Just Watched Pans Labyrinth...

Any pics with the buns ?

it is one of the best movies i have ever seen, i love it.

sweet flick

Of the recent critically-acclaimed films festooned with tons of awards, it may have been the most disappointing. My date and I...and almost everyone I've spoken to about it... wondered what the deal was with the lavish praise. I didn't find the fantasy sequences anywhere near magical, and the brutality was a jarring juxtaposition. Some folks seemed stunned when it lost the "Best Foreign Movie" Oscar to "The Lives of Others," but "The Lives" is a masterpiece. "Pan's Labyrinth" is not.

Camoo wrote:

Of the recent critically-acclaimed films festooned with tons of awards, it may have been the most disappointing. My date and I...and almost everyone I've spoken to about it... wondered what the deal was with the lavish praise. I didn't find the fantasy sequences anywhere near magical, and the brutality was a jarring juxtaposition. Some folks seemed stunned when it lost the "Best Foreign Movie" Oscar to "The Lives of Others," but "The Lives" is a masterpiece. "Pan's Labyrinth" is not.

maybe you're just retarded. did you consider that possibility?

I thought it was an interesting film. Certainly superior to anything featuring Adam Sandler or Maddona.

i loved it. Also folks should check out "Science of Sleep" awesome movie.

No, wtf, but I would consider the possibility that a person whose only response to another's legitimate expression of opinion is to ask if he's retarded ...might be retarded.

I'm largely with Camoo. Better than run-of-the-mill Hollywood trash, I guess, and visually pretty good.

But about as unsubtle as they come. If they'd only mentioned "it'll spoon-feed you its message while beating you over the head with its labored parallel stories" somewhere in the title... Guess the other way to look at it is, despite its being from (trumpet flourish, please) Europe, it's not so much a high-minded arty film as a simple morality tale for a wider audience.

I was OK with the brutality though - thought it was central to the movie's point, not just gratuitous.

Camoo wrote:

I didn't find the fantasy sequences anywhere near magical, and the brutality was a jarring juxtaposition.

I don't believe you came anywhere close to understanding the movie. The fantasy was not supposed to be magical, it was supposed to be dark and disturbing. The brutality was meant to be a jarring juxtaposition.

And to pendejo, it is classified as a Mexican movie, though it is set in Spain.

Ah, thanks for the correction, mcg.

That Guillermo del Toro hombre looks kinda like Michael Moore, at least his photos at imdb. He's credited as editing advisor for a Mexican movie with lots o'brutality that I enjoyed twenty times more: Amores Perros.

The film is with the magical realism genre. You missed the whole premise. Closest American analogy would be the movie Big Fish.

\"...it\'s not so much a high-minded arty film as a simple morality tale for a wider audience.\"

That would bother me if the director didn\'t set out in the first place to create a \"fairy tale.\" That\'s really all a fairy tale is.... a simple morality tale with some symbollic elements to it. I haven\'t seen it, but from what I heard it does what it sets out to do.

please dont squeeze the garmin wrote:

Ah, thanks for the correction, mcg.

And I think we both handled that with civility. Something quite rare at times on this board.

Punch Drunk Love is a stellar film.

mcgato wrote: And I think we both handled that with civility. Something quite rare at times on this board.

Oh, it's just that I know all your running routes in real life, mcg. So I can smile and act civil on the board, knowing that I'll be there to get you one of these days when you least expect it. Heh heh heh.