Neil Gaiman's Coraline - The most amazing nightmare

I read this book, when I was in 4th class on primary school and I took it as a brilliant horror story and a fairy tale in the same moment. But nothing more.
When I saw the movie after long time, I finally realised everything - It is the most amazing nigtmare, you could ever have.

Neil Gaiman - Coraline

The story is named after the main character - Coraline Jones, who moves with her parents to a new house. She is a very creative and adventurous person, with a great and original taste in everything, but the reality wants it a little bit diffrent - Coraline has to be like anybody else, wear boring grey clothes and mainly - stay in this old, boring house... But what if she could escape the reality?












She finds tiny door, leading to another place. Another house. Another life, with another parents - The other parents.

Everything in the other world is incredibly beautiful and Neil gives us many breath taking sceneries, born in his imagination. You wish Coraline would never leave it - nothing is grey, old or boring - The other world is colorful, full of adventures and surprises - Just perfect for our Coraline.



What could go wrong? Coraline is living her dream and finds a great escape from reality. But the dream suddenly becomes dark....









There is a nightmare behind all this beauty - a trap for our little heroine. Coraline has to play a game for her and her family's lives - Everything that used to be beautiful takes its real form and shows us the true...

Amazing story, tickling and teasing our imagination, but also making us scared and worried about Coraline's life.

9/10

 If you haven't read or seen it, maybe you shold try it and let me know what you think! Or have you read/seen it already?

Hobbit: The Unexpected journey

The event of the year I was looking forward to, since I've first heard about it - The Hobbit movie(s).
And when I first saw the trailer, I just couldn't wait for it (But of course, it was a long time before the movies came to cinemas, so it didn't mean very much.)

 At the beggining - just in case someone doesn't know what is the story about: A hobbit called Bilbo Baggins lives his peaceful and placid life, until the group of dwarves comes to his door (Namely Kili, Fili, Balin, Dwalin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Oin, Gloin, Nori, Dori, Ori and Thorin, their king.) and he goes with them to an imposant adventure - to get back their homeland, The Lonely Mountain.

 The magic atmosphere was going throught the whole movie and many times I was just staring at the screen with my mouth open (like when they went to the Rivendell). This movie is marvelous and brilliant, but let's be honest - I am a huge fantasy fan and thi is not a film for anyone...

If you are wondering about going to see this, GO. If you are a fantasy mind as me, you're gonna love it, if not... At least you will have some opinion.

There are few things I'd like to write about - so watch out for spoilers!




1) The Soundtrack.
 It was simply brilliant, we could even hear some LOTR melodies, which always made me smile... And THE SONGS! "Misty Mountines" gives me chills and goose bums every single time I hear it, "That's what Bibo Baggins hates" makes me laugh and so it did in the cinema (So everyone began to stare at me... But it was worth it. :3 + I have a tendention to sing with the dwarves, what is also not very appropriate.)


2) The "Three films" thing
The first films takes about three hours and there are two more coming... Well, that's a lot. And it's a lot even for me. Jackson follows the book a lot, but he also adds some moments from another books, obviosly just to make the story longer and earn more money - I get it, but I don't really like it...

3) Golum.
Simply - the scenes with Golum made me most scared. I always had strange feelings about him, but here...
The whole time, I was just maniacaly chafing my hands and hiding behind a popcorn. (Yes, I do it... For some reason...) And the riddles? Brilliant.

4) Martin Freeman.
Erm, as I've written in the past ( Here) I'm a Sherlock fan, so this was such a strong experience for me... I have to say he did a great job and I couldn't imagine anyone portaying Bilbo so well.

So - I loved it, but it also has mistakes (For example the lenght and maybe trying to make The Hobbit something more than he is - darker story, more like LOTR. But it's not! It was always more like a mature fairytale...)

9/10

Have you seen it already? Did you like it? Comment!

Christmas

Christmas are coming very quickly, carolls are playing in every mall, while we're in panic looking for presents for every single relative, even though we haven't seen him for ten years.
I sometimes feel, like presents became more like an obligation - something we have to buy, not to insult people we sometimes don't even know. As my mum said "Oh, we have to buy something for Maria. And it has to be expensive, so she wouldn't take offence...". I don't think this is how should the Christmas go...
A present should be something you really want to make the other one happy about. Not something you HAVE to buy, because someone's said so. But of course, there is the other page of view, people who say that Christmas are just about the happines and the atmosphere of being with your family, that you shouldn't give something so materialistic as presents.
Ok, of course... But! I think, that most people couldn't imagine Christmas without presents and these materialistic things.  So couldn't I! Because I honestly love getting presents... And what's wrong about it? I just like to think, that someone took the work to find something what would make me happy.

Anyway, is there anyone who still does his Christmas list? :3 Everyone says that it's abnormal, but honestly - if you're on this blog, you probably won't be normal : 3 (For example: I've written two Christmas lists this year - The second one was adressed to The Doctor, so he could finally come to take me to the whole time and space - tell me about madness, please :D)

Maybe you ask, what would I want? Well, let's see:

1) The "geeky things" (As my brother says) - anything with Doctor (my mum said she WILL NOT buy me Doctor's sonic screwdriver and she doesn't seem she's had thought it over...), Sherlock, Harry Potter,  comics , my favourite films on DVDs, PC games...

2) Books!! I still hope for some Sherlock Holmes stories, E.A.Poe's books, maybe some Sheakespeare or Oscar Wilde (I'd love to try it...). But what would I really want is this: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Anyone who's read it?

3) Of course, some clothes. Shirts, skirts, tights, accesories...  I don't normally have enought money to buy clothes for myself, so I hope for some for Christmas.

And what do you want? Do you still write your Christmas list? Or have you simply read The Night Circus? Comment!