Nimona

Has anyone watched the movie? Read the graphic novel? What did you think?

I read the graphic novel last year and watched the movie yesterday evening. Really enjoyed it! Animation style looked great, too.

I'd love to have it physically, but as it's distributed by Netflix that doesn't seem very likely.

I have watched the movie, but I haven’t read the graphic novel. I really enjoyed the movie, though!! The animation was beautiful and it was a great story.

It’s true Netflix will probably never release a physical copy officially, which is a bummer, but you could probably burn a disc yourself and have a physical copy that way if you wanted to!

Sadly don't have a disc burner or even something that plays burned cd's any more (only playstation consoles). I could find and back up a file on an external hard drive, though. It's something, at least.

ChronicVillainy wrote:

Sadly don't have a disc burner or even something that plays burned cd's any more (only playstation consoles). I could find and back up a file on an external hard drive, though. It's something, at least.

Yeah, at least it means you will still have access to the film if they ever take it down! Plus, if you someday get something to burn the disc you will be able to (unless the newer ones don't, a Playstation DOES play burned DVDs, it just won't burn them). I think my external disc drive that I've used to burn discs from my computer before was like $20 if I remember right, though it's been a while since I bought it and it also kind of sucks, so one that doesn't suck would probably cost more.

I've seen the movie and I actually own the novel from way back in college, though I don't think I ever actually read it, or if I did, I don't remember lmao

I wasn't sold on the animation style from the teaser screenshots, but seeing it in movement completely changed my opinion. The lighting in certain scenes was fucking GORGEOUS and the animation was really wild and fun to watch, great action scenes. It had some really nice emotional moments too.
I think it was an okay comedy that gave me a few laughs, but the very distinctly early 2010s humour fell flat more often than I'd like. Nimona herself was pretty egregious with it lmfao

Other than that I think it's fine, definitely felt fresh compared to a lot of big studio animated movies that come out these days. Just a nice cute fun little queer fantasy about acceptance. 

It's also definitely impressive from the origin standpoint, being a webcomic on tumblr of all places, so it's worth seeing just for that if nothing else!