01. Add this to the list of movies where I thought it was about one thing and it turned out to be about something only tangetally related. When I first saw the posters for this movie, I thought it was going to be a schlocky, campy, completely ridiculous 1960s-style monster movie and that’s exactly why I wanted to see it. Guess what? It wasn’t. :(
02. I expected a lot more from this movie than what I got out of it. This is mostly due to the fact that it’s a foreign film and you expect that if a movie has managed to make it across the ocean and into North American cinemas that there’s some sort of qualitative reasoning behind that. Not so much.
03. They tried to balance the horror aspect of the film with humour, but I’m not sure that the humour necessarily translates to the kinds of things people might find funny on this continent (or in this country or in this city). Or maybe the humour doesn’t translate into the kinds of things I find funny.
04. Before I saw the movie, I had decided that the monster was actually giant octopus or something, because those are both frightening and fascinating. But it wasn’t. It was some made up creature from the black lagoon a poisoned river.
05. The movie I had envisioned in my head was far better than the movie itself, which is pathetic. I actually fell asleep multiple times and while this is partly due to the fact that I had been up since 6:30am and we were at a 9:30pm screening, it’s also due in part to the fact that the movie was just effing boring in places. MONSTER MOVIES SHOULD HAVE LOTS OF MONSTERS IN THEM. It’s not like they were trying to hide the creature to create suspense or anything; you see the whole thing in full-bodied glory within the first ten minutes of the film.
06. I did rather enjoy the washed-out, bleached tone of the film, though. It was like Saving Private Ryan, with fewer tanks and Nazis and more sea monsters.
07. I got a weird Pan’s Labyrinth vibe off of the little girl in the movie. I actually rather liked her particular storyline; it was when they switched to the various adults trying to find her that I got bored.
08. Loved the homeless guy with the gasoline at the end of the movie.
09. Basically, the assumptions I brought to this film didn’t let me enjoy it as much as I wanted to and the fact that the movie itself wasn’t that great really just about ruined the entire experience.
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