Just watched Hugo...

[imbecamiel]

Oh. Oh. 

That was beautiful. Sweet and lovely and all the gorgeous clockwork, and the whole atmosphere of it, just... so much love.

And I adore the way that it took the analogy of the world as a giant machine, and each of us just a part in it, and through the whole feel of the movie successfully turned it from something cold and impersonal and presenting individuals as insignificant into something beautiful and creative and meaningful. 

This movie is my happy place. I am going to be watching it so many times.

Now I wish that I'd seen it in theaters. We'd talked about it... but never got to it. ;_;

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[scarvenartist.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just watched this other day too, and man, I wish I could have seen it with you, and not with such a...less than enthusiastic audience. XD (My mom and brother, alack, have this tendency toward extremely vocal cynicism....) I did insist to them, without much avail, that it was an incredibly symbolic movie...clockwork and keys and automatons, all having some relevance to the individual characters, which all fit together like interlocking gears....

'Twas a very pretty movie, and I did rather wish I'd been able to see it in 3D, actually.

[ebeneezerdark.livejournal.com]

We saw it last month via Netflix, and loved it too. If I see it in the DVD racks at CostCo, it'll end up in our shopping cart, I think...

I've also now got an AU plotbunny hopping around in my brain, combining the "Hugo"-verse with Neal Caffrey et al. from "White Collar". (C'mon: tell me you can't see a young!Neal being the kid slipping into the secret passages in the walls of the old train station, using stealth, speed, and agility to keep one step ahead of the law?)