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Pan's Labyrinth

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Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
This is a really good movie, quite captivating and a bit gory and quite sad. (The sadness was not a distraction for me though.) The acting and directly are very good. The visual aspect of this movie is very good as well.

I got used to the subtitles very quickly. I thought they would bother me.

imdb shows 8.5/10 (22,514 votes). I am not sure how this is doing with critics.

I will see it again. It is so good.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
The critics loved it. It has one of the highest ratings on rottentomatoes.com that I've ever seen.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I and a few others posted in the Oscar pic thread on this movie. I loved it, too.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Very good film. Visually stunning. Again, not for the kids. Well done.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
I just saw this. I didn't know it would be in Spanish, but I didn't mind the subtitles, either. Really wasn't ready for that 1st murder scene, but it looked a lot like the murder scene from the beginning of the French film, Irreversible. I wonder if that's where the filmmakers got the idea to do it like that?

I liked the movie very much. The dude that played the Captain was freakin' awesome...

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
Lycanthorpe, I couldn't watch the scene with the wine bottle. I had just stumbled across the scene in Irreversible the day before, it sickened me, I kept fast forwarding thinking it would be over soon. I deleted the movie, I can honestly say I have never been so shaken by a movie scene as I was by that.( the beginning was tres bizarre as well, I kept ffing as I was expecting something very different)

As for Pan's I enjoyed it, (it wil be one we add to our collection) I found that you didn't really need the subtitles to follow everything that was happening.

Greenie
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06-13-2007

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Greenie a private message Print Post    
This movie effected me and effects me deeply everytime I watch it. We paid to see it twice and we have added it to our collection. The violence is important to the story. I love the little girl and Mercedes.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
Jasper, there was a big debate at another website as to which of the two very shocking/disturbing scenes in Irreversible was most shocking/disturbing. If you didn't stick around for the 2nd scene, then I guess you can't compare, but suffice to say it was very hard to watch, as well.

I agree about Pan's subtitles...you could watch without them and pretty much understand the story.

Spunky
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10-08-2001

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spunky a private message Print Post    
I just saw this movie (thanks to Movie Central digital channels) and watched it because I remember the critics gave it very good reviews, I never expected it to be so powerful though and the Spanish Civil war is something that rarely is shown in movies and yet it was a very terrifying time.
You know the bad guys lose in the end and the resistance wins but I kept hoping the little girl survived somehow. The story was limited to that one strange location in Spain, I would have liked to have a more general view of how the resistance won throught Spain... but that's almost another movie.