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First Time Watching *CORALINE* Is A Disturbing MASTERPIECE!
Added:I was in the mood to rip uh an animated movie today. Coraline's always been at the top. When I looked at my list, like when it came to animated movies, this one just felt like like I'm kind of down to watch this right now. Dakota Fanning.
I'm very familiar with El Fanning. I'm not as much familiar with Dakota Jennifer. That's that's um fairy godmother. I believe this is like I don't know if it's like stop motion, but it's like similar to Nightmare Before Christmas kind of is what I've assumed.
I don't know really anything about the movie other than like I've just kind of seen the art style of it and I've heard great things of course which is why it's so highly on my list of course >> Jesus [music] >> I like the animation already like just this looks freaky whatever this thing is with the [ __ ] claw makes these dolls for they make a lot of them A.
[music] Oh, I really like the music.
Henry Celic, Pink Palace Apartments.
I like the vibe of that dude up there, man.
In Michigan.
Holy [ __ ] Visually, this is something I am so not used to. Whoa.
Oh. Oh, this is such a new experience for me. I am excited.
>> What the hell? I can't quite tell with the animation if it's like truly stop motion or if it's like computer animated with that style or if it's like actually truly stop motion. There are moments where it feels like it is, but then there's also times where it feels like the frames are really really high. I don't have enough experience with stop motion to be able to tell the difference.
Damn, Michigan is [ __ ] scary. I've been to Michigan, but I mean, this just might be Detroit. I've been to Detroit.
I've been to Detroit plenty.
>> I'm just looking for an old well. Know it?
>> Yes.
>> Show me the well.
>> What the [ __ ] are you?
>> I heard about water witching before, but it doesn't make sense. I mean, it's just an ordinary branch.
>> It's a dowsing rod.
>> Ow. [laughter] What >> the hell?
>> Supposed to be so deep if he fell to the bottom and looked up see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day.
>> Huh?
>> How does that work? That sounds pretty though.
>> I'm Wybe Wybe Lovat.
>> Wybeat is Wyborn.
>> That doesn't help. Wyborn Lovat is an interesting name.
>> It's Coraline.
>> Caroline what?
>> Coraline. Coraline Jones.
>> H. It's not a [laughter] little sassy stomp. Coraline, >> I think I heard someone calling you why.
>> Oh, I definitely heard someone. Why were you born?
>> Death. Holy [ __ ] Surely that's not the only time he's heard that one.
Oh my god, the facial expressions are sick.
>> I'd wear gloves next time cuz that dowsing rod of yours, um, it's poison oak. [laughter] Ooh, pretty transition.
>> You and dad get paid to write about plants and you hate dirt. Coraline, I don't have time for you right now. Some kid left this on the front porch.
>> Look what I found in grandma's trunk.
Look familiar, >> huh?
>> Oh my god. Huh? So, that's the [ __ ] robot claw thing. Oh, this. I've seen this. What the [ __ ] Just like that picture. I feel like that's a picture I've seen a lot with like [ __ ] sports.
>> It's pouring out there, isn't it? What' the boss say?
>> DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING OUT, CORALINE JONES.
>> Dakota Fanning's performance is already charming as hell.
>> Count all the doors and windows and write that down on list everything that's blue. Just let me work.
[laughter] >> This place is [ __ ] boring. You guys blow.
[singing] >> So, obviously there this isn't Michigan.
This isn't Detroit, Michigan. The moving van just said Michigan because that's where I'm moving from. Where the hell are they? What is this place?
>> And the water's brown. I knew it. Just cuz the house is 150 years old doesn't mean the pipes have to be.
>> I really like the music. Holy [ __ ] No.
No. No. No.
[laughter] [singing] >> Oh, this is so good.
One [music and singing] boring blue boy, four incredibly boring windows, and no more doors.
>> Huh?
>> Where are you hiding?
>> Is it alive? Oh my god.
Oh, the camera.
Oh, the doll's alive.
>> Where does this door go? I think it's locked.
>> Please, >> man. Did y'all even want to be parents?
[ __ ] Will you stop [music] pestering me if I do this for you?
>> Fine. [laughter] >> Bricks.
>> It's a practical joke. And now you just ruined the wallpaper.
>> We made a deal. Zip it. You didn't lock it. [screaming] >> Dude, this movie is bursting at the seams with personality.
>> I give you bowls of porridge and I give you bowls of ice.
>> Coraline, we've been through this. I also find it very interesting the the way that the sets look like the the environment the perspectives of it. It's super trippy to look at. Like it looks like they're going uphill.
>> It's slime or bedtime fuzz pot.
>> Think they're trying to poison me.
[music] >> What?
Why are you chasing a mouse? How did the mouse come out of the cracks? I mean, I guess they are mice, right?
I don't know if this is in the floor plan.
>> Huh? [gasps] [laughter] >> Just circled back. Oh, no. That's different. Whoa. This is like a a mirror world, a mirror dimension where things are just not boring here. Things are happy. Things are not [ __ ] miserable.
>> Mom.
>> Oh, it's immediately more vibrant.
>> Good night. You're just in time for supper, dear. Oh, this is freaky. Oh my god. Why does your buttons rise?
>> You're not my mother. I'm your other mother, silly.
>> Coraline, get out of here.
>> He's in his study.
>> What is he going to look like?
>> Hello.
>> Hello, Coraline.
>> My father can't play piano.
>> This piano plays me. Making up a song about Coraline. [music] She's a peach. She's a doll. She's a pal of mine.
>> Oh, >> cute as a button in [music] the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline.
[singing] When she comes around exploring mom and I will never ever make it boring, our eyes will be >> Oh my god, the [ __ ] piano. Whoever [ __ ] was playing the keys for the movie. Jesus, dude. This is This feels like a horror movie. This this whole thing here is a horror movie. It feels like she's being lured in here and she's going to be [ __ ] murdered. Like this is all just some enticing trap. Like the food is delicious and everything. Even they put a lot of detail into making the normal world look god the worst just to make everything in here in here look so goddamn good.
>> Oo.
>> I'm real thirsty. Mango milkshake.
>> Dude, the chandelier has mango milkshake on top.
And immediately into a strawberry. She didn't even finish eating.
Oh no. This is weird.
>> And soon as you're through eating, I thought we'd play a game.
Mm- mm.
>> Hide and seek in the rain. What rain?
>> Jesus Christ. Do you guys have thunder here?
>> I better get home to my other mother.
>> But I'm your other mother.
>> I mean my other other mother. I think I should get to bed.
>> Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
>> What's shaking, baby? Oh, what the [ __ ] >> Where's your swampers and ch >> crepes almighty? How are my best trolls?
Cripes almighty. This kid is adorable.
>> The mud.
>> See you soon. [singing] >> Don't you all have a bedroom to go lay in?
>> Oh, wait. Oh, I'm so confused. I figured like that that door was just like some pathway and some portal into another world or something, but not quite.
Some kind of a dream world.
>> It's gone. My poison oak.
>> That's real. No, the the it was very much real.
>> Can you get me some of that magic mud you were talking about? Cuz I have a terrible case of writer's rash on my >> If the real Charlie Jones >> the [ __ ] is Bobinsky ordering?
>> So really the delivery guy couldn't figure out Bobinsky was that way and not at our goddamn door.
Hello.
>> Do not go in there. Do not go in there.
Oh, Coraline.
>> Oh, it's the dude that was dancing. Ew.
>> Brought this for you.
>> New cheese samples.
>> Hopefully you snuck in a razor or something in there, too. [ __ ] >> And I am the amazing Bobinsky.
>> Amazing.
>> But you call me Mr. B.
>> Sure. Because amazing. I already know that I am.
>> Well, I mean, honestly, you are very impressive how you're doing all that with that physique.
>> Have beat make you strong.
>> That's >> Thanks for the beat. That guy was a character for sure. His stomach really made me uncomfortable.
>> CAROLINE, [screaming] >> holy [ __ ] >> Oh, you are weird.
>> The mice asked me to give you message.
Do not go through little door. Do you know such a thing? So sorry. He's nothing.
>> He's nothing.
>> Bro, I wish I could do what he's doing.
Dude, he does not have to take a single stare if he didn't have to. Interesting.
Interesting. Do not go through the little door. So, I I think whatever little other world that she was in is not as good as it looks.
Brother, [gasps] >> how nice to see you, girl.
>> Was this Mrs. Quan from Cat in the Hat?
>> April, I think you're being followed.
>> Oh, damn. Miriam, >> she'll be having the ulong tea.
>> No, I don't know. I'm sure she'd prefer Jasmine. [laughter] >> Jasmine it is. Then >> Mum.
I'm loving the vocal performances. They are so funny to me.
>> A sweet departed angels. Couldn't bear to part with them, so we had them stuffed. Now, >> yeah, that's normal.
>> Yes, the fourth. I'm right. And Jock Junior. Joy.
>> That is for sure the voice of the fairy godmother from Shrek 2. Oh, your tea leaves, dear. They'll tell me your future.
Oh.
Oh. Car. [laughter] Caroline. Caroline.
Caroline. You are in terrible danger.
>> You're not even saying her name right.
>> Your eyes are gang. It's good news.
There's a tall, handsome beast in your future.
>> You're holding it wrong. I see a very >> Oh, that's a claw. Yeah.
>> I see a giraffe.
I mean, I guess from the perspective, sure. One person's six is another person's nine. I'd be very interested to try that experiment with Miriam, that's for sure.
>> Thanks for the tea, though.
>> Chibby, >> why is it so [ __ ] foggy?
>> I've never been inside the Pink Palace.
Grandma, kill me. Thinks it's dangerous or something. She had a twin sister when they were kids. Grandma's sister disappeared. She says she was stolen >> by her other parents, I'd bet.
>> And if these mice don't want her coming there, why the [ __ ] why are they going there? Why do they get to go?
>> God, I'm immediately unsettled. Oh my god, I'm immediately unsettled.
>> Would you go fetch your father? I bet he's hungry as a pumpkin by now.
>> You mean my other father?
>> Your better, father, dear.
>> Whoa. Whoa. better.
Wow, that is beautiful. That is a beautiful little garden.
>> Those are actually really sick plants that look like hearts.
>> Hey, >> I love your garden.
>> Our garden, Coraline.
>> This is so beautiful.
>> She says it's time for dinner.
>> Hop on, kiddo. I want to show you something.
>> Mhm. Yeah.
Dude, it's a face. It's Coraline. What?
>> Your mother said you'd like it.
>> Oh, that's so like that's so sick.
That's so cool. But it's so [ __ ] freaky.
>> Your father and I will clean up while you and your friend head upstairs.
>> My friend?
>> Great. [music] Another >> great a buttoneyed wybe.
>> Hello.
>> I thought you'd like him more if he spoke a little less.
>> That's [ __ ] >> What? You What? What do you mean you fixed him? Mom, cut out his tongue.
Ew. It's chat popcorn.
>> Oh, that's actually [ __ ] That is sick in both senses of the word.
>> Jumping mouse.
>> My name.
>> Oh, is that what that said?
The animation is so good. [screaming] >> That was great.
>> I'm just waiting. Like, this is clearly going to lead to like it's some demon world by some demon who like they shape the world to look as enticing to a child as possible to lure them to to stay here forever and be trapped and be eaten or some [ __ ] There's going to be something sinister with this place. Although, I don't know if that would fit. I think this is a kids movie.
Why is Wybe here when I'm going to bed?
Wybe, go home. Also, dad just ate cotton candy out of some kid's hair.
God, it does that transition where it shows the contrast between that other world and then where she wakes up and how boring and dull it is. Like, I just I understand from the character's perspective like, god damn, take me back. I don't want to be here. This place sucks. But like I've I've been saying, I just I know that there's it is not as good as it looks. The grass is not greener.
President's Day blowout. Ja. Half off on powdered vigs.
>> Put them back. The whole school is going to wear boring gray clothes. No one will have these.
>> Put them back.
>> God. Yeah. Like I just realized that the clothes that they're shopping from is just no color available. Oregon hates color. Which is ironic because the Oregon Ducks are known to have like the most insane football jerseys. Their uniforms go absolutely nuts. You go on to College Football 27 and they're probably going to have like 50 different variations. Some of them great.
>> If things go well today, I promise I'll make it up.
>> That's what you always say.
Won't be long, but I might be.
>> This reminded me of an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place where Selena Gomez goes through a magic mirror and on the other side of the magic mirror, it's like everybody is always worried about her. Everyone's always thinking about her. Everyone's always trying to make her as happy as possible. Do everything the way she wants to do things. Selena Gomez realizes that that [ __ ] ain't tight. She don't [ __ ] with that. I feel like that's what this movie is going for. And it works definitely because it's from the perspective of this kid who feels like nobody's paying attention to her and she probably always thinks that things can be better. And they're doing a great job with it. Ju just through the use of color. I think alone really gets that across. Especially cuz she just moved to a new town where she doesn't know anybody. So just it's even more noticeable that her parents aren't paying any attention to her. Nobody's paying attention to her. She's just all alone.
>> Miss [ __ ] and Miss Forcible have invited you downstairs after lunch. Oh, >> I hope you like the outfit I made you.
>> I want to see other Miriam. I can't lie.
Am I the only person in history to have the hots for Miriam from Coraline?
>> You must be the other cat.
>> No, I'm not the other anything. I'm me.
Is that Keith David?
>> Cats don't talk at home.
>> No.
>> Nope.
>> You're clearly the expert on these things.
>> Keith David's voicing his cat.
>> That big fat wus.
>> That's the same cat from the real world.
>> It's a game we play. She hates cats. I come and go as I please. You probably think this world is a dream come true.
>> Here we go.
>> But you're wrong.
>> Oh my god. Yeah, their their place downstairs is going to just look like a [ __ ] like a theater.
Ew. The dogs have button eyes, too.
It's so creepy. Why not being able to speak?
She's practically naked.
[laughter] >> Bro, if Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey isn't like this, bro, Nolan can keep it.
>> Oh my god.
[laughter] >> What the hell am I looking at?
>> To present an alloring display.
>> Well, I don't think this is quite a kids movie. Like, it's for kids. Kids can watch. This got to be like maybe not quite PG-13. I think this is one of those tweener movies.
>> Damn, I didn't think [ __ ] could go wrong in this world. What the [ __ ] are they going to do?
>> READY TO BREAK A [screaming] LEG.
MIRIAM, >> our lives for the theater. [laughter] >> God, the performances.
Oh my god.
[groaning] Is he like younger them?
>> The beauty.
>> Yeah, she did not sign any waiverss. You cannot get her involved in this.
>> Yeah, >> this might be the danger that they saw.
Bottomless barrel. All right, fair enough.
Dude, this movie is so much fun.
Oh, Wy, that's so cute.
They're all barking at Miriam.
>> Oh, it was magic. You do like it here, don't you, Coraline?
>> No, don't say that. Don't ask that.
This world ain't too perfect.
>> You could stay here forever if you want to.
>> Yeah. See? Oh, I saw that [ __ ] coming.
>> We'll sing and play games, and mother will cook your favorite meals.
>> There's one tiny little thing we need to do. What's that? We need to cut your hand open and you need to bleed into this bowl.
>> Black is traditional.
>> No way. She has to sew button eyes on.
Ew. [laughter] >> You're not sewing buttons in my eyes.
>> Oh, but we need a Yes. If you want to stay here.
>> So sharp you won't feel a thing.
>> Ow. What?
>> We only want what's best for you.
>> Do you?
>> I just need to sleep on things.
>> Well, of course you do, darling. I'll be Soon you'll see things our way.
Going home tonight, robots, and I won't be back.
>> Mhm.
>> Go to sleep. Go to sleep. Go to sleep.
Go to sleep. Go to sleep. Go to sleep.
>> She's so scared she can't even fall asleep.
>> Mom. Dad.
>> Did you even fall asleep?
>> That camera zoom. I love it.
>> Where's the other mother? I want to go home. Oh, I think they're about to drop the perfect >> Well, soon as mother's refreshed.
>> Uh, >> if you won't even talk to me, I'm going to find the other whitey.
>> No point. He pulled a long face and mother didn't like.
>> What the [ __ ] >> This is a nightmare.
>> And what do you think you're doing?
>> Hi, Keith.
>> Shouldn't the old well be here?
>> It's the empty part of this world. She only made what she knew would impress you.
>> See? Yeah.
>> Why does she want me? She wants something to love. Or maybe she just loves something to eat.
>> Eat? That's ridiculous.
>> Was it actually It's an actual like [ __ ] cannibalism thing. I said that earlier, but I was more thinking like who is it? Like it's not Hansel and Gretle, but like the witch that feeds this kid candy because it makes him fatter and makes him nicer to eat.
That's what I was thinking of. I guess that's [laughter] actually what's happening here, maybe. I don't know.
>> Stop. He's one of the circus mice.
>> Damn.
I don't like rats at the best of times, but this one was sounding an alarm.
>> The mice are like little soldiers for mother.
>> Ew. A cockroach dresser.
>> They say even the proudest spirit can be broken.
>> Oh, mommy.
>> Chocolate never hurts. Like one.
[laughter] >> I want you to let me go. Is that any way to talk to your mother? You aren't my mother.
>> [laughter] >> I'll give you to the count of three.
One, two, three.
>> Holy [ __ ] Oh my god. She like turned into a [ __ ] windo. Oh, >> you may come out when you've learned to be a loving daughter.
>> I like that the sweater, the stars are glow-in-the-dark.
>> And shush or the bell dam might be listening.
>> Is this going to be WB's grandma's like sister or whatever?
No, that what the [ __ ] am I looking at?
>> Don't remember our name, but I remember my true mommy. She spied on our lives through the little doll's eyes.
>> Oh, >> and saw that we weren't happy. She lured us away with treasures and treats. Gave all that we asked. Yet, we still wanted more. So, we let her sew the buttons.
Ah, >> but she locked us here and ate up our lives.
>> Literally, >> beating her is my only chance.
>> Yeah, beat the [ __ ] out of her is what you got to do.
>> Find her eyes, mistress, and our souls will be freed.
>> Wow, what an insane idea in the movie.
That is terrifying.
>> WB is a good guy. WB's a good guy.
>> Did she do this, >> dude? She sewed. She jokered him.
>> I hope that feels better.
>> Oh, that's so good.
>> Huge. Well, we win. Game over. Roll credits. We're back. Coraline now found appreciation for the the simple things in life.
>> Real dad. Real mom.
>> Oh, mom's groceries.
That's disgusting.
>> They're rotted. What happened?
>> Grandma's missing sister. She's in there.
>> Can you unlock it?
>> Not in a million years. But it wouldn't matter. She can't escape without her eyes.
>> I guess that is a thing. Like, you might be out of the the world, but I'm sure you'd want to go in there and help save them. Then >> the other mother, she's got this whole world where everything's better, the food, the garden, but it's all a trap.
[laughter] >> Yeah.
>> Don't believe me? You can ask the cat.
>> The cat? I I'll just tell. I love the animation for Wybe, man.
>> Mom, [screaming] Dad, >> shit's weird, man. It's like time has passed. The shit's dusty. Food's rotted.
Mom and dad are missing.
>> Uh, don't you only make wings for the dead ones?
>> Just looking ahead, dear. Angus hasn't been feeling very well.
>> Oh, that's so sad.
>> Caroline says her parents have vanished.
>> What? We've waited months for those tickets.
>> I suppose we could wait. [laughter] It's nearly two miles to the theater.
[laughter] >> To the theater?
>> How is 100 candy going to help?
[screaming] >> Seems like a waste.
>> There you go, sweetie.
>> The [ __ ] did you do?
>> They're good for bad things sometimes.
>> No, they're good for lost things. Bad.
Lost. Bad. Lost. Bad. Lost.
>> Maybe you're both right. Guys, chill.
A a Keith.
>> Hello. [laughter] >> Hi. Morning.
Oh, what the hell?
What?
Other mother has reach on this side of the What?
>> [snorts] >> OH MY GOD, >> she's taken them.
>> So, they had a doll, too.
>> Oh, that I mean, burning them can't be a good omen. I mean, I understand why burn them, but that just like I >> They're not coming back, are they? Not on their own. Only one thing to do.
>> Hell yeah. My [ __ ] goat, Coraline.
[music] Bro, what is that little green Dorito going to do?
>> I have to go back. They are my parents.
>> A >> challenge her then. She may not play fair, but she won't refuse. She's got a thing for games.
>> Mom.
Coraline, you came back for us. Mom.
>> Um, I mean, she doesn't have buttons for eyes.
>> Why would you run away from >> Okay, it's not her. I didn't think so at first.
>> Where are my parents?
>> Gosh, I have no idea where your old parents are. I mean, I do have a thing for a good tall woman.
>> Have a seat, won't you?
>> What have you done to dad?
>> Only one key.
>> The garden squash need tending, don't you think, pumpkin?
>> Squish squash.
>> Pumpkin, [laughter] >> why don't we play the game finding things game?
>> And what is it you'd be finding, Coraline? my real parents and the eyes of the ghost children. If I lose, I'll stay here with you forever and let you love me.
>> Wow, that's insanely high stakes. You don't have any leads.
>> I'll let you sew buttons into my eyes.
>> Jesus, you have no leads.
>> And if you somehow win this game, >> you let everyone go. My real father and mother, the dead children, everyone you've trapped here. [gasps] >> Deal.
>> Not till you give me a clue. In each of three wonders I've made just for you, a ghost's eye is lost in plain sight.
>> It's a deal.
>> Game on. Let's go.
>> What does she mean? Wonder.
>> Well, probably either the carnival with Bobinsky, the theater with April and Miriam, and then the garden hidden in plain sight.
This is like that one episode of Goosebumps.
Clutch. I wonder when when is the the well from the very beginning of the movie going to come into play.
No, the Dorito. Give me back my ceruan Dorito.
>> Why steal this?
>> Ooh.
>> That must be it.
>> Jesus Christ. Oh, I forgot dad was out here. The pumpkins.
>> So sorry, mother making me. I cannot believe that how like scary this [ __ ] movie is for an animated film.
>> Oh, clutch, Dad. Thanks. So, I'm curious who these people are then. These versions of like her dad of YB. Who are are they anybody really at all?
Actually, Mhm.
Oh my god, the dogs are bats now. Why?
Oh, I mean, I guess they do have wings, right? Like in the real world they have wings, but this is like a different sort of wings.
[bell] >> Oh, you're blindly reaching in there.
You are crazy.
>> The pearl.
>> Yeah. I mean, come on.
>> Help dogs. Help dogs.
Eat the candy. Eat the bubble gum.
>> Hurry on, girl. Our web is unwinding.
>> Hell yeah.
Babinsky.
That's cool. The eclipse is a button.
>> Oh, Wybe.
>> Oh, Wybe completely. He's gone.
>> I'm Coraline.
>> Yeah.
>> Is this what you're looking for?
>> Oh, that was clean, buddy.
>> If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.
>> Any kind of cheese. I'm a big pepperjack guy.
>> You're just a copish made of the real Mr. B. Not even that.
>> Oh, >> that rat's running away with my balls, >> bro. We need Cat David. Where [laughter] Where is he at? He'd be clutch here.
>> I don't really understand what that was supposed to do. Coraline, >> I've lost the game. I've lost everything.
>> Cat David, my goat. I think I mentioned that I don't like rats [laughter] at the best of time.
>> Oh yeah. Hell yeah.
>> It looked like you needed this one hour.
>> Oh, you're so sweet. There's going to be a catch, though. I mean, she doesn't play fair.
>> I still have to find [music] my parents.
>> Oh, I guess. Yeah, that's true.
I would get inside now. I would get out of here.
[gasps] >> Now, if she were to choose to stay now or she gets trapped, can you bring all that [ __ ] back at least? Can it can this still be like a fun time or does it have to be miserable? You're back and you brought Burman with you.
>> No, you know I love you.
>> That's the claw that made the damn doll.
I mean, we >> You still need to find your old parents.
>> Be clever, miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go.
>> I figured as much.
>> I already know where you've hidden them.
They're behind that door.
>> Like tricking them to get the door open.
>> Oh, that smile. They Oh, they're in the snow globe. That's Oh, that's actually really cool.
>> You're wrong, Coraline.
>> You're being played.
>> You're going to stay here forever.
>> No, I'm [screaming] not.
[laughter] >> [ __ ] her up. [ __ ] her up, Cat David.
>> Oh, pull the buttons out. Oh, >> you selfish brat.
Dude, this character design is so so good. This has got to be like a staple like Halloween movie, right?
>> Dare to face your brother.
>> I kick you in the [ __ ] face.
[screaming] >> The power of four children.
>> Tell me it still moves.
>> Man, if you were a little more chill, she wouldn't have had to.
Is that good? They broke out.
>> Carine, we're home.
>> Oh, hell yeah.
>> Oh, no. You broke my favorite snow globe. Oh, >> they have no idea.
>> I didn't break it.
>> You guys are covered in snow.
>> I asked you to count all the windows, not put your knee through them.
>> But what's gotten into you, Coraline?
>> Just wait till they see the [ __ ] mirror. They're going to be pissed.
>> Don't forget the invitations.
>> Even Bobinsky.
>> Mr. B is not drunk, Mom. He's just eccentric.
Maybe a little drunk or cocaine.
Oh, she got her the gloves that she was looking at and it's got colors in them.
It shows that her parents do pay attention. It's just that they have their own lives and their own stuff to worry about, you know, to be able to get her the things that they want, get her the things that she wants. Like, they have to do their own thing. She can't be the center of attention at all times.
But it doesn't mean that she's not being paid attention to.
>> I think it's time, don't you?
>> Now, how would this work? How do you get the kids back? How does this work?
>> It is over and done with for us. You're in terrible danger, girl.
>> I locked the door. It's the key, miss.
There's only one Beldum will find it.
>> Toss it in the the well.
>> Thou art still living.
>> And this kids movie has the ghosts of dead children in it. That's crazy. They didn't even get to come back to life.
They're dead.
You are not allowed on this side. Hey, you're not allowed on this side of the door. Oh my god. I had a feeling her hand would still be alive.
>> I gave you lots of kisses, >> man. See, the world is still beautiful on this side. [ __ ] too. Where were these cherry blossoms at? Were these here the whole time? Ah, you dick. You [ __ ] dick. Why?
Why? Why are you born? This is why.
Damn. This clutch [ __ ] bro.
It's the middle of the night. He's chilling out here in his motorbike. Oh no. Oh [ __ ] Ow.
Dude, >> this hand is strong as [ __ ] [sighs] >> Why be my goat?
>> Later.
>> What am I going to tell her?
>> Just bring her by the house tomorrow.
>> [ __ ] no.
>> We can tell her to get >> She is not coming by no matter what.
That trauma's set. She is old. I'm glad you decided to stalk me.
>> That's cute. It >> wasn't my idea.
[laughter] >> That was good.
>> Thanks for helping me, Miss [ __ ] Miss Forcible. [snorts] >> Bro, Miss Forcible could force me to do anything.
>> You were right, Coraline. I really hate dirt. But the tulips look nice. Thanks.
It's >> like all the rain has gone away and it's allowed all of this beauty to come out.
Like I'm seeing a bunch of green outside all these tulips. Man, >> I'm Coraline Jones. I've got so much to tell you here.
>> I don't like that Apartments is undercase, man. Guys, that was Coraline.
Dude, that was really [ __ ] good.
Honestly, that was a lot better than even I was expecting. Like, I heard good things, but I was expecting like something along the lines of like a Nightmare Before Christmas. And and I know like everyone loves A Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm not the biggest fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Maybe I I just need a rewatch. I haven't rewatched this since probably like middle school. It's been a really long time, but I was never the biggest fan of Nightmare Before Christmas, and I was expecting something along the lines of that. This was really [ __ ] good. I liked pretty much everything about this.
I really, really enjoyed just the overall messaging and like following the perspective of this child who feels like she just gets absolutely no kind of attention from her parents or from really anybody. Nobody listens to her, nobody pays attention to her, nobody believes her in anything. She's completely moved across the country.
She's got no friends. She's just left to deal with the boring, dull, drab existence that is this house and and everything around it and the the the rain. Like there's just nothing to do.
She It's just boring. So, of course, when you're bored and and feeling completely neglected, you're you're going to as a kid, you're going to your mind is going to wander and think like, "What if like I I want to get this? I want to be paid more attention to. I want my parents to love me this way. I want to do this with them. I want them to do this." And I can definitely understand that perspective, but at the same time, because I'm watching this at a much older age, right? Right? Like I wonder how I would have perceived it when I was younger, but I'm watching this as a grown-up and it's just like it's so obvious from the jump. What we see of her parents is them working.
They're working hard to make money. Are they neglecting her a little bit?
Probably. Maybe a little bit. But on their faces and their bodies and their mannerisms. You can see that they are completely sacrificing themselves.
They're sacrificing their mind and their body to be able to put their family in a position that they can give her what she wants and give her the life that she wants. just seeing her dad and seeing how like slumped over and tired his his glasses are [ __ ] up. His he he he looks sickly. Just for the end of the movie to be able to like it it's something as small as giving her the gift of the gloves that she was looking at earlier in the store while her mom was looking at the uniforms and stuff like that. It's like clearly she was paying attention to that and she saw that her kid wanted those and I think it's just it's really it's an important message for a kid to learn and the grass ain't always greener on the other side.
like she got too much attention. She got too loved. And that [ __ ] won't it was not tight. The animation was obviously fantastic. It looked like real stop motion. I can't lie. I I don't know.
There were times where it felt like it was computer animated, but most of the time like I I could feel like it was genuinely really stop motion animated.
Like there was ways that I was seeing like she when she was laying down and the blanket would just be like moving around her. And like if you're computer animating, I don't see why you would have the blanket moving the way that it would. But if you're stopotioning it, like I I would completely understand it.
I'm very interested to find out. But I absolutely loved it. I feel like it added so much to the personality and to the emotion of these characters. The character designs I absolutely loved. I absolutely loved like the blue and yellow and and just the very colorful scheme to Coraline's character. The character design of the other mother was absolutely horrendously terrifying and also hot at the same time. I can't really describe it. I thought the vocal performances were incredible. I absolutely loved Dakota Fanning. Keith David was a he was an incredible surprise cuz I caught Dakota Fanning's name. I caught uh Jennifer Sanders name in the beginning as well, but I don't think did they even show Keith David's name in the beginning? I don't remember if they did. I didn't catch it. So hearing his voice was definitely a surprise and I thought it really matched that character like the character of a black cat so well. And I thought he was he's probably honestly he was my favorite performance. I thought the most funny performance was definitely from Jennifer Sanders with the I don't know if she was playing both. What were their names? Angie and Miriam. Miriam for sure. I I don't know if she was playing both, but she was definitely playing one of them. Those two characters were funny as [ __ ] Like just so exaggerated, and I loved it. Wybornne was also a really fun character. I really liked the way that they animated him with like the, you know, the the the head movements and stuff like that. There was that moment at the end there where he already had his head tilted and the cat mimicked him and then Coraline mimicked the cat. And I thought that that was really fun. That was really cute. This was such a just a personalityfilled movie. So much fun.
Like this movie is art. Like this movie is uh you know basically two hours of just watching a painting a a moving painting and I absolutely loved it. I can only imagine that this has got to be like a Halloween staple. Like this is definitely Halloween coded. If I knew how perfect it would be for Halloween. I would have timed this more and watched it in October. But I would definitely be interested in re-watching it on my own time come October and kind of just really feeling the vibes hit me. And I think that would do really well. That would add a lot. That was Coraline, guys. That was fantastic. That was a really, really, really fun animated movie. I'm glad I chose this one. I'm glad to have finally seen it and really like gotten to know what it's about because I've only ever known it's like, "Oh, is this Nightmare Before Christmas movie?" That's what I kind of always got from it. Thinking it was like a a Tim Burton or Gamro Del Toro type of thing.
I loved it, guys. This was this was
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