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Right in the Child Hood!

posted 11 years ago by thekuruptx
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Personally i am not a fan for Children stories given a dark satire to get a 18 Rating. but some movies did make the story better but that was through the imagination brought to life like the worlds from Alice in wonderland, Oz the great and powerful,e.t.c. but well this one just was too much of a low blow.. i mean what were the writers smoking before they made this movie..

You took a children's movie and turned it into a movie that not even teenagers could watch. i am not saying that its "scary" or anything? but that its total bull crap and it has no proper climax, i mean this literally has to be the only movie i have seen that actually shows a child getting killed and then having his blood and guts eaten!

when was the last time you saw a child getting chopped up... ?!

plus the climax was super lame, and just as i thought Jeremy Renner was underused.. i even think he might have been tricked into joining this crap that he was signing a Hawk eye movie... Pfft!

But still it was lame, the actors were lame, and Paleeeze Famke Janssen as a witch, Seriously! -_-

Plus points you ask - well there is some good action sequences! and secondly you get to see a pair of utterly gorgeous TITTIEEES!!!!!!!

[–] sakura_droplet 11 years ago

Personally i am not a fan for Children stories given a dark satire to get a 18 Rating.

Just an FYI, pretty much all of the classic fairy tales - "Hansel & Gretel" included - were not originally bedtime stories for kids, and the original versions that were written centuries ago are much darker than the Disneyfied renditions most of us are familiar with.

"Don't be a hater, dear."
- Myrtle Snow, A.H.S

[–] roger2013 11 years ago

I had a good time watching this, it was great fun!!!!

the original versions that were written centuries ago are much darker than the Disneyfied renditions most of us are familiar with.

that's correct!

found this on twitter , nice read :)

m.joblo.com/aith/news/43172

[–] thekuruptx 11 years ago

Just an FYI, pretty much all of the classic fairy tales - "Hansel & Gretel" included - were not originally bedtime stories for kids, and the original versions that were written centuries ago are much darker than the Disneyfied renditions most of us are familiar with.
"Don't be a hater, dear."

I Agree, but why "Disneyfy" it in the first place? why not make it in to proper horror movies, rather than ahem! Kiddy Slash'n'dash!

Movies should either be Horror or Fantasy, grey areas in b/w are always no good. I mean "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is an excellent example of the way it should be!

Sorry for ranting, but believe you me, i am no hater

[–] Iberian_Wolf 11 years ago

well, first, the Grimm Brothers actually "disnified" the original tales, as their goal was in the beginning to gather folk stories and sell them.

from what I've read over the internetz, at the time, ppl started complaining the stories weren't suited to be read to their children, and so The Grimm had to cut out the violence and gore.

example:
Sleeping Beauty did not get "sleep raped" and woke up by giving birth, the witch was not sentenced to dance on a burning floor wearing iron shoes until she died, Red Riding Hood did got rescued at the end, Cinderella's sisters did not chop their own toes so their feet could fit the crystal shoe.
As for Hansel and Gretel, they were supposed to be the withe's lunch even after grimm... so I don't see any problem with kids getting chopped

Sean Bean has not died from Lightsaber related issues yet...just saying

[–] bryguy615 11 years ago

Well thats fine & all except for you'd soon realize that if the family were poor & starving, they would NOT abandon the kids alone in the forest, but at the very least would start selling Gretel to rich men for a few hours.

[–] Iberian_Wolf 11 years ago

I wrote this as a reply to another post, but I think it should be here as well. so sry for the "re post":

well, first, the Grimm Brothers actually "disnified" the original tales, as their goal was in the beginning to gather folk stories and sell them.

from what I've read over the internetz, at the time, ppl started complaining the stories weren't suited to be read to their children, and so The Grimm had to cut out the violence and gore.

example:
Sleeping Beauty did not get "sleep raped" and woke up by giving birth, the witch was not sentenced to dance on a burning floor wearing iron shoes until she died, Red Riding Hood did got rescued at the end, Cinderella's sisters did not chop their own toes so their feet could fit the crystal shoe.
As for Hansel and Gretel, they were supposed to be the withe's lunch even after grimm... so I don't see any problem with kids getting chopped

Sean Bean has not died from Lightsaber related issues yet...just saying

[–] emmareden 10 years ago

Fairy tale were ORIGINALLY horror.

They were the one's that were taken and changed into wimpy childrens story.

So the dark movies are actually sticking to the true fairytales in that respect.

Some examples:

The Evil Queen in Snow White sent the huntsman for her heart so that she could eat it.

In Cinderella the step-sisters were forced by their mother to mutilate their feet to try and get them to fit into the slipper and become royalty.

Both sleeping beauty and red riding hood are about or involve rape.

I think it's sleeping beauty also that talks about eating babies...

I could go on...

So they were never children stories to begin with! So I don't have a problem at all with them sticking to the true fairytale's!!! :)

[–] GoonDockGirl 9 years ago

Can somebody help me out here? I don't remember a scene showing or even suggesting that a child was chopped up. The only thing I can think of is the scene where the 3 witches are in their lair and they drink from bowls that contain blood, eyes, and bones. But this was immediately after the Grand Witch Muriel had killed the party of trackers, so I assume it was the remains of one or more of them. Also, considering that all 12 of the children were needed for the Sabbath ceremony, they would have had to take an extra child. Or maybe you're taking about the scene near the end where the spiky haired witch is about to chop into a kid but is killed before the ax falls...

[–] mlmonne 9 years ago

Yes there is. The witches take a boy, but they need another girl. So the boy is used as a test. You see the spiked witch drink his blood and then holds her hand in a flame to see if she's fireproof. I do not exactly remember the scene in wich the boy is slaughtered, but it is definitely there or at least the suggestion.

[–] cyberose23 9 years ago

It depends which version of the movie you watch- the theatrical release doesn't have it- but there is an extended release version on some dvd's and the kid alluded to meeting the chopper is an extra scene.