Virtue's Runs -- A Streak Runner's Blog

      I meant to write about Frankenstein yesterday, but it slipped my mind; I finished it on Saturday. It was exactly what you might imagine a movie version of Frankenstein to look like. Visually, it was stunning, and the world itself made me think of something like a Peter Jackson film because everything had a certain feel and look that was all-encompassing, but that’s no surprise. There is a reason why Guillermo del Toro was originally picked to make the Hobbit movies. I would have loved to see his version of the world of The Lord of the Rings.  Frankenstein wasn’t bad, but it was the kind of movie I felt like I could talk through because there wasn’t a chance I was going to miss something. The movie also seemed to follow the book and did the whole framed story thing, which made it feel very old-fashioned and took away the suspense. The story, written like a letter, turned me off to ever finishing the book. I felt the same way about Dracula, which I read maybe h...