For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.

The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…

  • Jordan_Jordan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I tried to read the book. Made it about 50 pages before I DNF’d. The protagonist is just such a snobby condescending little shit. He whines about being ostracized and bullied but he constantly talks down to everyone at every opportunity. It felt like a power fantasy for the people who think other people don’t like them because they’re nerds, but really it’s because they’re just assholes.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        The movie adds in a fundamental misunderstanding

        The movie had blue curtained takes on the already blue curtained takes of the book. It was at its roots a masturbatory power fantasy of treat consumption and nothing more.