{"id":3342,"date":"2009-02-22T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2009-02-22T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:25:31","slug":"you-probably-think-this-world-is-a-dream-come-truebut-youre-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"“You probably think this world is a dream come true…but you’re wrong”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Coraline<\/i> was very nice and beautifully animated. The film uses 3D very well — this is apparently your last weekend to see it in that format; next week, a 3D Jonas Brothers movie will be inflicted on the world — but as a whole, that’s not a technology that’s much improved since its invention. It’s a little like saying someone uses semaphore very well. I’m sure there are things you could do with semaphore, even better than with the other options, but there’s a reason nobody uses it anymore. <\/p>\n

While watching, I sometimes wished I could pay less attention to the techniques and more to just enjoying the story. I think, then, that I might have preferred the non-3D version, whatever depth and effect it might lend Henry Selick’s movie.<\/p>\n

That said, Coraline<\/i>is quite delightful and delightfully dark. Judging from the crowd of mostly youngsters (and their parents) my friend and I saw it with, it’s not for every child. Just like Neil Gaiman’s original book, it may be too scary for some. But I think A.O. Scott said it best<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are many scenes and images in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coraline\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that are likely to scare children. This is not a warning but rather a recommendation, since the cultivation of fright can be one of the great pleasures of youthful moviegoing. As long as it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go too far toward violence or mortal dread, a film that elicits a tingle of unease or a tremor of spookiness can be a tonic to sensibilities dulled by wholesome, anodyne, school-approved entertainments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So Coraline was very nice and beautifully animated. The film uses 3D very well — this is apparently your last weekend to see it in that format; next week, a 3D Jonas Brothers movie will be inflicted on the world — but as a whole, that’s not a technology that’s much improved since its invention. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}