Pan's Labyrinth - I was perusing through this thread one day and saw it mentioned--I think it was Hal, if I remember right--and he gave it a pretty good review so I checked it out.
Wonderful movie. Absolutely brilliant. I really don't know what else to say after that.
10/10
POTC III: curse of the revenge of the black dread pirate's chest of pearls. - As the end of the trilogy, I thought this movie was pretty good. It was pretty, the special effects were subtle, which I dig and the story was pretty good despite the confusing double crossing stuff (you can't double cross me...I double cross YOU!!!!) and the Calypso/Davey Jones story. It tied it all up pretty well. However, in the grand scheme of things--and this is really a holdover problem with number 2--it doesn't really sit on its own all that well. That is to say, the first movie was great. Beginning, middle, ending. That's it. Bad guy done in, good guys go home. The second and third are inextricably tied to together and I think that lessens them somewhat. It's like the Empire Strikes Back all over again. A very strong movie that fails because the payoff is in the next installment, which is filled with loads of filler and dancing muppets--or, in this case, CGI-itus.
Either way 7/10 as it does exactly what it is supposed to do and it's fun to watch.