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"Shape of Water" Synopsis
Self | March 5, 2018 | PJ-Comix

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.


TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: academyawards; bestpicture; hollywood; moviereview; movies; oscar
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To: CondorFlight

“Is there a Christian subplot?”

Yeh right out of the book of Enoch. And revelations. This is the kind of stuff that was going on preceding Noah’s Ark. If we are not in the end times we are close to it.


21 posted on 03/05/2018 7:24:52 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: choctaw man

I saw the preview and just could not believe something so stupid looking was made into a movie. Cheap allegory of PC cliches, and of course won the Oscar.

Meanwhile, there were two decent movies I saw last year. Neither of them “conservative” but both well-made films about human-seeming people. The Florida Project, and Lady Bird (which is not about the Flotus in the sixties).


22 posted on 03/05/2018 7:27:46 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Ueriah

Megaforce. Yeah Baby! :-)


23 posted on 03/05/2018 7:27:49 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: luckystarmom
Displaces "Teenagers from Outer Space" as worst film ever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenagers_from_Outer_Space

24 posted on 03/05/2018 7:28:32 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: mojito

In Paul Zindel’s play does she put the dolphin in her bathtub and have sex with it?


25 posted on 03/05/2018 7:28:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: PJ-Comix

Should have been released on the SYFY Channel. Writing is just as logical


26 posted on 03/05/2018 7:31:34 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Homosexuality is so passe. Bestiality is the new cause célèbre.


27 posted on 03/05/2018 7:32:30 AM PST by RedMonqey ("You don't tug on Superman's cape...You don't spit into the wind...")
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To: PJ-Comix

Wow, this sounds like it needs Tom Servo and Crow to help it along.


28 posted on 03/05/2018 7:36:10 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: choctaw man

All the movies looked awful this year. I only saw one and it was dunkurk and it sucked bad. I didn’t see 3 billboards but would have rather had that win. I read the synopsis and just seemed better.


29 posted on 03/05/2018 7:36:52 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: House Atreides

Amazon? don’t need no stinking amazon! see it for free on a fire stick. (also amazon)


30 posted on 03/05/2018 7:37:27 AM PST by Iron head mike (punkys revenge)
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To: PJ-Comix

Saw it, mainly because I like Sally Hawkins. It was OK, but not what I would call the best movie of the year.


31 posted on 03/05/2018 7:38:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: PJ-Comix

Thanks for saving me $11 plus $10 popcorn


32 posted on 03/05/2018 7:38:53 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: PJ-Comix

Nolte: Why I (and the Rest of America) Didn’t See This Year’s Oscar Nominees

by JOHN NOLTE 4 Mar 2018

The Shape Of Water* ($57 million)

Guillermo del Toro is the most overrated director working today, and the fact that he is still fighting the anti-communists during the Cold War… Man alive.

And hey, I love Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the subtext about the Creature’s attraction to Julia Adams is interesting and adds a lot to the movie, just like Kong’s attraction to Fay Wray does in that classic, but that doesn’t mean I want to watch them do it.


 

*FWIW, this is the film that won Best Picture.

 

33 posted on 03/05/2018 7:39:55 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: PJ-Comix

I hate this emerging recurring theme of “rejecting gay mans advances” makes you a racist homophobe bigot.

I guarantee the first gay person who makes ‘advances’ on me will never try it again.


34 posted on 03/05/2018 7:40:40 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Is this a new John Waters movie?


35 posted on 03/05/2018 7:41:04 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: RedMonqey

Don’t forget man-boy love. Barf.


36 posted on 03/05/2018 7:41:42 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: PJ-Comix
i tried watching it a couple times but had to turn it off, just couldn't do it...
37 posted on 03/05/2018 7:45:54 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: wally_bert
"..Those two concepts are probably beyond most audiences now.."

I wonder just how far we are from "Ass". Hehehe. d;^)

38 posted on 03/05/2018 7:49:55 AM PST by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Haven’t seen or read the play. In my post, I’m only quoting other accounts.


39 posted on 03/05/2018 7:58:07 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: CopperTop

“... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!”


40 posted on 03/05/2018 8:01:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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