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Post by Isapop on May 2, 2018 17:35:09 GMT
Seeing The Shape Of Water had me thinking of other movies that tell of some remarkable creature with a human friend who will engineer it's escape from the authorities. The earliest one I can think of is Mighty Joe Young (1949). Others are E.T. (1982) and Pete's Dragon (2016). Are there any other movies that fit this description? |
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Post by mikef6 on May 2, 2018 21:24:32 GMT
Midnight Special from 2016 (directed by Jeff Nichols) comes close except the exceptional creature is a young boy with special powers. The government is after him and so is a religious cult. The boy's father (Michael Shannon) is trying to get him to safety. The second half betrays the danger of the first by going for a mushy happy ending which turns into a virtual remake of the escape sequence from "E.T."
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2018 23:44:20 GMT
Would this qualify ?  |
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Post by politicidal on May 3, 2018 0:23:35 GMT
Never saw it but it's the most recent aside from THE SHAPE OF WATER that I can think of.  |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 3, 2018 1:02:11 GMT
Horror Express (subplot of the mad monk wanting to help the alien creature escape, though he thinks it is Satan, yet its not a clear cut bad guy situation).
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Post by london777 on May 3, 2018 1:34:24 GMT
Midnight Special from 2016 (directed by Jeff Nichols) comes close except the exceptional creature is a young boy with special powers. The government is after him and so is a religious cult. The boy's father (Michael Shannon) is trying to get him to safety. The second half betrays the danger of the first by going for a mushy happy ending which turns into a virtual remake of the escape sequence from "E.T." I liked Nichols' Take Shelter (2011) and Mud (2012), and I have admired Michel Shannon since Revolutionary Road (2008) and 99 Homes (2014), so I was really looking forward to this one. What a let-down! Its started great, but as soon as the the CGI alien stuff was actually depicted it nose-dived. The old story. Movies are usually better when things are not spelled out but left to the viewers' imaginations. (I am not sure about the last frames of Take Shelter either but I have only watched it once). |
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Post by london777 on May 3, 2018 1:39:19 GMT
Mercury Rising (1998) dir: Harold Becker.
A child savant is pursued by crooks and the authorities and saved by Bruce Willis.
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Post by teleadm on May 3, 2018 17:35:33 GMT
Silent Running 1972, Sci-Fi, where in a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft, but saves it instead with the help of robots.
Maybe or Maybe Not under this OP? It was the first movie I came to think of...
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 4, 2018 20:31:33 GMT
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
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