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Cronos
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Mimic
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The Devil's Backbone
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Blade II
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Hellboy
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Pan's Labyrinth
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Pacific Rim
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Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

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Old 07-16-13 | 05:03 PM
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Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Which is your favorite?
Old 07-16-13 | 05:37 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

I voted Pan's Labyrinth. A truly fantastic film! I also really like The Devil's Backbone.

I blind bought HellBoy and Mimic and I found them both quite boring.

Haven't seen Pacific Rim yet mostly because his action films HellBoy 1 and 2 disappointed me.
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PL by a country mile.
Old 07-16-13 | 10:13 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

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PL by a country mile.
Yeah, PL was just too good.
Old 07-17-13 | 08:51 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

I've seen everything except Pacific Rim and I can't choose.

Mimic is his weakest but that's more the fault of the studio than anything.

Blade 2 & the Hellboy movies are good fun and a little different from your typical comic book movies.

The Devil's Backbone & Pan's Labyrinth are both serious examinations of war with fantasy undertones.

Cronos was somewhere in the middle of the above.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

My favorite one? Pacific Rim. It just was everything I could want as a kid from the premise.

His best one is Pan's Labyrinth.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

I love this quote:

“I cannot pontificate about it, but by the time I’m done, I will have done one movie, and it’s all the movies I want. People say, you know, ‘I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal,’ and I go ‘Fuck, you’re wrong!’ Hellboy is as personal to me as Pan’s Labyrinth. They’re tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other – the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don’t like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie. Hitchcock did one movie, all his life.”


-Guillermo del Toro
Old 07-17-13 | 10:30 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

For me, either HellBoy II or Blade II. I enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth for its own merits, but it's not a film I can rewatch.
Old 07-17-13 | 10:32 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Originally Posted by Solid Snake
My favorite one? Pacific Rim. It just was everything I could want as a kid from the premise.

His best one is Pan's Labyrinth.
100% agree with this...
Old 07-19-13 | 01:28 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Not surprised by the Pan's Labyrinth love.

Surprised that no one has voted for Cronos or Mimic. Both films are obviously flawed, but have some magnificent moments.

Despite the less than stellar BO for Pacific Rim, I really hope GDT gets to make his dream project ATMOM.
Old 07-19-13 | 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by JumpCutz
Not surprised by the Pan's Labyrinth love.

Surprised that no one has voted for Cronos or Mimic. Both films are obviously flawed, but have some magnificent moments.
I love mimic. I've seen it a dozen times.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

My favorite is Hellboy, but his best is Pan's Labyrinth. However, you will never watch it the same way again after seeing this:

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My favorite is Hellboy, but his best is Pan's Labyrinth. However, you will never watch it the same way again after seeing this:

Spoiler:
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I kept watching that, hoping it'd get funny. It never does.
Old 07-19-13 | 11:17 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Pan's Labyrinth.... but I really don't understand all the fan boy love for him and why everyone sucks his cock.
Old 07-19-13 | 11:27 AM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

I fucking love all del Toro's movies! But I voted for Hellboy II the Golden Army. I don't think it gets the recognition it deserves. In my book that movie its as Awesome as LOTR or even the Dark Knight.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

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Pan's Labyrinth.... but I really don't understand all the fan boy love for him and why everyone sucks his cock.
Because he makes great fucking movies.
Old 07-19-13 | 03:05 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
Because he makes great fucking movies.
I appreciate his style and his approach to effects.

Yea he has made 1 excellent movie, a few good, and a few mediocre. But I just don't think they warrant the outpouring. Fanboys acting like he's on a James Cameron level or something.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

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... but I really don't understand all the fan boy love for him and why everyone sucks his cock.
But he makes movies my 12 year old self would have loved!!111!!!11!!!!

Of course 12 year olds would probably enjoy Sharknado so ya know...
Old 07-19-13 | 05:27 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Is this a trick question?

Pan's Labyrinth. One of the best films of the decade, if not ever.
Old 07-19-13 | 05:37 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

As of right now: Pan's Labyrinth, but I'll refrain from voting until I see Pacific Rim and Devil's Backbone.
Old 07-20-13 | 02:55 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Tie for me between Cronos & Pan's Labyrinth.
Old 07-20-13 | 03:23 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

I think Devil's Backbone is his best but PL and Blade II are a close & tie for second. I have yet to see Cronos....
Old 07-20-13 | 06:21 PM
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Pan's, no contest
Old 07-20-13 | 07:36 PM
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Gotta go with Pan's Labyrinth for sure. I still need to see Pacific Rim.
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Re: Favorite Guillermo del Toro film?

Originally Posted by RocShemp
I kept watching that, hoping it'd get funny. It never does.
Watch it again and hope it gets punny. You won't be disappointed!

As for Del Toro vs. James Cameron, I don't think Del Toro has made a film as good as Aliens, but his worst film is nowhere near as bad as Titanic or Avatar.


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