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Originally Posted by Tahoe

Anyone see Pan's Labyrinth?

Just saw it. Pretty cruel flic.

I really loved it. It was very sad, but an excellent film. Very neat take on childhood innocence. The ending was spectacular. It was as if to say, "the only way this cruelty makes any kind of sense is in some kind of elaborate fantasy world."

Mexico is booming with awesome film directors right now! Check out all these great movies that were directed by a Mexican director recently:

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Amores Perros
21 Grams
Babel

Alfonso Cuarón
A Little Princess
Great Expectations
Y tu mamá también
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Children of Men (awesome flick, if you haven't seen it already)

Guillermo del Toro
Mimic
The Devil's Backbone
Hellboy
Hellboy II
Pan's Labyrinth
The Hobbit (upcoming)

Mexico is fucking up everyone right now in the movies.

Besides The Life Aquatic and No Country, I only watch foreign. I'll check some of them out.

I hate hollywood movies. The endings seem so predictable to me.

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Originally Posted by Big Swami

Mexico is fucking up everyone right now in the movies.

Oh please... the greatest Mexican movie hasn't even been filmed yet!

And yes, I know this is wrong on so many levels...

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Originally Posted by Tahoe

Besides The Life Aquatic and No Country, I only watch foreign. I'll check some of them out.

I hate hollywood movies. The endings seem so predictable to me.

I know what you're saying, and I agree, but actually a lot of those movies I mentioned are Hollywood movies, just directed by a Mexican director.

21 Grams had Sean Penn in it
Babel had Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett
A Little Princess was a Disney movie
Great Expectations had Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert de Niro
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - well, you know this one's British
Children of Men was another British movie with Clive Owen, Juilanne Moore, and Dame Judi Dench
Mimic was a thriller with Mira Sorvino
Hellboy - obviously a Hollywood movie
Hellboy II - obviously a Hollywood movie
Pan's Labyrinth - this was actually made in Spain
The Hobbit (upcoming) - Peter Jackson is still producing this movie and gave Gillermo del Toro the job after being so impressed with Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth

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Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy

Oh please... the greatest Mexican movie hasn't even been filmed yet!

I was going to say that Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror, Desperado... soon, Machete) was conspicuously absent from Swami's list.

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Originally Posted by geerussell

I was going to say that Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror, Desperado... soon, Machete) was conspicuously absent from Swami's list.

Robert Rodriguez is Mexican-American, not native to Mexico, and didn't learn Spanish until he was an adult. I love most of his work, but I was joking around. I don't need much of an excuse to post the Machete trailer. :)

Children of Men was an AMAZING movie. I need to watch it again sometime soon.

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Originally Posted by Zekyl

Children of Men was an AMAZING movie. I need to watch it again sometime soon.

There are several long scenes in that movie that were all done with one single camera shot and not edited, almost like watching a "COPS" foot chase. The entire coffeshop scene at the beginning of the movie, up to where the credits start, is one camera shot. The scene where he's running through the prison camp during the big gun battle is entirely one camera shot. It's fucking amazing that they could do that. Can you imagine how many retakes they had to do?

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Originally Posted by Big Swami

There are several long scenes in that movie that were all done with one single camera shot and not edited, almost like watching a "COPS" foot chase. The entire coffeshop scene at the beginning of the movie, up to where the credits start, is one camera shot. The scene where he's running through the prison camp during the big gun battle is entirely one camera shot. It's fucking amazing that they could do that. Can you imagine how many retakes they had to do?

I love that kind of shit, I'll have to check that out.

Reminds me of that video with all of those guys on treadmills.

You mean OK-Go?