rosiegurl

I personally think this movie was amazing...anyone else have an opinion on it?
just wondering!

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Sparky

well, i have mixed feelings.

I liked it, but i thought the violence was unnecessary, as was the language. They took what could have been a great kids movie, threw in some torture scenes and bam, slapped an r-rating on it.

not enough focus on the magic, i honestly didnt care too much for gneral's story line. I wanted to see some magic shiz! >:[

Frances

I wanna see it!

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Kevorkian Logic

You sound like my brother.

If you want magic and a weak plot watch Harry Potter.

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Sparky

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weak plot?

what was the plot?

chick goes to mansion, and uh, looks down in a cave and finds mr.tree guy?

goes collects keys to boxes filled with knives that are useless?

im saying, do you really think you opinion would have changed if that torture scene wasn't in there?

they could have made a great childrens movie for kids, not for adults.
They barely covered anything mystical at all, the movie took it self so seriously with all this civil war bull****. If i want to see a war movie, ill see a ****ing war movie.

it seems as if they're where two different screenwriters with two different goals for the movie.

acting was superb though

edit: did you just make fun of harry potter >.<!

Kevorkian Logic

Yes I made fun of Harry Potter, even thought I dedicated weeks to those books when I was little, when I grew a half a brain I realized its worthless and her writing style is bland and ****ty, therefore I have little interest and respect for it now.

I could have honestly never read a more inane review. You obviously were just too young to understand or appreciate the movie. Somethings just aren't meant for the younger minded (I apologize for sounding condescending), but its just like music. It's easier to learn to listen to Elliot Smith sing soothingly and appreciate the gentle melodies, than is to listen to Captain Beefheart and appreciate it for obvious reasons.

Not everything should be a watered down fairy tale where Cinderella finds her Prince Charming, it would be a pretty boring movie.

How about for a movie there's a kid with a scar and a magic wand who falls in love with another kid with a magic wand? That's happy ending.

Leave Pan's Labyrinth alone, it was never meant to be a children's tale, and if you think it was mean to you TOTALLY missed the point of the movie. It's meant to work and multiple levels that combine to form something beautiful and unique that is constantly changing, like Captain Beefheart.

If you take out all the levels you would be left with an extremely shallow movie that would have just been labeled another Narnia.

And, in case you didn't know Pan's Labyrinth was written by Del Toro ALONE, and he was influenced by many ADULT books, not children's books.
Watch the movie in 5 years or after you've done drugs, I promise you will be ashamed of yourself for thinking it should be a children's movie. I was felt so nausated and tired watching that movie because I was coming out of my drunken haze, and I still found it remarkable in so many levels.

And I agree about the acting.

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rosiegurl

But it wasnt meant for kids! It was an Aduts Fairy Tail. If it was jsut another G Sleeping beauty fairy tail thanm it would have been boaring! the violene made it interesting!

adidasss

One of the best films I've seen recently.

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DearJenny

I saw it in theaters a while back right after the Oscar hype. Easily a new favorite. I argued with my fiance about the magic being real or not. I still think it was all her imagination. Nothing proves it to be actually there.

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adidasss

I argued the same thing with my sister. I was inclined to think that it was all her imagination, pure escapism, she was more romantic about it and was convinced it was all real. It could basically go either way, although the last scene sort of goes in her (your fiancee's) favor.

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