The Film Corner

[E_T]

First movie in theater in a very long time for me and I had gone to see Justice League in IMAX.  Was good.

[Unorthodox]

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This is one of those movies that people in my circles have treated next to sacred.  You DO NOT RUIN this movie with spoilers.  You just recommend it to someone. 

So, I went into it more or less 'cold'. 

Among the better horror movies of late, and I will keep the convention of merely recommending.  I would add a caution to THIS audience that it IS an autopsy you are more or less watching 'live'.  Neither nudity nor gore (good practical effects) are shied away from. 

[Unorthodox]

Mother!

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What. The. Hell. Was. That?

I mean, I caught a lot of the allegory and all, but WTF?   

[Unorthodox]

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Um...

Yeah.   

That was stupid. 

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"good"

Too artsy for my taste.  I mean, I could appreciate the craft, but it's not for me. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Ms. Portman always looks like my idea of a good time, I have to give the former that...

The actress in the latter was taking on the same quality, the longer I watched...

[Unorthodox]

Ms. Portman always looks like my idea of a good time, I have to give the former that...

The actress in the latter was taking on the same quality, the longer I watched...

If THAT'S what you're after, definitely go for the second movie.  Some older (presumably LDS) couples we were in the theater with were leaving in shock due to some graphic content. 

[Buster's Uncle]

It's more not interested in horror, but am in women, clicked your links anyway and women were in them...

I only saw her head and hands - dunno how a good personality affects what's under the clothes.

-Worth seeing, you say?

[Unorthodox]

Shape of water is NOT 'horror' as you might think of it today.

It's the closest thing I've seen to a classic universal black and white movie in 30 years with a concerted effort to lean artsy/awards grabby.  Seriously, I don't recommend it as a horror movie at all.  The horror is the background to the artsy. 

[Unorthodox]

I hesitate to spoil anything at all, but if I really had to describe the film, it plays along a similar line of the old 80's TV beauty and the beast love story but with a fish and a hard R on the sex. 

[Unorthodox]

Uno's spoiler free Infinity War review:

Marvel finally figured out how to make a compelling villain on the big screen. 

That's all you'll get out of me. 

[Vishniac]

Uno's spoiler free Infinity War review:

All those critics and reviews talking about "shock" and "never seen in a movie"...
Do these guys know it's based on a 25-year-old story that almost any Marvel fan has read and that you can find in omnibus editions ever since without having to really search?

It's like ---SPOILER--- if reviews would be astonished by Rorschach dying in Watchmen the movie!
It's faithful to the story?!? Wow! Who could have guessed that?

[Unorthodox]

It's different than the comic in a LOT of the particulars, so knowing the comic is only superficially helpful.  In fact they do a number of rope a dopes, making things LOOK like it's going the comic direction and then veering left. 

As far a shocking...I wouldn't say never before seen, but certainly unusual for non-horror settings in one particular scene. 

I kinda wish they'd spent more time with certain things to be honest.  Like, this could have made a great netflix series.  As is, it's simply the best movie villain they've ever had.  But also the first one they've really bothered giving a full backstory. 

[Lorizael]

Well then.

[E_T]

Good for a part 1, now we have to wait for part 2...