Guillermo Del Toro

[Dolemite]

Blade 2 and Hellboy showed me that the man has some skills. I saw Mimic years ago and don't recall it being that great, but from what I've heard there was massive studio meddling on that one and he didn't get to make the movie he wanted.

His DVD commentary tracks are very entertaining as well, as he displays a lot of passion and imagination. He's funny, too.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had seen Cronos or The Devil's Backbone, and could tell me if they were any good.

[D_N_G]

devils backbone is pretty cool, pretty much its about a boys ghost that helps save another boy, i would definitely give it a viewing, its not really scary or a horror movie but just a good story.

i wanted to pick up cronos but never brought myself to get the copy at best buy and then it got sold. im to lazy to find it on the internet as it wasnt a high priority to watch it

[adol]

Cronos is great too. Del Toro is a damn fine film maker.

[Despair]

Dolemite, both are great movies.

Chronos is an interesting take on vampire genre, and has Ron Perlman as a main baddie. Devil's Backbone is a ghost story, set in the time of war. Both films have great atmosphere.

[Dolemite]

Thanks, guys.

[Rumpy]

devils backbone is pretty cool, pretty much its about a boys ghost that helps save another boy, i would definitely give it a viewing, its not really scary or a horror movie but just a good story.

Good summary of Devils Backbone. Doubt I'd watch it again though.

[Dolemite]

Okay, next question- who's the fattter, slobbier director? Guillermo Del Toro or Peter Jackson? Or can you even tell them apart?

It's close, but I think Jackson gets the nod.

[YellerDog]

Miichael Moore.

[adol]

I think Jackson might be fatter than Del Toro.

[Dolemite]

It's happy fun time…which director has gained the most weight?

Guillermo Del Toro before:


After:


Peter Jackson before:


After:


And YellerDog's dark horse candiate, Michael Moore, before:


After:


Does success in the Director's chair= teh fattness? It would seem so.

[Clash!]

I was watching some video dirarys on the new King Kong movies website, and Peter Jackson has lost a bunch of weight.

[g0zen]

The director's commentary track on Blade 2 is some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear. He spends the entire movie ragging on the script and its writer. What's even more funny is that the other commentary track is the writer doing a bland synopsis of the movie while it's playing.

[Dolemite]

I've mentioned several time in the Blade: Trinity thread how awesome Del Toro's Blade 2 commentary is. You really get a sense of why Trinity sucked as much as it did, as Guillermo talks about what he fought with Goyer (who wrote 1 & 2, and wrote and directed Trinity) over including and changing.

And yeah, how Guillermo rips on the script and Goyer is hilarious. How about the one part where Del Toro and the producer stay quiet so you can hear the vampires introduce themselves, and after the one woman's line Guillermo's all like "Oh, GOD. One of the worst lines EVER!" Or when he makes fun of Goyer for stealing Godfather quotes.

Del Toro is awesome.

[Zac]

I met Del toro at Wizard World TX in 2003 he was pretty cool. And we all know after Trinity that if it wasnt for him Blade 2 would have sucked. I like that he actually makes the movies he wants to make rather than just going for the things that would get him the most recognition. I mean the guy turned down Blade Trinity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to do Hellboy.

[Diff-chan]

And we all know after Trinity that if it wasnt for him Blade 2 would have sucked.

Blade 2 did suck.

[Zac]

No dude you suck. Seriously though if you take out the bad cg fighting which Del Toro explains why is bad in the commentary then its not that bad. And compared to Trinty its art.

[Diff-chan]

No dude you suck.

IBTN.

Seriously though if you take out the bad cg fighting which Del Toro explains why is bad in the commentary then its not that bad.

And the shitty storyline, and the crappy characters and writing, and Blade's stupid sidekick that always calls him "B" and gets blown up, and the lame-ass wrasslin moves, and yea.... basically if you take out all the cheesiness of the movie it is not that bad. But its all in there, and it sucks.

And compared to Trinty its art.

That is irrelevant. All it means is that only 1 of the Blade movies was any good.

But for what its worth, while "real movie fans" like Despair and Dolemite were drooling over Trinity I said it was gonna be shit. Who was right? seriously.

[rectal_area]

you call everything shit. It just so happens that most of the time it's true.

[Zac]

Diffusion my comment was more of a Blade 2 would have been as bad as 3 if not worse if Del Toro had not directed it.

[Rumpy]

Blade 2 was great damn it.

[Zac]

I guess my official opinion is that is was okay .

[g0zen]

And yeah, how Guillermo rips on the script and Goyer is hilarious. How about the one part where Del Toro and the producer stay quiet so you can hear the vampires introduce themselves, and after the one woman's line Guillermo's all like "Oh, GOD. One of the worst lines EVER!" Or when he makes fun of Goyer for stealing Godfather quotes.

Del Toro is awesome.

Yeah that was great..But the best is without a doubt the 'mystery semen stain' search.

[Despair]

Blade 2 did suck.

Oh my. An another brilliant and witty comment by Diffusion here.

You rock man !!!!

[Dolemite]

IBTN.

IAWTP

But for what its worth, while "real movie fans" like Despair and Dolemite were drooling over Trinity I said it was gonna be shit. Who was right? seriously.

I said multiple times in the Trinity thread that it had a good chance of sucking. Way to talk out your ass, tardboy. Seriously.