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It boils down to the question if this is about the better film or about personal preference. Something in my gut tells my that 'Pan's Labyrinth' is actually the better film. But I personally prefer Kill Bill because it's just so much fun. So my vote goes to Tarantino with a bad conscience.
I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority, but this was the round's hardest match up for me. Ultimately, though, I had to give it to Kill Bill. It isn't deep and it isn't trying to be. Campy, violent, and entertaining as hell, Kill Bill is just pure, unadulterated fun to watch. But seriously y'all, this one hurt.
I love QT but Kill Bill vol 1 is all style, and owes a lot to homage here (moreso than his other movies). Pan's Labyrinth is all Del toro and his finest film. As dark and violent as it is majestic and beautiful. A fairy tale I never could have imagined. Pan's Labyrinth should take this one.
This one is remarkably easy. A slight, vapid, and only superficially entertaining pastiche of martial arts films vs. a deeply immersive and vividly realized parable about the importance of escapist storytelling? It's Pan's Labyrinth in a walk.
Both of these films play with reality and fantasy. Kill Bill takes the vengeance and violence to incredible, unbelievable levels of splashing blood and fun, pulpy dialogue, while Pan's Labyrinth literally overlays war with fantasy; Tarantino enhances the vengeance fantasy with violence and del Toro mythologizes violence with fantasy. However, it's del Toro, for me, who masters the balance of the two. His dark fantasy world mirrors the violence of the Spanish Civil War and draws us in to Ophelia's perspective in a way that enchants and bewitches whereas Tarantino, ultimately, simply shocks us.
Wow Erin Teachman! From one fellow Washingtonian cinephile to another, I bow to you. This was a hard pick for me. Pan's Labyrinth is my favorite Del Toro film by far but as another comment pointed out, I find myself continuously going back to that glorious well of deliriously fun film viewing that is Kill Bill, Vol. 1. I voted for Tarantino yet after Erin's comment, I think you are officially the first fellow Filmspotting Madness comment that made me think twice about my pick and that's all good. :-)
This is the kind of match-up that makes these tournaments worth it for me. So much to chew on here. One of these films is a balls-out celebration of forgotten film history, while the other is a beautiful ode to the very art and purpose of storytelling itself.
If you ask me tomorrow, I'd probably change my mind completely and say Kill Bill should win this with Pan's Labyrinth falling on a patch of bloody snow. But right now my heart is with Guillermo Del Toro's only true masterpiece, .
To put it succinctly.... a vote for Uma's feet here.
Tough one. I absolutely love Pan's Labyrinth, but I was blown away by Kill Bill. I've also gone back to the latter more often than the former.
This is hellishly tough. Kill Bill v1 is an adrenaline rush of style, humour, glorious action, martial arts and that titanic central performance from Uma Thurman. I adore it.
Pan’s Labyrinth is Guillermo’s masterwork, terrifying, moving, deep, beautiful, pretty much perfect. It wins.
Somebody please kill Kill Bill. Tarantino, while obviously talented, strives sooo hard to be original and innovative. Del Toro just naturally is.
Another great comment from Erin Teachman. For the rest of the competition I'm just gonna let them do the talking
Kill Bill is chock full of inventive storytelling, visual innovation, high stakes character choices, and is just bad ass in general, but I've always felt Tarantino's interest in the Bride is primarily formal. He isn't intending to do more than to tell one fictional woman's story as steeped in the history of martial arts and revenge cinema as possible. Del Toro is reaching into history and reconnecting us with a lost story of resistance to tyranny using the intense imagery and history of fairy tales; he is far more interested in how someone will feel and what someone will do after the movie is over than Tarantino. Pan's Labyrinth is bursting with so much more humanity and stakes than Kill Bill that it has to get my vote here.
This one hurts me. Both movies are such clear representations of their creator's style and show a director hitting their stride. While it was tough, I decided to go with Pan's Labyrinth because of the strength of the imagery. When I close my eyes I can still vividly imagine the Faun, the White Man and others so clearly that I know the movie left a profound impact on me. If only the Crazy 88 could make an appearance in the Underground Realm.