Pan's Labyrinth

squapplesquapple
edited July 2007 in conversations
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Has anybody seen this bizarre but wonderful film?

I watched it last night and it is fantastic. The most gruesome Cert 15 I have ever seen !

Oh, and its Spanish with English subtitles.

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  • IdiosyncraticIdiosyncratic
    edited 6:19AM
    I saw it at the cinema. I love it. You shoud also watch Devil's Backbone by the same director. Also Spanish with English subtitles. Think the first one is an 18. It's a lot more disturbing, but really good. He's done another one aswell, but I can't think what it's called.
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 6:19AM
    Thanks Idio, I'll try and get it tonight :wink:
  • michaelmichael
    edited 6:19AM
    OMG ... i so want to see this movie!
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 6:19AM
    A friend of mine picked it up for £7 in Borders (UK)
  • chrischris
    edited 6:19AM
    Guillermo Del Toro Collection (Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, The Devil's Backbone) - £18ish from amazon
  • chrischris
    edited 6:19AM
    also, pan's labyrinth = £4.99 (delivered) from play.com
  • middigitmiddigit
    edited 6:19AM
    damn - it was £5.99 at hmv, oh well. great movie yes, loved it, gruesome yes
  • TheEvilUTheEvilU
    edited 6:19AM
    a superb movie i saw at the cinema.
    and yes some extreme scenes there, not for the faint of heart...
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 6:19AM
    I knew it was cheap. I might buy it myself now !

    Cheers for the heads up Chris
  • jussi-kjussi-k
    edited 6:19AM
    it is a very violent film, seen it on a film festival last winter.
  • bullbull
    edited 6:19AM
    enjoyed it very much. scans more like live theatre than film in the storytelling, mostly, and yes, violent, but so were the times - it's a violence that sets the characters in the atmosphere of the story, not the gratuitous for-it's-own-sake type. worth seeing.
  • francofranco
    edited 6:19AM
    By far one of my favourite films! Wonderfully imaginative and simultaneously heart wrenching.
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 6:19AM
    Agreed. Very well made as well.
  • silentsilent
    edited 6:19AM
    oh well, I have to watch it now :tongue:
  • middigitmiddigit
    edited 6:19AM
    there's not many foreign films i can watch with the subtitles and natural language, but this was one
  • Flash SoldierFlash Soldier
    edited 6:19AM
    I actually preferred Devil's Backbone to Pan's Labyrinth... but, both are great in their own rights.

    Definitely worth the high NYC price of admission!
  • urbansurgeonurbansurgeon
    edited 6:19AM
    i was so pleased that the level of fantasy vs reality was where it was with pan's l

    are the others more toward one way or another. i.e. fantasy films vs historically situated emotional and cerebral drama? the latter would be much more attractive than the former
  • Flash SoldierFlash Soldier
    edited 6:19AM
    Devil's Backbone Trailer




    I would say this one sits both in the fantasy world, and the reality of historically (plausible) events.
  • francofranco
    edited 6:19AM
    That's what I really loved about Pan's - the split realities without favouring one or the other. And the thing that still leaves me feeling all teary eyed is the thought that, although never made explicit by the director, the fantastical elements in the little girls world were likely conjured up as a mechanism to deal with the horror that surrounded her.

    The trailer for Devil's Backbone looks great. Another I'll have to get a hold of.
  • wormsnotwormsnot
    edited 6:19AM
    that Guillermo Del Toro Collection isn't available on amazon.ca can I only get it in europe? blah. pay as much for the shipping as the movie.
  • urbansurgeonurbansurgeon
    edited 6:19AM
    i wonder if i can hobble along someplace to view a very extended trailer ... ?
  • The F WordThe F Word
    edited 6:19AM
    Pans was fucking great...funny thhing was when i first started watching i thought it was~ quoting the Hudsucker Proxy
    "you know for kids"...found out very fast it wasn't...loved the movie...and im just like middigit when it comes to foreign films
  • silentsilent
    edited 6:19AM
    urbansurgeon:i wonder if i can hobble along someplace to view a very extended trailer ... ?
    I'm going to view a very extended trailer tonight (wink, wink)
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 6:19AM
    Make sure the quality of your 'extended trailer' is purrrfect, it'd be a shame to watch any of these films with reduced quality. I watched it through my Xbox 360 with HD leads and the upscaled version was fantastic. Almost HD.
  • silentsilent
    edited 6:19AM
    squapple:Make sure the quality of your 'extended trailer' is purrrfect, it'd be a shame to watch any of these films with reduced quality. I watched it through my Xbox 360 with HD leads and the upscaled version was fantastic. Almost HD.
    I know what you mean... I still haven't watched it and the *trailer* is not perfect but very good quality. I'm not picky, my internet connection is :D
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