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Maria*Rockstar*
05/22/07, 02:54 PM
Great Movie! finaly saw it last night for the first time. its in spanish, but if you can read, even a little bit, you will enjoy this movie.
what does everyone else think of this movie?
TJ Wells
05/22/07, 02:57 PM
oh please close this thread.
slickwataris
05/22/07, 03:00 PM
quite possibly the most overrated film of the year.
buysoap
05/22/07, 03:05 PM
quite possibly the most overrated film of the year.
:nod:
TJ Wells
05/22/07, 03:14 PM
That's so ridiculous.
smokedsanity
05/22/07, 03:15 PM
quite possibly the most overrated film of the year.
I'm not the only person who thought this? I really wondered if I was alone.
buysoap
05/22/07, 03:17 PM
I'm not the only person who thought this? I really wondered if I was alone.
:wave:
smokedsanity
05/22/07, 03:21 PM
:wave:
I don't know why, but I would have taken you for a huge fan of the movie.
Unless you weren't serious. I can never tell these things.
IAmNietzche
05/22/07, 03:22 PM
What about this film was overrated?
aminorthreat55
05/22/07, 03:40 PM
quite possibly the most overrated film of the year.
Wrong.
alexxxisonfire
05/22/07, 03:47 PM
Search function.
such an average film, there was so much they could have done with it. it was just an amalgamation of a few classic stories
slickwataris
05/22/07, 04:01 PM
What about this film was overrated?
what about this film was original?
IAmNietzche
05/22/07, 04:07 PM
what about this film was original?
It wasn't supposed to be original. It was a wonderfully acted and directed adult fairy tale/period piece. There was very little wrong with the film.
What about this film was overrated?
Yeah, I'd like to hear the answer to this as well?
I just picked this up on DVD, can't wait to watch it again.
Adeniz19
05/22/07, 04:13 PM
It wasn't supposed to be original. It was a wonderfully acted and directed adult fairy tale/period piece. There was very little wrong with the film.Yea. I can see if it's just not your type of movie, but this was fantastic. The pace and emotion of this just sucks you in.
Adeniz19
05/22/07, 04:16 PM
Yeah, I'd like to hear the answer to this as well?
I just picked this up on DVD, can't wait to watch it again.not enough anime
aminorthreat55
05/22/07, 04:22 PM
such an average film, there was so much they could have done with it. it was just an amalgamation of a few classic stories
Yeah except for the entire facism and Spanish resistance allegory that you clearly missed.
TJ Wells
05/22/07, 04:24 PM
Yeah except for the entire facism and Spanish resistance allegory that you clearly missed.
:clap:
gilatron5000
05/22/07, 04:24 PM
i actually just saw it for the first time last night. I enjoyed it a lot.
Can a mod please edit the title?
Cheshire_Buddha
05/22/07, 04:31 PM
what about this film was original?
del Toro actually had the balls to kill off a nine-year old girl, our herione nonetheless, at the very end. No one else would try to do that. To me, that's pretty damn original.
Jared Kaufman
05/22/07, 04:37 PM
del Toro actually had the balls to kill off a nine-year old girl, our herione nonetheless, at the very end. No one else would try to do that. To me, that's pretty damn original.
What I took from it was that that was left to the viewer's imagination.
Anyway, the film is great, very visual and appealing to the eyes, and so forth, but I felt it was lacking something. And it's very [emotionally] draining and tough to watch; you won't feel "good" when it's over.
Cheshire_Buddha
05/22/07, 04:41 PM
What I took from it was that that was left to the viewer's imagination.
Anyway, the film is great, very visual and appealing to the eyes, and so forth, but I felt it was lacking something. And it's very [emotionally] draining and tough to watch; you won't feel "good" when it's over.
True.
I need to watch this again.
FondestMemory
05/22/07, 04:52 PM
What I took from it was that that was left to the viewer's imagination.
Anyway, the film is great, very visual and appealing to the eyes, and so forth, but I felt it was lacking something. And it's very [emotionally] draining and tough to watch; you won't feel "good" when it's over.
i disagree. i felt good after it was over.
the bad guy got what he deserved and the little girl got to go be where she wanted to be. i liked the ending a lot.
Adeniz19
05/22/07, 04:59 PM
i disagree. i felt good after it was over.
the bad guy got what he deserved and the little girl got to go be where she wanted to be. i liked the ending a lot.yea this was my take on it.
even tho the little girl died she still got her happy ending
FondestMemory
05/22/07, 05:19 PM
yea this was my take on it.
even tho the little girl died she still got her happy ending
i saw it as she had to come to an end in this world so she could go to the world she belonged in. she died to the people trying to help her, but in reality she was reunited with her family to live the life she wanted.
better with a pen
05/22/07, 05:27 PM
I just watched it for the first time on DVD, I really enjoyed it a lot.
I thought it was original, why do you say it's not?
DeadCityScars
05/22/07, 05:30 PM
great great film. people saying it is overrated just sound like snobs to me. If anything, this movie didn't get enough credit. My friends and I seem to be the only people around here who saw it and who are pushing it around
Amazing film. I saw it in the theater and was completely blown away.
meeotch
05/22/07, 07:11 PM
I enjoy pretty much everything about this film. Its is hard to watch or stomach as times but I think those parts were essential. I couldn't imagine a different/better ending. As soon as I have the cash I'm buying it.
ThexQuietxCull
05/22/07, 07:13 PM
fauns are neat o
I was VERY happy to see all the copies of this film were rented out at my local Blockbuster. I thought my town was full illiterate idiots--guess I ought to give them more credit, I guess.
meeotch
05/22/07, 07:17 PM
I was VERY happy to see all the copies of this film were rented out at my local Blockbuster. I thought my town was full illiterate idiots--guess I ought to give them more credit, I guess.
I was thinking the same thing when I only found about 4 copies left at my Wal-Mart.
smokedsanity
05/22/07, 07:25 PM
great great film. people saying it is overrated just sound like snobs to me. If anything, this movie didn't get enough credit. My friends and I seem to be the only people around here who saw it and who are pushing it around
Why am I a snob for thinking that the movie did not live up to the hype? I have no problem with someone liking it or even loving it, but I did not leave the theater with the same feeling as those who are fans. I think that it is more snobbish to act like those who didn't like it so much are half-retarded.
slickwataris
05/22/07, 08:41 PM
del Toro actually had the balls to kill off a nine-year old girl, our herione nonetheless, at the very end. No one else would try to do that. To me, that's pretty damn original.
are you fucking serious? go watch an
anime
fedhed7
05/22/07, 08:43 PM
I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought it was wonderfully acted and visually impressive, but everything else bored me. I didn't find it nearly as original as others did and it did not live up to the hype.
Also, as some other people have said, I didn't feel "good" when I left the theater. It just felt like it was missing something.
buysoap
05/22/07, 10:50 PM
I don't know why, but I would have taken you for a huge fan of the movie.
Unless you weren't serious. I can never tell these things.
Oh, I didn't like it at all
kshtoinks12
05/22/07, 10:52 PM
I really liked it, but it was definitely missing something. A beautiful film with a beautiful but incomplete story.
smokedsanity
05/22/07, 10:57 PM
Oh, I didn't like it at all
Well, then I know that I'm in good company.
chronomic
05/22/07, 11:01 PM
its a fantastic movie. for me it was far from incomplete. the more i think about it the more connections i find and the more themes i realize. there is so so many things behind whats going on, i wish more of you could experience it like i did.
cantnokdahustle
05/22/07, 11:27 PM
i saw it as she had to come to an end in this world so she could go to the world she belonged in. she died to the people trying to help her, but in reality she was reunited with her family to live the life she wanted.
apparently my wife and I are the only one who thought it was fairly clear that she died at the end. She is easily able to slip out of the harsh reality she lived without being oblivious to what is going on around her, she demonstrates this many times. Moments before her death she slips back into her fairytale world, but when the camera comes back to her she's dead (i.e. fairytale over, obviously there are no more fantastical shots). I really had thought it was just the religious folk that went with the happy ending interpretation. Guess I was wrong.
aminorthreat55
05/22/07, 11:31 PM
I really liked it, but it was definitely missing something. A beautiful film with a beautiful but incomplete story.
The story isn't incomplete when you apply it to the Spanish resistance and fascism metaphor, which is the entire point of the movie.
aminorthreat55
05/22/07, 11:31 PM
What I took from it was that that was left to the viewer's imagination.
Anyway, the film is great, very visual and appealing to the eyes, and so forth, but I felt it was lacking something. And it's very [emotionally] draining and tough to watch; you won't feel "good" when it's over.
You're not supposed to feel good; they're fascists.
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