Deniro-Stein?

[palitoy]

Just curious of what people thought about Deniro as the creature. I'm a huge fan of Frankenstein and when this came out, I was really excited. When I finally saw it, my excitement left like a leaky balloon. I thought he was woefully miscast and didn't pull it off, the makeup was one of the things I disliked the most.

[ramsey37]

I picked this up out of the $5.00 bin at Wal-Mart. It was worth seeing, but definitely not my favorite Frankenstein movie by any means. The monster just looked like Robert DeNiro with a bunch of scars ;)
George

[toys2cool]

yeah horrible casting,and I love DeNiro but man that looked like crap

I preferred the Monster Squad Franky or the one from The Bride :grin:

[monkey tennis]

It was closer to the book so I quite enjoyed it.

[palitoy]

A good point, i was fresh from reading the book when I saw it and appreciated that part. Just wasn't entirely fond of the execution.

[Meule]

The movie itself was good, as mentioned before it follows the book pretty close. And while I love Deniro he's no creature, the make up was poor

[Type3Toys]

I thought the movie was fantastic. I loved the way Deniro played the monster. I will always love the Karloff monster, but the Coppla/Deniro version was a masterpiece.
The monsters sensitivity matched only by his rage.

[Werewolf]

I hated the movie and the casting. Also despite it being so heavily hyped as being Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it didn't really follow the book all that closely. The whole thing seemed more of an ego massage for Branagh to me.

The movies that are actually the closest to the book in my opinion are the Terror of Frankenstein from 1975 and Hallmarks made for TV version from 2004.

[Mikey]

Never having read the book .......

I thought the DeNiro movie was really boring ......

As far as THE MONSTER himself --- Herman Munster looked better, imo

[palitoy]

The whole thing seemed more of an ego massage for Branagh to me.

Oh yeah, I forgot about him, I always find him a scenary chewer, guess it has to do with his background in theatre.

[wolfie]

I watched this film and really enjoyed it and i thought it did follow the book in so many ways that previous films had not.

[Vortigern99]

It really isn't much like the book at all. For one thing, it's boring as dried paint, whereas the book is an engrossing page-turner. Plus the entire lynchpin of the Creature getting homicidally angry at the Doctor is garbled, because the two bounty hunters who kill the cabin-dwellers appear to have no connection to Frankenstein at all, wherease in Shelley they were dispatched by the Doctor, if I recall correctly.

The truest version of Frankenstein in terms of adhering closely to the book is the TNT film with Randy Quaid as the monster and Patrick someone-or-other as the Doctor. Apart from the conceit that the Creature is made by some kind of cloning machine rather than being sewn together from corpses, the story is note-for-note from Shelley, and is consequently very, very good. Quaid looks eaxctly like I picture the Creature, too: with shaggy hair and a more-or-less human appearance.

[palitoy]

The truest version of Frankenstein in terms of adhering closely to the book is the TNT film with Randy Quaid as the monster and Patrick someone-or-other as the Doctor. Apart from the conceit that the Creature is made by some kind of cloning machine rather than being sewn together from corpses, the story is note-for-note from Shelley, and is consequently very, very good. Quaid looks eaxctly like I picture the Creature, too: with shaggy hair and a more-or-less human appearance.

Yeah, that is a great version I should revisit.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I thought other parts of the movie were good, but Deniro's monster/creature was just too...thuggy. He was TOO Deniro, and wasn't frightening or ghastly, just ugly.

Bram Stoker's Dracula monkeyed around with the book a lot too, but between the two, I'll take Drac anyday. Really liked Gary Oldman. Keanu pulled me out of the movie several times with his Ted-ishness.

Chris