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ckmlb on 23 November 2009
CrazyHorse said:

Persepolis is great, quite funny too. I'm waiting for the price to drop on Waltz with Bashir before I pick it up on Blu-Ray but I've been wanting to watch it for a while. Another great film I saw a couple of weeks ago is La Battaglia di Algeri (Battle of Algiers). It's 40 years old but it couldn't be more relevant to certain conflicts today.

I've wanted to see the Battle of Algiers for a long time, have it in my Netflix qeue but I have too many movies to see.

 



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NJ5 on 23 November 2009
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
Pan's labyrinth was crap IMO.

Why was it crap? Not saying you have to like it, but what didn't you enjoy about it?


Several things:


1- I felt it employed gratuitous violence (and it's pretty rare for me to say that about a movie).

2- The fantasy parts felt contrived and mostly pointless to me.

3- I didn't think the story was anything special (frankly I've forgotten most of it).

 

In regards to the violence, do you mean the violence in the real world or the violence in the fantasy world? Because I think the real world violence was pretty accurate to the Spanish Civil War and I think that it seeped into the girl's fantasy world from the real one. Her fantasy is not perfect nor is it even safe so I think the oddness of the imaginary world and how dark it was is a reflection of what hte girl has witnessed in the war maybe.

I thought the other world was pretty interesting, very imaginative and beautiful in a strange way, but to each his/her own.

In the real world. They went a bit too graphical and tasteless. I don't know how to explain... there are some really violent scenes that I'm fine with, I guess it depends on how they film it and contextualize it.

 



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pastro243 on 23 November 2009
NJ5 said:
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
ckmlb said:
NJ5 said:
Pan's labyrinth was crap IMO.

Why was it crap? Not saying you have to like it, but what didn't you enjoy about it?


Several things:


1- I felt it employed gratuitous violence (and it's pretty rare for me to say that about a movie).

2- The fantasy parts felt contrived and mostly pointless to me.

3- I didn't think the story was anything special (frankly I've forgotten most of it).

 

In regards to the violence, do you mean the violence in the real world or the violence in the fantasy world? Because I think the real world violence was pretty accurate to the Spanish Civil War and I think that it seeped into the girl's fantasy world from the real one. Her fantasy is not perfect nor is it even safe so I think the oddness of the imaginary world and how dark it was is a reflection of what hte girl has witnessed in the war maybe.

I thought the other world was pretty interesting, very imaginative and beautiful in a strange way, but to each his/her own.

In the real world. They went a bit too graphical and tasteless. I don't know how to explain... there are some really violent scenes that I'm fine with, I guess it depends on how they film it and contextualize it.

 

Well, havent watched the movie yet, but the spanish civil war was some serious thing for sure.



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