Pans Labyrinth
 

Anyone seen this yet? I just got my hands on it today and finished watching it minutes ago. Amazing film, though it's played up a super fantasy movie the main focus of the story is a little girl dealing with the surrounding war.

The movie is in Spanish with subtitles but I'm sure the DVD release will have terrible dubbing. Any who if it gets wide release or an art house near you is playing it I really advise you see it. It has an amazing story and ending. It's also pretty brutal.

Here's the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5d4f1nyLgg

It shows mostly the cool fantasy parts but as I said it's mostly a war movie so don't let it fool you. It's about 2 hour long and paced well so you won't get bored. It's directed by Del Toro the guy who gave us Hellboy and Blade 2 among others.

Anyone else seen this or heard about it?

I've seen the trailers, and was really hoping to see this movie when it came out December 29th. However, it is a limited release and not playing in my area. :ohwell: When it comes to DVD, I only hope Blockbuster will carry it. If not, I guess I'll be buying a DVD that I'm not sure I want in my collection in as much as 'Superman Returns' is probably the heaviest in the collection at the moment. :P

It's a damn good film, I'm seeing it in theaters tomorrow. I got lucky and it's being released in a theater by me tomorrow.

Trying to make me jealous, I see. :P

Yeah, Ive been waiting for this film for a year. But its a limited release, since I'm back at school, I'll either need to drive to Portsmouth or Boston to see it.

Looks weird, but also cool. If I can check it out, I will. Thanks, Spit.

Please all do so, I saw it in theaters today and it really enhanced the experience. The big screen adds alot to the flick*As it would any film* The subtitles weren't totally accurate and I guess the version I had on my PC was more accurate. A friend of my Dad's we went with spoke Spanish and told me that some of the dialog wasn't right in the subtitles and I had noticed some subtitles were different.

It wasn't anything that changed the whole movie though so I didn't mind terribly. But yeah it's gory and fun so if any of you go see please tell me what you thought.

I don't see movies in the theaters very often, I saw Rocky Balboa and Night at the Museum over the break but that was it. Still I like to check out imdb every week to see if there's anything good playing. I don't usually go by what the users rate the movies, but this time I did. I noticed the movie was already in the top 250, though that doesn't mean much as most movies start out in the top 250 and decline until they fall out (the new bond, spider-man 2, star wars 3, etc...) but I figured the movie looked odd enough to look into, but I never did.

Then browsing this forum (and I mean hardly browsing, I entered this forum instead of the video game one on accident) but I noticed this thread and read through. I decided since not many people had the movie playing in their areas I'd check to see if it was in mine. It was only playing at the theaters closest to me, which is hardly an arthouse theater, and is actually pretty ghetto. I decided to go today and I wasn't disappointed. So my sincerest thanks to spit, I probably wouldn't have seen this movie in theaters if it wasn't for this thread. It was TOTALLY worth it. Unforunately there was only 5 people in the theater including me (I went by myself, I couldn't get anyone to go see a film that wasn't in English, lazy bastards).

I hope it does well. It deserves it.

Your welcome I enjoy sharing stuff like this so, glad you saw it and glad you liked it. When I went the theater was packed, so it's at least doing good in my area and I'm sure with ads being run for it on TV it will catch more peoples eye.

This actually showed up at my theater this week, so I went to see it tonight.

It was good. Not really great, but good. I really don't know what I was expecting, but it was more tame than I thought it would be. I guess I was just really into the fantasy parts, so when it spent 5 minutes on those, then reverted to 25 of the war stuff, I got kind of bummed. It was good, but I don't know if I'd see it again.

If only I wasnt so tired when I went to see it with Peanut, I would have seen the good part of the movie. Stupid eyes, what are they good for! Anyways was good for what I saw, but I missed the juicy last 45 mins or so, not sure when I went out, got to download or something and figure out what happened!

Honestly I felt the same way Peanut, see it again seriously. Focus on the war parts and look at the fantasy as an escape. It's how I watch it now and I'm twice as satisfied with it as I was the first time.

I've seen it 3 times now, twice in theaters. Hope it wins the awards it's up for I think it deserves them.

I will say it was a very well made movie and it got me thinking about stuff. It does indeed deserve those awards. The way I'm seeing it now is that the fantasy parts were almost like an escape for the little girl. Like that was her way of dealing with the war. Is that what you got out of it?

It made me think about that when

and then again when

But that theory also makes certain things make no sense at all. Stuff like how she got out of her locked bedroom and how the Mandrake actually existed. Honestly, no idea what to think.

I saw it that way the 2nd time, but after a 3rd I came to this conclusion.



So yeah that's how I view it.

It's all very interesting and that theory does seem to work. It would really be a pity if there was no follow-up to this movie, but I can't really see that happening, just because I don't see where it could go from there.

One thing I loved about it was the style. All of the fantastical elements of the movie looked incredible. I just really really wish there was more of it. It's kind of creepy and sadistic without being too much so.

My Dad and me talked about that, we think the movie was made in Spain simply because int he US they just wouldn't green light a movie like that. The story is way to jacked up and violent.

Tim Burton tries it sometimes but this was way out there with the amount of gore.

There are some extremely brutal parts in the movie. Those ones you mentioned are the tops. And is it just me, or was there a whole lot of just blowing holes in peoples faces when they were already dead?

And that part with the two farmers? That was actually pretty shocking. Up until that point there really had been nothing major, and suddenly that scene kicks it into high gear. There was a lot of gasping in the theater at that point.

I think they wanted to make sure they were dead. Also sends a pretty brutal message. But yeah the farmer scene shocked me the first time to. And I liked hearing everyone go "Oh my god" and "ewww" when the Captain got "Joker faced"