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I just watched Pan's labrynth.

I find Guillermo del Toro an interesting film maker, because his English-language Hollywood movies are always average at best, while his more modestly-budgeted Spanish-language efforts tend to be jawdroppingly awesome.

Compare Cronos and the Devil's Backbone to Blade II and HellBoy, and you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, Pan's Labrynth is a Spanish language movie, so I thought it was worth my time.

And it's absolutely flippin' fantastic. Even better than the Devil's Backbone, and heaven knows how much I love that movie. It's stunning, terrifying, beautiful, dramatic and moving. Even without the special effects it would be a first-rate drama. It reminds me a lot of Heavenly Creatures in that respect, but its social commentary is a little less insular and much more outward-looking.

More than any other movie I've seen, Pan's Labrynth stands up well as a contender to La Belle et La Bete as one of the most perfect fantasy movies ever.

I kinda liked it a bit.

Amen to that.

Pan's Labrynth not winning the oscar for best foriegn language film was little less than scandalous!

Best film of 2006.

We patrons of TM are a bunch with great taste I see

funnily enough - i ordered pan's labrynth yesterday...

loved devil's backbone, and hellboy too...

if anyone's interested, there's a boxset of pan/backbone and another (cant remember) on amazon.co.uk for 17 quid...

abraxus wrote:funnily enough - i ordered pan's labrynth yesterday...

loved devil's backbone, and hellboy too...

if anyone's interested, there's a boxset of pan/backbone and another (cant remember) on amazon.co.uk for 17 quid...

The other one is "Cronos" , it's the only one I haven't seen yet. The other two are excellent !

Chronos is a pretty good twist on the vampire genre with some great idea but as a whole I think the film is good but with some flaws that let's it down. Still worth a watch and better than his english language films