"Shape of Water" Synopsis

Self | March 5, 2018 | PJ-Comix

[rlmorel]

One of the joys of streaming. Don’t like it? At worst, you are only out about four bucks. At best, you didn’t pay anything at all extra to see it.

I check out movies from the library for just that reason. Don’t like it? Click.

But when you drive a half hour to the theater, pay $24 just to get in...you feel obligated to stick with it.

[rlmorel]

"...It figures that Hollyweird is now promoting inter-species sex..."

I think that has been going on for a while. Didn't "Avatar" do that?

[rlmorel]

I liked "Darkest Hour", and even though the Tube scene was completely contrived and offended my historic sensibilities, I ended up liking the scene better when I mentally accepted it as fiction.

He did a great job as Churchill. Of course, I saw this, and nearly spit my drink: Winston does James Brown!

[Enchante]

Fortunately I never saw “Avatar”....

I used to love movies and watched many every month.... but with all the b.s. I have cut way back, both by choice and (often) by increasing lack of interest. Now I only go out to a movie theater a couple of times per year, and don’t watch much of the recent output at home, either.

[catnipman]

“you feel obligated to stick with it.”

right. by george, i paid good money for this, and i’m gonna get every last penny’s worth of torture i paid for!

[Sequoyah101]

I can’t possibly care no less about what is showing at the theaters nor would I ever waste money on the clap trap trash they show.

[rlmorel]

Did you ever enjoy watching movies?

[rlmorel]

I remember going to see Handel’s “Messiah” once, and If I hadn’t paid that sum of money to get in, or if someone had given me the tickets, I would definitely have walked out. That was pretty painful.

But as it was, with the cost and time and parking, I felt obligated to stay...as did my wife, who does not enjoy orchestral music even as much as I do.

I suppose it is all what one can bear.

[PJ-Comix]

Hey, you can’t say I didn’t warn you.

[PJ-Comix]

But when you drive a half hour to the theater, pay $24 just to get in...you feel obligated to stick with it.

Pssst! Movie Pass. Pay 10 bucks per month and watch all the movies you want at the theaters.

[PJ-Comix]

But when you drive a half hour to the theater, pay $24 just to get in...you feel obligated to stick with it.

Pssst! Movie Pass. Pay 10 bucks per month and watch all the movies you want at the theaters.

[rlmorel]

LOL, didn’t see your thread, after I saw it, I searched for a thread about the movie to see if I was crazy or not!

We did use movie passes to go, had them for years but they were still good. Argh. I just don’t enjoy theaters anymore...:(

[Sequoyah101]

Yes when they have something useful to say. Wont go to a theater though. Waste of money. Far too many other things to do better than that kind of falderal.

[rlmorel]

I don’t disagree.

[pabianice]

>>"Okay. I got it. A white woman with a speech disability, a black, overweight cleaning woman, a closeted homosexual, and a Communist are all going to band together to save this creature from evil white men who are in turn: A power mad Five Star General based on Curtis LeMay, a pervert amoral sadist and masochist, a homophobic white soda jerk, a number of other cowards and brainless US Military dolts and idiots, and the entire US government who simply want to cut the thing up the way a little boy cuts up a frog, and for no better reason. Got it."

Another reason why I really, really miss "Stargate-SG1," which treated the US military with respect and honor.

[rlmorel]

Right. We wouldn’t expect anything else from a movie with this viewpoint. Distaste for the military is in the air leftists breathe.

[NorthMountain]

Another reason why I really, really miss "Stargate-SG1," which treated the US military with respect and honor.

Yeah ... pretty much. Except that they did allow an illegal alien unfettered access to our most secret installation.

;'}

[a fool in paradise]

I thought last year they tried to pretend that it wasn’t a reboot of Creature from the Black Lagoon.

And the director seemed to recycle the fish-hero from Hellboy.

Why Is Guillermo del Toro Obsessed with Fish Men?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmnleSus3w

And the green color motif emphasized just how fake and orchestrated the whole film was.

I liked earlier Guillermo projects, don’t like his politics, was interested in seeing this film and after viewing it give it a thumbs down. Sophomoric storytelling, hamfisted, beyond logic. Not even a funny “dumb” movie.

Night Tide with Dennis Hopper pursuing a carnival sideshow performer who may or may not be a mermaid is much better atmospheric story telling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6-ZcVzzIQ

[a fool in paradise]

As bad as this is, Masked and Anonymous is still far worse.

[RooRoobird20]

Actually, I really liked the movie. It was interesting and original.