Comments on: Neil Gaiman’s Stop Motion Coraline Trailer Directed by Henry Selick

By: Olivia

Olivia — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:44:43 +0000

Totally excited for this movie!!!

I think Coraline is PERFECT for stop-motion. Henry Selick is a genius and I don’t think he’ll let us down with this movie!!

I support this Coraline movie 100%
GO CORALINE (IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 6, 2009)!!!!!

By: Neil M

Neil M — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:42:30 +0000

Well, I agree that a movies overall effectiveness is more heavily dependent upon the way that the story is told. However, the concept of the movie has to draw me in first before I even consider seeing it. Because I feel like this idea has been done to death, there’s no hook to get me into the theater. Not even some nice looking stop-motion.

By: kurt

kurt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:24:46 +0000

Neil M: In terms of originality, I tend to subscribe to Ebert’s Law on that one — “It’s not what the story is about, but rather how it is about it.”

By: kurt

kurt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:23:14 +0000

Svankmajer & The Brothers Quay are about as far from the mainstream as possible though. Coraline is aiming to straddle the middle ground, kinda like Stardust.

By: Neil M

Neil M — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:11:27 +0000

I was going to bitch about how this was not original at all but Ryan sort of stole my thunder…bastard. He’s right though. How many god damn movies have we seen that feature kids who enter some parallel universe through a random area in their room? Laaame.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:38:26 +0000

Ok, let me just make sure I get it: A girl gets lost in a creepy, mystical world (Alice in Wonderland) that has a bit of a goth edge too it (”Tim Burton’s”-style, American McGee’s Alice & that “dark” Alice remake Burton was supposedly making, Emily the Strange). She gets there by crawling through a doorway (like Being John Malkovich, the only Gaiman book I read: Neverwhere, Nightmare Before Christmas, blah, blah, blah). This world is not as great as she had bargained for and at the end she learns a life changing moral (every American animated feature in existence). Wow, this sounds like such an original and arresting masterpiece! (Wait up Bob the Slob…I need a ride to Hot Topic!)

I will say (with a lack of sarcasm) that I’m glad they’ll still make stop-motion animation but really Svankmajer and The Brothers Quay trump all when it comes weird, creepy, and beautiful.

By: Bob The Slob

Bob The Slob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:33:58 +0000

wait..TIM BURTON DIDNT DIRECT NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS…my world is crashing to the ground…quickly to HOT TOPIC!!!

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:35:41 +0000

Incredibly excited for both this and Where The Wild Things Are. Two odd children classics in the making, methinks.