Over the weekend I saw Coraline in 3D. I thought it might have been my first chance to see the digital projector at The Tulsa by Cinemark but I ended up going to AMC Southroads. I have seen a few movies there but this was the first 3D movie I have seen there. It was really amazing and uses a different system from the IMAX where I see most of my 3D movies. Because this was the first digital 3D movie I have seen it also was the first Real D movie I have seen and it really was just about right.
Coraline is based on a book by an author I have always liked, Neil Gaiman. He writes mostly adult science fiction but occasionally will write a children’s book that is always well received. He is also kind of a creepy guy as you can see form his video on Koumpounophobia. What could be creepier than just dumping buttons on the ground?
I knew going into the movie that it would be creepy and maybe scary. I was really surprised that there were so many children there. It was almost all parents with their children. Children in the 5-9 range were probably most of the audience. This move is really amazing. The animation is incredible and so is the 3D but that doesn’t really matter because the story was so fantastic. It is wonderful looking and the world feels wonderful but then it gets really creepy and then it freaks out hard, too hard for little kids. I am not sure who would think that giant spiders stealing children’s eyes would be alright to watch but I guess it worked out. There wasn’t any crying so I guess it all worked out just fine. They theater did get completely silent when the ghost children showed up.
With this newer 3D technology it makes me really look forward to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and really really look forward to James Cameron’s Avatar along with TR2N coming next year. Avatar will be the first of the big 3D movies in December but 2010 will really be the year filled with ultra budget 3D movies. Aliens vs Monsters and the Toy Story rereleases will have to help me get by until then.
Update: I forgot. There is a great song by They Might Be Giants that plays a key role in Coraline’s alternate world with her Other family. It is really nice treat and if John Hodgman did sing well he would probably sound like They Might Be Giants.
I watch quite a few movies. I try to keep the momentum of movie watching going and probably watch 5 a week, sometimes a little more and sometimes a lot more. Over the last month I have watched these movies. I may have missed a couple but this is most of them.
Juno
Conspiracy Theory
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Blades of Glory
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Speed Racer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Hitman
Hulk
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Orphanage
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Zathura
Youth Without Youth
Spider-Man
I’m Not There
Cloverfield
Sunshine
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Golden Compass
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: Vol. 7 (7-Disc Series)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: Vol. 6 (7-Disc Series)
No Country for Old Men
Night Watch
Commando
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Hidalgo
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Shoot ‘Em Up
From all those movies I have rated them all 4 stars or higher except Commando which I didn’t like very much. It wasn’t the movie I remembered it being but it also wasn’t that great.
I am starting to think that I really love movies and have an amazing living room made just for movie watching. It is more of a room made for sitting and playing board games if the family could afford them during the depression but a movie theater has been crammed in and that works too.
As I have been thinking about building a house and planning out the perfect layout for what I would want to have I have also been looking at theaters and editing suites to plan out a theater of my own. This would be a working space with a couple rows of seats or maybe a couch or two then in the back an editing setup with a computer and all the video and audio equipment.
I also looked at the small rooms that editors have set up for themselves in a move called The Cutting Edge and then looking at things like these Red interviews. Most of those interviews are shot in the Plaster City theater linked as the lower key big theater. I am pretty excited about it all and I am pretty excited about making movies on a bigger scale instead of tiny rooms like I make them now. It would be great if this could come together for the finishing of the Bikerfox movie because it needs a lot of finishing. Big time
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