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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:05 pm
by GORDON
How is it I never heard this movie is in Spanish?
I liked it, though.
We can make a spoiler discussion thread if peeps want. There's obviously a huge spoiler to discuss.
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:10 am
by TheCatt
Well, the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year nomination may have been a tip-off. 
But yeah, I don't remember hearing anyone talk in the movie ads/promos that I remember.
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:48 am
by DoctorChaos
GORDON wrote:There's obviously a huge spoiler to discuss.
Pan's a dude? 
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:51 am
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:Well, the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year nomination may have been a tip-off.
See, and I HEARD it won awards, and the DVD box said "Winner of 3 Academy Awards!" But the box didn't specify which awards it won, and before the flick me and my friend were wondering which awards it won.
I paused the movie trying to find the english language version... then I read the box that had "Spanish/English subtitles" down in the fine print, then I wondered if Best Buy had displayed a shipment that was actually meant for Mexico and shipped to Ohio by mistake.
So shit. The is the first big movie where I never knew it was foreign language.
Pan's Labyrinth
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:52 pm
by Leisher
A young girl is traveling with her pregnant mother to their new home. The mom has a new husband who is a captain during the Spanish Civil War. The captain is a complete monster of a human being, and the mom is just trying to give her children a chance. Meanwhile, the girl is introduced to the idea that she may be something more.
Beautiful film with some very heavy themes. It's truly a fairy tale on film. There's love, drama, horror, magic, and tragedy. It comes off like two films in one. You have the girl's story as one film, and then the drama of the war, the captain, and those in the home as another film.
While I'd like to say the fairy tale aspect would appeal to kids, the themes established, particularly at the end, might be way too heavy and even give the wrong idea. The story line grounded in the war shows off some of the worst elements of human nature.
The whole movie is really stolen by the girl and the captain. Both are excellent in their roles, but the captain I won't soon forget. Such a well written villain.
Recommended, but be warned that there are subtitles as this is a Spanish film.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:09 pm
by GORDON
Bump!
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:21 pm
by Leisher
I searched for "Pan's" and "Labyrinth" and neither found this thread. This must be one of the early ones that the searches won't find.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:24 pm
by GORDON
yup. I searched "spanish" because I remember the first post, not knowing the language.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:20 pm
by thibodeaux
Is somebody on a Del Toro binge?
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:20 pm
by thibodeaux
bc Hobbit
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:05 am
by Leisher
That never occurred to me, but now I get the pale orc.