…let alone seven. I tried to watch it, I really did. I wanted to like it. I like Guillermo del Toro. But, I’m sorry, it was a very silly movie. It was campier than Alan Cumming in a skirt. The costumes were ridiculous, the acting was hammy at best, especially Oscar Isaac who must have felt his job was to chew up every piece of scenery in the film. Speaking of scenery, that was silly too. From a laboratory that could not have been built in the time in which the movie was set, let alone long before it, since it was abandoned. That’s right, a seven story tall concrete and stone industrial building with massive amounts of ceramic time was so long abandoned that a veritable forest was growing on its walls. In early 1800’s England. How about an open air book market during a rain storm where the books are left out in the rain. Apparently del Toro doesn’t know that at that time it would be like leaving Playstations and Xboxes in the rain today.

Ah well. Hollywood has never been stocked with folks who know how to make a good film. That’s why so few of them are. I just hope it loses on everything. Especially costumes.