I can imagine Roger Corman has a few scripts exactly like this just tucked away in six foot tall piles, yellowing and curling at the edges as the years go by.

He probably has more than one film actually made involving females that fall in love with unusual creatures.

Ray Harryhausen would have done incredible things with this.

Next up Quentin Tarantino remakes the "Confessions Of..." series replacing all of the sex with foot stuff. Confessions Of A Shoe Salesman.

This film just pinched an excerpt from MotherHorseEyes.

Unless MotherHorseEyes lifted it first that whole unborn, unmade dialogue looks to be a pretty obvious rip.

Maybe Lovecraft used to say that stuff first. Del Toro seems to like lifting from him.

The Shape Of Water - 1.5/4

A derivative, hammy, camp and consistently predictable "tropestry" that should hang on the Wall of Shame.

This is not a good movie.
One positive is that despite the shamefully mediocre material Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Nick Searcy and especially Michael Stuhlbarg play their parts very well.
This Sally Hawkins was unknown to me before and hopefully will fizzle back into annihilation because I think she's really quite bad. She shouldn't shoulder the blame for her character being entirely unappealing but anybody who makes me wish a mute cleaning lady would die, in a film where the mute cleaning lady is supposedly the heroine, cannot be a good actress.

I enjoyed Shape of Water. Not an absolute masterpiece or anything, but I enjoyed watching it.

How many times have you flooded your bathroom in an attempt to get laid now anyway?

So many unnecessary deaths.

It was a charming little tale of beastiality

It was exactly that. The beast just wanted an egg. Pavlov was kinder to dogs than that naked mute simpleton was to the creature.

Splash Noir that movie was. It even fucking had the same ending as Splash. I didn't get why everyone loved it.

So many things that annoyed me about it. Generic ass Octavia Spencer playing a sassy black woman for the millionth time. Random gay side story. Really random musical number.

Baby Driver is another hugely hyped film that I just couldn't get behind with the way everybody else amped up the hype. It was so mediocre. Just an obvious collection of cut and pastes that could fit into any film of the same genre and already belong to others.

I was quite grossed out by it but only in the parts that were supposed to evoke the beauty of love.

It was repugnant really.

You'd fuck it if it were female and had big boobs.

Lock Jaw, would you fuck the sea creature from Shape of Water for $10k?

Yeah man, seems like it would really know what it is doing

Would you do it for just $5k?

Changed my mind on the whole thing. Don't want to have to flood my bathroom and then have to pay for repairs and have construction workers taking over a year to repair it.

Ask the construction workers to convert your bathroom into a water tank.

Maybe LJ hires each construction crew to finish a different part of his H.H.Holmes murder mansion. That's why it's taking so long.

Citizen Kane - Not Impressed/10

How would that be different than your life right now other than a little dampness?

I liked both Baby Driver and Shape of Water. Neither of which were my favorite films of last year.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado-7/10

Nowhere near as engrossing or thrilling as the first. The main plot is a bit murky and the subplot doesn't pay off. But it's still a well shot, tense and at times violent movie carried by its performers and maybe there is more in the tank based on the ending

Swing Time 3.5/10

Hell or High Water-9/10

Excellent modern heist themed western with great character work across the board, pacing and scenery. Loved every minute of it.

Moviepass #71 Uncle Drew - 7.5/10 good for what it was and actually one of the funnier movies I've seen although Tiffany Haddish is reaching high level of annoyance factor

Moviepass #72 Oceans 8 - 8/10 I did really enjoy it and I'm pretty sure it was at leAst better than 12 and 13.

Ocean's 8 -- 7.5/10

Didn't expect it to be good but I enjoyed it. Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson all really good.

Rampage - 7.2/10

I love the rock so i like everything he is in so the score reflects that. Definitely good for your hollywood blockbuster over the top action movie. Movie moved at a nice pace and kept me interested throughout. Poor Jeffery Dean Morgan was more or less cowboy Negan in this. I know the man has acting chops so not real sure why he got typecasted or typecasted himself. Do kinda wish rock was opposite zoe Saldana though as i quite love her and the actress in this reminded me of her. Zoe would have just had the better ass to watch running but i digress.

Spoiler tags, fuck face.

Also Zoe Saldana is a weak celebrity crush. Minus even more points for that.

Sorry frank about the spoiler. Fixed that for you.

Shes one of many.

Anne Hathaway for me. I fucking love that woman.

Dumbledore was dead the whole time!

No hang on a minute, that's not right...

:eek:

Watching "Game Night".

This is so weird, dark and awkward I don't think they have the right balance for a comedy nor the right chemistry. It's missing a lot in the laughs department but it could have been a pretty great movie with a bit of heart in it.
It seems unnecessarily mean spirited instead of raunchy. It's missing the identifiable bad guys that made the actions of the protagonists in Horrible Bosses so redemptive and justified any schadenfreude.

Jesse Plemons is so sympathetic he just makes me think the others are jerks.

Still time for them to fix it, half an hour left...better late than never.

Jesse Plemons saves the movie.

Typical. Never doubt Plemons.

The ending of the film managed to tie up virtually every concern I had very well. The ending is so much stronger than the beginning and the middle is just weird but it all comes together to make a film I will have to watch again.

Either the makers of this film were given carte blanche or they sold this the hard way because on paper it cannot have been an attractive script. I would have worried big time about financing a film that does what this film does to the viewer if I was a studio head. People walk out of comedies as much as any other type of film and some people won't have the patience for this.

Exceptional use of Plemons.

Game night was my favorite comedy of the year so far til TAG.

Super Troopers 2 - 6/10

Didn't realize there was almost 2 decades between these two flicks. That's a long fucking time. It obviously didn't capture the magic of the first one but there was plenty of funny bits but I would think 17 years later they could come up with a better premise and plot line for this movie. Honestly I thought this should have been better than what it was but I mean its a stoner comedy flick so we can't really be getting to pissy about it. I will probably do a back to back viewing some where down the road.