Truth be said, if Call of Duty 4 isn’t your cup of tea and you’ve already beaten Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, there’s not much you can do with your still shiny Sony PS3 during the holidays. Unless that is someone reminds you the bloody thing also happens to be a reasonably priced Blu-ray player, and apparently ButtonSmasher just did that for you. Heh. Now, as Blu-ray players are quite appropriate for watching movies, all you have to do is find something worth watching. Something to scare the kids with. Something like Pan’s Labyrinth. Better yet, Pan’s Labyrinth itself. Your PS3 will thank you and you will thank me (hopefully in cash).

Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece, you see, is probably the best movie on them shiny new discs yet and definitely one of the few truly classic movies released this past decade. It’s a sublime mix of dark fantasy with brutal realism set in post-Civil War Spain, that manages to raise important questions while offering some of the most beautiful yet disturbing visuals you’ve ever imagined. Instead of spoiling even the slightest bit of plot for you, let me just admit I’ve been watching it and showing it around regularly this last year, and that the first time I did so I also needed a bit of tequila to calm me down. Definitely not for kids this one.

Posted on December 28th, 2007 by konstantinos