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0.5/4
Sea Monkeys come to the big screen
Andulamb - wrote on 10/02/2020
At the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race, the U.S. sends its biggest creep to South America to kidnap the King of the Sea Monkeys. You see, the Sea Monkey King has both gills and lungs and therefore holds the secret to-- space travel?!? The SMK is befriended by a mute cleaning woman whose scars are the result of an unexplained vocal-cord-severing incident that occurred when she was an infant, that for some reason involved six parallel incisions, three on either side of her neck, and which isn't worth mentioning except to stop anyone from wondering if they're gills. The government decides to dissect the SMK because that's what you do with an irreplaceable scientific marvel in the movies. The gill-less cleaning woman hatches a cunning one-step plan to rescue the doomed SMK: break into …
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3/4
"The Shape Of Water" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/02/2020
A young woman living a lonely existence as a janitor in a military research facility forms an unlikely bond with one of its specimens – an aquatic humanoid suffering terrible treatment at the hands of its captors.
Guillermo Del Toro has made a career as a purveyor of Gothic fairytales that blend fantasy with the macabre, and here he turns his hand to the genre of romance with a similarly offbeat twist. It’s a film that although derivative, wears its influences on its sleeve and uses them with flair and invention. The films of Jean Jeunet are an obvious starting point, it sharing a similar visual style and the plot could be described as “Amelie falls for The Creature From The Black Lagoon”. But it would be just as accurate to describe it as “Splash! reinvented by the Coen …
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2.5/4
"Free Willy" for adults this time.
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 03/31/2018
“The natives in the Amazon worshipped it.
Like a god.
We need to take it apart, learn how it works.”
I’ve watched this movie the night before the Oscar ceremony, because I could feel it in my bones this film would possibly win that coveted statuette. Initially, I didn’t want to post my opinion about this winner. But as I had partially written down my opinion, I thought I would smooth off the rough edges and post it anyway. To be honest, I’m not part of the great crowd of admirers of “The shape of water“. Even though I was looking forward to it with great expectations and knew it was a creation made by Guillermo del Toro (I appreciated his previous films) I was only moderately enthusiastic about it. In the end I stayed behind with a “that’s it ?” feeling. Why the …
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3/4
Tenderness in Uexpected Romance
cacb3995 - wrote on 01/17/2018
I’ve seen Guillermo del Toro’s latest phantasy drama, cold war era period piece, interspecies romance: a delightful celebration of love in and of itself. Emerging as an early Oscar frontrunner, the film tells the story of Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a mute woman who works at a government’s facility as a cleaning lady in the early 1960s. She discovers that in the facilities a marine creature (Doug Jones) of an unknown species is being held captive. Colonel Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) pretends to dissect this creature in order to gain favour from his superiors, something that Elisa isn’t willing to let happen.
Del Toro moves away from the mecha-kaiju spectacle to the territory in which he operates best, and that is a fantasy drama that is sweet and deeply personal. His …
