[detective]

"Shape of Water" is a terrible movie. It is supposedly set in 1962 in the middle of the Kennedy administration. It is about a mute girl who works as a cleaning woman in a weird, secret U.S. government laboratory. She befriends a large, male lizard type creature who lives under water. She kidnaps him from the lab, brings him back to her apartment and has sex with him.

The director espoused his leftist, anti-American views in his acceptance speech.

[Dr. Ursus]

Try that one world on the Catalens in Barcelona!

[Celtic Conservative]

Um, no. Go back to your third world shithole and deal with it. No cookie for you.

CC

[stinkerpot65]

Globalist thug.

[Intolerant in NJ]

She kidnaps him from the lab, brings him back to her apartment and has sex with him...perfect metaphor for where these people would like to see the culture head - no difference between a real live and maybe handsome, tenderhearted man and some lizard creature, no difference between MS-13 gangbangers and your kindly, friendly next door neighbor, no difference between any LKQGBST whatever the latest set of letters is person and your straight loving spouse, no difference between anybody and anybody else - we're all equal in one grey mush, and anybody who objects to that must be destroyed to keep us all the same......

[PTBAA]

Fifty Shades of Gray Fish.

[Louis Foxwell]

In a Godless society the power of the Strong Man is absolute. His goal is to rule the world. One world government grows out of the tyranny of the strong man. It has no other function. It serves no other purpose. If freedom and human dignity were the goal small, local government would exist. Where people govern themselves there is peace and prosperity. Where people are governed by vast, monolithic oligarchs humanity dies.

[x]

He reminds me of "Comic Book Guy" from The Simpsons.

I really hated his movie Pan's Labyrnith. First of all, it had a stupid cliched political plot -- evil fascist stepfather. Secondly, it had a lot of unimpressive visual effects -- and they're even less impressive a dozen years later. Third, it was all about brutality and cruelty - torturing a child to death.

But a lot of critics loved it, calling it the best movie of the year and one of the best movies of the century. True, it wasn't very far into the new century when it came out, but I didn't get why the critics were so enthusiastic about it. Was it just the political message (which really wasn't anything to write home about)?

Other stuff that I've seen by him was equally unimpressive -- Cronos, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim. He's one of those directors whose movies start out looking like somewhat interesting realistic dramas, but then he drags in the kitchy monsters, and you lose interest.

Anyway, it's only a matter of time before a sex scandal comes out and he has to give the award back.

[RedMonqey]

“Guillermo Del Toro ...said movies should lead to one world and erase national sovereignty.”:

Given the vast majority of the world is ruled by authoritarian governments, why would a”liberal assume it would be respectful if human rights>”

[Secret Agent Man]

“why I don’t go to movies anymore”, Alex... /jeopardy

[Rummyfan]

Fantasy director Guillermo Del Toro won the Oscar for his film “The Shape of Water” and leaped right into the matter and said movies should lead to one world and erase national sovereignty.

Go show your movie in Tehran and tell that to the mullahs. Or in Ramadi.... Or Saudi Arabia... or name any other of the twenty different nations where this enlightened artist would get his head cut off.

[YogicCowboy]

The Shapelessness of Water:

No nation. No culture. No freedom.

[IronJack]

I suspect that both of the people who watched that drivel agree with him.

[oldtech]

Any questions about why folks ignore the Oscars?

[MarkL]

Del Toro is right. The world would be such a better place if the whole world were run like North Korea.

I heard this was a pretty good movie. I really enjoyed “Pan’s Labyrinth.” The Strain was an excellent TV show (though I still haven’t gotten around to watch the fifth and final season.)

But politically, he’s proven himself to be a booger eating moron.

Mark