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FIRST TIME WATCHING: Coraline!!

🕑 Added 2023-09-08 16:00:01 +0000 UTC

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devin flynn

so there's theories circulating about this movie that her mom isn't really there and is dead from the accident she was in and she is just coping by pretending that she is. I can't remember if the dad was dead too, but I think they said the reason his neck was like that was that's the last way she saw him, mangled and twisted turning blue.. in alot of the people are representations of death bobinsky is blue and bloated

Stace

one of my FAVS

Jenny Tolls

You should watch Monster House! Really good Halloween vibe that I think you’d really enjoy.

Christoefur

Since you liked this movie, I would highly recommend ParaNorman for the Halloween season. A great watch.

Tobi-Wan Rodriguez

The greatest stop motion animation movie of all time is “KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS” with Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Do not… sleep… on… that… movie! It will blow your mind! 😉🤟🤯🪕⛩️🌙🎉🥇

TokyoLopez

love this, great work, if i can throw out a random recommendation it would be nacho libre

Seph Hernandez

Agreeing with another comment here, Beetlejuice would be such a fun spooky season watch!

Narutoanime16

Even in my 20's this movie still scares me lol the creepy animation of the other mom is horrifying

Dennis Macko

Such a great movie and a fun reaction. Did you watched Beetlejuice? This would be a fun reaction, too.

Taff Lewis

Is it just me or have Nat's lead in to the intros become and interactive "Rocky Horror" type experience?

Taff Lewis

Yes! James & the Giant Peach please. Also, look at the cast list of "9".

Daniel McGuinness

Also even though it’s not a musical, the Other Fathers piano bop about Coraline never fails to get stuck in my head after watching this 😭 🎶She’s a peach, she’s a doll(👀), she’s a pal of MIIIIIINE🎶

Jeremy Montanez

Ahahahahahaha I LOVE how you yell, like when u said "Her names CORALINE!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 great reaction and fun time watching with you.

Logan Kerlee

Oh my gosh! This was my first time watching this and I SUPER enjoyed this movie! Wow. Great pick everyone! :) This movie was definitely a fun one. CREEPY but fun. xD Really happy to have watched this. :) Had a blast and needed a good one like this. I am totes down for rewatching James and the Giant Peach on here, so that has my vote whenever it appears on polls in the future. :)

Jacob King

Travis Knight is one of the better nepo babies. Like, his dad basically gave him a film studio and he decided to use all that money and power to make complicated and interesting art in a style that was very out of fashion for the times and succeeded in reaching people. Kubo is a genuinely good film.

Jacob King

I really enjoyed this one. I remember not caring for it when it came out but I think that was more to do with 2009 me and not the movie. I had enjoyed the book and I might need to give it a reread now. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a poem by Keats in which a ghost explains how he was trapped by a fairy lady (a common trope in English folklore). The other Mother is partly inspired by that tradition. The 2015 adaptation of The Little Prince is similar to Coraline with a spunky little girl protagonist and an adventure that moves in and out of different worlds. The animation in that movie is incredible.

Daniel McGuinness

Oh, another fun fact, during the opening scene when the Coraline doll is being made, the tools in the “doll making” kit that we see are actually embalming tools

CheeseRepair

Three fun facts about Coraline Your guess at the beginning was actually a bit correct and the movie WAS originally planned to have musical style songs in it! There were originally to be around 10 songs written by alt rock band They Might Be Giants. The film makers ultimately decided against this idea, and the 30 second song by the Other Father is the only one of these that ended up staying in the movie. Wybie wasn't in the original novel. He was made for the film so Coraline would have someone to talk at during the movie, compared to the book format where it would be easier to have her internal thoughts. This is copy and pasted from the TvTropes page: When Neil Gaiman first gave Coraline to his editor, she didn't want to publish it because she thought kids would be too scared reading it. So he made a bet and had her read the book to her daughter. The editor's daughter apparently loved it, and so they published that draft. Years later, at an anniversary conference for the book, Gaiman ran into the daughter. He thanked her and told her the story how she was the real reason the book got published. The daughter laughed and admitted to him "Oh, I was terrified by the story. But it was so interesting that I lied to my mom so I could learn what happened next!" And Gaiman himself also doesn't quite categorize the story as a horror (from CBC): "Children react to the story fundamentally as an adventure. They may get a little bit scared, but it's an 'edge-of-your-seat, what's-gonna-happen-next, oh scary!' thing, because you're giving them a story about somebody like themselves," he explained. "Yes, they're going up against something dark and nasty. But it's like James Bond going up against a James Bond villain. You never have any doubt that James Bond is going to get through it." However, "adults get scared," he said. "Adults get disturbed, and I think one reason for that is because it's a story about a child in danger and I think we're hardwired to worry about children in danger."

Chris Henderson

Since October is coming up I hope she reacts to Blade I and II.

Nicholas Sulikowski

I gotta say....THANK YOU FOR KNOWING THAT THIS IS A HENRY SELICK FILM! Seriously, it's a small thing. But I've known many many people that look at this and things like James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas and think, "Wow, what a great Tim Burton movie!". Which, with Nightmare, he produced it and wrote the story. Okay, his influence is there. But so was Henry Selick's animation style. Same with James and the Giant Peach. Burton produced it, but it was based on a Roald Dahl story. Directed by Henry Selick. And with this, Burton had NOTHING to do with it. It's a novel by Neil Gaiman and later comic adaptation by him and P. Craig Russell. Adapted into film by Henry Selick. Yeah, it sounds petty. But while Tim Burton is certainly very talented, sometimes I dislike it when Henry Selick is lost within his shadow. Especially with projects like Coraline, in which Burton wasn't involved, but some people still think he was. (In fact, this film had the marketing slogan, "From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas....". Which was technically true. But the marketing people knew perfectly well that people were thinking of Burton.) Anyway....it's a great movie. lol Really wonderful stop animation. It's kind of a dying art, due to how patient you have to be to do it. Moving forward, while I would recommend James and the Giant Peach, I would also recommend the works of the stop animation giant that make Coraline possible: Laika. They've got several gems under their belt: ParaNorman The Boxtrolls Kubo and the Two Strings Missing Link They're underrated, if only because stop animation isn't huge. But the style is so damn beautiful. And ParaNorman I can vouch for having a wonderful emotional core. And Kubo and the Two Strings obliterated me emotionally.

Traeix

There was a Coraline game! I remember I played it when I was a kid, it was on the Nintendo DS.

Sarah P

Hadn’t watched this since the week it came out. It was really fun rediscovering it with you! You’re right that it’s horror, not really a kids film. That seems to be the consensus. There were parents in our cinema when I watched it who had to take their children out. Understandable.

David Melo

Elite movie indeed! I'd even say, perfect. The style and animation is timeless. Looks just as good now as it ever did, in fact, maybe even more with modern screens. The writing, the music, the cinematography. So good.

djKENTO

Fun Fact: Without Nike you wouldn’t have Laika films. Laika was co-founded by Phil Knight and his son Travis who is the CEO. Phil Knight is the co-founder of Nike. This is why every Laika film gets a special Nike collab. Laika films are almost never profitable, but they’ll essentially stay open forever cuz of Nike.

kikoyito

love coraline, glad you finally watched it! Suggestion for another animated halloween movie. Monster House! Spooky vibes but overall just a fun movie with high meme potential. I keep getting recommended youtube clips of the movie lol. Would love to rewatch it!

Adam Session

Love this movie. Such a great hero's journey as you noticed. This was made during the height of 3D movies and is one of the few I thought used it well. If you pay attention there's a lot of scenes with things approaching the screen meant to be enhanced by the 3D.

Daniel McGuinness

Elite movie! And a great soft start to spooky season! This movie is littered with so many Easter eggs and bits of trivia that it’s almost better on a rewatch - like Bobinsky wearing the Russian hero medal for service at Chernobyl, when the Other Mother says it’s raining the lightning bolt that appears at the window is in the shape of the Bedlams hand, and on the “Welcome Home!” cake the “o” is double-looped which supposedly (according to graphology) means the person that wrote it is lying 👀

Ariana Mitchell

lastly (fun?) fact: bobinsky was in the chernobyl disaster, painting him blue

Ariana Mitchell

i think it's really easy on the first watch to brand coraline's mom as bad since we are seeing her through coraline. there's all these little sprinkles throughout the film that lets you know she's not ALWAYS like this, it's just a stressful time for her, and mothers usually have to be the bad guys let's be real. but i also know all too well wanting your parents' attention and not receiving it which is a different hurt as an only child

Jason Gillman

Was fun revisiting this movie with you Nat! Question to everyone else, did the movie become out of sync for you guys and you had to pause for a second to let it catch up or is it an issue with my setup? I was watching with the 4K disc that came out a few months ago

Ariana Mitchell

i saw this in theatres when i was... eight? terrified little me to death, but i've come to appreciate it and now it's a yearly rewatch for me. i've heard the book is much scarier

Ian

Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs would be great reactions

Darchangel

Been waiting since last October for this, let's go! That you know of Little Nightmares is amazing! Wanna suggest Corpse Bride as well 🖤

Walter Lopez

Another great stop motion picture is Kubo and The Two Strings. Please add that to a poll! You won't be disappointed.

Ben Wheeler

I see we’re getting Natmares started early this year.

Game Wizard001

As someone who grew up on Henry Selick's movies (Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline, etc) I would definitely recommend watching James and the Giant Peach. It's based off a children's book like Coraline but by Roald Dahl who wrote the books for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda as James and the Giant Peach.

LightsCameraJake

Oh good! You survived Burning Man 2023. Yall should get a shirt 😂 "I survived Burning Man 2023"

Mastervodo

Welcome back Mud-Hopper!

Nicholas Sulikowski

As an adult, the buttons for eyes was as unsettling as Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit for me as a kid. And I believe Neil Gaiman who wrote the original novel (and comic adaptation, check out both), intended this story to essentially be a horror story for kids. Still unnerves me as an adult.

Ian

Happy Friday nat been wanting you to react to this for 3 yrs so finally here we go 🥳 I've almost forgot what a nat reaction is as I don't watch korra and the last few poll winners before this and the current one I have no interest in and Sherlock I will wait for the yt edits so I'm going to enjoy this one for sure 🥳 I hope you enjoyed it and I'm hyped to find out

John K

I just watched this last weekend for the first time with my niece and nephew.

Darryl Low

Happy Feature Friday Nat. Hope you've had a good week. Not watched this movie before so I've been looking forward to it and watching along with you this evening 😊 Enjoyed this movie Nat. A lot of kooky characters and I recognised some of the voices. Ian McShane as Bobinsky, who was also Winston in the John Wick movies. The music was very cool too. Started off very much like nursery rhymes and then went very gothic. Thanks for a great reaction today Nat, and thanks for all your work this week. Great to have you back. Have a brilliant weekend 💛