That film keeps eluding me and it’s at the point where I’ve stopped caring because I’ve seen all his other films and don’t like any of them.

I don’t think his films are bad, I think they have an abscense of good. I don’t think they’re particularly slow, I think they move from uninteresting place to uninteresting place at a perfectly acceptable speed.

Devil’s Backbone is a generic cliche ridden snore. The characters are bland, the ghost story is generic and it’s told in an unimaginative way.

Replace Devil’s Backbone with Pan’s Labrynth. Same thing. His films are well shot, they’re not visually interesting to me though.

What scenes in either of those films is particularly compelling and why?

seriously? Why do people say they like that film?

None are awesome films, but Blade 1 is definitely the one that deserves respect.

And yes, not seeing 3 means you can’t say which is the best of the trilogy Well you can say it, I just won’t listen

Shannon, (On Blade 2) it is probably the del Toro love in there that is affecting, and admittedly I’ve not seen Blade 3 (so that really does invalidate my opinion that #2 is actually the best of the three, does it not?) But #2 is constantly moving forward, energetic as hell, and drop dead gorgeous to look at, with a nifty (if thin) set of characters. It ain’t deep, but it is very good as a popcorn comic book flick with all the requisite ‘coolness’ factor. Blade 1 is so inanely saggy in the middle and so silly at the end, that the militant and intense creepiness/gore/violence in Blade 2 hit my sweet spot.

Actually, as I think about it, “Pan’s Lab” is the only Del Toro movie that I really like (a lot). Haven’t seen Cronos yet though.

I’m totally going to watch the whole trilogy again, but I find 2 so hard to get through. Even after asking people I still don’t get the appeal of 2. Maybe it resonates with del Toro fans.

But with Wolverine it was a shame to see this excellent supporting case with so little screen time – the characters were interesting and unique and there was a fantastic opportunity for great chemistry there but it was missed. Or perhaps edited out.

How true. All the Reynolds love aside, how much fun was the elevator scene at the beginning? Reynolds is always great as this mouthy ass and it works well here but then he disappears for the rest of the film.

I went home afterwards and watched Blade 3. It’s the worse of the films but Reynolds is so awesome.

I will say that afterwards I went and watched the trailer and was so thrilled I hadnt’ seen it before – it show so much of the film!

It isn’t flawless, and it would have been nice to have the secondary characters have more screen time (to augment the story as well as just because they are cool) but as an overall action film? Tons of fun.

I didn’t hate it but it lacked any wow factor.

What does that have to do with anything? Are fanboys conditioned to love all Hulk movies and hate all Wolverine movies?

I kinda liked the film too but it’s unnecessary to speculate into some behind the scenes feud to explain it’s hostile reception by critics. It’s pretty half assed. I read some local review that tore it apart and I honestly couldn’t fault any of his criticisms. All his reasons for hating were valid.

“This next part coming up is sick!”
“Oh dude dude, watch! watch! its coming!”

During the cheesy helicopter money shot from the trailer, he yells out “Here comes the money shot!” – nobody responds of course, and then with perfect timing afterwards… has to blurt again “That was the money shot!”

Thanks

So I loudly said to my friend “Hey! Did you pay for commentary?” and he yells “No! Can we turn it off?”

he shut up after that.