Pan's Labyrinth What Did you think?

Saw it for the first time this week and I really liked it. Visually stunning, but very sad.

 

I was just gonna make a post about this movie. I watched it on friday night and fell in love with it.
For me its a dark fairy tale, it is very sad but its also very magical. I think that the girl that played Ophelia was incredible and as you said it is visually delightful.
I thought it was bizarre how it made me feel because between all this darkness, death, sadness... I still felt like a kid and I think that's what they were going for.

 

I liked how the fairy tales were mysterious, violent and scary...thats the true sense of fairy tales. They aren't like what we see in Disney movies The fairy tales are weaved perfectly into the story of a country admist a civil war, that's why the film is so poetic - it flows like poetry. The fairy tale world is violent but not as violent as the world around the little girl however unlike the world around around her - theres atleast hope that she will find something better, richer. You know its really difficult to tell at times if whats happening to her is real or just her imagination, I found that interesting as well.

 

I really enjoyed the film, tried to get my ex to watch it with me but he just wasnt for it, he thought it would just be another cutesy fairy tale, it just shows you that people shouldnt be so closed minded and judge things before they see them, unless its a film like highschool musical then you know its gonna be shit

 

My husband didn't want to watch it. I told him he might want to look the movie up. I guess he did because that night he was all for watching it and he LOVED it.

 

it was good
but not as good as I expected
over-hyped

 

It was the only movie I've seen in the cinema this year.... I thoroughly enjoyed it. The darkness and sporadic violence kept me feeling edgy throughout and I wish there were more movies that I found as engrossing.

Wonderful.

 

It's a rather good movie.

The cinematography is exceptional.

The whole fairy tale aspect could have been enhanced, but that would have made the movie much longer... this is a movie that could have easily gone on for 3 hours without getting boring though.

The ending is wonderful... it forces one to let go of notions of reality, and death, in order to accept it.

 

its one of my favourite films ive ever seen
love it
and love david bowie

 

You are thinking of "Labyrinth", which is also a great movie.

 

I didn't watch it becuase it's subtitled. I can't sit still and watch a movie I have to be doing something else as well which doesn't work well with subtitled movies as you tend to miss what's going on.

 

well think of it like this.. you are watching a movie AND reading :tongue:

 

^ ahaha =D

 

It was VERY good! and sad.

 

oh and omg the guy with the eyes on his hands freaked me out!

 

I just saw it tonight, on HBO. I've been wanting to see it ever since I saw the clips at the Oscars, but couldn't seem to find it anywhere.

So dark, heartbreaking, wonderful. And the eye-handed guy freaked me out too! ("HOLY SHIT! Get out of there! Run Ophelia! RUUUUN!") I was crying at the end... and then my dad, who had been in and out of it while making dinner, was like, "What happened?"