Mirrormask...
Ok, let's get this out of the way first:
Dave McKean is prettier:
Mirrormask then. Jess loved it. It's a girl's film.
I avoided it on the festival circuit last year because nothing about it appealed. It just looked hokey. Gilliam's been here before and done it much better and with an edge. Mirrormask has no balls. The kids may get a kick out of it, but I dare say that this is for diehard Gaiman fans only - the kind that think Terry Pratchett is a genius and collect Nightmare Before Christmas memorabilia.
It's a shame because Dave McKean is a top bloke. Very funny, cordial and full of stories. Just a pity the one he chose to being to the screen was such a stinker. That's a little harsh... there's nothing 'wrong' with it except it feels like the kind of thing that you'd see on a Christmas afternoon on BBC circa 1984. Very Box of Delights.
Or if you really want to give it a kicking, it's a little like the video for Aha's 'Take on Me', but much too long. And with worse music.
I remember watching this kind of thing as a kid and it was always very hohum. Then I saw Time Bandits and the best bit, the very best bit in a film full of spectacle is right at the end when Kevin's parents get killed by a left over piece of David Warner. All the kid gets is a pat on the head from Sean Connery and is then left all alone. He gets exactly what he wanted - freedom from his soul crushing mediocre parents. It's a happy ending because his parents get killed.
And that's how you make a kid's movie.
Fuck this saving the parent from cancer when you don't even have the bottle to use the big C word in the film. Besides which Stephen King & Peter Straub did it better years ago too.
I have one thing to say to everyone who comes out of Mirrormask with a warm glow - RELAPSE.
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Dave McKean is prettier:
Mirrormask then. Jess loved it. It's a girl's film.
I avoided it on the festival circuit last year because nothing about it appealed. It just looked hokey. Gilliam's been here before and done it much better and with an edge. Mirrormask has no balls. The kids may get a kick out of it, but I dare say that this is for diehard Gaiman fans only - the kind that think Terry Pratchett is a genius and collect Nightmare Before Christmas memorabilia.
It's a shame because Dave McKean is a top bloke. Very funny, cordial and full of stories. Just a pity the one he chose to being to the screen was such a stinker. That's a little harsh... there's nothing 'wrong' with it except it feels like the kind of thing that you'd see on a Christmas afternoon on BBC circa 1984. Very Box of Delights.
Or if you really want to give it a kicking, it's a little like the video for Aha's 'Take on Me', but much too long. And with worse music.
I remember watching this kind of thing as a kid and it was always very hohum. Then I saw Time Bandits and the best bit, the very best bit in a film full of spectacle is right at the end when Kevin's parents get killed by a left over piece of David Warner. All the kid gets is a pat on the head from Sean Connery and is then left all alone. He gets exactly what he wanted - freedom from his soul crushing mediocre parents. It's a happy ending because his parents get killed.
And that's how you make a kid's movie.
Fuck this saving the parent from cancer when you don't even have the bottle to use the big C word in the film. Besides which Stephen King & Peter Straub did it better years ago too.
I have one thing to say to everyone who comes out of Mirrormask with a warm glow - RELAPSE.
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3 Comments:
PTerry being a GENIUS and having Nightmare stuff. It's like you;ve been to mny house.
You've not been to my hosue have you?
Only at 3am with a camera.
That's something of a result.
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