Best Picture - Not So Much

Rating: 5/10 (12 March 2018)

Saw most of the movies nominated for best pic for 2017, but had not seen this one although I had wanted to. Had already determined I was going to see it the day after the Oscar awards, and had my interest piqued further when it won best picture. Perhaps it was due to having high expectations, but I left the theater feeling that it not only should not have won best picture, it shouldn't have been nominated. While it was very cleverly filmed, and no doubt required a lot of hard work to bring to the screen, I found it rather boring and stereotypical for this sort of genre. When the creature was first shown, I thought the make-up was incredible, but as the movie went on, it looked more and more like it was just a man in a rubber suit. And while obviously this kind of event isn't likely to ever happen, it can at least be made somewhat believable, but some of the scenes were ridiculous even for the subject matter.
For me, '3 billboards' should have won best picture for 2017. I thought it far more original than "Shape," and actually cared about what happened to the characters. With 'Shape," I found I didn't care much about any of them.