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donutato_kun

Coraline Movie Review

Feb 11, 2009 04:56

I loved this movie.

Review to be uploaded on my brother's site:

"CORALINE"

GENRE: 3-D children's fantasy horror psychotropic drug movie with puppets.

PLOT: A bored girl discovers a secret portal into Henry Selick's and Neil Gaiman's imagination. Unspeakable horrors ensue. Alternate parents have buttons sewn on for eyes. One of them may be Michael ( Read more... )

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angharad76 February 12 2009, 19:44:53 UTC

I hope this 3-D trend is going to end soon. I can't see Coraline because I can't see Coraline, and it seems wrong to see a movie meant to be in 3-D in 2-D.

I'm confused... donutato_kun February 12 2009, 22:12:34 UTC

Is this cause of an eye condition or do you just not like 3-D?

Roger Ebert had a lengthy interview with Jeff Katzenberg, who is single handedly trying to make 3-D the new standard. How many decades have the creators of 3-D and their proponents been saying that?

Personally, I'm not huge into 3-D. It just depends on the movie. Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D? Awesome. Coraline? Great. Heck, I even liked Bolt. Ebert noted, and I agree with him, that 3-D helped Coraline cause its color scheme was already "dark and dreary" -- so the tinted glasses didn't detract from anything.

But I tend to prefer 3-D when it enhances the film and they're not just "throwing stuff" at the screen to get you to flinch. Katzenberg's lastest 3-D pet project, Aliens vs. Monsters, looks downright godawful to me. Then again, half the animated films I saw this year looked terrible and ended up surprising me. And the one I thought was gonna be such hot stuff (WALL-E), came off as overrated in my book. So who am I to prejudge?