The Jacobin is on one.
IDK if it’s true but it def FEELS like Del Toro is the most decorated living director who gets the lowest respect from Hollywood and critics.
I mean FFS they cut off both his Oscar speeches for Shape of Water so Kimmel could make terrible jokes.
He is Mexican and he makes good but weird as shit movies. It sucks so much.
it does. Like he shouldn’t have any issues finding people or investors yet he routinely talks about both.
"On top of all that old-time fairy-tale savagery, del Toro announced his intention of setting his film in the grim interlude between World War I and World War II, amid the rise of Fascism in Italy. My mind was boggled at the very idea that someone would dare to plunge that far into darkness in a form generally reserved for family entertainment. How would del Toro handle such brutal material?"
lmfoa this paragraph alone is so weird to me that im convinced this mfer has zero idea what they are talking about.
There's a cool write up about that that someone posted here a while ago. I can't find it because google only gives me results for Del Toro's
Mfer has this reviewer not watched his other fucking films!? Like all his most acclaimed ones such as Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, The Devil's Backbone are all about the crossing between fantasy/freedom/love and the hell that is fascism (with Pan being set during the fucking Franco regime). Like holy shit I knew Jacobin was demsoc at best but are they just handing out stuff for lib interns to right now before they head off to work for a gov thinktank?
when I read pinnochio as a kid the blurb mentioned something about the character being used to criticise fascist italy while Mussolini was in charge
food metaphors ✅
adjectives ran through a thesaurus ✅
plot summary ✅
its certainly a film review
She said something similar about Bullet Train not coming together and that movie kicked ass.
I have no idea what kind of petition Guillermo del Toro signed in 2009 and I should definitely research that sometime
Ngl Tilda Swinton also signed it and it seems like it was under false pretense (extradition laws or something being the main focus), still though this is why you accept that idols are human and humans do dipshit stuff
yeah the middle of the movie sorta meandered, but it pulled together in the end.
agree about the songs being forgettable and not that good
It's good, another movie by Del Toro in which the enemy is the malignant cultural fascism of Europe
It was a banger. My wife wouldn't have approved for how dark it was but I liked it and I think my oldest was a little shocked
i liked it, even if it meandered. probably in the middle of the del toro movies. not the worst, but not even close to the best.
Seems like they missed some major themes of the movie, bad opinion from this Jacobin reviewer.
