I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman's/Henry Selick's work "Coraline". I'm kind of obsessed with it. Anyone who wants to discuss it/knows a site where I can discuss it please post here.I'll eat a couple hats if you know something about the movie that I don't.
EDIT 8/31/12: So ParaNorman came out on the 17th and let's talk about that too. Now this thread is about Laika Studios, including their other works such as Moongirl and those ads that they make a lot of.
Neil Gaiman's original book was fantastic, and the movie was decent too. Someone with a vision should try to film this with live actors.
I personally adored the movie. Interesting fact: It was going to be a live action film, because Disney didn't want Henry Selick making another stop-motion movie after James and the Giant Peach flopped at the box office. Then he joined Laika. I think the only movie he made there was Coraline, because now he's back at Disney with his own sub-company Cinderbiter/Shademaker Productions.
Haven't seen it yet! Actually, this is one experience that I'm waiting for once I get myself a 50" 1080p 3D Plasma. I loved the Nightmare before Christmas, it was incredible during it's release, and still is. My memories are shady on James & the Giant Peach, but like Nightmare before Christmas I too saw that film in the theatres...BUT, I felt Corpses Bride was quite the dissapointment, with unmemorable and had wickedly bad music to boot.
Hmm. Henry Selick didn't really have anything to do with Corpse Bride, even though it was the semi-sequel to Nightmare Before Christmas (part of the TNBC team did, though). That might explain your issues with it (haven't actually seen it though), though I can't imagine the reason for the music, 'cause Danny Elfman made the soundtrack for both Nightmare and Corpse Bride. my siblings won't even let me watch Coraline on A TV, no matter how wimpy ours is. I have to watch it on a computer monitor (seen it seven times, not once in theatres. the first time I saw it was actually last November with Netflix, a few weeks after I read the book). And James and the Giant Peach was a huge part of my toddlerhood. I used to watch it ALL THE TIME.
They say you learn something new each day. I always thought Tim Burton was the Producer. I was mistaken
I admit, I used to think that too. Deeply ashamed...
I guess its the querky art of the darkness. Dunno i just always thought it was
The big difference is the way they scare you. Tim Burton has a more gothic but freaky style, and that's evident in movies like Edward Scissorhands, Batman and arguably even Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Coraline (movie), while still having major changes from the book, (explained in an interview that some changes are due to parts of the book not having been written at the time of Henry Selick's writing the script, such as the <spoiler>final Other Father scene</spoiler>) still has a Neil Gaiman vibe, especially about an hour in when <spoiler>Coraline returns to the Other World for the fourth time to rescue her parents</spoiler>, rather than Tim Burton's style. Selick has said in an interview that working with Gaiman reminded him of working with Burton on TNBC.
Keeping the thread alive... you guys heard about ParaNorman yet? Laika, the studio that created Coraline, are making a movie about a boy who can speak to the dead and then the zombie apocalypse comes. 2 trailers: [youtube:B4cC3Q4dhNM&list=UU0uHxCl9DtDX8VGutEHs_JA&index=1&feature=plcp] [youtube:ZysKL4kMomQ]
I saw a trailer of Paranorman. The stop motion looks AMAZING. I love stop motion animation, so I really want to go see the movie for the animation quality alone.
ParaNorman was good. Wasn't great, but the big reveal part was very well-done.
The moral was a bit heavy-handed towards the end, however.
Any thoughts from others who've seen the movie?
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