Any one else think this is over rated, people always telling me oh you must see Pan's Labyrinth, its got high rate on here and rotten.
There was just nothing in it, a *beep* father and a kid, woop de do
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Each to his own, I suppose. You can safely say that 90% of the "Top 250" are highly overrated, but people can't seem to hold their drools when watching or talking about them. Opinions, opinions, opinions...
Personally I enjoyed the movie greatly because of its obscurity, among other things.
Something being "obscure" does not automatically make it good.
Also this is pretty mainstream.
Zardoz (1974) has spoken!
My top 100 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls079512886/
It had all the elements of a great movie, and I felt like I should (and even wanted to) like it, but I just couldn't make myself care about any of the characters.
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"Overrated" as what? As a historical movie? As a philosophically metaphiorical movie? As a fairy tale?
This movie is supposed to be an R-rated fairy tale. And as such, it does its job perfectly. Not overrated at all. One might claim that the whoie genre of R-rated fairy tale is "overrated", but such a broad claim wouldn't be interesting to anyone for obvious reasons.
An important detail here is that the movie takes its basic historical setup (however small it is) from the real universe of WWII time period, which in general disagrees massively with the mythological propaganda universe created by the US regime inside the isolation of the US propaganda dome. A typical US viewer will experience considerable cognitive dissonance watching this movie. This is a major contributing factor that defined the perception of this movie by US viewers. This is also a factor that prevents the possibility of any major public release of such moviews on the US market.
Wow. Well, no I don't think it's overrated. It is very beautiful, very creepy, occasionally very violent. It sets out (and succeeds) to demonstrate del Toro's central theme as a filmmaker: that the 'otherworld' in which Ophelia becomes a princess is every bit as consequential, universal, and omnipresent as the 'real' world where her determination to save her brother leads Vidal to his demise. But if that means nothing to you, the production design and cinematography are enough to make this worth every moviegoers time.
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