Pan's Labyrinth

[Plotloss]

How odd, we've just booked tickets to see this...

[alexkp]

I quite rated Hellboy - but deinfinetely not suitable for kids - the gas masked Nazi with the knives was really quite disturbing....

[KB_S1]

I quite fancy this. Been a good year for my cinema choices, recently been to 'Children of Men' and 'Casino Royale' so hopefully this will hold up. don't think the GF would go though.

[judas]

Mate of mine went to see it the other night. Came into work the next day insisting I go to see it

[srebbe64]

LA, I tend to see most movies you suggest and I've not been disappointed yet!!

Anyway, what is the general plot - without spoiling?

[srebbe64]

Wow. Great concept. I will see it. Thanks.

[Zod]

I want to see this. The reviews have intrigued me.

[derek m5]

can't be bothered to google... who wrote the book? assuminmg there was one and it wasn't directly written as a screenplay

[deevlash]

Would you say Hell Boy was so so because of the crappy comic book and dragged up by the director who, when freed of the shackles has excelled himself with better material? Anyway, I have a date on Sunday so is it suitable for that or should I stick with James Bond?

[derek m5]

Los Angeles said:

derek m5 said:

who wrote the book?

No one, yet. Screenplay is by the Mexican director himself, El Laberinto del Fauno.

Thanks.... will have to see the movie then. I've rarely found a film that matched (my own, possibly warped; take) on a book carried over to a film so normally prefer to read it then see it.....

[dick dastardly]

I've been looking forward to it for a while. Hellboy was a fresh take on the comic book flick IMO and Del Toro is certainly a skilled director.

[AndyWoodall]

Mark Kermode thinks this is the greatest film of the year, just haven't had chance to see it yet.

[The Dude]

"Devil's Backbone" is one of my favourite films, along with one of his earlier efforts "Kronos", an intelligent and modern look at vampirism.

Don't quite know what happened to Hellboy and Blade 2 - just awful.

This one sounds like a return to form though, greatly looking forward to seeing it.

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

Rather like Penelope Cruz - a fish out of water in Hollywood, always offered the weak role, the love interest, until she goes back to Spain and makes a film in her own culture - the result, she's magnificent, a revelation.

Volver - what a world apart from the likes of Gothika?! Mind you, in the hands of Almodovar, I wouldn't expect anything less.

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

God, she was sooo sexy in Volver, not simpering as expected in an English movie.

Absolutley. It was the power and the balls-out confidence of the character. Very intoxicating.

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

In Volver was she on par with Salma Hayek, or is Salma hot even when cold?

PS: I know one is Mexican the other Spanish but they have so much in common, si?

Edited by Los Angeles on Saturday 2nd December 23:37

Heh....are we talking about Hayek in, say, From Dusk Till Dawn or in, say, Dogma? Oh, hang on, she was ridiculously smodering in both.....I can't think of a single film where she was "cold".....

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

Salma made that smoldering chamber piece with the baby-faced Irish brat set in LA in the thirties, he a writer, she a waitress in the diner who becomes his muse and saviour. She was a goddess there - gave a long jaw-dropping nude scene at dusk in the shallows of the ocean beach. Holy Tamolay! Gimme the slo-mo remote!

"Pick me up when you go go ..."

Then she did do, I think, The Faculty (B-movie style horror) but totally redeemed herself, IMHO, later with Frida. Though not so obviously sexy in that, but an amazing performance nonetheless.

For the life of me I can't think of the film you're referring to?

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

Ask The Dust, a very fine early LA novel by a (then) struggling writer, John Fante, a true story of his experiences in the Depression, adapted for the screen by Robert Towne, the same chap who wrote the great China Town. I don't think it got much of a release. (Co-star, Colin Farrell, weak or miscast in most things he's done.) It's a very LA set story - every bit of it recognised by me ... but without the experience of meeting Salma Hayek.



We are a long way from Labyrynth but it's a nice detour.

Edited by Los Angeles on Saturday 2nd December 23:56

I'll search that one out, sounds interesting.

Agree that we've gone off on a slight tangent but what a nice tangent eh?

Colin Farrell....hmmmmmm....do you actually rate him at all? My own opinion is he's in the Keanu Reeeves camp of great movie star just not a great movie actor

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

He appears to have a kind of Celtic intensity that gets him selected by directors with one eye on the teeny-bop brigade at the box office but is - to my mind - usually badly miscast unless playing his age and character - a mix-up, weed smoking, ass chasing, boozy dissolute brat. (Wish I had his bank balance.)

Most recently, Miami Vice. In the parlance of our time, OH MY GOD, what was he/they thinking. He seemed to have been cast as some 80s throw-back, complete with mullet hair-do and bad suit, whereas the rest of the cast was firmly planted in the modern day.

[The Dude]

Los Angeles said:

Yeah, I'd agree with that. Doesn't look as if his ass fills his pants.

"LA, good to see you! Got your project financed - great lead attached - Colin Farrell.
"Fantastic! I'm so pleased. He's a wonderful actor - great intensity, Celtic like me.
"Terrific. You two will be dynamite. I'll make sure he doesn't read Pistonheads - eh?"
"Gulp."

Mum's the word eh?