Coraline 3D...

Guillaume

"Coraline" 3D. Somebody watched it ? I saw it yesterday, on my own, because i never saw a full feature film in 3D before (except an attraction in Disneyland years ago and it lasted 15 minutes). This "new" technology is taking film makers by storm, and most of them are willing to use it (Tintin and Avatar will be in 3D, I reckon).
Well, to come back to Coraline, this is one of the first full animation movie shot in total 3D. And I have to say the result is : Stunning. Not only the animation itself (mixed of CGI and stop-motion) is incredible and beautiful, but using your glasses, you literallely "entering" in it. You walk into this fantastic world, you really enter in a journey into a fantastic world.
Henry Selick's mind is gone mad here, and his creatures are as weird as in his previous films. Some scenes are very violent and even scary (the "other mother" reminds me of the queen in "Snow whites and the seven dwarfs"), and I wonder what is going on in the mind of an 8 years old when he/she watch them. But funny enough, our heroine, Coraline is never never scared as the adult audience would be !
It is a very special way of story telling for a child, it is not Disney. It could be very dark, weird, strange. But humour, beauty of the animation, and heroism finally triumphs over-whole.

I was a bit to close to the screen to really appreciate the 3D effect, next time i recommend to be half-way in the theatre. I also was not impressed about the price of the entrance : 11 Euro !

E39MSport

Hi. Saw it on Sunday.
It's definitely worth seeing. Violent? Don't think so. However, my 7 and 9 year olds were turning their heads away from it from time to time. I liked it. The 3D is awesome.

Eirebear

I absolutely loved this film.

I have long maligned the move that Disney, and childrens culture in general, has made from the old classics like Pinnochio and Snow White, where there was a real sense of danger and horror to back up their tales of morality, to what now exists as a cute fluffy and generally shallow existance.

Coraline goes back to those old fashioned fairytale values, yes there ARE bad people out there, yes you WILL have hard decisions to make, but be true to yourself and you will be ok.

Charming, funny and looked amazing (it was my first 3d experience), it will definetly be on my DVD shopping list when it gets released.

Illkillya

Saw it yesterday... it was fairly impressive alright. I was there with my 7 year old niece who loved it, but there was a ~4 year old boy behind who was terrified and wanted to leave but his parents wouldn't let him.

James Howlett

Is the film 3-D in all cinemas or only selected ones?

johnny_ultimate

Fantastic film. Very unusual film with mature themes for a children's film. Creepy, imaginative and fun. Also loved the way

they revisit earlier locations in the final act, but this time show the more sinister side of what were earlier magical places

. 3D worked well too, but I don't know if it would take away too much seeing it in standard 2D.

Sleazus

I've heard nothing but good things - it comes highly recommended from all the people I know who've seen it. It's just a shame that may is so ridiculous jam-packed with big movies (Star trek, Wolverine, Terminator, Angels & Demons, Night at the Museum) that stuff like this gets lost.

Guillaume

James Howlett wrote: »

Is the film 3-D in all cinemas or only selected ones?

I do not know. I think it is only available in 3D as the film has made especially for this technology. However, watching this movie in 2D will be fine as well, even if the effect won't obviously be the same.

Guillaume

I forgot.... For those who are interested visit www.coraline.com, plenty of stuff and great graphics (received a Webby Award).

Volvagia

I saw it tonight.

I thought the 3D was unreal, really added to your immersion in the film. Apart from the novelty of 3D i thought it was a fantastic story, as someone mentioned revisiting the previous locations and the use of black and which worked really well.

I loved the way it very slowly turned from happy happy, to slightly strange and then became really sinister.

Fantastic film, would highly recommend it.

monkeyfudge

James Howlett wrote: »

Is the film 3-D in all cinemas or only selected ones?

Only certain cinemas are set up for 3D as I believe it requires 2 digital projectors to produce the effect.

Cineworld and Movies@Dudrum are both capable of showing 3D anyway... I'm sure there are others too.

Gordon

Very nice film, but the family agreed that it would have scared us witless if we were kids. But then maybe that's a coming of age type thing. Interesting figuring out how they did all that they did visually, I'm still not sure if it was all models or a mix of cgi and models.

I reckon it'll translate well to 2D as you could kinda watch it without the glasses, so maybe they need to just take one camera/layer off and it's 2D.

Thank goodness it's viewable without glasses though, I had a hard time watching jaws 3D with the blue and red ones back in the day when it was in the cinema. Or was it green and red and I am colourmemory blind?

monkeyfudge

I think they used 3 dimensional printers to create some of the models... particularly to capture the more subtle and finer facial expressions that would have been impossible to carve by hand.

fitz

From what Neil Gaiman said at the Q&A they had after the JDIFF screaning, it was all models and specially built armatures. CGI was only used to remove the armatures from the shots. Took two years just to film it...they were getting about 6 seconds of footage on a good day. So much work!

norrie rugger

I loved this but had been at Cirque Du Soleil a few months back and this is also done by them as a live show, so Quidam was very very similar to Coraline, so took some of the potential wonder from it.

pixelburp

I saw this recently and loved, loved it. I expected to, given as I take enjoyment from things magical, but with a dark & macabre twist. In fact, "macabre" I feel is the best way to describe the movie really. Definitely not something for wee mites (90% of the audience at my showing were adults, with the only kids being 8-10 year olds).

damonjewel

i saw it in 2d with my 4 year old daughter. We loved it. 3d would be interesting but the story is very good and full of interesting characters so that the addition of 3d would be superfluous. It's a world away from the usual disney sacharrine sweet story

Barnstorm

I saw it in 2D With my year in school and nearly everyone disliked it, including me. I thought it was weird and that the graphics, while complex and high quality, were distracting.

Driver 8

Define "weird"

Barnstorm

Difficult to connect with and unbelievable.

norrie rugger

Barnstorm wrote: »

Difficult to connect with and unbelievable.

I can understand the first part but "unbelievable"??
How is a movie about a man building a Mech Suit and being a super hero believable (Iron Man), or a man putting on a costume made to look like a bat?

Barnstorm

Did I mention Iron Man or Batman? Nope. What's your point?

norrie rugger

Barnstorm wrote: »

Did I mention Iron Man or Batman? Nope. What's your point?

It is, what do you consider "unbelievable" and why would a show (animated) about a girl who swaps between parrallel worlds be worse than many other films, for this?

mystic86

I'm sorry to bring this old thread back up, very good movie - just watched it in 3D - I have a question though:

At the end of the movie when Coraline's neighbour comes to the rescue when Coraline is trying to dispose of the ring in the well she asks him why he 'changed his mind' and he produces a picture of his grandma and her twin when they were young...but I don't get it, what the picture do to change his mind that she was telling the truth etc etc ?