I'm going to see The Shape of Water this weekend! Whoo!
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
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Atropa - Dec 05, 2017 12:17:40 pm PST #1160 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jessica - Dec 06, 2017 7:54:52 am PST #1161 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm going to see The Shape of Water this weekend! Whoo!
You will love it! But probably not as much as Crimson Peak!
(That's how I felt anyway.)
Atropa - Dec 06, 2017 8:47:53 am PST #1162 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You will love it! But probably not as much as Crimson Peak!
To be fair, there aren't many movies I love as much as Crimson Peak, and the ones that come close are also gothy cliches.
sj - Dec 06, 2017 2:21:47 pm PST #1163 of 3463
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, do you have the Crimson Peak Blu-ray, and if not, do you want mine? I liked it well enough but probably won't rewatch.
Atropa - Dec 06, 2017 4:21:47 pm PST #1164 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I do have it, but thank you!
sj - Dec 06, 2017 4:36:51 pm PST #1165 of 3463
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I figured, but I thought I'd ask before I brought a bunch of things to sell at Newbury Comic.
Vonnie K - Dec 07, 2017 6:04:17 am PST #1166 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Trailer for Andrew Haigh's Lean On Pete, one of the best films I saw during TIFF this year: [link]
The movie is a stunner - sparse and gorgeous, and strikingly unsentimental for a movie about a boy and a horse. And I have never seen a character who needed a hug more than this poor kid in the film, my God. The young actor who plays the lead is fantastic - he's named Charlie Plummer, and he's also playing the kidnapped teenager in All the Money in The World (the one in which Ridley Scott is replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in the eleventh hour). Hopefully this will get a wide enough release in small theaters.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2017 10:18:23 am PST #1167 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My feelings on Shape of Water is that it is a lovely fairy tale romance, but because it's such a sweet, simple story, it doesn't quite have the oopmh of del Toro's other work.
Thinking more about it after a couple days' digestion, it is refreshing to see a story with such clear good and bad guys - defined by how much they help or hurt the people around them. The protagonist's fish kink is treated as evidence that she's an emotionally healthy sex-positive adult, and we the audience are 100% rooting for their love story - no antiheroes here. The bad guys are vocally racist, sexist, and homophobic - we are not asked to sympathize with their secret manpain because what matters is that they are ASSHOLES, which is a bad thing to be.
Amy - Dec 07, 2017 10:24:57 am PST #1168 of 3463
Because books.
I want to see it even more now!
-t - Dec 07, 2017 10:33:40 am PST #1169 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dang it, why is that not playing closer to me?