The Shape of Water

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Shape of Water

Martman: Nov 20, 2006

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This movie was really bad

Boring, safe, shallow as a kiddie pool.

The visuals were nice though

It pretty much veered away from every super obvious safe choice. Gay man finds out his crush is just as fake as the lovely pie, he gets no sense of justice or revenge for being treated horribly (by the crush or his lovely former employers). Fishman confronts a cat, we cut away... oh shucks, he's gonna be petting the cat when we come back because he's so innocent and special and friendly -- oh wait he ate the cat's head. drat. Bad guy has a some dead fingers that his body is rejecting... welp, Fishman is obviously gonna heal him, thus showing him the error of his ways and convincing him to open his worldview and trust in Others -- wait no, Michael Shannon went full Zod and made that impossible, then got owned.

Not to mention repeated emphasis on women being in control sexually. Safe in terms of getting Oscar noms maybe? But no way is that safe in terms of what audiences tend to think they want out of fairy tales.

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