MirrorMask
Nov. 19th, 2006 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAbout six months ago, I started reading Neil Gaiman's online journal from the beginning (I'm partway through 2003 at the moment) and, when I reached the section where he started enthusing about MirrorMask, I couldn't decide whether or not I wanted to watch it.
For someone with an overactive imagination, who likes the fantasy genre, it's odd that I'm generally not keen on things that tend towards the surreal. Things have to make sense to me for me to enjoy them, and surreal things often make my brain hurt and freak me out. Dali paintings, for instance, are top of my list of things I really wouldn't want on the living room wall.
However, as with Lost (which seems to be my yardstick for weird stuff at the moment), I've got a lot better recently at just letting things be what they are, and not worrying about explanations and sense.
Still, I'd heard some strange things about MirrorMask and I really wasn't sure if I'd like it or not. Anyway,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
siroswold took the decision out of my hands by giving me the DVD for my birthday, and I just watched it. The Labyrinth influence was very clear, but it was weirder. However, it made sense to me in some respects and the other bits just were what they were and often that was quite cool. The upshot of which is that I quite enjoyed it.
Next on my list is Howl's Moving Castle, which is another film I'm not sure if I want to watch, but that someone gave me for my birthday. I'm more apprehensive about that one, because Princess Mononoke was rather too weird and unpleasant for my tastes, and Spirited Away hung around on the edges of my weirdness threshold, too - some bits I liked, but most of it was just too strange and nonsensical. Hey ho - I'll give Howl's Moving Castle a try, though. That's one of my favourite things about the person I've become - that I'm far more willing to give things a try than I used to. Besides, things I don't like make for much more interesting reviews!
For someone with an overactive imagination, who likes the fantasy genre, it's odd that I'm generally not keen on things that tend towards the surreal. Things have to make sense to me for me to enjoy them, and surreal things often make my brain hurt and freak me out. Dali paintings, for instance, are top of my list of things I really wouldn't want on the living room wall.
However, as with Lost (which seems to be my yardstick for weird stuff at the moment), I've got a lot better recently at just letting things be what they are, and not worrying about explanations and sense.
Still, I'd heard some strange things about MirrorMask and I really wasn't sure if I'd like it or not. Anyway,
siroswold took the decision out of my hands by giving me the DVD for my birthday, and I just watched it. The Labyrinth influence was very clear, but it was weirder. However, it made sense to me in some respects and the other bits just were what they were and often that was quite cool. The upshot of which is that I quite enjoyed it.Next on my list is Howl's Moving Castle, which is another film I'm not sure if I want to watch, but that someone gave me for my birthday. I'm more apprehensive about that one, because Princess Mononoke was rather too weird and unpleasant for my tastes, and Spirited Away hung around on the edges of my weirdness threshold, too - some bits I liked, but most of it was just too strange and nonsensical. Hey ho - I'll give Howl's Moving Castle a try, though. That's one of my favourite things about the person I've become - that I'm far more willing to give things a try than I used to. Besides, things I don't like make for much more interesting reviews!
