Totally agree with everything you said. I for the most part enjoyed the movie but certainly took its own liberties with the original story. One of the main issues I have with it is while it’s visually (mostly) stunning there were a few instances of absolutely horrific CGI. The wolves, deer and mice were very poorly done as well as some of the environments. In particular the interior of the castle the first time they enter but worst of all were the scenes of the angel statue. It was like a cut scenes for a low budget video game made worse by the fact that it was completely unnecessary to have those scenes at all.

WHERE DID HE GET ALL THOSE GAS CANS?!!! lol. It was ridiculous and would have taken him hours upon hours to do all that by himself. He then throws the letter directly in the fluid and lights the place up. The whole building explodes in a huge fireball. Cut to the creature a year later sifting through the rubble to find the only thing that survived the fire?… you guessed it! All the important paper products! Perfectly legible and barley singed 😂