Re: The Shape of Water reviews
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 6:40 pm
This gives me mixed feelings. I'd love to see Sally Hawkins win an Oscar, but not necessarily for a wordless role.
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They're probably already watching Game of Thrones.Big Magilla wrote
I don't doubt it's going to be huge, quite possibly the biggest mass appeal hit since Titanic to also be an Oscar front-runner. But how are they going to get around the R rating for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language to sell it to all those girls and boys?
I don't doubt it's going to be huge, quite possibly the biggest mass appeal hit since Titanic to also be an Oscar front-runner. But how are they going to get around the R rating for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language to sell it to all those girls and boys?Sabin wrote: It's a Beauty and the Beast story told right. It's going to appeal to girls. It's a Guillermo Del Toro story with a weird alien thing. It's going to appeal to boys. It's historical. It's going to appeal to adults.
That someone from the cast sure looks like Sally Hawkins. But my biggest takeaway from this film's reviews is this film is going to have broad-scale appeal. It's a Beauty and the Beast story told right. It's going to appeal to girls. It's a Guillermo Del Toro story with a weird alien thing. It's going to appeal to boys. It's historical. It's going to appeal to adults. And more importantly, we shouldn't be asking "Can the Academy take Guillermo Del Toro seriously?" when they basically already did. Pan's Labyrinth was a heavy at the 2007 Academy Awards. Had they expanded the roster to ten, it's inconceivable it wouldn't have made the cut which means it would have had one of the biggest totals of the morning.Sabin wrote
I just watched the trailer for 'The Shape of Water' and I think this thing looks like it's going to connect. All of the story ingredients look there for a crossover between the popcorn crowd and the art house crowd. It looks like a world out of Jean Pierre Jeunet with a mute heroine like Amelie. There's a touch of alternate history to it. And while Guillermo Del Toro hasn't had a hit in some time, there's a sense of it not being his fault like Peter Jackson's reclaiming of The Hobbit franchise robbed him of his valuable time. I think we're underestimating it. It looks like it could be up for Picture, Director, Screenplay, Score, Cinematography, Film Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, and Visual Effects, and perhaps someone from the cast.