Don't like a lot of American-made films and don't like horror films.

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2018)

So, armed with moviepass, I take my chances with a lot of foreign films. That fact does not make me particularly intelligent or sophisticated. I don't mind reading subtitles and I generally like the way they tell stories.
I also don't like superhero films, but I liked Blank Panther. I liked The Post, mostly because the events in that film were taking place during my teen years. I made the mistake of seeing Dunkirk in IMAX.
I should have walked out on The Shape of Water as I did with The Death of Stalin. After about twenty minutes. I was surprised that I liked Molly's Game as much as I did. Didn't like Darkest Hour and I thought about abandoning movies completely after seeing Annihilation.
I wrote all this because I wonder about the movie habits of people who seemed more inclined to clean toilet bowls than to watch this movie. And now that I think of it, if you can't help yourself but look for every little inconsistency in the movies you pay to see, I can't decide whether or not this movie is for you or not for you. But obsessively listing and describing every personal pet peeve in your review is both irritating and unhelpful. And when you write that you can "go on and on" about your many criticisms, we've already figured that out long before you let us in on your secret.
I loved that I saw this movie. The audience roared more than once towards and at the end of the movie. That's not always a good indicator of how objectively "good" a movie is, but it does say something about whether or not the audience enjoyed what they experienced. Besides, there are plenty of "good" movies that I regretted seeing.
The movie introduces extreme tension immediately and never stops. If making noise gets you killed, how could it be otherwise?
I have nothing else to add to all the superlatives I've been reading in other people's positive reviews. They seem more interested in their subjective experience of having seen the film rather than trashing the movie based largely on trivial technical matters that did not take anything away from my experience. Had I known those things were so important, and that the movie was so terrible as a result, I may not have gone to see it in the first place.
It was truly an exciting and engrossing experience for me.