People scare me.

[terrie]

As I've mentioned here before, I loved Pan's Labyrinth. I was poking around the movie reviews people had left on Yahoo. I know, I know, what am I? A masochist? It was pretty painful. Most of the reviews were positive. Those that weren't generally fell into three areas.

1) Too violent. I can get that. It is a brutal movie, though I didn't find the violence to be exploitive in the way horror and action movies often are. Still, I recognize some people are going to be put off by any violence. Still, the movie's listed as R. It must have occurred to them that there was a reason for that.

2) Not what they expected from the previews. (Apparently, most people were expecting something along the lines of Narnia). Again, understandable. To an extent. I mean, it's rated *R*. The main character is a little girl. Violence is almost preferable to, say, sexual situations as the reasoning behind the rating.

3) It's in Spanish. With subtitles. One guy even said it would have been a great movie if it was in English. Yeah. I despair for my country sometimes.

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Some people really seem to form a premature idea of what they're going to watch or read, based on nearly zero information, and then get angry when the actual movie or book doesn't conform to their expectations. It can make you crazy.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

I could see be disappointed or not enjoying it, because you expected something else. But that has nothing to do with quality.