Watched Suicide Squad yesterday. I thought it was pretty great, especially the scenes with music integrated into the action. If they went all out with an 18 rating I think it would have been incredible.

I thought the music was cheesy as ****. Like the director was too lazy to properly pace the scenes (especially at the beginning of the movie) so he just stitched them together with random Top 40 hits from whenever.

Coraline

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Finally watched Coraline for the first time last night. OMG. So good. I have a slight phobia of Muppets, claymation, and stop motion. They look too close to real life yet not real enough, and it just kinda gives me the heeby jeebies.

Aside from the fact that the visuals were so jaw-dropping that I was drawn in despite that slight revulsion, that feeling made a movie that was supposed to be tense and creepy all that much more freaky. There were several entire scenes that actually made me involuntarily lean back for minutes on end.

Not just the Other World scenes either. That guy with the bad Russian accent and evil mustache was scary as **** doing pullups on a stair railing. And some **** would've just straight haunted my dreams if I were a young enough child. I love that this wasn't just a children's movie with a horror fantasy aesthetic, this was an honest-to-god horror fantasy children's movie.

Coraline is pretty good, but tell me you've seen The Nightmare Before Christmas? That's an essential.

Well yeah, but I've always been lukewarm to that movie. Like I said, I've got a thing about that kind of animation and The Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't grab me enough for that to go away. It's okay but had nowhere near the effect that Coraline did.

Really? Damn. It's one of my all-time fav's.

I also have this weird prejudice from when I was like five or six, cause it was the movie that finally kicked Jurassic Park from its #1 box office spot. I was so all about Jurassic Park, so I took sides for no good reason.

I mean, Jurassic Park is also pretty wicked so I can understand.

**** Jurassic World though, not even Chris Pratt could save that burning mess.

Trash. I was bored throughout. If they're gonna do that **** then cut back on the CG and build some animatronics. That's what made the first one so awesome. And a non-cringey story.

Now I know what to dress up as for Halloween. Ooh! Ever see The Dark Crystal?