I quickly checked the other threads and can see no mention of this film. Has anyone else seen it. Watched it on DVD the other night, was expecting something special but was totally blown away by this film. The fantasy elements were very good but was most surprised by the "real life" story, twas very moving. I would recommend this film to anyone.:moo:

I think I mentioned it once in a passing comment. It really is the most essential thing I have to got to watch in my agenda at the moment.
Nearly bought it today on DVD , but Mrs Cappy kept ushering me away from the entertainment department at Sainsburies,and I somehow got coerced into buying a revlon hairdryer instead.

yesyesyesyesyesYES!


Cappy: there is a 3 disk thing with 'The devil's backbone' and 'cronos' out for about 20 quid-ish. GET IT!

Absolutely awsome film. The way it starts out fairly normal, goes a wee bit mental then ends with a fantasticly shocking but nicely ambiguous, erm, ending is brilliant. Best film of last year.

Hand on heart, I think it's the best film of many a year, every conversation I have since seems to end with a recommendation for it.

Yep, next time i'm in sainburies I wont take an lady nonesense ,I'll march straight to the the DVD counter and buy the 3 disc version.
No messing,

cappy
Yep, next time i'm in sainburies I wont take an lady nonesense ,I'll march straight to the the DVD counter and buy the 3 disc version.
No messing,

Watch, he will end up comming out with a waffle iron, get home and wonder what the hell happend.

Cock a snook at the highly persuasive lure of competitively-priced home electricals and fancy goods, Cappy.

The film is superb.

I quickly checked the other threads and can see no mention of this film.

Oddly enough most mentions of this movie have been in the Trailer Trash thread.

Tis a great flick. Best one yet from Del Toro although I liked Cronos an awful lot.

Just bought this following comments in this thread.

Me too

Bloody Parcelforce want a signature though, so I have to go to the Depot to collect it.

Couldn't find the 3 disc version in any shop near me .Sainsburies were uneventfull , i even slipped off for a solo trip to try and get it

So Had to use Uno's recommendation and my basket of goods are on their way.

Have now hidden my credit card where I can't get at it once again

I have been promising myself that I will see this film, ever since I saw it reviewed on Film.

I will get to it at some point before I die, honestly!

Fucking superb film. Loved it.

<<whey,whey,whey a pirates life for me>>

It Came though my postbox today , the little DVD beauty.

I've read the 16 page booklet (10/10) , tommorow I will watch the main feature.

Arrived

Watched it

Bloody good

not much more to say really


(Although I hated the subtitles. but this is a bugbear of mine. I love foreign films but I keep missing bits going on whilst I read the subtitles. It stops you really getting into the film. and I'm far too lazy to learn another language !)

I still havnen't managed to watch the bloody thing yet , however I have watched one of the trio of discs , The Devils Backbone, and thought it was excellent/top banana.
I'm going to watch Cronos today methinks . And watch Pans Labarynth of either Friday or Saturday . Descisions.

Persoonally I don't mind subtitles and they can sometimes lend a film a bit of avant-gardyness. Certain better than dubbed films , which are the pants.

Watched Tsotsi last night. Good movie, but not nearly as well crafted as PL - am I right in thinking Tsotsi beat it for the best johnny foreigner film?

Tsotsi was good - plus it was a social conscience movie, which always go down well with the Academy, but if you're talking about the craft of movie making, Pans Labyrinth has the best fucking sound I've heard in a movie for a long time. Seriously, whoever put that foley track together is Beethoven with samples. Next time you watch the movie, don't watch it - listen to it.
Tsotsi was actually let down quite badly by its sound - very little atmosphere, music that was supposed to be getting played in another room was just music that had been turned down. Visually a good movie, acting was good too.

Watched Cronos , like I promised too.

..and I wasn't dissapointed . I'm not sure what genre I would put in in. Certainly not the horror/vampire type chronology.
I found it rather uplifting , in a sense.
Truly a break from the traditonal type of <dark> movie , interspersed with some nice humour.
The unwanting victim of unwanted afterlife (jesus gris) gave a lesson in morals that we should all take heed from.
I also liked the juxtoposition of the subtitles versus the English spoken parts.

Of the two films of the threesome watched up to now , I must admit ,though , I rate it slightly below the Devils Backbone.

I do so hope that Pans Labyrinth will live up to all this anti-climax.

Watched Tsotsi last night. Good movie, but not nearly as well crafted as PL - am I right in thinking Tsotsi beat it for the best johnny foreigner film?



No, Tsotsi won it last year. This year it was the Lives of Others (apparently v.good also) that beat PL to the punch.

I can't help but feel though that the Oscar people are hesitant to ever give awards to this kind of fantasy/horror. It took them two critical and commercial LOTR successes before they finally awarded something to the third of the trilogy.

Finally got around to watching it , and it was immense.
Both of the intertwined stories were very effective . And although it had a moral to the story it was't being rammed down your throat.

A lesson that Spielburg et al should sometimes learn from