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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: PJ-Comix
Okay, the original Creature From The Black Lagoon has always been known as a "B" movie. In today's Hollywood, it gets an Oscar.
61 posted on 03/05/2018 11:14:09 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Avalon Memories
Movies are not a big thing in my life.

I used to love going to the movies. Now, I can't find anything that I would want to watch among the drek.

Hubby and I did go to see Dunkirk; but, mostly, I wait for whatever I might want to see until it hits On Demand. Fewer and fewer things fall into the category of something I want to see.

62 posted on 03/05/2018 11:17:47 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: basalt

” they steal black peoples brains cuz they think blacks are cool and deep down want to be black..im not kidding..”

I don’t know what movie you watched but I remember the rich white people basically kidnapping a black man by using their sexy daughter to lure him to their home in the country. The purpose was to use the healthy black mans organs for transplant into old rich white folks failing bodies. The parts, in this case the eyes, were auctioned off to the highest bidder with failing eyesight. I don’t remember anything about “brains”.
Anyway, it wasn’t a bad movie however it was nothing more than an ordinary B horror movie with B or C list actors, not that good but not terrible. Happened on it one evening surfing Uverse.


63 posted on 03/05/2018 11:19:11 AM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: robroys woman
regarding homosexual characters in movies. Once one shows up as part of the cast, we turn off the movie

Seeing as there seems to be a rule that every single movie and t.v. show has to have a least one homosexual guy; and now, his "partner"; your choice of movie viewing must be down to near zero.

64 posted on 03/05/2018 11:20:01 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: cyclotic
Wow, this sounds like it needs Tom Servo and Crow to help it along.

LOL! I sure do miss those guys.

65 posted on 03/05/2018 11:22:14 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz

Check out Netflix. They did a gofundme funded entire season. It was pretty good.


66 posted on 03/05/2018 11:26:12 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

They’ll never get the fish smell off the monster.


67 posted on 03/05/2018 11:26:49 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: robroys woman
Once one shows up as part of the cast, we turn off the movie and watch something else.

They now use their sex scenes as the opening shot. Blam.

68 posted on 03/05/2018 11:29:11 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: TonyM
I don’t understand what the Hollywood crowed saw in it

You saw a creature, they saw a tranny.

69 posted on 03/05/2018 11:30:03 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: LibertarianLiz
I wait for whatever I might want to see until it hits On Demand

I use a Tivo and it has a wish list feature so if something looks interesting I just set up a record if it comes on and sure enough it does.

70 posted on 03/05/2018 11:38:54 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: LibertarianLiz

New movies, yes. But they are out there.


71 posted on 03/05/2018 11:47:07 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Chainmail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7WF78PolA


72 posted on 03/05/2018 1:15:26 PM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: slouper

im not sure what post you read but you basically said what i said...this was one of those silly “horror” movies..the type that would never be nominated in the past. But you obviously didnt listen to the dialogue in the movie close enough...why would ALL the donors have to be black?..anyway, thats the plot synopsis of the movie. Why do you think it was even considered for these major awards?...white leftist wish they were black, just the way it is.


73 posted on 03/05/2018 1:50:37 PM PST by basalt
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To: PJ-Comix

The incredible my pumper rides again.

Good grief.


74 posted on 03/05/2018 4:12:18 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

That is a rather horrendous movie as well.

I’ve tried watching it a couple of times.

Maybe if and when Svengoolie runs it, I’ll try again.


75 posted on 03/05/2018 4:17:01 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: basalt

Totally agree!!!!!


76 posted on 03/05/2018 6:11:21 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: PJ-Comix

bookmarking for later


77 posted on 03/05/2018 8:34:34 PM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: PJ-Comix; choctaw man; The_Republic_Of_Maine; CondorFlight; cymbeline; luckystarmom; wally_bert; ...
I am posting this after the fact, because I needed a little sanity check and knew Free Republic was the place that could provide it.

I knew nothing about this movie apart from the image from the movie poster and a comment I read by a freeper who said something like "Is this the movie where the chick has sex with some sea creature? No thanks.", so I was not inclined to see it. But that was all I knew of it. My wife checked it out from the library, because she "heard it was good". I watched it with her, because I feel the need to watch movies occasionally that she wants to watch...I need to give a little in the relationship in that respect.

At the part where the black woman reluctantly gets involved in the movie to save the creature (when she is trying to stop the mute woman from wheeling it out a loading dock in a laundry bin) I pause the movie and turn to my wife and say:

"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."

There was a black guy later in the film too who I thought they might let him skate, but being a male obviously canceled out his blackness, so they lumped him in "#METOO" wise with all the other evil men in the film. (With the exception of the homosexual and the Communist, of course)

My wife said at the end "Okay. That was a weird film." I looked at her, and then a thought hit me (I honestly didn't know because I purposely avoid anything having to do with the Academy Awards): "Honey...this didn't win Best Picture did it?"

When she said "Yes" all I could do was look over the top of my glasses at her.

I am a movie buff. I went for decades going to the movies at least once, and sometimes twice a week. But in the early Nineties, I simply began to lose interest in what was coming out of Hollywood. I just went to see "Paul, Apostle of Christ", and that was the first movie in a theater I had seen since "American Sniper" was in the theater.

I am not surprised, but I still have a hard time believing the absolutely desolate and void material they put into theaters now. I watch a lot of movies, but I am going back in time now, plumbing the Seventies and before all the way back to the early Thirties for entertainment. What a shame.

And entirely predictable.

78 posted on 04/08/2018 5:50:04 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

Please take me off your ping list thanks.


79 posted on 04/08/2018 5:58:12 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: rlmorel

It figures that Hollyweird is now promoting inter-species sex. But will they depict any of their favorite goat-humpers or camel-lovers in the act??? /s


80 posted on 04/08/2018 6:03:22 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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