The Shape of Water

[LewisM]

:mad2: :scared2: :confuse2: :argue: (really needed a vomit emoticon here)

Just Hollyweird at it's stupidest - count how many cultural cliches, politically correct and incorrect statements and stereotypical garbage you can put into the first 30 minutes, let alone the entire film.

You just know that a film is going to be sensational when the first 5 minutes sees a mute woman masturbating in a bath tub.

J U S T pure C A C A. GARBAGE! TRIPE.

What a waste of my 30 minutes (because heavens knows I couldn't sit through the rest of that poo)

[rrussell1962]

I'll give it a miss then. I sat through Geostorm last night, a chunk of my life that I won't get back.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

I can't believe you lasted 30 minutes. It's not even a "good" bad movie.

[ab1963]

Is it worse than Independence Day: Resurgence ? My son took me to see this at the movies , TERRIBLE.....

[LewisM]

It obviously only won the Oscar because of all the politically correct/social boxes it ticks (pun...intended LOL).

Just more Yank brainwashing...

[LewisM]

Yup. Hell yup.

Just bottom of the barrel grolsch (no, that beer is better than this movie)

[ab1963]

I definitely won't be watching that then as grolsch is the nastiest tasting beer on the planet......It must be bad.

[ChrisV]

And they give best picture to a film that has potentially plagiarised work from a pulitzer prize winner ?

[OICURMT]

Agreed... however, isn't "del Toro" Mexican?

[mynameiscd]

Normally I look at the plot before watching

"Creature from the black lagoon meets mute girl love story"

Hmmmm ..I think it says it all.........

[LewisM]

Yeah, well, we all know he's a Dreamer (literally)

[leon]

Don't know why you guys would even watch the Oscars, :question: see how much time you all combined wasted. :P

Leon :thumbsup:

[RB]

It's ok Leon, I think they used Kappa-Sigma Clipping when combining, so the deviant ones were rejected.

:D

[OICURMT]

I don't watch the Oscars, too many whingers... didn't realize it had won until this thread.

It just got released on Amazon Video, will probably wait until it's free before I waste the time (i.e. less than 5 minutes before I turn it off)

[Octane]

That's a shame. Pan's Labyrinth was pretty good.

H

[ZeroID]

Agreed, very clever.

My wife enjoyed 'TSOW' but it didn't impress me much. Some interesting retro looks but a bit of a cliché all round.

[N1]

Some strong views here. That's enough of an incentive for me to watch it.

[GrahamL]

I see Get Out got an oscar the only movie saw I last year
well it certainly was an original storyline . !

[PCH]

I just came back from watching "Finding Your Feet", - a pommie semi-comedy starring Timothy Spall among several others well knowns.

I won't give any spoilers, but this would have to be one of the best I've seen in a while; certainly better than "The Winchester House" that we saw last week. I think Helem Mirren let herself down somewhat by being in that imo.

[ZeroID]

Any of you seen 'Dunkirk' ? That had to be one of my best watches..

[Octane]

Dunkirk was incredible at the cinema. Again, the cinematography and the audio was superb.

H

[Visionary]

I was tempted to see the film, x1000 thanks for the review. I doubt I would last the 30min you did.

[doppler]

I didn't think it was that bad, a tad fairy tailey for me but if you don't take it too seriously has some entertaining parts.

It's pretty obvious from the start that the mute girl is not quite human herself after seeing the scars on her neck (from healed up gills)

"THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962."

[LewisM]

I begrudgingly finished it.

Still a Meh film with some odd overtones, and NOT del Torro's best despite what he says. I am not exactly enamoured with it.

The actor's playing the Russians were absolutely laughable - my wife sat there and just about sprayed the screen with coffee. The accents and pronunciations were THAT bad (especially the KGB chief - sounded more Albanian than even remotely Russian. The operative himself was at least almost understandable - my wife had to read the English subs to understand what they meant!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

[N1]

Hollywood pidgin used instead of actual foreign languages has a long tradition and should be a comedic genre in its own right. Sure makes for some entertaining viewing :rofl:

[inertia8]

Thanks for the heads up on tsow.

Dunkirk I watched in a cinema in NZ and at the time of watching it, my feeling was the chopping of the timelines felt all over the place, scenes from the ground showing lots of boats, scenes from the air not so many, yet enough references to feel they represented the same scene from differing perspectives. Felt incongruent.

I'll rewatch it and take my time and seem if I get the same impression. There was something else that had me peeved but can't remember.



Overall positive tho.

[multiweb]

If you speak the lingo it makes you laugh for sure. There's a scene in Iron man 2 after the Monaco grand prix where Tony Stark utters a few French words to a cop when he goes visit the bady in the brig played by Mickey Rourke. It just doesn't make any sense. Even after a few ports. :shrug:

[iborg]

Hi

I've just got back from seeing it, I and my better half found it both intriguing and entertaining!

The overall feel of it reminded me City of Lost Children.

Philip