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The Shape of Water - Guillermo Del Toro (Trailer now available)
Posted on 7/14/17 at 11:49 am
Posted on 7/14/17 at 11:49 am
The trailer for Del Toro's mysterious "The Shape of Water" ran before the Planet of the Apes movie last night.
I haven't been so impressed by a trailer in years. Probably because Del Toro has been pretty tight-lipped about the project.
Set in the early 60's cold war era... mysterious experiments with a creature... Michael Shannon as an evil scientist... Doug Jones almost reprising his role as a water creature...
Looks to be really good.
ETA:
Trailer on YouTube
I haven't been so impressed by a trailer in years. Probably because Del Toro has been pretty tight-lipped about the project.
Set in the early 60's cold war era... mysterious experiments with a creature... Michael Shannon as an evil scientist... Doug Jones almost reprising his role as a water creature...
Looks to be really good.
ETA:
Trailer on YouTube
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 2:14 pm
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Posted on 7/14/17 at 2:36 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Will watch when I get out of the office. Can't wait
Posted on 7/14/17 at 2:48 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I wonder why the trailer isn't online yet...
Posted on 7/14/17 at 3:32 pm to boxcarbarney
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I wonder why the trailer isn't online yet...
Like I said, Del Toro hasn't said much about it. Doug Jones gave out the basic plot in an interview.
Early talk of it being an Oscar possibility because it's not straight-up sci fi or horror.
Posted on 7/14/17 at 3:33 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I was pleasantly surprised by this preview in the theaters.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 2:14 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Bumping with link to trailer.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 3:32 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I thought the fish dude looked like Abe from Hellboy and after a little Googling it appears to be an origin story. Same actor and all. Guess we get this instead of H3.
This movie looks very interesting and I'm sure Del Toro will deliver a good one.
This movie looks very interesting and I'm sure Del Toro will deliver a good one.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 4:04 pm to Ry_garou
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I thought the fish dude looked like Abe from Hellboy and after a little Googling it appears to be an origin story. Same actor and all. Guess we get this instead of H3
This was immediately what I was thinking.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 4:15 pm to udtiger
It's not Abe Sapien. You can think of it as a stealth prequel if you want, but it's not Abe. Hellboy III is on the way, but without Del Toro.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:21 pm to Fewer Kilometers
just watched. looks wonderful. Del Toro's colorist is a god.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 3:30 pm to Carson123987
Reviews are starting to come in:
More snippets of other reviews in the linkl
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The film doesn’t open wide until December 8 but it had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Thursday, and the reviews are in. Here are some excerpts:
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Variety
For those few cinema scholars who speak of some motion pictures as “films,” and others as “movies,” Guillermo del Toro’s glorious “The Shape of Water” refuses to go tidily into either box. A ravishing, eccentric auteur’s imagining, spilling artistry, empathy and sensuality from every open pore, it also offers more straight-up movie for your money than just about any Hollywood studio offering this year.
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The Playlist
If it’s true that every culture gets the fairytales it deserves, it’s hard to see what we’ve done lately to merit anything as lovely as Guillermo del Toro‘s “The Shape of Water.” It’s a Cold War paranoia thriller, a 1950s-style creature feature, a quasi-musical cinematic nostalgia trip and a fantasy interspecies love story between a woman and a merman, so brimming with romance and adventure that its effect overflows the screen, filling up rooms and flooding the cinema and threatening to leak through to the floor below. It is the greatest showcase for del Toro’s mercurial, dark-tinged but delightful sensibilities, and his best film since “Pan’s Labyrinth.” It perhaps even equals it, though let’s give time its chance to tell on that.
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The Wrap
There are elements of “Beauty and the Beast,” “E.T.,” “Amélie” and “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” at play here, but as always, del Toro takes the stories and the images that formed him and crafts them into something utterly his own. There’s something here for lovers of all kinds of movies — even silents and musicals — but the director transcends mere pastiche to craft a work that feels like the product of our collective film-going subconscious.
More snippets of other reviews in the linkl
Posted on 8/31/17 at 3:35 pm to Uncle Stu
Posted on 8/31/17 at 4:05 pm to Uncle Stu
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a fantasy interspecies love story between a woman and a merman
The main question everyone wants to know is, do they have sex?
Posted on 8/31/17 at 4:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
It becomes the bottle
Posted on 8/31/17 at 4:23 pm to Fewer Kilometers
It looks beautiful to the eye as well as the soul. Looking forward to this.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 7:04 pm to BigAppleTiger
Seems to be his thing lately. Visually stunning films that revolve around romance. Crimson Peak before this.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 7:30 pm to jdd48
crimson peak was arse though
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