The flawed, extravagantly-expensive film is often considered by its critics to be pretentious, ambiguous, overwrought and excessive.Jean Grey read Nightcrawler""s mind to reveal the base""s location, at Alkali Lake.It was an underground base of operations - the reason that Wolverine hadn""t found it.The next day, the group flew to Stryker""s base, where in the underground bunker, Stryker was holding captive some of the kidnapped students from the school - explaining morbidly: "When I build a machine, I wanna make sure that it""s working.Good night, Mr.Carter." He responded: "Good night, Miss Milligan." She ascended the stairs into the building and shut the door.He began walking away and then sheepishly remembered that he was leaving his own apartment: "I almost forgot where I lived.At work, Charley finds Terry lying comfortably on a pile of coffee bags while reading a photo magazine filled with bikini-clad women.BothFrankensteinfilms were produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.(the head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when monster films were diminishing.