Shape of Water

This is the best film of the year? Are you sure academy?

Okay. Maybe I didn't like it, because I had very high expectations. It was a bit of a sci-fi film that won an Oscar. So surely I would like it, right? No. It wasn't a bad film. I'm not saying that. I'm saying I didn't like it.
There were a few things I liked:

• the look of things. The aesthetic, the colours, was mostly pleasing. It looked nice and artsy.
• the ending. For a moment I thought it won an Oscar, because everyone dies in it and hence it's art.

And that's it.  So the bad stuff:

• The characters were pretty one-dimesional. I mean Elisa was okay, but she wasn't hugely interesting. The bad guy. We get it. He's  awful. He has no redeeming qualities. You don't have to keep hammering it in every damn second. You don't have to show him practically raping his wife. He's a psycho. Okay. I get it. 
• Everything was so predictable. Really. I could tell the Bad Guy was going to hit on Elisa. I could tell writing your plans in the calendar was a bad idea. I could tell everything down to the bloody jumpscares! It was almost more predictable the average superhero film. But those are fun at least. 
• It was gross. That sounds juvenile, but I don' t want to expose myself to things that make me sick. From the eating of a cat's head (although I didn't see that one coming. Well, I was praying it wouldn't come) to the rotting fingers. Did I really need to see all that? Because honestly some of it is haunting me and not in a good way.