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The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Torro

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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
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I present Guillemo Del Torro's newest brainchild, written by Del Torro and Vanessa Taylor starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon and of course Doug Jones, also I loved some of the little touches like the creatures love of eggs( oh hello there Abe).
 
So basically Del Toro really liked a scrapped subplot from the Hellboy movie that was not to be and said "fuck it, I'm doing it anyway.".

Fuckin' A. This could be great.

No, seriously. I'm not only convinced that this is repurposed Hellboy materiel, but I'm also convinced that the Hellboy we might have gotten would have been a prequel about the early days of the BPRD. With the second movie ending on a pretty definitive the hero retiring with his love interest note and the fact that this movie takes place in 1963 when Hellboy would be a young guy it makes too much sense.
 
The Shape of Water: a film about a mute woman that would not let the world smother her love of fishsticks, no matter the odds.
 
YO NERDS HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THIS MOVIE

Like goddamn saw this thing last night and loved the shit out of it.

I'm extremely pleased by the number of nominations it got.

It was a delightful, warm movie. I also appreciated the shots it took at Cold War America, of course. :V
 
Really enjoyed it. Apparently del Toro though the creature from the black lagoon was going to be a love story when he went to see it as a child. He left very disappointed and so decided to do it right as an adult. Or so I hear.
 
rogthnor said:
Really enjoyed it. Apparently del Toro though the creature from the black lagoon was going to be a love story when he went to see it as a child. He left very disappointed and so decided to do it right as an adult. Or so I hear.
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"Creature from the Black Lagoon is not a romance movie!"
"It is now!"
 
ZerbanDaGreat said:
No but Elisa mimes that Fishboy's got an internal dick so there's that.

Anyway, saw it myself, didn't much care for it.
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Good but not great and had some pacing issues. I do imagine he had a crocodile styled spring loaded dick however.

That said, there was some dissonance when the movie flicked from "he's a wild animal, you can't judge him for eating the previous Alpha Cat and taking it's title" to "but fucking him is okay."

A decent Hellboy prequel altogether
 
Mutton said:
That said, there was some dissonance when the movie flicked from "he's a wild animal, you can't judge him for eating the previous Alpha Cat and taking it's title" to "but fucking him is okay."
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That bothered the shit out of me. A) I don't care how much I want some monster dick, if it ate my cat I'd shiv the motherfucker, and Giles is a piece of shit for underreacting so severely to that, and B) the juxtaposition of him saying "he's a wild animal" as a blanket excuse for Fishstick's behaviour with Elisa pounding the tuna with him a scene later was really distracting and uncomfortable. Until maybe the last scene of the movie it really came off more like she was falling in love with and subsequently smashing the mental equivalent of a moderately-intelligent orangutan
 
ZerbanDaGreat said:
That bothered the shit out of me. A) I don't care how much I want some monster dick, if it ate my cat I'd shiv the motherfucker, and Giles is a piece of shit for underreacting so severely to that, and B) the juxtaposition of him saying "he's a wild animal" as a blanket excuse for Fishstick's behaviour with Elisa pounding the tuna with him a scene later was really distracting and uncomfortable. Until maybe the last scene of the movie it really came off more like she was falling in love with and subsequently smashing the mental equivalent of a moderately-intelligent orangutan
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It's not like the last scene did much to change that other than he's a magical moderately intelligent orangutan either.

That said, Michael Shannon was terrific as always, albeit in part because he was playing Michael Shannon as always
 
Mutton said:
For some reason I don't think they let you fuck Koko the Gorilla either though. Despite her taste in media being far above average even
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~~*but because elisa is mute the fact that fishsticks communicates entirely in weird ape-grunts and literally four words of sign language he copied from her is beautiful and poetic*~~
 
Mutton said:
Another day working at the secret government laboratory. People keep asking me if they can fuck the fishman. Buddy, they don't even let me fuck it
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A secret government laboratory so secret they let the cleaning lady come and go from the secret fishman holding cell as she pleases, with a keycard that works on that door no problem, and never check the security tapes to see what she's been getting up to with the fishman.
 
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