Coraline

Saw my first 3D movie and was super impressed.  We all know that the 3D concept has been around in media since the 90s, but i think they really did a good job with this one. 

I kept taking my glasses on and off to see what was going on. if you can do computer graphics in 3d, can we paint & color in 3d? If I were to take a guess 3d scenes are a bunch of layers on top of another with different sharpness and blur applied to the traces.

I absolutley have to see this movie again.

This whole perfected 3d concept is new to all of us. During the movie, I was trying to gather what works, and what doesnt, thus far. 

I noted the scenes with one tone and low contrast. The ghost scenes, for example would have looked like a flat white cotton swab with out the 3D glasses. Some scenes, I was really blown away by.  There is one where blocks of the backround are chipping away and floating upward and coraline is running toward the screen.  Another shows a garden of odd looking flowers blooming row by row as the camera pans over it. Scenes with anticipated movement worked really well. (Like crawling though a tunnel that gradually got smaller) It was a happy medium on the brain and eyes.

Some thoughts:

Did anyone not think the neighbor character resembled the Genie from Aladain? 

Trends....

The Polish/Russian accent...... People are loving it, everything sounds funnier... Borat? 

The cat side kick...... as in Shrek. Cats are making a come back. In the past cats were only seen near witches or old women.

The use of fat people..... Wall-e and Coraline both use fat people as main characters. They bring out the "cute" quality of being fat. I guess it's a fact: Fat people are funny.

I can't say that I understood the whole storyline for the movie, but it was very visually stimulating. The way the movie makers portrayed family life seemed in tune with todays times. The poor girl was wondering the house begging for attention from her overworked and underslept parents. Her mom and dad always in seperate rooms. Dad in the office, mom fiddling with some papers at the kitchen table. Both parents seemed stressed and too drained to spend time and energy with Coraline. They did eat dinner together, however. 

Oh yea, and it was humorous to see how badly the dad went nuts by the end of the movie.