The Shape of Water

LewisM · #1 05-03-2018, 06:48 PM

(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 · #2 05-03-2018, 06:54 PM

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 (Peter) · #3 05-03-2018, 07:15 PM

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

ab1963 (Andrew) · #4 05-03-2018, 07:42 PM

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

LewisM · #5 05-03-2018, 07:49 PM

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

Just more Yank brainwashing...

LewisM · #6 05-03-2018, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ab1963

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

Yup. Hell yup.

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

ab1963 (Andrew) · #7 05-03-2018, 08:18 PM

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

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Originally Posted by LewisM

Yup. Hell yup.

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

ChrisV (Chris) · #8 05-03-2018, 10:42 PM

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

OICURMT · #9 06-03-2018, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by LewisM

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

Just more Yank brainwashing...

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

mynameiscd (Andy) · #10 06-03-2018, 07:32 AM

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 · #11 06-03-2018, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by OICURMT

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

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

leon · #12 06-03-2018, 08:56 AM

Don't know why you guys would even watch the Oscars,

see how much time you all combined wasted.

Leon

RB (Andrew) · #13 06-03-2018, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by leon

see how much time you all combined wasted.

Leon

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

OICURMT · #14 06-03-2018, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by leon

Don't know why you guys would even watch the Oscars,

see how much time you all combined wasted.

Leon

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 (Humayun) · #15 06-03-2018, 11:02 AM

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

H

ZeroID (Brent) · #16 06-03-2018, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Octane

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

H

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 (Mirko) · #17 06-03-2018, 11:40 AM

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

GrahamL · #18 06-03-2018, 06:28 PM

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

PCH (Paul) · #19 06-03-2018, 11:39 PM

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 (Brent) · #20 07-03-2018, 11:30 AM

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