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Originally Posted by maianhvk
I watched the movie Stardust before reading, the one with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, and was surprised to know that it was quite different from the book. I think both were good from some aspects: the movie with more actions, and the book with a bit more complicated story and lighter ending (nobody died).
But the cartoon Coraline was... awful. I couldn't understand why they could make a cartoon so dark, so horrible, with the sharp edges and raw motions for kids to watch. Children would have nightmares after watching that. And the film got Oscar for Animated Feature!
Their technique might be good, but in my opinion kids are to watch bright movies, like those from Pixar.
Ugh, I'm off topic. On topic, I'm reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
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I liked the Stardust movie as well.
With Coraline, Gaiman seems to have interesting ideas about children's stories. I read the book long before the movie and I thought it was one of the creepiest tales I've ever read. The button eyes were veritably chilling.
In about 80 pages I got a creepfest masquerading as a children's story. Absolutely loved it! But yeah - I found it a bit disturbing for kids myself.
I didn't feel that the movie had the same effect as the book.