"Coraline" Talkback (Spoilers)

Hopefully there will be some people who have seen Coraline this weekend. I would like to see it but no dinero means no movie so everyone share your opinion on this film.

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Kids who like being scared can handle it. When I was 8, I would have loved to see this.

It all depends on the kid. You can't lump them all together and say that none of them should see this movie until a certain age.
 
There was kids in my screening and none of them cried. I did hear them say it was scary but no one was crying. And no one left either.



I was talking about Friday estimates not weekend estimates.
 
8 and up, yea. Most of the kids in my theater appeared younger. When I start hearing sobbing and panicked questions to parents "is she going to be alright?" in more than one place in the theater, I feel they're too young. It's surely not Whinny the Pooh.
 
To be honest, I was glad it ended up this way.

3D movies have become too much OMGZ STUFF POPPING OUT AT YOU. In Coraline (And NBC, by extension) they use it more for depth. So you see into the movie more than the movie popping out at you.

Also it's subtle but the idea is that the "other world" has more color and alot more depth/dimension than the grayer/flatter "real world". It's meant to sell the idea that the other world is better on so many levels.

The music was fantastic, especially the "exploration" song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frONofSK2b0

I'd love to see it in 3D again but the theatre the girlfriend and I went to to see it at in 3D is an hour's drive away. Unfortunately I was a little too enamored with the film itself to notice the 3D, but I guess that's a testament to it's greatness.
 
Great movie, and now that I just finished the book, I have to say the movie is better than it. There was a lot of kids when I went but they were good and if they were really scared they fooled me, didn't really hear anything.
 
I don't think you can really narrow it down to age. The simple fact is some kids can take it, some can't. If you put 100 kids in 1 room and gave them the same brand of chocolate, not every one of them is going to like it. As a parent you should know your own kids and act as you see fit.
 
I loved that too. I kinda feel bad that this movie was released in Feb. It won't get any nominations in next year's Oscars. The voters will have forgotten about it by then.
 
I saw the movie tonight and I loved it. I'm really hoping the DVD has some kind of 'making of' feature.

This is a very beautiful movie and it's a shame it won't be part of this year's Oscars.
 
Heh. I guess people are just different in what they can handle, because I can handle anything in Harry Potter with no issues... but this? I was seriously creeped out by a lot of it.
 
It's not scream-scary, though. It's creepy. Unless people yell "I'm creeped out!" when they find something creepy, you won't know it instantaneously.

I think what we can all agree on is that parents should see the movie before letting their kids see it.
 
This was pretty much the creepiest movie I've ever seen. I hope nobody takes their kids to see this. I'm a big proponent of not dumbing things down for kids and letting them get scared once in a while for the sake of engaging their imagination, and all that stuff, but yikes. This is the very definition of Nightmare Fuel. It's not so much a matter of content that's inappropriate for children, it just has a lot of profoundly unsettling moments. (Although the near-naked old lady with giant boobs was pretty icky.) This isn't like The Nightmare Before Christmas, where overtly spooky stuff is used as the backdrop for a fairly upbeat story. It's haunting, somber, and dreary to the core.

I still don't know if that's a good thing. I felt like the music was incredibly low-key and didn't properly underscore the moments of terror, joy, sadness, and suspense throughout the film. A different soundtrack could've changed the feel of the movie fairly significantly. But was that the point? Was it supposed to feel so incredibly downbeat? I'm not sure.

It certainly looks fantastic, no one will argue against that. And I saw it in 3D even though I wasn't sure if I wanted to, and it looked great.

The makers of this film should be glad it made it to #3, because I really can't imagine a lot of mainstream audiences enjoying it. It has about as much mainstream appeal as an Ingmar Bergman film, though it's not nearly as difficult to understand. I don't anticipating it climbing any higher on the charts, that's for sure.
 
Got to see yesterday with a friend. It felt pretty fast paced, and I must say that it felt like time passed by quickly while I watching it. I liked it. Though one thing about the movie just bugs me and that's how quickly Coraline went from enjoying the other world to rejecting the other world the other mother. It just felt kind of sudden. Then again, I'm not sure if this had to do the just the movie itself, or if it was in the novella too since I never read the novella. :sweat:
 
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