idk it feels like a movie that wants to draw attention to actors working rather than one that wants to distract you from them. too many movies these days just feel like I'm looking at video game backdrops and occasionally i'll notice "oh there's an actor there. okay"

Also, look how the camera just... lingers and lets an actor just work? The lighting, the sound design, the music... it all feels deliberate to support tim curry's performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7...

I also watched Legend (1985) and, while Legend is NOT a good movie, i was really struck by how every scene just felt so... human? It felt like scenes were designed to support the story and characters, rather then the other way round. It's like, oh wow, it reminds you there's an ART to making film

There was ONE scene where the movie very briefly came to life, when Frankenstein was inspecting potential bodies at the gallows. not sure if it was something about grisly content of the scene, the up-close way it was filmed, or just a scene-stealing cameo by burn gorman, but this bit was INTERESTING

Like so many movies nowadays, it just felt like an endless vista of scenic perfection where everything is equally stunning and there's no place for the eye to settle, like a kind of inverted wabi-sabi. the human actors just fade into the ether

I'm a curmudgeon for matte paintings and physical sets, but I don't think it was the fact that it was CGI that made it feel off. I think it was just... i don't know, it felt like they designed an environment to look cool to the audience without any thought to its thematic significance to the film?

It really struck me when they showed Frankenstein's castle with that big weird pit. All I could think was "oh i guess that's supposed to look cool," but it just felt like a weird empty nothing floating in the ether. it felt like AI art, a form without purpose.

WORLD AND PRAISED HIM HOORAY.

“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”

We have our own tomb for Christ here in Japan too!

www.japan.travel/en/spot/528/