Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)

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Total Recall was an excellent film IMO (especially for an action film)
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grim_tales wrote:Total Recall was an excellent film IMO (especially for an action film)
We are not disputing that Verhoeven didn't make a good solid action film. Sit and down and consider the source material, a piece of fiction by Philip K. Dick, one of the most existensional popular science fiction writers. Can you not see the wasted potential?

It is really sad when there have only been two (or arguably three) film adaptations that come close to translating the spirit of Dick's original works.
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While not definitive it's looking likely the soon to be released (November) Pan's Labyrinth UK BD from Optimum will be Region B:

http://bluray.lindsite.dk/

It's a good job Optimum are releasing both BD and HD-DVD if they're going to stuff up their BD releases with regional coding. If it is true I'll be picking up the HD-DVD.

The same link also says EIV are using regional coding (along with Fox). Not that that bothers me particularly, EIV suck and most of their releases Warner have released in The States on both HD-DVD and Region Free BD.