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If you can survive the opening couple of scenes without choking down vomit, then I guess you might like it? I fast forwarded through the rest to see if it gets better or worse. . . it stays about that bad - nauseatingly bad. The script stays that bad, pacing, editing, makeup, costumes, etc. all in very bad taste, all amateurish. The strangest thing about the film is that the performances are all great. Such a strange array of good talent chasing no talent. Perhaps the best example I'll be able to pull in the future when discussing how popularity politics lead to production money getting wasted on talentless teams. I read one review that said it was like a Kubrick film. You just needed to turn your brain off and watch it with feels like a Kubrick film . . . if you're not smart enough to see what's wrong with that then . . . maybe this film IS for you after all. enjoy.

The real monster was the movie all along. Everything negative that's you've probably heard about this film is true and then some. It's not a good movie. The problems range from the script, the directing and the acting. And yes there's also a feminist push that's over the top and has the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Just the concept of Mary Shelley possessing people as a ghost, is not only ridiculous and a bit of an insult to a writer who legitimately helped legitimise female writers.

I'm not the biggest fan of period movies, but I had to make an exception when Jessie Buckley is in the lead here. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride! comes out just 3 months after another Frankenstein adaptation. But the Bride is not about the science but more about how women are ostracised from society. Frankenstein's monster, who now has lived for over 100 years, travels to Chicago to meet with Dr. Euphronious, whose help he needs to help to bring a woman back to life for **** Bride has a lot working in its favour. The credit for that goes primarily to Jessie Buckley. She turns in yet another memorable performance that is loud, reactive to the plight of women and polar opposite to the calmness that she brought to her role in Hamnet. Christian Bale plays an older version of the monster and I can picture Jacob Elordi's version turning into this version. He is the image of a person who is lonely and would go to any extent to get a companion. Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't have much to do as someone who serves as Frank's inspiration. Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening costar.Maggie Gyllenhaal makes some notable changes to the narrative, the major one being the possession of The Bride by Mary Shelly's character. This brings out a different side to the character, one that is empowered and wants a safer place for women in the world. The Bonny & Clyde style of storytelling makes for a refreshing change. The Bride! isn't for everyone. It works primarily because of Buckley's performance and Gyllenhaal's vision for the character.

An epic production ... incredible performances by lead actors. The Bride! Is a brave blend of fable and reality... violence, gender roles and un requited love.

Holy God, this may be the single worst movie ever made; it is every bit as terrible as ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’. Avoid like the bubonic plague because it is the film-equivalent of such. There’s nothing else that needs to be said other than that this will finally kill Maggie Gyenhall’s already-on-life-support career. For that we should be grateful and so I award it a 1.0.

The Bride! is gorgeous, but other than that it's hard to watch, for me at least. I think this story could be something I'd enjoy watching, but this approach is something I dislike. They wanted to do too much and ended up not delivering. The cinematography is gorgeous, one of the most beautiful digitally shot films of the past few years. The editing is good too with the wonderful dance sequences and even though I didn't care for the story, it wasn't too boring. The sound design and score are mixed, because there were times, when I really liked them. The cast is amazing and the performances are good too, but since I didn't like the characters, I couldn't enjoy the performances too much. The Bride! is not for me and hopefully my biggest disappointment of the year.

I would love to give this movie a higher score, but the messy final stretch leaves a sour taste in the mouth. For most of the movie it's enjoyably bizarre, funny and romantic. This movie takes flight thanks largely to its two outstanding lead performances. Jessie Buckley is phenomenal, crafting a character unlike any we've quite seen before. Christian Bale also totally anchors the film with his portrayal of Frankenstein. He's sympathetic, funny, at times fierce and.... human. There is a musical element to the film which worked for me and I appreciated the surreal POV aspects of the film. What would two reanimated people do on a date? Movie, dancing, police stand off; they're not so different from us. One thing this movie has going for it is the awe dropping visuals. There are period scenes in New York etc that were transporting enough to make my heart soar. All on a super tall IMAX screen.

Just caught a matinee of this gem today. Needed some time to digest it, roll it around in my brain a little. It's certainly not a perfect film. However, it's jangled, energetic, visceral, personal, and a version of "The Bride" that needed telling. It's feminist, for sure. What's wrong with that? From what I can tell, Maggie Gyllenhaal made the film she set out to make. A genre/time shifting tale about The Bride, where she isn't a sidekick or anyone's property. It stirs in your brain like a cocktail and swims there for a bit, All the important pieces are there, in this stylistic Bonnie and Clyde adventure. You feel the revolution, right under the surface....seething, reminding us the past world she's designed isn't far from the one we exist in now...just murkier.

Me pareció una película rara, bizarra y visualmente muy cuidada. Tiene una propuesta diferente y una atmósfera que llama la atención, aunque por momentos el ritmo se siente irregular. Aun así, logra entretener y tiene personalidad.

This movie is basically a Stanley Kubrick film, more a film that you feel and empathize with and experience viscerally than a film you think about. It looks like a lot of critics still don't know what do with a movie like that. And if you feel the movie, on reflection of the experience, you will understand what it's about. It's a powerful movie if you shut your brain up and just let yourself feel it. To understand this story and to understand what is happening in the film requires that you empathize with the monsters on screen. One critic misunderstood the film's violence and action as abandoning the film's themes. That's a person watching a movie to think about philosophical topics, not to feel and experience and explore their own humanity. This is a film you experience, not a film you think about. It's pure cinema and it's a really special, Kubrick-esque movie everyone should be seeing right now.

I was prepared to hate this film in light of all the mixed reviews it has received, but leave it to me to love a singular vision that makes no apology for its excesses. And they really aren’t excesses, to speak of, more sly nods to predecessors. The narrative conceit is having the deceased Mary Shelley, author of Frankie’s tale, start off the program with a telling preamble and her occasional reappearance as a voice in The Bride’s! head, or perhaps her possession of her, urging her to act on her rage in this or that situation. And rage it is! She has a great deal, we learn. She’s also incredibly verbal! I blame Ms. Shelley for that. Her dialogue is great. Pay attention! There may be a slight disconnect in The Bride!’s backstory, but it’s easy to deduce the source of her wrath. And Frankie is a charmer, slow to anger, dapper, and gentlemanly, but lethal. Anyway, it’s funny, violent, musical, and hopeful in ways you wouldn’t expect. Buckley & Bale are marvelous together, Cruz & Sarsgaard are plucky as gumshoes, Jake Gyllenhaal is perfect as a matinee idol, but Jeanie Berlin as Dr. Euphornious’s (the studious Annette Bening) housemaid is adroit in her attendant freakishness: I was particularly impressed by her ability to portray an emaciated version of Anjelica Huston! I enjoyed it. And leave it to Maggie Gyllenhaal to bring Fever Ray (yay!) to the silver screen and end with a teasing possibility of …“I would prefer not to…”

Everybody should chill and enjoy. This was a fun story, maybe purposely messy at times (messy seems the go to word for this movie) but maybe when you are dead and reborn, things get messed up. I loved the way it flowed into different genres and plots, as I believe, maybe, Mary Shelley would have been confused at the 100+ year gap, and still determined to keep fighting through. Original and great lead performances. Jessie Buckley is fun to watch....what a year for her!!!

The Bride! The Worst, Most Evil Movie of the Year. Designed to be a retelling focused on agency, choice, empowerment and revolution, it seems an odd choice for Hollywood. This change from the original story leads to a wacky, all over the place adaptation that basically ignores the source material for the message.

Crítica social foda........................................................

'The Bride!' is an iconoclastic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic that gets lost in its own chaos. Despite two committed lead performances, Maggie Gyllenhaal opts for a story that seems to replicate the cringe aspects and concepts of 'Joker: Folie à Deux.' Characters who appear and disappear out of nowhere and a plot that constantly feels aimless severely damage it. The director deserves applause for this almost kamikaze exercise; one only wishes it had yielded more.

A Blind Screening will Shock you Alive. I believe that it was a nice thing - a movie (directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal), who wanted to make a story about the Bride of Frankenstein & she was inspired by old movies like "The Bride of Frankenstein" & "Top Hat" which did get referenced in the movie itself, which is nice. Also, the Bride (Ida) brands herself after Ginger Rogers. There are many nice parts to it: I found interesting that Ida is actually the author, Mary Shelley, telling the story from the dead in greyscale. The prosthetics also give something different: Frank has normal skin & his head does not seem to high. This is divisive: positively, it could have a more real feel; negatively, it could make him look dull & off-putting. Ida did not need stitches; she was already & sparked back to life. BTW, I believe Ida could have gotten more time to shine. Why am I being positive about a polarising movie? It is labelled as OK BTW

What a disappointing mess. A clear case where one's focus on political agenda rather than strong storytelling got in the way. By the end, this movie becomes annoyingly inconsistent and incoherent. Tries to say something but is about as deep as a puddle.

The make work was great, about the only good thing I can say about this movie... the feminist overtones or should we say overt-tones makes it a cringe fest, most female characters are as you would expect in such a story, insufferable.

It's basically Mary Shelley's version of Bonnie and Clyde, a chaotic and bloody relationship at the center of the story, the Bride, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, feels like a messy film to me, some of the chaos parts are well-structured, while others lean into chaos in a way that never really lands with much impact. The film starts by focusing on the creation of the Bride and the Monster, played by Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, Buckley had the potential to deliver another outstanding performance after her acclaimed work in Hamnet, and in many ways she does give a strong performance here, but it also feels somewhat held back by the film itself, with stronger writing and clearer direction, her performance could have been truly incredible. Bale's portrayal of the Monster didn't fully convince me at first, early on it feels a bit restrained, but once the story descends into chaos, his performance starts to make much more sense, that's where Bale really finds the character, and you begin to see the wild commitment he brings to the role, of course, he's a great actor, but the film takes its time before letting him fully unleash that energy. The two leads are solid overall, and most of the supporting cast does a decent job, however, Penélope Cruz unfortunately gives what i thought was the weakest performance in the film, i wouldn"t even say it's a good performance, which is disappointing considering how much a single weak performance can weigh down parts of a movie. In the end, The Bride is a strange experience, i really appreciate some of the storytelling and stylistic choices that Gyllenhaal brings to the film, when the chaos works, it's genuinely exciting to watch, but there are also moments where the chaos feels flat and doesn't achieve the impact it seems to aim for, which is frustrating because it could have been really great. Was i disappointed? A little bit, do i regret watching it? Not at all, despite its flaws, it's still a worthwhile and unusual experience, the film feels like a project full of great ideas and potential that never fully comes together, it's a mix of things that work and things that don't, resulting in a chaotic and messy film that remains, in its own way, quite interesting.

An original, enjoyable mess with everyone involved giving their all. I especially enjoyed Jake Gyllenhaal as a song-and-dance movie star. He's got chops!