Saw a few weeks ago. Thought it was pretty good but for me it didn't live up to the hype.

It looked superb but there are just a handful of things that got on my nerves about it the primary one being a pretty important one - I just didn't believe in the characters and so didn't care much what happened to them.

On saying that I'd advise folks to still go and see it cause it's a quality bigger budget film and they come along too rarely. In other words Not Crap but I wouldn't drive an hour just to go and see it (maybe get a meal in, or visit a museum too)

hip priest wrote: a dark kid's fairytale

Which would have explained why that dark kid kerble liked it.

kerble wrote:Pan and the Pale-Man alone are worth seeing on the big screen. Pan is towering. We were glad we didn't wait for the video, fwiw. We drove about half an hour out of the city to see it, if that helps yr. decision.

Okay, I will drive to see it if I have time, which I won't, so never mind

Okay, so... I've heard you shouldn't bring kids to it, but what about early teenagers?

Just how gory is it?

Thinking of bringing my cousins' kids, but don't want to freak them out too much.

there's a lot of just regular real world violence in it, like a guy getting his nose smashed in with a bottle until he's a mushy pulp and people getting shot in the face a whole bunch. there's also a bunch of torture and sawing people's limbs off and other stuff.

make of that what you will.



all in all, it was a good date movie.

John W. wrote:Okay, so... I've heard you shouldn't bring kids to it, but what about early teenagers?

This is precisely the kind of film kids should be taken to see. Most kids love violent fairy tales and this is one and if you are going to have your kids listen to fairy tales and their messages then one which says fascists are bad is a good one in my book.

I'd infinitely rather my kids (don't have none, but if i did) went to see this than some sanitised mediocre disney animation voiced by Lindsey Lohan and whoever.

Take a look at some of those Grimm and Aesop Fairy Tales - violent twisted products of seemingly disturbed minds a lot of em and that is as it should be.

Earwicker wrote:This is precisely the kind of film kids should be taken to see.
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Take a look at some of those Grimm and Aesop Fairy Tales - violent twisted products of seemingly disturbed minds a lot of em and that is as it should be.

No way.

Cutting open the wolf to let granny out in the telling is one thing, but seeing {name edited out} get his face cut in two in close-up and then watching him sew it up himself - Jesus Christ.

I have no problem with dark stories for youngsters, but I would NOT take kids to see this movie. Pan's Labyrinth shows stark, adult brutality, including torture. That sort of depiction of the world can wait.

burun wrote:I liked Hellboy. I had never read the comics, so maybe that is why I liked it, but Ron Perlman was really great, I thought.

I'm a big fan of the Hellboy comics and I liked the movie quite a lot, if that says anything.

It is what it is - a movie adaptation of a comic. But that comic is one of the best written and quirkiest around, so it had a leg up in that little niche of moviedom. Perlman was absolutely spot-on in the character. The movie dumbs it down a bit, but not to an insulting level. Just enough to make it a whiz-bang spectacle and get the asses in the seats.

I'm really looking forward to Pan's Labyrinth. I have yet to see a Del Toro movie I didn't thoroughly enjoy.

Holy fucking jesus was this movie awesome.
Just saw it, best movie I have seen in a long time.
Extremely well done, loved every minute did not want it to end.

kerble wrote:the people that brought their kid to the theater when we went are idiots.

It's such a good movie and would totally appeal to kids ( well, Spanish speaking kids ) if it could survive having the level of violence edited down by about 90%. Make that 95%.

NC by a mile.

clocker bob wrote:

kerble wrote:the people that brought their kid to the theater when we went are idiots.

It's such a good movie and would totally appeal to kids ( well, Spanish speaking kids ) if it could survive having the level of violence edited down by about 90%. Make that 95%.

NC by a mile.

The violence was about on par with what's on TV and in video games these days so I'm sure a kid would survive watching a dude get stabbed in the face with a bottle a few times, doubt it would even faze most kids out there
Unless you raised one of them little pussies who cries all the time