Coraline

[tealin]

I hadn't posted a review because I didn't really have much to say that half the people on my friends list haven't said already: it's good, go see it. It was selling out, here, its opening weekend, so it didn't seem to need my help. But I thought perhaps someone might be curious what I thought of it (after all, you are reading my blog) so I shall say this:

How refreshing! The art direction had a lot of integrity and ingenuity, was imaginative and bold, and weird to see 'blog style' actually in something, more or less unadulterated. The 3D was quite good, I thought, and authentic, probably because they were photographing an actual 3D set as opposed to pushing pixels. The story ... worked ... but I have always had problems with Neil Gaiman and most of my dissatisfaction with this movie stems from the same thing that leaves me dissatisfied with nearly everything else he does.* It's not that I have problems with it so much as it could just ... be ... better. And no, I haven't read the book. The animation was good if a little over-animated at times (argh 'Meet Wybie' sequence argh) and it was amusing to hear Keith David's voice coming from a cat. All in all, though: QUALITY. The end.

*Except Good Omens, for the most part, which ... I mean, TERRY PRATCHETT. Come on.

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[fani.livejournal.com]

Fragile Things is IMHO better than Smoke and Mirrors. The Smoke and Mirrors feels a lot like, "Oooh! Lookit me! I can WRITE, AHAHAHA I R GENIUZZ" The short story I liked best in Fragile Things is about the old lady who cooks ink cap mushrooms and the parody of the gothic story, can't miss it, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGEST title in the collection.

Also, Coraline the actual novel is imho the best he's got so far. I remember freshman year, reading Coraline in my room and my roomate was absent that day... scariest experience I've had until I wayched the Blink episode in Dr. Who.