The setting ruined the movie

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2018)

So the movie is about a mute girl falling in love with a merfolk god thingy. I feel that in this decade of remakes, that this, something so much different from the movies this decade, had potential to be really good. But apparently the 2010s are not good enough for the 2010s.
The movie is set in the 1960s, completely unnecessary and irrelevant to the them of a human falling in love with a merfolk.
Then they had to add all this stuff about the Soviets and the Americans hating each other, and of course the one guy had to be a Russian spy. It ruined the movie.
Movies often tell us a lot about the decade they come from. When you watch documentaries about the 1980s or the 1990s or whatever, the entertainment plays a big role.
I feel that in the future, the 2010s is going to be looked on as the decade of pasts.
Most of the movies and tv shows are remakes. And the ones that aren't are set in the past.
As for music, yeah, there's new music out there, but the radio stations still play 90% 80s music.
I feel cheated out of my 20s.
Also, while I didn't care much for this movie, I am highly annoyed with the Tumblrinas accusing this movie as "triggering" them with is horrendous violence and rape scenes. By today's standards, where many movies, tv shows, and books are just mindless killings, gun shots, and fighting, this movie was barely violent. And there was no rape in the movie.
Your entitled to hate a movie, but don't go accusing Guillermo Del Toro and the movie rating people for being awful, evil, disgusting people because a cat got eaten in a work of fiction.