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100 Things I Learned From 'I, Frankestein'


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1. A creature from Eastern Europe that spends 200 years living in isolation can rejoin human society with a modern American accent.
2. According to a brilliant scientist, the best way to "kill" an undead creation is to wrap it in a blanket and drop it in a shallow river.
3. Angels, demons and undead monsters only use melee weapons and hand-to-hand; they aren't into projectile weapons
4. In the eternal war of gargoyles vs. demonds, the demon prince thinks it's a better strategy to collect millions of corpses over hundreds of years and gamble on learning the secret of re-animation vs. simply calling in an air strike on the gargoyle temple. Gargoyles just sit and wait to be destroyed - no plans to attack/defend.
5. Undead creations created by sewing together corpses are stronger and more durable than normal humans...just because
6. Lead hench-demons are very overconfident. After seeing Frankenstein kill hundreds of demonds in hand-to-hand combat, the hench-demon decides to track down Frankenstein singlehandedly and challenge Frankenstein to a fight. Brilliant.
7. The best way to hide from pursuing demons is to loudly kick a metal door open and leave it wide open to allow anyone to pursue.
8. The only battle damage sustained from fighting hundreds of demons, falling hundreds of feet onto a subway car and a variety of death-dealing punches/kicks is a minor cut, which must be sewn up because???? Is there a risk of infection, bleeding? He's undead right?
9. CGI effects from 1997 are making a comeback.
10. The producer of Underworld is not capable of making a non-Underworld movie.
11. Aaron Eckhart needs a new agent
12. Aaron Eckhart needs money

Please continue...

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Angels, demons and undead monsters only use melee weapons and hand-to-hand; they aren't into projectile weapons


well, atleast they're environment friendly, and reliable too! They won't have any performance issues if they used melee weapons.


Bulls make money, Bears make money, Pigs? They get slaughtered!

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35. You can get a Double-Headed Battle Axe in ‘Just-Snaps-Together!’ kit form, and then use the axe heads independently – for, say, opening up ever-so-secret info-crypts in cathedrals.

36. Scientific Research is actually nothing but a clever Evil Out-Sourcing Wheeze by a particularly enterprising Demon Prince of Hell!
[Who knew? <sighs, rolls eyes skywards>]

37. Only God’s Chosen Gargoyles [WTF? Seriously???] can possibly protect humankind from the up-&-coming Demon-Funded Scientific Holocaust.

38. Good and Godly supernatural beings hang out in Cathedrals – while Evil and Demonic supernatural beings hang out in Science Labs (which they also fund, natch).

39. Scientists are Really Clever – but not smart enough to figure out as how their paymasters (plus those creepy wonks running lab security) are in fact Demons From Hell!

40. Lady Scientists ARE clever enough not to totter around on what Germaine Greer accurately berates as stupid f∪ck-me high-heels – but also NOT clever enough to realise that dying their hair fake-blonde is a spectacularly stupid way of being-in-the-world.

41. Since only the Demons of Hell appreciate (and fund) Science & Technology, that MUST be why it never once crossed the Gargoyle Queen’s mind to set up a mass production munitions factory, dedicated to carving their never-failing, anti-demon, triple-cross, slayer symbol on to the base of modern munitions like, erm…, bullets.
[Although, frankly, an (inexplicably) gun-free action movie makes a refreshing change from the dull, old, Yanqui, anti-human, monomaniacal “Mow-’em-ALL-down-w’GUNS!!!” movie trope, that so well reflects their dull, old, anti-human, homicidal society.]

42. To keep your millennia-long, spectacular, supernatural-being-fought, city-centre conflict between…
• White-Laser-to-Heaven-FX-on-expiration “Good Guys”, and
• Fiery-Yellow-Cheetos-Cheese-Doodles-FX-on-expiration [1] “Bad Guys”
…a Complete Secret From Humanity, simply agree to limit your battles to the wee small hours – when ALL of humankind is tucked up in beddy-byes, fast asleep and dead to the world.

43. Only creatures with no souls can be possessed by the Spirits from Hell, for Demonic World Domination purposes – hence Hell’s centuries-long, demon-driven, cadaver collection operation, on the off-chance that all that global, demon-funded, scientific reanimation research will someday hit pay dirt ["Logic? We don need no steenkin Logic – we're Demons!"];

BUT…

Don’t even THINK about getting the Spirits from Hell to possesses the soul-less, no-need-for-reanimation-science, and in-plentiful-supply bodies of the other the great apes – gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos – coz that’d be waaaay too much like the ‘Planet of the Apes’ franchise, and the studio would get sued to death for plagiaristic crimes against IP!

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OK, that’s already waaaay to much time spent pointing-&-laughing at this (guilty-pleausure-admissible) enjoyable hokum. Somebody else can take it from here.

Finally, Big Kudos to …

• Aaron Eckhart – for his preparatory six months of Eskrima-based stick fighting training, which showed up in his kinetically extravagant anti-demon combat; and to

• Bill Nighy – for wholly and deliciously inhabiting his Demon-Haunted World. [2]

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[1] Fiery-Yellow-Cheetos-Cheese-Doodles-FX-on-expiration – my thanks to scoup for “31. Dying demons look like cheetos cheese doodles” above… soooo hilariously true!

[2] His Demon-Haunted World – here is the perfect antidote to such simple-minded Science = Bad, God = Good hokum as ‘I Frankenstein’, which also comes with my seal of approval for enquiring and skeptical minds:
• ‘The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
– a book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, first published in 1995
– about » http://en.wikipedia.org.advanc.io/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World+Newton

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44. Sworn mythological enemies battling an epic war for centuries that could end all mankind.... live only a few blocks away from eachother.

45. Gargoyles who watch over the city and fly don't recognize their foe's headquarters even though it's a GIANT mansion not far from their inconspicuous castle. (quote from the queen with the surprised look on her face "This is it! This is the place! He led us here!")

46. A reanimated corpse that has no soul can still feel love and hate.

47. Near every abandoned construction site is a conveniently located room with lights, a bed, and medical cabinet.

48. A library of corpses scientifically preserved for reanimation and connected to state of the art technology is constructed, yet centuries go by to figure out the concept of simply turning up the electricity.

49. A combination of worthy actors/actresses and director with proven track record can still make a steaming pile of turd for a film.

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50. When the gargoyles come across a book that shows step by step how to create soulless creatures instead of destroying it just put it in the safe.

51. When over 100 demons attack your base to get Frankenstein, instead of simply flying him out to an undisclosed location since the demons can't fly, just hope your army is enough to hold them all off.

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52. Building are poorly constructed. Flying through one hallway can rip apart the entire building.
53. The entrance to the good guys headquarters is not only unguarded but also unlocked. Any soulless creature can just walk right in.
54. If the only thing that can kill you is a soulless creature don't keep one around.
55. No one is ever around to see the gargoyles flying.
56. It is forbidden for gargoyles to have relations with each other, they don't socialize with humans which means there must be a lot of self love going on in the cathedral
57. Demons and gargoyles have inner-changeable clothes that transform from either medieval times wear to gargoyle beach causal or business wear to demonic overlord look.
58. Adam believes that his one weakness is a wash cloth and water. He keeps both away from his face at all times.


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It is hard not to sound condescending when you are explaining things to an idiot!

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59. re-animating rats is different from re-animating humans because rats are simple and humans are more complex.

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60. Supposedly brilliant scientist who finds out about this secret war between demons and gargoyles, and her part in bringing the destruction of the human species, would rather die than help the demons. Demon prince kills her assistant and she decides to sacrifice the entire world to bring him back, forgetting that once the demons get this information from her they will wipe out the world as we know it anyway.

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61. You will accept being named "Adam" by a gargoyle queen, despite having scorned everything to do with humans for the past 200 years. Adam, a name that is so loaded with human cultural/spiritual significance - the name that was given to the first man ever.

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1. A creature from Eastern Europe that spends 200 years living in isolation can rejoin human society with a modern American accent.


If you buy ancient Romans AND modern Bavarians (human, demon and gargoyle alike) speaking with BRITISH accents, you should buy that.

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62 the secret to immortality is turning yourself into a capacitor

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