AmeliaWasHere
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anyone here seen it? if so, how close in resemblance is it to Creature from the Black Lagoon, if at all?
i ask because Universal Monsters is my jam and one of the largest influences in my life. i recently bought the blu-ray boxset that has the 8 main monster movies, and ive just finished watching through them for the billionth time when i remembered the trainwreck Dark Universe that Universal tried so arrogantly to upstart (i mean come on, stealing DC's name and then completely faceplanting? pfffff), and it got me thinking, we have no real modern day Universal monsters. i love Dracula Untold because it's so charmingly fun and Luke Evans is incredibly hot, but it doesn't really evoke Universal Monsters ya know? same for The Wolfman, it has a lot of potential but it devolves into a cgi bore-fest.
but The Shape of Water is getting tons of buzz right now and it clearly uses Creature from the Black Lagoon as a building block for the story.
and besides, Universal clearly wants to milk these characters, and from what i can see, it is possible to retell these stories as fresh ideas.
any thoughts?
i ask because Universal Monsters is my jam and one of the largest influences in my life. i recently bought the blu-ray boxset that has the 8 main monster movies, and ive just finished watching through them for the billionth time when i remembered the trainwreck Dark Universe that Universal tried so arrogantly to upstart (i mean come on, stealing DC's name and then completely faceplanting? pfffff), and it got me thinking, we have no real modern day Universal monsters. i love Dracula Untold because it's so charmingly fun and Luke Evans is incredibly hot, but it doesn't really evoke Universal Monsters ya know? same for The Wolfman, it has a lot of potential but it devolves into a cgi bore-fest.
but The Shape of Water is getting tons of buzz right now and it clearly uses Creature from the Black Lagoon as a building block for the story.
and besides, Universal clearly wants to milk these characters, and from what i can see, it is possible to retell these stories as fresh ideas.
any thoughts?