http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/27/blade-2/ the funk is its own reward Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:53:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/27/blade-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4775 jürgen fauth’s muckworld » The Devil’s Backbone Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:39:57 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/27/blade-2/#comment-4775 [...] Even the Academy has figured out that Pan’s Labyrinth is destined to be a classic (it’s exceedingly rare that anything with subtitles plays at Kaufman Astoria), and so we’ve been digging back through Guillermo Del Toro’s filmography. Hellboy and Blade 2 aren’t as good as the fanboys would have you believe, and my memories of Cronos are pretty hazy–but this film is very, very good on its own terms and obviously a stepping stone to the grander, more archetypal Pan’s Labyrinth. [...] [...] Even the Academy has figured out that Pan’s Labyrinth is destined to be a classic (it’s exceedingly rare that anything with subtitles plays at Kaufman Astoria), and so we’ve been digging back through Guillermo Del Toro’s filmography. Hellboy and Blade 2 aren’t as good as the fanboys would have you believe, and my memories of Cronos are pretty hazy–but this film is very, very good on its own terms and obviously a stepping stone to the grander, more archetypal Pan’s Labyrinth. [...]

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