{"id":150,"date":"2006-10-10T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/mirror-mask\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:17:22","slug":"mirror-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/mirror-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryimage\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0366780\/\">MirrorMask IMDB page<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>This was a movie that I actually watched, over dinner after a long day coding.  I was interested in this one because it is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, who I once saw open a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftomorrow.com\/\">Magnetic Fields<\/a> concert with a reading, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creatureshop.com\/\">Jim Henson Creature Shop<\/a>, which has done excellent work on all sorts of things, including geek favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farscape.com\/\">Farscape<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>The visuals for this movie are excellent.  The soundtrack and music is very well woven into things as well.  The film is an adaptation of a children&#8217;s story, but I have really been into media targeted at young adults lately.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthnix.co.uk\/\">Garth Nix&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthnix.co.uk\/shadeschildren.asp\">Shade&#8217;s Children<\/a>, for example, is just an excellent book in that category.  I still have fond memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tripods-Trilogy-John-Christopher\/dp\/0020425716\">John Christopher&#8217;s Tripods Trilogy<\/a> from my youth.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>The main character, a 14 or 15 year old girl named Helena, is going through a typical sort of thing in these movies: her mother is in the hospital and she dreams herself into a fantasy land to avoid the pain and guilt from their last argument. Or so I thought, but this one does turn out to be a bit different.  Anyway, it was really a nice movie, not insulting in talking down to the audience, and really excellent imagination and visuals.  I give it two fins up!<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how many fins fugu have, but it is probably somewhere between one and three.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MirrorMask IMDB page This was a movie that I actually watched, over dinner after a long day coding. I was interested in this one because it is from Neil Gaiman, who I once saw open a Magnetic Fields concert with a reading, and the Jim Henson Creature Shop, which has done excellent work on all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}