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Pan's Labyrinth
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"Guillermo del Toro is a very visual director. I was introduced to him through his earlier flick, The Devil's Backbone, and was enticed by his melding gritty realism with the supernatural. In Pan's Labyrinth he return's to Franco's Spain to tell another tale of a child stuck in a bad situation. I think I still enjoy the Devil's Backbone more, but Pan's Labyrinth definitely holds its own and was crucial in establishing del Toro's presence on the American filmmaking scene. The film begins in 1944 in Spain after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Ofelia is unfortunately thrown into the middle of the woods at a fascist camp because her mother has remarried and is having the child of one Captain Vidal. Shortly after arriving, she discovers a magical prophecy that may prove her to be some form of underworld royalty. With the help of a faun, she goes about the tasks of allowing herself into this fantastical world. Compelling and original stories are hard to come by these days, and I have to ... "
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"With a few more days left before the Oscar nominations are revealed, it is time to look at what the non-professionals anticipate will be among those contenders announced Thursday morning. Last Monday, we posted our own predictions for the Academy Award nominees and invited readers to weigh in with their own forecasts. A lot of comments concentrated on what shouldn’t happen, like The Dark Knight shouldn’t be nominated for Best Picture and Dustin Lance Black shouldn’t be nominated for his screenplay for Milk. And apparently The Curious Case of Benjamin Button could be this year’s Dreamgirls. However, there were some interesting trends among the many who chimed in. Check out some highlights after the jump.
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"i loved this movie!!! i did not think I was going to enjoy a movie like Pan's Labyrinth, since it was all in Spanish and english subs. I actually hate movies that are in Spanish or any other language that is not english the whole way through, because I cannot enjoy the movie without reading the stupid subs at the bottom of the screen. And I feel like I am missing out on the movie. But anyways this movie scared the shit out of me when the thing that had eyes in his hands started chasing her from the result of her eating the two grapes. It was an adult fairtale pretty much. And it had a very nice ending too. I love how the movie kept you guessing on what was going to happen next. And when you think the movie is going to end there is about thirty more minutes until it actually ends. Very magical and supenseful at the same time. Definately not a movie for young children. "
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"Christmas is a time of peace and harmony, where we remember baby Jesus, born into a manger. There were shepherds, wise men, sweet hay and swaddling clothes. But we often forget how dark the Christmas story actually is. First of all you’ve got poor Joseph, convinced that his fiance has been knocked up by another man. Then she gives birth in a barn, which would not be sweet or pleasant in any way. If that weren’t bad enough, the wise men tip Herod off to the fact that a new king has been born, and he goes and kills all the first born sons in Judea, forcing the Holy Family into exile. Real smooth, wise men, did you miss the star that told you to keep your mouths shut? There are plenty of movies about Christmas, a few about the nativity and plenty more about Santa. But there aren’t any that capture the despair and desperation of the original tale. Placed within the larger narrative of the Christian gospel, the nativity is about a god being subjected to the vulnerability of an infancy, ... "
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"Pan's Labyrinth works on many levels, as do all of Del Toro's films. Firstly, it's a classic fairy-tale. There's an innocent child, there's an evil power (the captain), there's a helpless mother and there's a mysterious saviour (the faun). Secondly, it's a story about faith and trust in things you don't really understand other than in an intuitive, if you will, way. Thirdly, it's a film about resistance. About not taking the easy way out. About not giving up the things you are and believe in, even in the face of death. It's also, of course, a great fantasy movie, set in a realistic environment. It's got great actors, tremendous scenography, fantastic score and, to top it off, one of the best directors now living. I hadn't seen any of Guillermo Del Toro's films before I saw Pan's Labyrinth, but now I've seen them all, of course. And I find they all deal with similar subjects. The Devil's Backbone is, I think, the most obvious example. But even in Del Toro's adaptions of Hellboy the ... "
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Catching up: Hellboy II
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"Been on vacay for a little while, but had plenty of time to soak in cinema as well as sun. So here are some observations (probably with random question marks throughout cuz I used a Mac notetype it). It's hard to imagine there is any cinematic crime left to battle this summer, with the amount of superheroes combating evil-doers in theaters. And while all of them may be eclipsed by a certain dark knight this weekend, it's hard to imagine one that will feature a world as visually stunning as director Guillermo del Toro's brilliantly buoyant Hellboy II: The Golden Army. While the new Batman may soar in its complexities, both in drama and dialogue, del Toro is such a stylistic master that he at the same time pays homage to past cinematic worlds while creating wholly unique ones.The Golden Army could actually come across as the fun-loving, slightly intoxicated sibling of the director's masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth. And it's more than happy to share the buzz. Freaky, fun and phantasmagori ... "
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Hellboy II: The Forgettable Feast
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"Hellboy II: The Golden Army has no bad scenes and about five great ones, the best of them as memorable as anything in sci-fi & fantasy cinema. It’s a far out fairy tale, more fun (and more weird) than the first Hellboy, but it lacks the satisfying coherence of a great start-to-finish story like Pan’s Labyrinth or the original Star Wars. The tone of Hellboy II is set as the film opens with our hero’s adoptive father reading a fairy tale to him. Say goodbye to demons, say hello to elves, trolls and fairies. In this way Hellboy II feels more like Pan’s Labyrinth than the first Hellboy. There’s a Troll Market scene, which is a long, cool drink of distilled joy. As Hellboy and friends explore the market nestled beneath the Brooklyn Bridge (where else would trolls hang out?) every monster, every activity, every backdrop is eye-popping. It’s reminiscent of the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Star Wars< "
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"This is an interesting movie. I believe it is of the magical realism genre: the director (Guillermo del Toro) has, in my opinion, left wiggle room for two views. In this film, Ivana Baquero plays Ofelia, the daughter of Carmen (played by Ariadna Gil). Carmen is recently widowed and has been wed by the influential Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) at the depth of the Spanish Civil War. Carmen is pregnant with Vidal's son (he knows it's his male heir and will brook no dispute). Vidal is a heartless murderer, stamping out the revolutionaries to keep Spain safe for Franco and the Catholic church, and much of what del Toro puts in the film is a denunciation of both. Del Toro is excellent in his drawing of Vidal's character - we see Vidal in his dressing room and on the battlefield, compelled to heroics by his father's heroic death in battle. Vidal is a monster: sadistic and heartless. He is reality in the Spanish civil war. Ofelia spends time reading fairy tales and believing them to be true ... "
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Hellboy (2004)
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"With the second Hellboy film currently in theatres it seems appropriate to take a look back at the first of Big Red’s big screen appearances, also directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film opens towards the end of the Second World War on an island off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis are working with Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin to open a transdimensional portal to awaken the Seven Gods of Chaos to destroy their enemies and turn the course of the war which, by this stage, is going badly. A small troop of American soldiers, accompanied by occult specialist Professor Thomas Bruttenholm, are sent to destroy this portal. Rasputin succeeds in opening the portal, but only for a moment, being sucked through the portal when it is destroyed. The crisis has temporarily been averted but whilst the Seven Gods of Chaos did not make it through the portal in time a tiny, bright red demon child did. This child, with a right hand made of stone, is coaxed into Bruttenholm’s arms with a ... "
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