The shape of crap (Movie rant)

in movies •  7 years ago 

Just wasted two hours of my life on a pile of crap – otherwise known as the award-winning best-movie-of-the-year 'The shape of water'.
I should've known, I mean the bloody movie won an Oscar just one week ago. I fancy myself smart enough not to listen to the Hollywood elite anymore, yet somehow I trusted their judgment and watched a movie they said was brilliant.

I love fantasy, I love sci-fi, violence and gore do not disturb me, but this production is just awful. The reason it won the Oscar is that its subject is diversity, social inclusion, accepting (and loving) a being that is different. That's obvious from the way the good guys in the movie team up – the fantastical creature, the mute girl, the black woman, the gay and the Russian. Don't worry, it's a good Russian and the bad Russians want to kill him.
Shocking, there were no Asian characters in the movie.
You might be wondering about transgenders – well, the strange creature has no visible genitals.... although it identified as male and the girl was quite happy the next day...
The bad guy in the movie – a straight middle-class Bible-quoting white male. I'm sure you get it...
The good guys win and they live happily ever after. Presumably.
The only thing even remotely interesting is that apparently the fantastical creature had the ability to cure baldness. That sort of implies being bald is bad, which is probably offensive to millions of guys.
I don't know how a movie review is supposed to look like, but on the other hand you can hardly call this a movie.
Don't waste your time/money on this, even a dentist appointment is better at this point.
Oh, and please do not leave any comment involving great visuals, poetry, power of love – all that this movie was full of is bullshit.

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When the color of someone's skin is more important than their virtue...
When you are a BAD person for greeting someone "incorrectly"...
When hollyweird thinks propaganda is more important than plot ...

then, you should just stop watching movies.

You should start a class action law suit to get your two hours back.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I liked the trailer....so I actually waited on that movie...it has that child note to it - which i like in my movies (so i thought)....sadly...my conclusion was the same. I couldnt even force myself to watch it full...after a while i started skipping scenes. What a let down.

Skipping scenes? So smart of you.... we watched every bit...luckily I had a glass of red wine to take away the pain :)

The worst thing was in the awards last year when they called the wrong winner, but then the "all black" movie had to win: I don't spend one cent or second of my time for these talentless ideology pushers.

Well, at least I didn't spend any money on that :))

Lol , I like your movie reviewing style!

Stop beating around the bush and tell us you really feel lol ;-)

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