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December 20, 2007
The Great Guillermo Takes Us Back To Hell, Boy
Posted by poland at December 20, 2007 02:22 PM
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Neat. I wonder if Pan will make a cameo.
Posted by: Blackcloud ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 20, 2007 02:59 PM
I wasn't crazy about the first one. This trailer hasn't changed my mind to give the series another chance.
Posted by: Hopscotch at December 20, 2007 03:39 PM
Del Toro is so skilled but I wish he'd ease up on the dork shit in his movies. PAN'S was a nice, seamless melding of the fantastical and the brutally real... good movie.
But overall, his obsessions just have that nerdy, unicorny, Legend-y, gobliny, fairies-and-clocks, "wah wah wahhhhhhh!" Dutch-angle Gilliam/Jackson/Burton vibe that I find a little wack. Like, why, as a grown man, am I watching a movie with Ron Perlman, of all people, dressed in red face paint with shaved-down RAM HORNS, going after lightning-summoning villains that look like Megadeth's Vic Rattlehead mascot?
It's so, so dorky.
That said, of course I'll see it opening weekend. But really, in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or even, really, the 80s, did grown men and women go to see kiddie shit like this?
(Or watch cartoons. Or play video games. Or read comic books.)
Posted by: LexG at December 20, 2007 08:21 PM
I am pretty sure that in the '50s and most of the '60s, grown men and women were not playing video games. Nor were any other human beings on the planet.
Posted by: Blackcloud at December 20, 2007 10:09 PM
Pan left me a little angry. Maybe it's just me, but I don't like to see little girls suffering and brutalized on screen for two hours. Take your fetishes elsewhere, del Toro.
Posted by: Wrecktum at December 20, 2007 10:32 PM
You must hate Lewis Carroll.
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 20, 2007 11:53 PM
Oh, no, Mr Del Toro didn't really use the sliding on his back shooting up from underneath gag...did he? I hope I saw that wrong...
Posted by: rockne at December 21, 2007 06:15 AM
Oh, no, Mr Del Toro didn't really use the sliding on his back shooting up from underneath gag...did he? I hope I saw that wrong...
Posted by: rockne at December 21, 2007 06:15 AM
Agreed on Pans, one of the most overrated films in recent memory.
Posted by: luxofthedraw at December 21, 2007 07:18 AM
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