In the movie I, Frankenstein, a sect of ageless demons wants to get a hold of either Victor Frankenstein’s experiment notes or the creature, and they want to get one (or both) of them, because they want to give them to a human research doctor (a young pretty blonde woman; you know, like all research doctors: you can’t get anyone to give you grants or read your scientific papers unless you’re young & hot, and preferably female and single) so that she can figure out how to reanimate corpses so that they can: “bring back (their) fallen”. (<Oh, and that’s another plot hole: when their “fallen” die, they’re “descended”, as in their souls get sent down to hell “for all eternity”, and their bodies burn up and turn to ash; how is reanimating corpses supposed to reverse that? {One demon says there are lots of souls waiting in hell to possess human bodies, but if that really worked, why doesn’t one of them possess the Frankenstein monster?* Oh, never mind…})
So, um, how come a large group of ageless demons needs a human scientist to do their research for them? Aren’t they smarter and wiser than we are, given that they live forever and have all this free time to conduct scientific experiments? Or do they think they’re too cool for that stuff? Maybe they say: “Science? That’s for nerds! We’re demons! We steal souls, wreak havoc: we want some action, man! We’re not a bunch of wimpy eggheads sitting behind a desk in lab coats with a Bunsen burner and a bunch of flasks: we get humans to do that stuff for us!”
Is that why the demons don’t do their own research? Because it’s kind of an odd story point for them to have a human do it. The demons can be hot young women too: in fact, it would make more sense that way, because they only look young. (Most people the age of the blonde research doctor in this movie are still medical residents, and do not head cutting-edge research projects for large moneyed interests fronting for demonic hordes.) And I do not wish to belabor the issue, but a human researcher might object to their sinister purpose and try to sabotage the project, whereas a demon would never have a problem with the ultimate goal of the research.
In Underworld, the vampires did their own science; are vampires smarter than demons? (Or are demons just lazy?)
Also, in the scene where the demons reanimate their army of Frankenstein monsters, there is a gauge on each of the bodies showing the percentage of reanimation. Um, how do you quantify the percentage of reanimation? They have never done it before, so how can they even measure it? Plus, until it is 100% reanimated, isn’t it still just dead? And isn’t reanimation something that’s kind of like pregnancy in that either you are or you aren’t: you're either alive or you're dead, right? And what’s the gauge for, just in case they only want to reanimate a body 37% of the way, they’ll know where to stop? I'm sorry, but this gauge is ludicrous. I can’t even begin to suspend my disbelief with something like this. But it is good for a laugh.
In Underworld, the vampires did their own science; are vampires smarter than demons? (Or are demons just lazy?)
Also, in the scene where the demons reanimate their army of Frankenstein monsters, there is a gauge on each of the bodies showing the percentage of reanimation. Um, how do you quantify the percentage of reanimation? They have never done it before, so how can they even measure it? Plus, until it is 100% reanimated, isn’t it still just dead? And isn’t reanimation something that’s kind of like pregnancy in that either you are or you aren’t: you're either alive or you're dead, right? And what’s the gauge for, just in case they only want to reanimate a body 37% of the way, they’ll know where to stop? I'm sorry, but this gauge is ludicrous. I can’t even begin to suspend my disbelief with something like this. But it is good for a laugh.
(Oh, but Aaron Eckhart playing the Frankenstein monster makes perfect sense, because now I understand why he was in Thank You from Smoking: as the creature, he was treated horribly by humans, so he decided to represent the tobacco companies in the hopes that he could make lots of people die from cancer in revenge for how he was abused by mankind. It’s perfectly logical.)
You know, it’s getting to where you can’t even believe the science in horror movies anymore.
* BTW: The demons tried possessing him at the end, but apparently he had grown a soul in the last few minutes of the movie. Hee hee. (<He didn’t have a soul when Gideon tried to kill him minutes earlier, but he had one at the end. Did he use Miracle Gro on his soul to get it to grow so fast?)
You know, it’s getting to where you can’t even believe the science in horror movies anymore.
* BTW: The demons tried possessing him at the end, but apparently he had grown a soul in the last few minutes of the movie. Hee hee. (<He didn’t have a soul when Gideon tried to kill him minutes earlier, but he had one at the end. Did he use Miracle Gro on his soul to get it to grow so fast?)
