"Coraline" kinda sucked.....didn't it?

[Tulin]

Just finished watching this and, well, I want my one hundred minutes back.

Little girl moves into weird house, there's a secret passage and a parallel world and two fat ladies living downstairs and a wacky old russian acrobat upstairs and parents that don't seem to care about her and so on.

I think I just really don't like Neil Gaiman's writing. It's formulaic and tries too hard to be all wacky and eccentric. Normal person(with now overly clichéd bad relationship with parents or one dead parent)goes into wacky world where weird shit happens just for the sake of weird shit happening.

You get the impression he's sitting at his keyboard thinking, "THIS has never been done before....I'll have a garden where the plants come alive and there's a tractor shaped like a centipede(whatever)!!!! MWAH HAHAHAHA!!!!!"

Bored now.

The characters were just "Through The Looking Glass" like constructs that acted aloof and kooky which means you cannot relate or empathise to and with them - hated that shit in the Alice books and hated it here too.


Zany post-modern fantasy just aint my thing, I guess.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^You do know it's a children's story, right? It's not supposed to be a masterpiece of original thought or anything, it's just supposed to be a story for children.

 

[rafterman1701]

No, it did not suck. There's your answer.

 

[Dream]

No. Coraline was awesome. One of the best fantasy movies this year.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Zany post-modern fantasy just aint my thing, I guess.

No duh. Next time, stick to what you like best.

 

[Shurik]

I was great and I loved it.

 

[MNM]

No, it did not suck, it actually rocked.

 

[RoJoHen]

From what my friends have told me, it's very pretty to look at, but the story is kinda boring.

I haven't seen it, and I'm not really gonna go out of my way to do so.

 

[Starbreaker]

Visually, it's great. It does tend to wander though. I think it could have been 30 minutes shorter.

 

[Gepard]

From what my friends have told me, it's very pretty to look at, but the story is kinda boring.

This. The setup is fantastic, but the denouement is boilerplate and pretty uninteresting as a result.

 

[Kelso]

My daughter loved it.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I've heard nothing but good things about it, and that's from the few people whose opinions I actually respect. I still haven't had a chance to check it out, amazingly, but I still have every intention of doing so.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

It wasn't my favorite film of the year by any stretch, but I quite enjoyed it. Worth a rental at least just for the fantastic visuals.

 

[Dream]

From what my friends have told me, it's very pretty to look at, but the story is kinda boring.

Your friends have bad taste.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I actually quite enjoyed it. It did lag in parts of the film, but overall I thought it was good.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Would that make it a "sweet Coraline" then? (woah woah woah)

 

[SinglePurpose]

I think I just really don't like Neil Gaiman's writing. It's formulaic and tries too hard to be all wacky and eccentric. Normal person(with now overly clichéd bad relationship with parents or one dead parent)goes into wacky world where weird shit happens just for the sake of weird shit happening.

I haven't seen Coraline or read the book but I don't think it's all that fair to judge the man's writing based on someone else's film.

 

[Mr Light]

I must admit I was disappointed by the Coraline movie. I didn't know anything about it going in, so I was expecting a big epic Alice in Wonderland type thing. So when it turned out to be a quiet, creepy, slow, and small story that basically just takes place in a single house with a single girl, I was crestfallen.

 

[Worf2DS9]

I saw Coraline a few weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. The visuals were superb and I really liked the voice cast.

 

[Tulin]

I must admit, Dakota Fanny had an AWESOME scream in her! It cracked me up every time I heard it. Any time I get to hear Jennifer and Dawn is good too!