Pan's Labyrinth

Am I the only one that thought this movie was shit?

There were so many things wrong with it in every way, it just ticked me off.

I had a very difficult time feeling sorry for the little girl no matter what happened, she brought everything on herself.

Also, the Captain wasn't THAT bad of a dude. I mean, he had reason to do pretty much everything that he did.

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Such as him smashing in the kid's face in the beginning. He told him to shut up three times and the kid didn't listen.

Him shooting the little girl at the end - where the fuck did she think she was going with that baby? Just because her imagination runs wild, doesn't mean the Captain's does. What else is he going to do to her? Send her to a psychiatrist? No. He shot the dumb bitch for trying to kidnap his child.

Him torturing that studdering dude - it's war. It's the only way to extract information from the enemy.

Him wanting to kill that housemaid (forgot her name) - can somebody say treason?

All those things taken into consideration, he did what he had to do.

Also, I couldn't STAND the little girl ESPECIALLY

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Her blatant disregard of instructions. DO NOT EAT ANYTHING. Was this so hard for her to do? Even the fairies tried to stop her, but she kept swatting them away. They stressed to her how many times NOT to eat anything off the table and what does she do? She eats.

Also, why does she waste SO MUCH TIME. She sits, stares, and BREATHES at everything she comes across. She's stealing the baby? She has to sit there and talk to it for a half an hour not even paying mind to the fact that the Captain will brutally murder her if he catches her.

When she's about to escape and the Captain takes a drink of his whiskey that she laced with the Mother's medicine - she fucking sits and stares and watches him drink it. Fucking dumb little shit. She deserved everything that came to her. I think a more appropriate ending would have had her get shot and die miserably, not going off into any fantasy land, imagined or not.

It did, however, make me feel better at the end when they revealed the whole thing was nothing but pure fantasy.

There's nothing you can argue against that.

Okay, so the Mother got better? Coincidence. That's it. The Doctor didn't say it was a miracle because it was something that was unlikely to happen, he said it was a miracle because it was a joyous occasion. In pregnancies, Mothers can go from sick to perfectly fine in a split second. That's life.

When they burned the mandrake root the mother died - yes, but random shit happens and her episode with probably caused by the child's screaming and moaning about the burning of a root with imaginary powers. She caused her own Mother's death.

Also, the Captain couldn't see the Faun at the end of the movie. That was because it wasn't there, not because "you have to believe to see it," what kind of bullshit is that? This was a fairy tale for adults because it had an underlying theme, not because they were trying to convince you that there's alternate realities that are real if we believe.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Inhert

if you don't "believe" or enjoy a fairy tale that why the fuck did you watch that movie >.>

I enjoy fairy-tales just fine, but when they try to press on me that all this was real if I just believe and then show me that no matter what it isn't real, I don't tend to believe. They didn't do a very good job with the fairy tale aspect of it.

Originally Posted by Capo

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She hadn't had dinner that night, if you recall.

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That doesn't change a damn thing. They told her a shit load of times NOT to eat anything. What did she do? She eat something. All she had to do was not eat it. I mean, she got her punishment, but nevertheless. She got two fairies killed and didn't even care. "It was an accident!" Hahaha, how the hell was that an accident?

Originally Posted by Capo

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Um, she's like 12.

And? I would think that would make her more scared and move more quickly. Several people in the threatre expressed the same concern about her standing around and breathing and staring as I did.

Originally Posted by Capo

Quit trying to analyze every little bit of it, and just enjoy.

It's not so much that I am analyzing every little bit of it, but it's just that these are the same things that people put down horror movies for, yet this movie can get away with it because it's a fantasy! I dare say they did things worse than any horror movie, because at least with horror movies, they move quickly. Not all 12-year-olds are as frustrating as this one.

And I did enjoy the movie. I especially enjoyed

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that dumb bitch getting shot

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There's nowhere I can't reach.