Comments on: Pan’s Labyrinth

By: mikesum32

mikesum32 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:23:12 +0000

I also enjoyed Pan’s Labyrinth. I watched it at home. I had the chance to see The Orphanage, also in Spanish, at the local theater. Metaphocially it was very similar, that is, set in two worlds.

I want to see the French movie Amélie next. The City of Lost Children looks good too. Well, if looking like a steampunk borg is anything to go by.

By: Ricardo Ramalho

Ricardo Ramalho — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:04:17 +0000

I saw it when it first appeared, and it’s amazing.

Loved it. =)

The language issue didn’t bore me at all. I’m Portuguese, and Castellano is similar. =)

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:09:09 +0000

French movies, the french sex comedies bore me, but I love the dual movies Jean de la Forette and Manon of the Spring.
Manon is one of my favorites and Manon is the sequal to the first one, but they play like one long movie and I paid money for both of them.
French Kiss is an english movie, but wonderful, of course The hit man I think is the name and the one about the girl trained to be a killer with the famous kitchen scene, I am having a brain fart for movie titles now, but there are a couple of outstanding male actors that I always get their movies.

By: Dave Rosky

Dave Rosky — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:59:59 +0000

“For other movies and shows it does when the language is not English.”

Yeah, I suppose if you like the movie a lot, you can still enjoy it, like in this case. I actually don’t mind subtitles that much in languages that I don’t know at all.

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:46:30 +0000

I am very difficult with non-english movies/shows. I don’t like most French movies, and I don’t like their music either. I like their traditional music, but most of their modern one rubs me bad. Of course, my record is even worse with other countries, so you could even say that French is my No2 favorite media language after all the English-speaking ones. But a very far second.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:35:19 +0000

Yes, lovely movie indeed. Good to hear you liked it

I’ve never had trouble with watching movies with subtitles. You hardly notice it once you’re inside the movie. And since I really don’t like dubbed movies and obviously don’t understand the majority of languages out there, it’s the best option to be able to watch those movies.

Strange that being married to a Frenchman you don’t watch at least many French movies. They have lots of wonderful ones!

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:28:06 +0000

I don’t speak Spanish at all, so I always had to read the subtitles. It really didn’t bother me… at least not for this movie. For other movies and shows it does when the language is not English.

By: Dave Rosky

Dave Rosky — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:23:55 +0000

We saw this in the theater when it came out and enjoyed it very much. Very well done how the story of the cruelty of war was weaved together with the fairy tail. One of my favorites of last year.

The spanish language was frustrating, though. I remember just enough spanish that my eyes would sometimes wander away from the subtitiles, but then there would be a lot more dialog that I didn’t understand and I would have to look back. I have the same problem with Chinese (Mandarin) movies. It sucks to only partly know a language.