Review - Pan’s Labyrinth (Indy)
January 8th, 2008 - Posted By Cortlandune
This is a movie about a girl who sees weird monsters and stuff and goes off doing silly missions for a weirdo in an f-ed up (freekin cool) costume.
The movie is in spanish, I was surprised by this and kept thinking that they’d switch into english to keep me from having to reed subtitles. Sadly they did not. However for being a foreign movie it has really good CG! Better than most Japanese films I’ve seen and thats an achievement for sure. Just goes to show that half of CG is lighting and the other half is animation cause the models could look like shit as long as they look like their standing next to a real person. Er… never mind.
Anyway the story is fairly so so, it’s nothing special, aside from having an awesome Nazi bad guy who beats peoples faces in with bottles. I can see why this won academy awards for makeup and cinematography. A lot of the fantasy characters are real people in suits and it was a good choice. It looks way better than if they were CG.
So as the movie goes on the protagonist must face off against giant toads, friggin awesome scary monsters, and in her final battle she must face off between a drugged psycho Natzi with a gun while she is armed only with a baby. Guess who wins! Intense stuff.
This move is good overall, I recommend it.
Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Cort. I must protest your poor review of this film. Pan’s Labyrinth was by far one of the THE best movies of 2006, though I saw it in 2007 around Valentine’s day.
Anyhoo your comment regarding the film. You OBVIOUSLY just tasted the meat of this film and tossed aside the bear bones.
They have one of the most well realized villains I’ve ever seen in a movie. Before we really get to know him we see his obsession with a stop-watch and how much he grooms himself. This establishes his vanity, and his awareness and fear of time. Throughout the film he chases youth and immortality, something the main character, the young girl, has through the entire film and obtains in the end… well sort of. It’s all very poetic and metaphorical, Shakespearean even.
The way the girl interacts with the adults, and the way all the adult characters relate to each other is really impressive. The heroine of the film is the maid, and I have not seen a more vulnerable yet strong woman in a film in like ever. In this movie women are truly titanic figures given the task of battling a villain of Herculean proportions.
The film is a beautiful film about tragedy, motherhood, immortality, fatherhood and renewal.
I can’t say enough good stuff.
I’m flabbergasted at your poor and shitty review of this very remarkable film. You give it 5 dollars well i give it $10 (I paid 16, 8 for me, 8 for my date, however i did not regret paying that much. Would do it again.) on your scale. I think you’re being far, far too cheap with this film and are demonstrating a horrendously stupid bias against it because it had subtitles. And there’s no way Sweeney todd could be better than this movie. No frickin’ way.
That’s my 2 cents, or rather my 5 Dollars.