Queue Tips: Let's be Frank.

Every year, I have to call PSE&G to repair the heater.  There's always some part they need to change.  The first time someone came and fixed it, I gave him a tip because that's what you should do.  The next year, something happened again, and I tipped the guy also.  But then a day or two later, it broke again, so the guy came back to do some more work.  I don't think I tipped him the second time.  Then it still wasn't working so they had to bring in a couple of more expert guys.  And they seemed to fix it.  So I tipped them.  But then something else broke so another guy came a few days later.  After that, I was like, nah, I'm keeping my money.

Anyways, last year one of the guys said it was time to replace the whole thing and get a new one.  We had replaced so many parts at that point.  He called it a Frankenheater.  And this year, it broke again and the PSE&G guy said he couldn't fix it.  The property manager sent over his HVAC guy and found the issue to be the rollout switch this time.  He was a Devils fan so I tipped him.

Anyways, coincidentally because it was recently Halloween, I had been watching a lot of scary movies, including a bunch of Frankenstein films.  I kind of somewhat saw that there was another new one that was made recently, but I had seen so many already that I wasn't interested.  Then I somehow learned that it was directed by Guillermo del Toro so I decided to check it out.

It turned out to be great.  It was about two and a half hours long, and I enjoyed the whole thing.  It was certainly different than all the other previous films.

I didn't expect it to be set in the North Pole, for example.  I don't believe there was an Igor character, unless I missed it.  And in this one, the monster turns out to be well spoken.  Oh, spoiler alert, by the way.

With all the snow in the beginning, I think it's interesting that there is a lack of ice during these stories.  You are dealing with rotting cadavers, after all.  Freezing them in some way would probably help.  Although I don't know what the capabilities were in those days.

I didn't realize Christian Convery was in this.  He was the kid in "Sweet Tooth".  I didn't recognize him and then just saw his name in the credits as the young Frankenstein.  (Not to be confused with the movie "Young Frankenstein".)  Of course, he had grown a bit.  And his voice also changed.  Not sure what his natural hair color is, but it was also darker.  I thought he had a good performance.  I also liked the decision to just keep him as the same actor even though some years should have passed already.  In a way, it looks like his character just stayed short during his teen years.

I have never read the novel by Mary Shelley, but I have read summaries of it.  I don't remember every detail though.  So I don't know the whole story about the old man in the cabin.  Whether it was in the book or made up by the filmmaker, I liked where they went with it.  It made so much more sense than just a random visit like they show in other films.

The way it ends certainly makes a sequel possible.  But I like that they didn't make it seem like something more was coming.  It still seemed like that was that even if you do wonder what happens to the characters after.