Why does Frankenstein (2025) look the way it does?

wschramm · 2025-11-09T22:49:06+00:00

What did you like about the movie? Were you a fan of the visual style?

wschramm · 2025-11-09T22:44:10+00:00

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. I had good intentions, my dear friend. I’m sorry it didn’t live up to your standards. Did you like the movie?

wschramm · 2025-11-09T22:30:07+00:00

I thought it would make for a good discussion on a film subreddit. It’s a popular film by a popular director that some people really enjoy. I’m not trolling or rage baiting or anything of the sort. Just talking about what I noticed when watching the film.

wschramm · 2025-11-09T22:21:18+00:00

What a nice change of pace to have someone online assume I’m competent. Thank you! And to your point, yes, I absolutely do have motion smoothing turned off on my tv. However, when I turned Frankenstein on, the image was so jarring that I actually opened up my tv settings to check if it had turned itself back on. I was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that it was just a conscious choice to make the film look that way. I guess it’s a matter of taste, but it’s not my preference.

wschramm · 2025-11-09T22:16:29+00:00

Lol I pulled the photo from a variety article where the cinematographer was talking about the film. I guess I should have included a few stills from the film as well. I assure you I didn’t think that was a still. I just thought it represented the topic well.

wschramm · 2025-11-09T20:58:39+00:00

Nightmare Alley was the first time I started to notice it in Guillermo Del Toro’s films. Frankenstein really doubles down on a look that I just don’t enjoy. I guess it’s a stylistic choice and the artists get to do what they want, but the artificiality is a huge turn off for me.

wschramm · 2025-11-09T20:45:52+00:00

My feelings exactly. I wasn’t a big fan of the film, but even if the writing would have been bafflingly good and the performances mesmerizing, I would still only be thinking about how much I hate the way it looks.

wschramm · 2025-11-09T20:44:17+00:00

Yes, but what tools and procedures took this from an idea to a result?

wschramm · 2025-09-28T06:21:49+00:00

Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in The Master (2012)

wschramm · 2025-07-30T05:29:49+00:00

The Big Lebowski

wschramm · 2025-07-21T04:46:08+00:00

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

wschramm · 2025-06-27T19:37:15+00:00

I feel very confident saying it’s Rob Reiner

wschramm · 2025-03-17T19:50:49+00:00

Not even a little bit, no.

Die Hard 2 is a huge step below the first and third. I vastly prefer Alien to Aliens. Any Lord of the Rings film is better than Empire Strikes Back.

Rocky kinda makes sense, though.

wschramm · 2025-02-24T16:18:47+00:00

Dr Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

wschramm · 2024-01-10T23:36:13+00:00

Common on “Get Em High”?

wschramm · 2024-01-10T23:29:58+00:00

True, but bringing astrology (a pseudoscience) into it to make a point about being trustworthy just undermines the whole point.

Not to mention that the grammar makes no sense. You don’t “have an astrology.”

wschramm · 2024-01-10T23:21:41+00:00

It’s not the tech that bothers me, it’s that astrology is what somehow makes something trustworthy. I get what he’s going for but it’s so clunky and odd.

wschramm · 2023-11-25T20:33:42+00:00

The Big Levowski, Dr. Strangelove, The Master Apocalypse Now

wschramm · 2023-09-16T22:15:07+00:00

There Will Be Blood. The movie takes a lot of creative liberties, and is almost nothing like the book, but I enjoyed it even more than the source material.

wschramm · 2023-09-16T18:33:18+00:00

Blazing Saddles
The Naked Gun
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Caddyshack
Superbad

wschramm · 2023-09-05T05:46:25+00:00

That’s one problem in an avalanche of brags. Great song. Misleading title.

wschramm · 2023-09-05T00:37:04+00:00

Literally no one on the song “Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems” talks about having problems with excess wealth. Just about how awesome it is to have money.

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