Sentences with phrase «love creature movies»

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It is its own unique, unclassifiable creature: discomfiting and difficult, not least because it depicts a kind of love that may be even more unattainable for most of us than the usual movie kind of love.

The movie, which stars Sally Hawkins as a mute woman who falls in love with a scaled creature, also won best score and best production design.

This has all of the typical Guillermo del Toro touches, with gorgeously lavish dark, dingy sets, a wonderful score by Alexandre Desplat, an immense love for the art of cinema (she lives above a movie theater), not to mention a scaly fish creature (played of course by Doug Jones) who doesn't have any lines but does say plenty in his actions.»

Loosely based on real events, «Heavenly Creatures» follows two teenage girls, Juliet (Kate Winslet) and Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), as they meet, fall in friend - love, obsess over male movie stars, build up an increasingly ornate fantasy world and, ultimately, plan and execute a murder.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

So, Guillermo del Toro's Cold War - era fantasy B - movie romance thriller The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a woman who falls in love with a scaled creature kept in a water tank in the research facility she works at, has been named Best Picture at this year's Oscars.

Bert was given the nickname «Mister B.I.G.» which refers to his initials and to his love for making movies about giant creatures.

His latest movie, «The Shape of Water» — the story of a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an aquatic humanoid creature being held captive in a secret government laboratory during the Cold War — is, perhaps needless to say, one of the latter.

«If you went to the 1950s version of this movie Michael Shannon would be the star and the creature carrying the woman at the end of the movie would be a scene of horror, and here is an image of love, so the complexities are kind of flipped,» del Toro says, letting loose a minor spoiler for a film that has PR teams urging critics and writers not to divulge major secrets.

A dark - edged fairy tale as lovingly steeped in vintage movie magic as it is in hypnotic water imagery, this captivating creature feature marries a portrait of morally corrupt early - 1960s America with an outsider tale of love and friendship... Full Review

And eight out of ten were special effects movies with creatures and a love story.

This Best Picture winner is way more than just a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fish creature.

Del Toro's love of cinema is so resonant here, clearly taking inspiration from the classic monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

Del Toro's unconventional story works as both a Cold War - era Beauty and the Beast, and an epic love poem to cinema — an outpouring of love for empathetic movie monsters like The Creature from the Black Lagoon's iconic Gill - man.

(Blanchett, by the way, also went through a career period after Elizabeth where she bounced from supporting roles in big movies to leads in movies that didn't deserve her; it look her until The Aviator in 2004 before she started being the flawless creature we know and love.

Guillermo del Toro's escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.

Del Toro's Cold War - set movie, in which a mute cleaning woman played by Sally Hawkins becomes intrigued by a sea creature, is about «falling in love with the other,» del Toro said.

This movie pays respect to its origins, from sci - fi creature flicks of the 1950s to Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and is effectively a loving recreation of all of those films put together.

In this case, it shifted toward the highly professional, sincere, phantasmagoric work of a man who loves Creature From the Black Lagoon more than the people who made that schlocky Universal monster movie from the 1950s.

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While I love the characters, the premise, the effects, and the creatures, by now it's not that original of a concept that many other movies are ripping off.

While Sam Neill and Laura Dern were billed as the movie's leads playing Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler, the inclusion of Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm added some much - loved comedy to the dinosaur creature feature.