Bored too tears...


I hate to say it, but this movie bored me to tears. It was a neat idea, but I think it was paced like crap and tried too hard to be a avant-garde fantasy film and not a good film. If you have a short attention span, avoid this movie.

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Your last sentence summed it up well for me - the movie wasn't made for your type. It was meant to be avant-garde and for the most part it was well-paced. But it wasn't meant to be some high-octane action adventure. I think you expected something wasn't to be. I don't know how anyone could be bored by Mirrormask. I think it's brilliant.

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I completely agree with you that Mirrormask is utterly brilliant. I could watch it all day everyday and there's not many movies I can say that about. With each viewing you notice something different, you obviously can't take it all in at once ; its filled with far too much imagery and symbolism for that.

As for the person being bored with the movie, this completely baffles me. With so much imagery and illusion in each scene, how can you possibly be bored? My only conclusion is that you have no imagination whatsoever. You're loss. This isn't James Bond dear. You have to use your mind a bit to immerse yourself into this movie entirely.

Not to mention it was written by Neil Gaiman and made by the Jim Henson Company. Honestly, how can you go wrong there?


'Suppose she gets pregnant? How can she nurse a baby with fangs?!

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Not to mention it was written by Neil Gaiman and made by the Jim Henson Company. Honestly, how can you go wrong there?


That's what I thought, until I watched this movie.

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With so much imagery and illusion in each scene, how can you possibly be bored? My only conclusion is that you have no imagination whatsoever.

Wow...pretentious much? I happen to adore the works of both Neil Gaiman AND Jim Henson (I love "The Dark Crystal"), and I EAGERLY awaited this movie. Yet, when I finally got a chance to see it, I was so unentertained I couldn't make it to the end. I found it very, very slow and boring...a real disappointment. That doesn't mean I'm going to slam those that liked it...different strokes and all that. I HATE watching most organized sports, for example, but millions and millions of people would hotly disagree with me. Still, I want you to know that my imagination is just fine, despite not enjoying "Mirrormask". You don't know as much about me as you presume. Perhaps your inability to understand why others might not like this movie indicates YOU lack imagination, hmm?

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I must agree that this movie was unoriginal and boring. The theme of a young girl/boy having to cope with tragic events in real life through a fantasy world has been done numerous times - and often much better. The dialogues were horrendously bad, dumbed down for even the shortest of attention spans. The movie probably holds a new record for the sheer mumber the main character repeats what she has to do next in order to stop evil. Her sidekick was equally overacted, overtalkative, shallow and uninteresting. The fantasy world was empty, oddly devoid of any characters of interest with only a few really images one hasn*t seen to death.

I liked the circus part at the beginning and the "brighton" contrasting - but my hopes dwindled as soon as the "dreamworld" was entered. Heck the b/w drawings the protagonist made looked more promising than the mediocre computer generated imagery - most of the time i was wishing back a cardboard b/w world inside her drawings.

Also the "cuteness", "creativness" or "surprisingness" of fantasy/dreamworlds as often used in this genre gets on my nerves. Here you fly on books, in Harry Potter you fly more traditionally on broomsticks, in Neverending story you fly on a dragon, in the Wizard of Oz the monkeys fly, the last starfighter its a starship, in the Minimoys... you get the drift. Gladly in Tideland and Pan's Labyrinth (a much superior film) theres no flying. The Problem is not only do these "fantasy/dream" worlds get interchangable also the more they try to "surprise" you with their cuteness and "ideas" the more they loose plausibilty cohesion. This means, in a world where anything is possible and laws of causality play only a minor role one stops caring for the actions and situations the characters are in. One can no longer assess the weight or consequences of actions and behaviour anymore, which is needed to create a sense of danger. Not even to mention the "plot-point" characters along the way of the main group of protagonists.

This movie in particular only conveys danger by pumping up the danger music, throwing the black evil glue around and going into action camera mode. But on a behavioural or motivational level there exists only emptiness as the next "creative" CGI montrosity will most certainly destroy all assumptions one makes about the inner logic of this world.

If Neil Gaiman's books are anything like this movie-mess, i am glad i never read one.

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They weren't flying on the books. The books, which weren't serving their purpose were returning to the library. So Valentine and Helena merely used them as a means of transportation because out of the door there wasn't a bridge or anything. Books weren't used for flying... seriously, did you watch at all?

And seriously, are you going to diss the Neverending Story? That is by far one of the best books ever written.

As for this movie having an overdone theme.. well sure just about every movie is unoriginal these days. Name one movie thats been released lately that has not been done before. Everything these days is either a remake or has a similar theme as something thats been done tons of times before. However, I do think this film was great and has something special.

Glad you at least appreciated Dave McKean's artwork. Dave McKean is amazing and has worked with Neil Gaiman many times on many projects such as his Sandman books, Coraline, The Tragically Comedy and Comically Tragedy of Mr. Punch, and a couple of others. They are absolutely brilliant together. Neil Gaiman is an amazing writer... and you have to also remember that this story was actually a children's book so you people are probably over analyzing it... just appreciate it for what it is; a fantasy story to be enjoyed.. you don't have to nitpick every detail.

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I wanted to like this one. It just wasn't par to my expectations. The characters were underdeveloped and too obscure to understand. The visuals were very impressive, but I just didn't buy into the marriage of character and scenery.


Your clown got the Oscar. Now shut up!

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It was definitely a visual feast, even when you could tell it had a small budget for special effects.
The plot was also very good. But the way the movie actually worked out and the pacing, and the dialogue. It was so frustrating. I wanted to like it. I really did.
And please don't anybody tell me I "just didn't get it," cuz I did, but it was just a disappointment.

--somebody set up us the bomb!--

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Mirrormask was made for people who enjoyed Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. As someone who enjoyed those two movies, more so Labyrinth, I agree with the op. This movie is boring as all hell. Complete lack of imagination that the first two movies had, and they weren't that original to begin with.

And visually, it was an ugly and soulless looking film.

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This movie is boring as all hell.
.... says the guy who gave Paris, Texas a 10.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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i dont really understand not liking this film. sure it starts off a little slow for the first ten min or so, but once you get into the dream world, everything is just so visually enthralling it was like being in a dream myself

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Public Enemies: First film I ever walked out of. Worse than Wanted, and I HATED Wanted.

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'Bored TOO tears'...?

Learn to spel....

Matt Channing (Had Matter)
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*spell

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The misspelling of 'spell' as 'spel' was a joke. Which, apparrently, was lost on you...

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Well it's been four years or so since Metallijames first posted to this board. I hope wherever he is he is enjoying Fast and The Furious 6.

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Same for me I like adventure films but MM is just to boring for me.
Its just finishing now but I have been on the computer as I lost interest.





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I rolled my eyes from the beginning especially at the part where, "I never got say I'm sorry" and "It's my fault" -- overly cliché.

I thought the effects were great but as I've read before: it tried to be Labrynth (inspired by), and that movie stands on its own.

The pace didn't bother me so much just much of the lines and the plot.

I got this on DVD with "Dark Crystal", only movie I wanted.

-Nam

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I don't think I would ever be bored watching this film. The dream landscape is constantly changing.

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