Anyone out there planning to see this? I've heard amazing things about this movie and I'm positively squirming to see it, but so far the nearest place to me that has it is California, a state and a half away from me. Just curious.
Pan's Labyrinth
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It sounds familiar, what is it exactly?
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A movie by Guillermo Del Toro (Devil's Backbone, Hellboy) about a girl living in facist Spain who creates this fantasy world where she's a princess from another dream world who has to go on a quest to return and has run-ins with monsters, to escape the reality of her evil step-father's atrocities. It's getting raves (has an astonishing 99% positive on Rotten Tomatoes) and it looks visually stunning.
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/In short: I'm stoked.
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actually Ginny and I were discussing seeing this in the city on monday with a friend of ours. Luckily it is playing nearby. I actually saw a five minute clip of this movie at the last con I went too. It was positively creepy and I really want to see it.
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Possibly gonna see it with a few friends on monday or wednes in NYC. It'll most likely be wednes. I really wanted to see it after a friend who went to comic con told me about it.
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Just LA and NYC right now. Sucks, I wanted to take my girlfriend to go see it on her birthday. I've heard it's supposed to hit more theaters the 19th.
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I'm planning to see it when it comes to DVD or something.
It sounds great and not that scary, I can probably watch the part with that creature through my fingers rather than shutting my eyes and attaching a pillow onto my face.
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GO SEE IT Y'ALL!
it's excellent.
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Heard about it, saw a trailer of it, saw an ad inside the dvd of Snakes on a Plane for it, and then saw the review of it on Ebert and Robert this morning. They gave it two thumbs up.
All the reviewers are saying "Don't take your kids to see this! It earned its R rating". I hear its pretty scary and has blood and gore. Interesting take on the fairy tale franchise.
Probably wont see it.
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Ooooh, it'll be in Seattle on the 12th, it looks like, I might be able to get over there. Maybe. But it looks like it might be closer to me by the end of the month, anyway– before, the only release date I could find was the one for December 19. I really envy those of you who get to see it right now, I hope it's as good as I've heard. ^^
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Oh good, it'll be pretty close to where I live on the 19th. I remember seeing some stuff from this in a magazine my friends and I were flipping through at a bookstore and it caught our eye pretty strongly. I'm not one to actually go to a theater very often either, but I really do want to for this.
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Saw it. The ending was very satisfying, that's all I have to say.
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Okay guys, all I ask is you use spoiler tags from now on now that people are seeing it, I probably wont get to see it for some time.
Satisfying endings are rare, so don't ruin it for people.
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I would tottaly see that, if it weren't rated R, that is. And why is it that no one can get a good picture of T3h Pale Man from the movie? Can anyone find a good one?
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@Impel:
I would tottaly see that, if it weren't rated R, that is. And why is it that no one can get a good picture of T3h Pale Man from the movie? Can anyone find a good one?
This?
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Saw it tonight. Wow. Damn good movie. It was satisfying, moving, and very disturbing in parts. And not the parts you'd probably expect. I felt the praise for this is greatly justified. I'm glad I got to see it in the theater.
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@Green:
This?
[qimg]http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/1817/panslabyrinth05ff0.jpg[/qimg]
Gahhh…
To be honest I was more scared of the captain than any of the creatures. And Pan was just awesome.
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i saw it last week. goddamn, that was by far the most disturbing movie i've ever seen. i left the theater a satisfied person, however, even though i came into the theater expecting something like a cross between grimm's brother and series of unfortunate event.
i agree with megakazul. the captain sends more chills down my spine than any of the creatures.
ending was satisfying, though…..
! i couldn't help but feel like all of my beautiful childhood dreams are crushed down, stomped on, burned to ashes, and scattered all over the red sea.
! speaking of the ending, let's talk under spoiler tag. would you consider that happy, or sad? seems like it can be both at the same time, but that is certainly one way to make a demented happy ending. -
I think the ending really depends on your point of view:
! Whether the fantasy world was real or not was left up to your own interpretation– yeah, the Captain didn't see Pan in the labyrinth at the end, but does he really seem like the type who would have? So, honestly, it could have been real, or it could have all been in her head. For me, especially knowing what I know about del Toro, I'd side on the 'fantasy being real' mindset, especially when you consider the message of the film from each perspective. I could make an argument for it either way, but honestly, one way makes the film rather uplifting, and the other, decidedly not. Just depends on your perspective, I guess.
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I haven't really seen it, but I read all about it on Wiki. The captain really does sound like he'd be a total jerk. And thanks for the Pale Man pic.
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Ano…can someone fill me in from the beginning of the film towards...
! the part where Ofelia steps out of the car?I missed it while waiting in line for ice cream.:happy:
As for what I thought:
! I leaned toward the "fantasy being real" mindset, primarily because the captain had found the mandrake root and was all pissed. (When he found it, did it end up looking like a regular plant root, or did it still have that fetus shape?)
! My friend was the one who thought that the fantasy stuff didn't really happen. He thought that Ofelia's return to the netherworld was just a simple hallucination while she was on the brink of death. Kind of the like the "I see a white light" thing.
! As for the rest of the audience, I couldn't really tell. I didn't see anyone cry when Ofelia was shot. Everyone cheered at the scene where Mercedes escaped from the captain though. That scene made up a third of my satisfaction. The special effects didn't look overly cheesy either which made up the second third. -
This movie was all kinds of awesome. I haven't enjoyed a movie this much in a long time. I really loved how you could interpret the ending however you like.
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I had been wanting to see this movie for a while, and finally got to the other night. It was very well done, and after sleeping on it and thinking about the ending again, I like it more than I did when I first saw it.
! I do fall on the "fantasy being real" side, but I guess I view the ending a little differently than most people. I actually took the whole entrance to the underworld scene as that's what Ofelia was hoping would happen, but it didn't, and when the faun (apparently not Pan according to del toro) said "okay then, DENIED," he meant it.
