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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8263841"><p>Young Frankenstein is great. I am a little less pessimistic about movies based on Frankenstein. I used to adore the book and had a bit of a chip on my shoulder towards movies that got the material 'wrong'. But I have lightened up a lot over the years. I do think the shift to the film medium demands certain changes (Frankenstein as a story requires patent reading (it is not long, but it is flowery and ornate in its prose) and I don't know that the story beats translate easily to movies. On top of that Frankenstein movies are very self referential because more audiences are familiar with the film adaptations than the original (and even then they are often influenced by the imagery of Karloff without having seen the full length movie). But that said I really did enjoy the Hammer Frankenstein films (the quality and tone is all over the map but it is one of my favorite series to binge if I have a day to kill). I rather enjoyed the original and the Bride of Frankenstein (they definitely don't cleave to the book but they are good movies in their own right, particularly the latter). I can't recommend it, but the Andy Warhol Frankenstein was definitely...interesting. I remember really wanting to love the Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein, and there are parts of it I like (I do like how they handled the bride, I like that they got into the monsters backstory and gave him a personality more like the book....but maybe that one has too much Kenneth Branagh in it and feels extremely tethered to the 90s. The Abbot and Costello Frankenstein is pretty good but obviously that is going for a whole different feel. I remember really enjoying Frankenstein Unbound but it has been ages since I watched it and it was quite unorthodox in its approach. I do agree though there are lots of forgetful Frankenstein movies. I know I saw one with Randy Quaid in it, I can't remember anymore about it than that. I vaguely remember the Bride with Sting (and mostly I remember being bored watching it as a kid----not sure how it would hold up if I saw it today). I also vaguely recall Frankenhooker but couldn't recite the plot beyond the basic premise. One movie I actually kind of enjoyed, even though it really had serious flaws, was Frankenstein Theory. It was a found footage version of the movie. It had an interesting premise. If you don't mind a more Blaire Witch approach to the material, it is something different (and it has some campy acting in it----but I kind of liked that about it).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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