Why did Del Toro disown this movie?

And I'm sure you're much better.

Please refrain from posting again. Thanks.

"Yes.... because he is a self loving, arrogant, snobbish excuse for a human being."

Or...because he's an extremely talented filmmaker that doesn't like it when movie producers fitting the description that you just gave tamper with his vision.



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Actually Shab, I've met Gulliermo Del Toro at a Q&A for Pan's Labyrinth, and he is intelligent, witty, and yet humble and extremely polite and loving to his fans. He cares about his films and fans more than he does about himself, and he happens to be one of my favorite directors.

I'm sure that in all your run-ins with Mr. Del Toro you've pieced together your rude and profoundly incorrect opinion, other than that, keep your secondhand opinion to yourself please.

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

shab872-1 sounds like an arrogant piece of crap , Del Toro should have slapped him around a bit.

"Yes.... because he is a self loving, arrogant, snobbish excuse for a human being." Actually he is one of the nicest, most humble guys directing today.

"Ground Control to Major Tom"

and you think this because...?

your response says an awful lot about yourself

Guillermo has NEVER disowned this film - it's just the film that we see now is not the film he had intended for release, and it was hacked to bits by Miramax. There is still a LOT about the film he loves, and there is a petition to have the film released on a 2-disc DVD as a special edition, with as much of it in its original Del Toro form as possible, with loads of extras.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/MIMIC/

I think it would be well worth it.

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I just gave MIMIC another look, my first since seeing it theatrically, and I liked it quite a bit upon reevaluation - more than it's reputation at least. I agree with all of GDT's assertions in the interview linked above and I agree that there's a lot to be admired in it, but it's hampered by some very boring cliched moments and in most places lacks a good flow - a problem not necessarily unique to this movie, HELLBOY suffered from similar pacing hiccups. The middle of the movie, though, where all of the separate parallel threads advance everything, is marvelously structured as a whole and does well to create a lot of tension and atmosphere - it's just that some of the individual scenes are weak, rushed and characters given insufficient or hackneyed build-up. For all of it's more fearless or daring elements (two cardinal mainstream sins - killing animals and children - are committed in the course of one scene) there's also a lot of cheery compromise. But for all it's faults it's still one of the more interesting horrr efforts of the mid-90s, but that's not saying much. Del Toro's style and heart shine through a lot of the flick, and I wish he would get an opportunity to make both the horror and his signature fairy tale moments and aesthetics as pronounced as he originally envisioned them. John Sayles apparently did rewrites on this -- were those sanctioned by Del Toro or were they responsible for some of the post reshoots?

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They don't call Harvey Weinstein 'Harvey Scissorhands' for nothing.

"Didn't Roman Polanski just win an Oscar?"

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I dislike using caps as it often denotes a lack of intelligence, but really, there's no other way to say it: GOD I HATE MOVIE PRODUCERS.

I REALLY, REALLY DO.

The Weinsteins are a contrary bunch. As a rule, they never touched Miramax product (this was always the output for their worthy, Oscar-nod material), but always hacked away at the Dimension stuff (the 'popcorn' side of their business), and just whittled the movies down to the basic 'make it as simple as possible and make a buck, and it'll fund the Miramax stuff'. The list of butchered films are endless; The Crow series, Faculty (the only Rodriguez movie he has never lent behind-the-scenes info on), Cursed, Impostor, Dracula 2000, Mimic... the list is endless. It does seem that Harvey in particular has no love for the genre.

"If i wanted your opinion, I'd have beaten it out of you"

Guillermo Del Toro will finally give his personal account of what happened during the tortured Mimic shoot, in his first ever biography tapped for release in 2010/2011.

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/del-toro-discusses-mimic-ordeal-for-first-time?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=news

I'm watching it now for the nth time. It still makes me hold my breath in places and jump in others. There's enough Del Toro in it to shine through. I really wish a Director's Cut were possible, but it doesn't sound like it's very likely.

Oh please, it's got all the usual crappy del Toro elements:
self-conscious production design
kids in danger
catholicism