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Cutting through the fat; to those of you who think so - NO - Coraline (the bitchinest new stop-motion film to hit the big screen) was not directed by Tim Burton.
The confusion started with the commercials advertising the film as being the product of "The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas", but just happened to omit the name of said director. Henry Selick is one of the few directors that I still respect. In an age of Tinsel Town where the animation genre has come to mean recycled CG tripe, and traditional animation has all but gone the way of the dodo; Henry Selick comes to the rescue with fresh ideas in a stimulating medium.
Those of you who are familiar with Burton's mode of storytelling and visual style should be able to differentiate something like Coraline from his usual Caligarian fare. Now, I don't hate Burton. In fact he's one of my personal heroes. It's just that he's become a bit of a hack.
Henry Selick knows not to spread himself too thin. He puts so much effort and care into his work that he's only been able to churn out a handful of movies in the last two decades. He's also very loyal to his medium, opting for traditional FX wherever possible, giving his films an organic and beautiful imperfection to them.
Cutting through the fat; to those of you who think so - NO - Coraline (the bitchinest new stop-motion film to hit the big screen) was not directed by Tim Burton.
The confusion started with the commercials advertising the film as being the product of "The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas", but just happened to omit the name of said director. Henry Selick is one of the few directors that I still respect. In an age of Tinsel Town where the animation genre has come to mean recycled CG tripe, and traditional animation has all but gone the way of the dodo; Henry Selick comes to the rescue with fresh ideas in a stimulating medium.
Those of you who are familiar with Burton's mode of storytelling and visual style should be able to differentiate something like Coraline from his usual Caligarian fare. Now, I don't hate Burton. In fact he's one of my personal heroes. It's just that he's become a bit of a hack.
Henry Selick knows not to spread himself too thin. He puts so much effort and care into his work that he's only been able to churn out a handful of movies in the last two decades. He's also very loyal to his medium, opting for traditional FX wherever possible, giving his films an organic and beautiful imperfection to them.
In the last five years, Dreamworks and Disney have squatted on their haunches and pinched out at least a dozen CG turds respectively. I call them "babysitter films", banal and generic eye candy with cookie-cutter plots and cardboard characters that you put on the TV to keep the brats of the house quiet for a couple hours. While these films are garbage (and make no mistake, that's exactly what they are), they help to put artful movies like Coraline on a pedestal to shine, and remind audiences - if only briefly - what a good animated movie is all about.
Bottom-line; Coraline is amazing. Go see it in 3D and send Mr. Selick some good vibes.
Bottom-line; Coraline is amazing. Go see it in 3D and send Mr. Selick some good vibes.
The only thing I didn't really like about Coraline was the dialogue, which felt a little coarse in the beginning, but that evened out nicely as the movie went on.
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But yeah, Coraline was a BEAUTIFUL movie that was well worth spending my vital cash on. Also HOW DID YOU LIEK THE OLD LADY TITS CHRIS
DID YOU LIKE THE OLD LADY TITS? WER THAY NIEC OLD LADY TITZ?
DAHAHAHAHA
TITS ARE TITS WHETHER THEY'RE OLD, YOUNG, OR MADE OF FOAM LATEX.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot red when naming Burton's palette. Or was that only Sweeney Todd? I haven't seen enough of his works in their entirety to say for sure. Anygay, I think you're preaching to the choir here. This is all fairly obvious to me (though we've already had this discussion at least twice in real life, and I was SO the first guy to bring up color palettes >:D)
ReplyDeleteBut I digest. I have more to vomit on this topic, so perhaps I'll go to my own blog and make a nice long entry to tie-in with your own.
And once again: Hot Topic's demographic is my best chance at getting laid.
Oh, and I know it's retarded for me to leave a comment when I have you on Skype. =D
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