akuma587 on 04 January 2009
Onyxmeth said:
If you were trying to make a point, you failed horribly. Pans Labyrinth is a pretty beloved cult movie at this point and I know quite a few people that are not reviewers who would agree it's the best movie on that list.
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No joke. Its not even like he picked anything that stuck out as a great movie either.
Pan's Labyrinth is a bit overrated (so is The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption, IMO), but strategyking certainly did not prove his point.
I've seen movies that had an ending 20 times more bizarre than Pan's Labyrinth (see Brazil). Regardless, when did bizarre become a bad thing? Why is it bad when a movie pushes me in a different direction or even a direction I am completly uncomfortable with? Why would I want to go to the movies and watch the same movie in a different skin? Isn't it just a waste of my time to not seek out different kinds of movies?
Essentially what the average person likes is a "McMovie". They want it with their bun (not too long), their lettuce (famous actors), their onions (love story), their tomatoes (predictable narrative structure with some action in the mix), their meat (somewhat-risque-but-not-risque-enough-to-offend-anyone subject matter), and their cheese (an ending that resolves everything). If they don't get everything they expected on their "McMovie", they complain. If you add any ingredients they aren't familiar with, they complain.
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