Question of the day

[caddyman]

Is the movie Mirrormask best enjoyed with a cup of coffee or an armful of your Class A of choice?

We watched it on DVD on Sunday, courtesy chomper99 and caffeine_fairy. I had the coffee, Furtle read a book (though the chicken made her laugh) and colonel_maxim ate a fry-up which is as close to the drugs as we got.

I'm glad I watched it; I doubt I shall be watching it again, though.

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

I thought Mirrormask was ace! Weird, but ace :)

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Oh I've been meaning to pick this up for absolutely ages ! I also want to get the two books that accompanied it's release.

I thought it had received ok-ish reviews on release - being compared to Jim Henson's 1982 film Labyrinth, but once Guillermo Del Toro's sumptious Pan's Labyrinth came along to such critical acclaim Mirrormask got a sort of retrospective panning...

...Oh and I'll settle for a nice cup of tea.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Pretty, innit?

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I would say (even though I have the DVD) that it's a film best watched on as large a screen as possible, and with being in the same state of mind you're in when you're dreaming. Whether its coffee, grease or LSD that does that for you, I live as an exercise for the reader.

I loved it, and think that it's one of the best dream narratives I've seen - the logic made sense in the same way that dream-logic does, and as Em says, it's _very_ pretty. But then I would expect no less of Dave McKean.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

I think it's a film that is much better on the visuals than the plot, but it's one that I enjoyed, and could (and will) watch again.
Rather like Labyrinth and Dark Crystal (which I conveniently got in a boxed set with MMask) - this is quality entertainment for all the family.

Then again, I'm big fan of McKean's work, so I may be a little biased.

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because I spent two years waiting for it, I was very disappointed - the curse of over-anticipation. It seemed less than the sum of it's parts - though I think I may have judged it harshly. Pan's Labyrinth was the film I hoped this would be.