I just watched Pan's labyrinth after many years of meaning to see it. Didn't care for it.
I've been meaning to watch that one for years too, and was probably just about to finally get around to seeing it. What didn't you like about it?
Honestly, I do respect the film and think it was really well made overall, but A couple of things I guess, why I didn't really enjoy it:
1. It had been way too hyped up. I've been hearing really great things about it for a long time now and the actual reason why I watched it was yesterday at work my co worker told me I
had to see it and built it up very big.
2. Next, and this one is on me, but I really assumed it would be something totally different. I thought it was going to be like never ending story or something along those lines. Like 10% real world and 90% fantasy world.
Well it turned out to be 90% real world and 10% fantasy. And overall, it was less of a fantasy film and more of a WW2 historical drama. So I acknowledge that's totally on me for having the wrong expectations.
3. Third, I don't really know how to explain this, but watching it made me feel very
unhappy and not like a schindler's list kind of feeling like "wow this is awful, but a lesson can be learned here". Pan's labyrinth was just sad event after sad event and ended in tragedy, and I'm trying very hard not to spoil anything. When It was over I felt sad and unhappy, and that's not what I was really looking for last night.
4. Next, this one is really just a personal thing. I don't like and have no desire to see an abusive step father ruin a family. If I would have know that I would have watched something else. I've had enough of that for one life time.
So overall, I just was expecting something totally different and this film was just not for me personally. But if other people really enjoyed it, that's cool too.