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Mirrormask is great, Porter. The plot itself is fairly simple, but the fairy-tale quality of it doesn't demand something more involved, so it's not a problem. The visuals are incredible, to my eye, and I've never seen a movie capture the feel of a dream better than this one did. When you have time to watch it, I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit.
Coraline is one that is on my list, but that I haven't read. I'm not sure how that happened, honestly.
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I loved Coraline and I can't wait for the movie version. I'm indifferent to Teri Hatcher being cast other than the fact that it indicates that the movie is that much closer to being made.
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Coraline was my introduction to Gaiman. I only read it because it won both the Hugo and Nebula.
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Coraline scared the beewhozits out of me. When I finished it, I gave it to the local library. Not out of altruistic feeling, but mostly because I needed to get it Out Of My House. It was that good.
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I -am- glad that an adaptation is getting made. Next to The Sandman: Brief Lives, Coraline is my favorite work by Gaiman. I'm just hoping it's as faithful to the source material as possible.
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Mirromask is very good, and well worth watching. And the DVD extras are fantastic, and occasionally very funny. It's amazing what they put together with a relatively small crew. (Why do companies with five times the people and budget keep putting out such dreck?! Argh!)
As long as they listen to Gaiman's input, I think they'll do all right with Coraline.
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I could never find it again, but a few years ago I used to love going to that website with the mice that sang those songs from Coraline! We are small, but we are maaaany...
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