I absolutely loved this movie. It was very intense and that part was unexpected but I dug it anyway.

She loves the name Mercedes

PANDURITO said:

I do.

Thats Class!

SureThing said:

That's my sister's name

Stymie said:

i had to turn away from the screen a few times. i'm bad with realistic gore, i can't deal with it very well. but in its own sad way, i thought it was an optimistic movie.

Stymie said:

i had to turn away from the screen a few times. i'm bad with realistic gore, i can't deal with it very well. but in its own sad way, i thought it was an optimistic movie.

PANDURITO said:

I woulda named my daughter that but it's funny with my last name.

So now she's Daisy!

SureThing said:

So I take it your last name is NOT Duck

PANDURITO said:

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
I like that one.

No, it's Benz.

SPOILER----




I hated, absolutely hated the ending. And parts of it were sooooo aesthetically awful, just plain disgusting, that I simply couldn't watch. I'm turning pollyanna in my old age, but I don't like paying money to feel like shit after and hour an a half and call that entertainment.
That said, I can still agree it's a good movie. There are parts I found simply gorgeous as well. I think it's just not for me.

CarrieMpls said:

I have to go against you.

What you call 'aesthetically awful', to me is the heart of the movie. The realism is what drives the fantasy.

Anx said:

I didn't see anything optimistic about it.
I thought it was horrible and sad and mean. Seriously.

CarrieMpls said:

oh. i'm sorry. i didn't feel that way at all. i felt like the little girl empowered herself with the strength of her imagination to the very end.

Anx said:

I guess if you're going to tell me a fairy tale, then let it be a fairy tale. Don't give me reality at the end. I don't want it anymore. You've let me escape all along, why the hell would you bring me back? I found it horribly depressing and, again, just plain yucky.



I don't know what's wrong with me. By all accounts I really should have loved this movie and for some reason it really pissed me off.

Anx said:

I guess if you're going to tell me a fairy tale, then let it be a fairy tale. Don't give me reality at the end. I don't want it anymore. You've let me escape all along, why the hell would you bring me back? I found it horribly depressing and, again, just plain yucky.



I don't know what's wrong with me. By all accounts I really should have loved this movie and for some reason it really pissed me off.

CarrieMpls said:

I thought the ending was beautiful. Her last fantasy saw her at peace in the middle of all that war.

Imago said:

But she wasn't at peace. She was dead.

Imago said:

But she wasn't at peace. She was dead.

SO anyways, thanks to Carrie, I no longer need to exercise restraint on not revealing the plot.

Imago said:

Nice edit.

CarrieMpls said:

well, being dead isn't exactly being overtaxed, if you think about it.

CarrieMpls said:

well, being dead isn't exactly being overtaxed, if you think about it.

OK, here, I'll give you guys an anternate ending. Tell me what you think?




FINAL SCENES:

Ofelia runs into the labyrinth to get away from her stefather who finally trips while he is staggering and knocked unconscious. Ofelia runs down the steps to the room where she is meets the faun who's name it is finally revealed is...is...Mr. Tumnus. Tumnus is taken to a castle in which a wicked witch rules. She turned the the land that ofelia finds into a place where it is always winter and never Christmas. On the way, she befriends a lion who helps her defeat the witch, and free the Faun, and the live happily ever after.

Oh, and the father realizes his evil ways, and all the people of hooville, a nearby town in which he tried to stop Christmas as well once, rejoice.