Coraline

So not that long ago I wrote a blog titled 3-D: The Downfall of Cinema, in which, I stated that 3-D would ruin our film.  Now, I have completely changed my mind but I have just seen a slight glimmer in the darkness.  And that is Coraline.  Coraline showed me that 3-D can be clever, subtle and really cool.  Part of the reason the 3-D works is because its claymation and stop-motion animation.  It doesn’t look like the people were cut out and moved slightly forward.  And some of the tricks used at the end of the film were really good.  Plus not of the generic 3-D gimmicks were used and if they were, I didn’t even notice.

So this is from the director of Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.  No not, Tim Burton (I had to prove to severe people that it was Henry Selick).  Thus, you will know it is very dark and Coraline is no exception.  But the thing is, its not too dark or weird.  Yes button are sown into eyes and woman changes in to a giant evil witch but is not quit as disturbing as Nig

htmare.  Maybe I just grew up and this is a completely frakked up, demented film…Its not for kids.

Coraline is a young blue haired girl who sound alot like Dakota Fanning.  She just moved to an apartment complex far out in nowhere.  Yes, sounds familiar?  Of course.  That’s why it works.  Her parents are neglectful writers and she has no friends, until she finds a gateway into an alternative reality where everything’s nice.  But everything is not as it seems.  As you may guess in the end she learns to make do with her situation and love her parents.

As I said earlier, this actully is rather creepy.  There was some times when I got really freaked out.  So I’d say this is a 9 and up.  I was reading where a lot of parents were upset about the girl saying ‘Oh my God’.  Really?  I bet you, you say it in your kids company all the time.  As I said 9 and up. 

Yeah, I was really surprised by this movie.  It was really cool.  And, *choke*, I like the 3-D.

Some Like It Hot

Yes, yes they do.  Some Like It Hot is Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic staring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe.  Boy do I love this film.  Since I first saw it about a year ago it never losses its laughs.  I don't think I will ever stop laughing either.

So Marilyn Monroe.  Hehe.  Wow.  She was incredible.  But if you look at her, she weights way more then most of today's models and actresses.  That's not a bad thing, but its weird to thing how much we've changed since then.  But as hot as she was you can't get past the fact that she was oh so very daft.  There's stories of how she kept on screwing up her line.  Even after Wilder wrote her lines on a blackboard behind the camera, Marilyn continued to mess up the lines!  Despite all of this, she was a terrible loss.

As you probably know the plot centers around 2 band member (Tony and Jack) during the late 20's.  After a gig at a funeral home they witness the (non-fictitious) Valentine's Day Massacre and must then leave Chicago ASAP.  So then they come up with the brilliant idea of dressing up as women and joining an all girl band heading to Florida!  Shenanigans ensue.

I have to give props to the guys who did the stuns in the very first scene.  It was a  frakin' amazing chase scene especially for 1958.  Its like they actually did that crap and filmed it.  Amazing.

This film was way ahead of its time.  Its surprising some of the stuff they get away with.  When Tony Curtis kisses Marilyn while still in drag would of been extremely racy way back then.  There's some very strange innuendos from Jack Lemmon and his crazy man lover, Joe E. Brown.  But hey, nobody's perfect.  Yeah, that this single greatest last line ever for possibly the greatest comedy film ever.

This is one of those film that never ever gets old.