As I was explaining to a friend recently, the difference between shelling out money to see some mindless action like
Pacific Rim and some mindless action like TF4 is that Guillermo del Toro, unlike Michael Bay, occasionally makes films that aren't mindless action, like
Pan's Labyrinth.
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He also mentioned not being able to use blanks in
Pan's Labyrinth. According to IMDB, the film was shot in Spain.