Pan's Labyrinth

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Didn't see an existing thread on this yet.

Anyone else seen this movie? Easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. Very dark and gory, so it's definitely not for kids, but still absolutely amazing.

It got nominated for 6 Oscars, which is fitting, imo.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...6? it deserves more. the film is awesome. im still speechless from watching it. one word though: WOW.

[Neo0tak0n]

Havnt seen it yet, have to wait for wide release (there will be one correct?)

This could be better than Legend.

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It got nominated for best foreign language film, which makes sense, but I think it will probably lose to Letters from Iwo Jima.

The soundtrack to this movie is friggin unreal also.

[Neo0tak0n]

oh i see its out everywhere now..i missed the memo

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...now that you mention it, Iwo Jima is also a good film. its gonna be some tight competition. i think Ken deserves to win this time.

[sailornyanko]

It better win best makeup or else I'll beat the crap out of some random jock out there on the street.

I loved this movie. Very crude though.

If you liked it, you should watch el Espinazo del diablo which is a sort of horror film made around the year 2000. It has a similar feeling, sadistic villain and it takes place during the Spain Civil War.

[LOSTyears]

I liked it, there's no way this is not coming out of Oscar season without something. The end was a bit of a downer for me but its nothing I didn't really expect. This is a grim fairy tale I think everyone should see.
Still have to see Iwo Jima to make any judgments.
But I don't think the foreign film category is nearly as tough to decide as the best actor category which I'm really torn between.

[emotoaster]

How did Jack Nicholas not get a nod? WTF?! Anyways I kinda want to see this but I'm not a big "fan" of horrors, even Silent Hill made me cry. :lol:

[Pickie]

Saw it back before it was released in the US.

I highly recommend it

[master terrence]

How did Jack Nicholas not get a nod? WTF?! Anyways I kinda want to see this but I'm not a big "fan" of horrors, even Silent Hill made me cry. :lol:

It's not a horror film, it is just grotesque. That's one of the things I loved about the movie.


I saw it two days ago... it was amazing. It was so creative and it really had people wishing that magic really did exist. It was such a great movie.


my favorite part of the story line the ending of course, because it turned out all the magic was real and she was a princess

my favorite grotesque scene when Mercedes gutted the captain... THAT WAS FREAKING AMAZING

my favorite creative scene (obviously w/ grotesque detail when she was in the tree looking for that nasty frog... she had leeches all over her- BRAVE GIRL

Honestly, I would have tried to smoke it out instead of crawling in to get it -_-; although that would probably grab the attention of the army. All I know is that I'll never look at a rotting tree the same way again.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I'm the only person who didn't like it. I thought it tried too hard and suffered from some genuinely bad scenario near the end.

[master terrence]

I think that in the end the magic was just her imagination. Notice how the queen was her real life mother? And how the guy couldnt see the faun? I saw it as a pretty dark ending saying that magic and such doesnt exist except in our minds. She just died, that the harsh reality of the movie.

That's true, but the magic was happening as fact in the movie. that's why the mandrake root worked
Her was father on the other throne. She wasn't the daughter of an underworld lord, Faun was just testing her. Also, after she died her blood dripped into the pit where her baby brother was to be sacrificed. That's why I think it has a magical ending. I think the afterlife is a factual happening in the movie.


I have no idea, but I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Mexico and Spain have a certain view of life that is similar in the sense that they have death, brutality, the nature - you know, you live with them and you embrace them in a different way than First World countries would. With syncretism in Latin America, you can embrace a religion by mixing it with your own gods. And then, there's a lot of Celtic culture in the north of Spain, and there are a lot of beautiful pagan legends in Galicia, and in Asturias and in all those places. They combine them with the Catholic religion very cleanly.

[sailornyanko]

I just read on the newspaper yesterday that Guillermo del Toro never studied a university career. He did amateur cinema in highschool with his home camera and they just started pulling him into working on filming commercials and such and that's how he became a movie director.

[master terrence]

I just read on the newspaper yesterday that Guillermo del Toro never studied a university career. He did amateur cinema in highschool with his home camera and they just started pulling him into working on filming commercials and such and that's how he became a movie director.

Wow, the film was so artistic, I would never have though a commercial director even got to touch the film. That's so weird...

[RPGQueen]

It was so different I really loved this film.

[Dr. Ezra]

I heard this was a great movie. I'd love to see it.

[Evil_Koala]

Viva Franco!

[VidelCoolGirl]

I need to see this still. I've heard amazing things about it. And the fact its gory? Even better.

[Holy Knight]

Wow, the film was so artistic, I would never have though a commercial director even got to touch the film. That's so weird...

Ad making requires exceptional creativity, which it seems this film has.

I have yet to see it, but I'm eagerly awaiting it.

[Gejutsuka]

This film rocked on so many levels. Kept the same creepy feel like his "The Devil's Backbone", and the imagery, let's say, was very Gaiman-esque. This should be packaged with MirrorMask.

[sailornyanko]

Ad making requires exceptional creativity, which it seems this film has.

Guillermo has said he's also a huge fan of comics so it doesn't surprise me he's directing a comic book movie.

The same newspaper article states that Alfonso Cuaron never finished his university career. He was expelled in the mid 80's when he and a classmate made a short film for an exam in english. The university thought making movies in other languages other than spanish was an insult.

Who's laughing now?

It also said Iñarritu dropped out of college but I forgot why. Hrm... I smell a trend here. Don't finish cinema university career = success.

[Haro!]

That's how it always is. People shouldn't go to college. You gotta find what you're really good at before then.

[sailornyanko]

That's how it always is. People shouldn't go to college. You gotta find what you're really good at before then.

Ahh, the physlosophy of "La Palanca". It encourages lesser qualified people to get good jobs because they are relatives or "buddies" of the people in charge of things.

However, I can't imagine anyone becomming a good doctor without getting any sort of university level education. Even by memorizing the big books you'd still need to learn from a teacher.

[Haro!]

Ahh, the physlosophy of "La Palanca". It encourages lesser qualified people to get good jobs because they are relatives or "buddies" of the people in charge of things.

However, I can't imagine anyone becomming a good doctor without getting any sort of university level education. Even by memorizing the big books you'd still need to learn from a teacher.

You don't need doctors. Mexican philosophy teaches us that 7up cures everything.

[sailornyanko]

You don't need doctors. Mexican philosophy teaches us that 7up cures everything.

:lol:

Oh my, why do I have a feeling you go to "el huesero" everytime you have back pain?

[Haro!]

:lol:

Oh my, why do I have a feeling you go to "el huesero" everytime you have back pain?
Ha ha that is so true to. How could I forget. And he *always* whips out a Larrouse encyclopedia.

[Headcrab]

R-rated Fairy Tales, Cute Little Spanish Children, and the Director of Hellboy? Yeah I've seen it, best movie of the year.