NER Pans Labryinth

tartaruga · March 2012

I seem t remember someone talking about this movie on here before, and I finally saw it the other day. Wow - what a great but dark movie. And yes I cried at the end.

hindsight's_a_biotch · March 2012

I adore this movie so much. Del Toro creates such beauty even out of darkness. I love him. This is one of my favorites of his.

mrsbecky07 · March 2012

I've had this on DVD for years but have never watched it. H never wants to :-( Is it the kind of movie I can watch by myself or will it freak me out/make me cry?

(ignore the "make me cry" part. I heard Alan Jackson's "where were you when the world stopped turning" yesterday and sobbed. so my emotional radar may be a bit off right now.)

is_it_over_yet? · March 2012

I need to watch it again with the right perspective. Neither H nor I had read enough about it in advance and thought we were going to see some delightful and uplifting children's fantasy. By the end of the movie we were both a wee bit suicidal.

kcpokergal · March 2012

I remember it being shockingly violent in a few parts but not particularly scary otherwise.

pantsparty · March 2012

Such a fantastic movie. One of my favorites.

SMorriso · March 2012

I also loved this movie. The guy with the stutter had me in tears. It is amazing the world and the creatures he created. It's dark and deep. Really great.

DruidPrincess · March 2012

Gorgeous movie. DH & I saw it when it screened at a local small theater.

I recall it especially well as a couple a few rows in front of us had opted to bring their 10-ish-year-old daughter to a 10pm movie which they obviously had no chance to have previewed before allowing her to see the content for herself. I'm sure she especially liked the part at the end with regards to the main character. Tongue Tied

tartaruga · March 2012

DruidPrincess:
Gorgeous movie. DH & I saw it when it screened at a local small theater.
I recall it especially well as a couple a few rows in front of us had opted to bring their 10-ish-year-old daughter to a 10pm movie which they obviously had no chance to have previewed before allowing her to see the content for herself. I'm sure she especially liked the part at the end with regards to the main character.

Tongue Tied

I'm related to someone who let her 5 year old watch The Departed Tongue Tied

Pan's Labyrinth definitely had some very violent parts, as well as some creepy/freaky parts (the second task anyone??) but I wouldn't call it a scary movie overall. It's not the kind of movie that makes you sleep with the lights on.

But it may very well make you cry.

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee · March 2012

I love this movie. It has some very violent parts. I can't believe someone took their child to see it.

pixy_stix · March 2012

I cried. I thought the visuals were fantastic. That's about it. I didn't really like the storyline, nor was I particularly attached to any part of the movie.

DruidPrincess · March 2012

tartaruga:
DruidPrincess:
I recall it especially well as a couple a few rows in front of us had opted to bring their 10-ish-year-old daughter to a 10pm movie which they obviously had no chance to have previewed before allowing her to see the content for herself. I'm sure she especially liked the part at the end with regards to the main character.

I'm related to someone who let her 5 year old watch The Departed

In touche, I am loosely related to parents who allowed their 11-yr old son to watch Fight Club. I still have a hard time not judging them every single time we interact.

tartaruga · March 2012

DruidPrincess:
tartaruga:
DruidPrincess:
I recall it especially well as a couple a few rows in front of us had opted to bring their 10-ish-year-old daughter to a 10pm movie which they obviously had no chance to have previewed before allowing her to see the content for herself. I'm sure she especially liked the part at the end with regards to the main character.

I'm related to someone who let her 5 year old watch The Departed
In touche, I am loosely related to parents who allowed their 11-yr old son to watch Fight Club. I still have a hard time not judging them every single time we interact.

What is wrong with people?????

tartaruga · March 2012

swimbikepuke:
It's interesting because I saw Pans Labyrinth before I had kids and thought it was hard to watch but very, very good. Then I watched The Orphanage after having PTS and it ruined me for weeks. Even now if I think about either of them too much, I feel compelled to call my kids' day care and ask the director to run to their room and just tell them their mom loves them. Okay, I've never actually done that, but both of those movies since having kids, I just find them so deeply, deeply sad.
It seems to me that the "thesis" (for lack of a better word) for both of those movies seems to be "Mothers who get too distracted will have children who suffer unimaginable harm." Ugh!! In some respects, I think that's a valuable point. Especially in today's world of 8-6 workdays, media distractions everywhere, divorce, affairs, consumerism... But on the other hand, I think, why does this sh!t always fall on the mom?

Oh god the Orphanage killed me. I cried like a baby.

I didn't see Pan's Labyrinth as being about the consequences of a distracted mom, though - it wasn't really her fault she was so pregnant and so ill. Although she could have been better in her choice of husbands...

hindsight's_a_biotch · March 2012

I wouldn't call the mom distracted or say she's to blame for what happened. Given the circumstances and the era, sadly that house was probably as good as it was going to get.

And both my kids have seen Pan's Labryinth. They have not seen the Departed or Fight Club.

ChillyMcFreeze · March 2012

Another HUGE fan of this movie, checking in. I am totally rapt every time I watch it. It's so, so beautifully done.

hindsight's_a_biotch · March 2012

::shrug::

I imagine she didn't know much about his sadistic side and I'd also bet that the facists had better access to food and supplies than the resistance or civilians. Spain under Franco wasn't exactly the most heartwarming place at any time, particularly not during WWII.

Mamasaurus · March 2012

is_it_over_yet?:
I need to watch it again with the right perspective. Neither H nor I had read enough about it in advance and thought we were going to see some delightful and uplifting children's fantasy. By the end of the movie we were both a wee bit suicidal.

This is what my H was expecting, and he didn't want to watch it. I only sold him on it by telling him it was the same director as Hellboy. He was surprised by the violence and kept asking me if I was right about the director, and was it really a Tarantino film. At the end he said, "Why did I think this was a children's movie?"

Mamasaurus · March 2012

DruidPrincess:
tartaruga:
DruidPrincess:
I recall it especially well as a couple a few rows in front of us had opted to bring their 10-ish-year-old daughter to a 10pm movie which they obviously had no chance to have previewed before allowing her to see the content for herself. I'm sure she especially liked the part at the end with regards to the main character.

I'm related to someone who let her 5 year old watch The Departed
In touche, I am loosely related to parents who allowed their 11-yr old son to watch Fight Club. I still have a hard time not judging them every single time we interact.

No relation to them, but when my H and went to see a midnight showing of Alien Vs. Predator, somebody brought their child to see it. By child, I mean the kid was brought into the theater in a car set and was certainly between 1 and 2 years of age. I have no idea how the contented babbling I was hearing from behind me did not turn into terrified crying. That movie is really loud and, um, full of monsters.

doctorwho · March 2012

swimbikepuke:
It seems to me that the "thesis" (for lack of a better word) for both of those movies seems to be "Mothers who get too distracted will have children who suffer unimaginable harm."

This made me think of

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