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over rated?

posted 11 years ago by nigel-moran
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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

[–] otto_lundstrom 9 years ago

It has the rating it's been given through individual voting. You can't possibly know if it's "overrated". I guess you could justify the epithet if somehow the majority was proven to have rated it higher than they themselves thought it deserved. Which seems unlikely.
This shouldn't need to be spelled out; rating is highly individual and subjective. I think it seems pointless to collectively decide the official rating of a movie. We don't need to be united in taste and as such "overrated" as a term seems like a pointless hankering after the "true" value of something subjective.

But if by overrated you mean; "it's rated higher than the rating i'd give it and as such is undeserving", then no, I don't agree with you.

[–] kid6745 9 years ago

People rate this movie highly because if you don't, you have bad taste. So everyone else just pretends it's "amazing" so they don't look foolish to others.

[–] themidgarzolom 9 years ago

There was just nothing in it, a *beep* father and a kid, woop de do

Great analysis, nigel_moron. Have any other pearls of wisdom for us? I'm all for people not liking a movie that I feel is great, but that's not even close to a valid criticism.

[–] Wolfbrother1983 9 years ago

I think the movie is well made, but it didn't quite hit a mark I was expecting from all the hype. I would have liked more of the fantasy world.

America isnt ready for a gay mexican chicken sandwich - Poultrygeist

[–] Critomaton 8 years ago

I agree with you. I just picked it up on Blu-Ray and the blurb reads "From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro comes a dark fantasy/thriller about a young girl who enters a mysterious labyrinth and finds herself at the center of the ferocious battle between Good and Evil."

That's a bit of a bait-and-switch, with the war drama overpowering the fantasy elements for much of the movie. Still, PL is a very well done movie. I guess, having deliberately not researched much about the movie beforehand, I was expecting something more like Legend.

While Pan's Labyrinth tells a much more substantial story (it's hard not to, Legend is more spectacle and atmosphere than story), and the melding of war drama and fairy tale is an original experiment, it's not one I am anxious to see repeated in future films.

[–] Naughty-God 8 years ago

overrated is an overused term.

For me, after my first viewing I found the movie as a whole to be maudlin and even trite in its effort to convey sympathy for Ophelia's plight visa-vis her escapism into the fantasy world. It has great production and cinematography, but that's about it. It doesn't transcend the idea of Fantasy, or even more so Childhood Fantasy and is about as inventive with this level of storytelling as an episode of HR Puffinstuff.

I found an old article that articulates many of the points I found wrong with the film -

http://nevenmrgan.blogspot.com/2007/02/pans-labyrinth-is-ridiculously-dumb.html

[–] masuka-fan 8 years ago

Not at all, in fact I just raised my rating to 10/10 after listening to del Toro's commentary.

[–] Marco_AGJ 8 years ago

When you have Shawshank Redemption as number one film, nothing should come as a surprise.

Yes, I think this is over-rated, but it's not BY FAR the worst case we have around here.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 6 years ago

I believe it's spelled "overrated".
Look it up, you'll see a picture of Pan's Labyrinth on the dictionary.