Eh, it was okay.

[kickaha]

Just got back from Pan's Labyrinth. I dunno, it just didn't really grab me. It seemed kind of flat, the characters were really one-dimensional and uninteresting, and all in all it was really pretty predictable.






Okay, now that I have your attention... ;)

Loved it.

Comments

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I was expecting it to be very one note like Mirrormask, but was pleasantly surprised. :D

[code-slave.livejournal.com]

Tee heeee. funny.
:-)

I expect it to be visually stunning, at least.

[zen-oven.livejournal.com]

i was about to tell you that you were fulla shit, but then you admitted it right at the end. :)

awesome movie, no?

*thwap*

[badger.livejournal.com]

I have to see it again since M didn't go with me to the sneak preview. Somehow this doesn't bother me a bit :).
(And I agree with ginkgo about this versus _Mirrormask_: I'm a huge fan of Dave McKean, but I didn't see it twice when I could for free and I didn't have a strong desire to pick up the DVD yet.)

[herithoth.livejournal.com]

We went to see it at a movie theatre that is underground. It's the food court for several tall office buildings, but it still seems strange to walk into a grassy hill and be suddenly inside a mall. Probably half the audience could listen without the subtitles. I especially liked the multiple possible interpretation ending.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Oh yas. The ending generated a bit of discussion.

The person we went and saw it with was, unfortunately, completely in the dark about the Spanish Civil War, so she lost a lot of the context while we were watching it.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Quite. :)

Re: *thwap*

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yup. My take on it is...

Mirrormask was a film *of* a fairy tale. A specific one, played out on screen.

Pan's Labyrinth is a film *about* fairy tales, their power, their significance, and their place in our psyches.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Oh it is. Not in the same way as Mirrormask, but very atmospheric. It's a dark, dark film, not just in lighting, but in themes and mood.