly um thank you for smoking fantastic he's
a great two -face in dark knight um he was one
note the entire time and it's, it's a tough character
to be, but legitimately, I think this character
was like, there was no emotion. There was no
characterization, nothing. Like I, I think his
character was one. monotone voice the entire
time and it drove me nuts because i know how
well he can do other characters he is such a
charismatic guy and especially like the two movies
i already mentioned that's what he does so well
he is charismatic and so like this character
is so boring because it is so one note i think
that's what killed this movie is the fact that
you have this charismatic actor in this one -note
role. I actually think some of the other roles
in this movie, truthfully, I think they ate a
lot better. Bill Nighy kind of sleptwalked through
this, I will say. I didn't really care for a
lot of his stuff. I don't think he was... as
good a villain i don't think he like chewed scenery
the whole time i will say his one line though
where it's like you want him back show me how
i thought that was pretty good but i think that
was just a a killer line i think that's one of
those uh a great line in a terrible movie um
dr wade was fine i think she she uh yvonne strahovski
i think she was uh she did well I don't think
she had a lot to go with, but I think she did
well for it. Miranda Otto, I can't say anything
bad about her. Jai Courtney was fine. Yeah, the
dialogue was rough in certain places. I've made
it clear my big issue was just going off the
action. I think they did that a lot. I think
they made it more of a talkie than they needed
to when there was a bunch of action they could
have shown. And I don't know if that's a budget
thing. Like if they were trying to stick to a
budget, especially cause it was an expensive
movie. Like this movie was an expensive movie
for how often they tried to save money. Like
it makes me wonder how much further they could
have gone out of budget. If they actually showed
some of the fights, I wonder where this, movie
could have gone if it just kept going with like
show all the gargoyles show all of the demons
you know like that kind of stuff i wonder where
it could have gone i think we could have gotten
to a hundred thousand or a hundred million dollar
budget um i wonder about that i really do yeah
that's that was a killer in the fact that It
was a $65 million budget, and yet we still didn't
see a lot of the action. That was weird for me.
I'm trying to think of a rating for this, and
I've got my number. I just don't have what my
rating scale is. It's a .75 for me on this one.
A .75 mad scientist freezing in the... north
chasing after a monster that's a dumb storyline
but you know whatever that's a brilliant scientist
brings a creature back to life from the dead
and then freezes in the north yeah that that's
a thing that happened whatever cool he's able
to bring life back from the dead but also freezes
in the north whatever Revenge makes us do crazy
things, I guess. So, yeah. I wish this movie
was better. I really do. I think there's a good
story that could come out of this that just wasn't.
And I wish there was. I really do because I think
we... We could have used a fun... Part of me
kind of wishes this wasn't like a Frankenstein
movie. Like if it was just... I think if you
just reanimated demons and brought... I don't
know. Can you reanimate people to bring demon
souls into them? I think that would be just a
fine thing in itself. You don't need Frankenstein
except for... I get that they brought it back
because of the reanimation process and stuff
like that. But other than that, I don't know
if you need to tie it to Frankenstein. I think...
Maybe I'm wrong there. I don't know. Maybe that's
it. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Because you
could make it a more charismatic action hero
by just making it an action hero. It's just a
dude that's like... fighting with the gargoyles
and he just wants to be a loner just because
but he's not like i'm just a loner because i'm
a loner i'm just a loner because i'm a monster
in a world of humans and gargoyles and demons
oh god look at me it's raining or is that my
tears Like that's what it felt like kind of,
you know, that's kind of what it felt like most
of the time. Like he just wanted to be a monster
because he's a monster. Everybody calls him a
monster and he's a monster. You know, that's,
that's kind of what it felt like. Whereas you
could just be like, oh man, I'm just, I'm fighting
against these things because they're demons and
I just want to fight against them. I don't know.
I guess that's what I'm trying for. It's a weird
concept because I think it could work without
the Frankenstein stuff. You'd have to develop
it a little differently. And that's where I get
stuck. But I don't want to redevelop this movie.
I think you have a concept that's interesting
enough that you just biffed it. You just absolutely
biffed it. And with somebody like Aaron Eckhart,
I was kind of hoping for it. yeah it's you biffed
it plain and simple you biffed it that that's
just what it is and that's why some of these
monster movies lately haven't done well and it's
like i said this was supposed to be because of
like the bride coming out and it's not like the
bride was much better you know um yeah i wish
i wish i could even say like that was doing so
much better i mean it was it was better overall
um but even that not not like it was doing so
much better you know so yeah just just a tough
one just a really tough one i wanted this one
to be so much better when it originally came
out And that is what's tough. I wanted this to
be such a better movie. Unfortunately, it's just
not what happened. Yeah. Dang. Dang, dang, dang.
But, you know, that's iFrankenstein. If it was
better, I wouldn't have covered it. I wouldn't
have watched it on DVD and I wouldn't have paid
whatever I'm going to be paying the next time
I go to the library for it. So I can't believe
I'm paying a fee for this movie. That's very
disappointing, but yeah. So that is I Frankenstein.
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