Posted on 03/05/2018 7:04:15 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Creature From the Black Lagoon meets mute woman at a secret space project in Baltimore run by a 5-star general. They bond over hard boiled egges. They also fall in love and mate in a bathtub. Meanwhile a Redneck tortures the Creature with an Alabama Cattle Prod. Even though the Creature is supposed to be vital for space program research, all the scientists and the 5-star general allow the Redneck to continue torturing the creature. Meanwhile the Russkies attempt to kill the Creature via a kind-hearted Commie spy in the project who won't go along with the murder plot.
Creature escapes and Redneck is enraged because his job is on the line as fingers start rotting from gangrene. Redneck tracks down Creature and mute woman at the docks and shoots both. Creature kills Redneck as latter exclaims, "You really are a god!" Creature recovers from wound instantly then hops into ocean with mute woman who also recovers from wound quickly. They should live together for ever after but one big problem. How does she breath underwater? Instant solution is she grew a pair of gills on her neck. And now they can live happily in the sea forever after.
p.s. One subplot teaches audience that if you reject the advances of a gay person that means you are probably a mean racist who won't allow people of color to eat at a lunch counter.
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.
I think that has been going on for a while. Didn't "Avatar" do that?
He did a great job as Churchill. Of course, I saw this, and nearly spit my drink: Winston does James Brown!
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.
“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!
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.
Did you ever enjoy watching movies?
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.
Hey, you can’t say I didn’t warn you.
Pssst! Movie Pass. Pay 10 bucks per month and watch all the movies you want at the theaters.
Pssst! Movie Pass. Pay 10 bucks per month and watch all the movies you want at the theaters.
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...:(
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.
I don’t disagree.
Another reason why I really, really miss "Stargate-SG1," which treated the US military with respect and honor.
Right. We wouldn’t expect anything else from a movie with this viewpoint. Distaste for the military is in the air leftists breathe.
Yeah ... pretty much. Except that they did allow an illegal alien unfettered access to our most secret installation.
;'}
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
As bad as this is, Masked and Anonymous is still far worse.
Actually, I really liked the movie. It was interesting and original.
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