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hyped garbage

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I was 8 years old when this french Icon put this movie in his weekly show, La Derniere Seance with the fabulous innovation of 3D glasses: the family had to buy a special magazine to have them blue and red with drawings of the creature and i think it's the 1st and last time i saw a 3D movie on national TV! Last night, when i watched it again, on strict BW, i wonder if i have ever watched it for real in 1982 because i didn't remember anything! Maybe the fossilized hand, the harpoon but except that, it was a complete black ... hole! The movie has a interesting beginning with Bible and Darwin meeting peacefully for one time! Overall, the movie is good with feelings of Spielberg movies like Jurassic Park but also Jaws! I was also thinking to the die hard fan, Arthur Adams: the main actress has the same name and the boat calls Rita! I was a bit disappointed to see that the creature has no really motives except to be disturbed or maybe in love (the mother protecting eggs was Star Trek) and a bit sad that the human attitude is to kill the other different. But the production and cast was very decent: honestly i don't find that this old and unknown (for me) cast of yesterday lacks of talent compared to today! So it's a good lesson to understand that we are actually brainwashed to believe in incredible performances that are really just flat, plain ordinary: in other words, we are sold pees as nuggets gold and watching those old classics keeps intact our love of true cinema. Back to Eddy thus!

Director Jack Arnold saved an otherwise monotonous B-horror with a few imaginative touches. An amphibious man-monster is discovered in an Amazonian lagoon by explorer Richard Carlson and covets Julia Adams.The characterisation is two-dimensional, the story plodding. But you forgive all of that for that single scene where the Creature swims underneath Adams, unaware of what's stalking her, in a surreal aquatic sexual ballet. It's quite uniquely Freudian. Elsewhere, the story only gets slightly more exciting when the hero confronts it in a hauntingly dank grotto.The film spawned two rudimentary sequels. By now Universal was branching more into science fiction - alien invaders and atomic mutations - and Arnold became the film-maker most sympathetic to this sub-genre.

Man, that suit is really something. I had the pleasure of seeing this on 3D Bluray and it looked fantastic. Del Toro said something about it being a perfect blend of form, design and shots which really makes sense because when the Creature is swimming around and soaking wet he looks truly real - - like an actual honest-to-God fish man, dead eyes and gawping mouth and the whole works.The plot on the other hand basically devolves into a serious of cat and mouse scenes. There's some hints of sci-fi with its evolutionary origins, but that's all the brain really gets out of this one. The swimming scene with Julia Adams and the Creature is pure balletic grace.

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" contains the last of the classic monster characters by "Universal" or "Universal International" as they were then known. There are some genuinely tense moments in this film. Picture yourself enjoying a leisurely swim somewhere but you are unaware of a large, fish- like creature that is swimming right underneath you! That is nearly as frightening a prospect as having a shark in close proximity.... "Creature from the Black Lagoon" made a smart decision in keeping the plot a streamlined one. There are no irritating subplots, just the story of a party of people who are being menaced by the monster character of the Gill Man. The following facts come as no surprise: That the film was a box office success and that two sequels followed. The other two films are worth watching but this opening one is vastly superior.