mirrormask

[jfb]

Well, I don't know about you, but I was deeply in love right from the opening credits.

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[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Christ, and I won't even have a chance to see this one for another month. I'd better filter out Neil's journal until then (if only for the comments).

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get why it's in such narrow release. But I guess I don't have much commercial instinct.

[helloreplace.livejournal.com]

does it have any wizards, vampires, space or dinosaurs in it?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

NO SPOILERS.

I actually went into it knowing only that it was by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, and I think that was a good way to see it.

Mosstly what it has in it is art direction.

[artname.livejournal.com]

I happened to see my Close Personal Friend Neil Gaiman recently, and he was talking up the movie. The thing it doesn't have is budget: The whole thing was on something like two million pounds. so of COURSE nobody is going to spend money promoting it, no matter how good it is.

But yeah, I intend to go. sometime. soon, I hope.

MM

[talking-sock.livejournal.com]

I haven't found it playing yet, but despite Ebert's review, or because of it, I like the sound of it and plan to go.

Tonight was Serenity.

Re: MM

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Ebert's usually a sucker for visual spectacle--one of the reasons I read him, since I am too. So when he didn't like it, I was worried. But I went anyway. Story.

The theater was pretty empty, I assume because Mirrormask only got the geek leftovers from Serenity.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

So, the only thing anyone's said about this movie is "Wow, it's Neil Gaiman!" (enormously overrated) and "Wow, it's Dave McKean!" (very talented but a visual style most interesting to goth chicks, I suspect).

Can someone summarize the plot of this thing? Or is that irrelevant to the geek culture cognoscenti?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sure, lots of people have summarized the plot. Ebert (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/REVIEWS/50928004), for example.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I should have thought to do that earlier. I skimmed, saw characters called "Queen of Shadows" and that it was based in a circus, and that's enough for me to make a decision about whether or not I'll ever see this.