NJ5 said:
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
Pan's labyrinth was crap IMO.
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Why was it crap? Not saying you have to like it, but what didn't you enjoy about it?
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Several things:
1- I felt it employed gratuitous violence (and it's pretty rare for me to say that about a movie).
2- The fantasy parts felt contrived and mostly pointless to me.
3- I didn't think the story was anything special (frankly I've forgotten most of it).
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In regards to the violence, do you mean the violence in the real world or the violence in the fantasy world? Because I think the real world violence was pretty accurate to the Spanish Civil War and I think that it seeped into the girl's fantasy world from the real one. Her fantasy is not perfect nor is it even safe so I think the oddness of the imaginary world and how dark it was is a reflection of what hte girl has witnessed in the war maybe.
I thought the other world was pretty interesting, very imaginative and beautiful in a strange way, but to each his/her own.
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In the real world. They went a bit too graphical and tasteless. I don't know how to explain... there are some really violent scenes that I'm fine with, I guess it depends on how they film it and contextualize it.
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Well, havent watched the movie yet, but the spanish civil war was some serious thing for sure.
