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Because my friend likes to make me suffer through awful movies. He suggested we watch "Christmas Bloody Christmas". A dumb horror movie that has a 70% movie critic reception on Rotten Tomatoes, and yet IMDB is a whole lot of 1 star reviews. [b][i]Which scares me more than a shitty movie about an evil Santa ever could...[/i][/b]
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So I decided to put on "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio". Even though I didn't think I was going to enjoy it...

[s]Because social media claimed it was good and dark. And that worked so well with Lost Ollie.[/s]

But I admit, it has a lot of heart and was well executed (for the most part). [i]And it grew on me and my roommate, while we watched it.[/i]

Though let's be clear about one thing first. It's "darkness" is vastly overstated, and nothing comes close to the donkey transformation shit in the original Disney version. [b][i]No matter how many people you kill and blow up off-screen.[/i][/b]

But there's some impressive stop motion and nice background shots in there. So once it got past the overly twee beginning. (Where the singing is a bit painful to listen to, and I straight up couldn't understand some of the kid's lines.) I do think it comes together in the end. Even if I wish it had a few less fairy tale-esque contrivances in its script. (I'll go with a 6/10.)