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Badmouth » names http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 the “Lost” name game http://www.badmouth.net/the-lost-name-game/ http://www.badmouth.net/the-lost-name-game/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:42:26 +0000 John Marcotte http://www.badmouth.net/the-lost-name-game/

]]> http://www.badmouth.net/the-lost-name-game/feed/ 37 Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) http://www.badmouth.net/pans-labyrinth-2006/ http://www.badmouth.net/pans-labyrinth-2006/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:44:30 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/pans-labyrinth-2006/ [rating:4.5] Director: Guillermo Del Toro Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu “Pan’s Labyrinth” may be the best film of 2006 (or 2007, if you consider that it didn’t hit wide release until January). Its 96% critical lauding on Rotten Tomatoes is all the more remarkable when you look at their “Cream of the Crop” selection of major critics, who gave it 100%. Praise that effusive and that universal pretty much sucks the fun out of writing my own love letter to Guillermo del Toro’s dark vision. But even if I hadn’t been spellbound from first frame to last, I’d be wary of jumping into the opposition camp. Just a quick scroll down Rotten Tomatoes finds two of the six naysayers complaining that the film isn’t kid-friendly enough. Which is as stupid as slamming John Boorman’s “Excalibur” because any King Arthur story should be for kids. “Pan’s Labyrinth” is an R-rated movie, gang — an R-rated movie entirely in Spanish, with subtitles. How much more did they have to do to make it clear that this film isn’t for kids (or at least, kids who don’t speak Spanish). Just because the movie has children in it, or fantasy elements that remind us of fairy tales, it does not mean we can’t make a movie for adults. You want the kiddie version, shove “The Dark Crystal” into the DVD player and let your kids be babysat with that. One of the keys to del Toro’s success with this film — what makes it a wonderful movie rather than just a decent film with some great moments — is that he manages to make both of the story’s worlds interesting. Related posts:

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