Queue Tips: Civic2R

I once had a friend named Victor.  He drove a Honda Civic.  He had a custom license plate that read: CIVIC2R.  Just a random thought that entered my mind when watching "Victor Frankenstein".  I was reading up on Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" and learned that Charles Dance was also in this other Frankenstein movie, so I decided to check it out.

Victor, of course, means "winner", in Latin, I think.  If I remember correctly.  As stated before, I had never read the novel by Mary Shelley, but I think it's an interesting choice for a character name.  Was he actually victorious?  Was it meant to be ironic?

Maybe because I watched them one after the other, but I wasn't crazy about this film.  I thought the performances were a bit much.  James McAvoy was all crazy he could spit.  And Daniel Radcliffe was supposed to be Igor, and his hump was just a large cyst.  They soon fix it, and he is no longer a hunchback.

A lot of the movie was just talking and arguing and yelling.  There was not much philosophical thought or reason to what they were saying though.  And nothing much happens during most of it.  The monster appears very close to the end, and - spoiler alert! - dies fairly quickly.

I wonder what they were actually trying to do, because the monster was actually supposed to be just a prototype.  Perhaps the filmmakers were hoping to launch a franchise and create more installments.  That is probably why nothing much happens.  In that case, they should have gone more into the background of the scientist.

I know he was supposed to be obsessed with his work, but I didn't really buy the motivation.  If you look at films like "The Prestige", you can really understand why the characters would be so fixated in what they are trying to achieve.  Maybe they should have given him a rival scientist also trying to animate dead creatures.  What would his name be?  Professor Champ Winnerman.

Speaking of champions, do you remember the Steiner Brothers?  They were professional wrestlers who I think were brothers.  Their finishing move was the Frankensteiner.  I think one of them carried their opponent on his shoulder, and the other jumped from the rope and clotheslined him.  If I remember correctly.

Okay, I just googalized it - that is, I youtuberized it - and I realized I was wrong.  The move was actually, one of them jumping up in the air, putting their legs over the opponent's shoulder and flipping backwards.  Wouldn't it be cool if the monster did something like that?