7. Trollhunter
One of the coolest things about Trollhunter is how it tells its story. It draws you in through bringing you back to the basic state of mind of playing. Remember how easy ideas came to you as a kid and how prolific you were (or thought you were)? Well this movie recreates that through its story structure. On one level, much of the films initial intrigue is achieved through the dialogue and actions of the characters, which lends itself to sparking ones imagination in a cool way to begin with, because you naturally start to picture and question what they talk about on your own. Additionally, the characters in Trollhunter almost seem like theyre pretending or playing a game. Much of the action of the movie is based around the haphazard stories they tell one another, their rules, ultimatums, and conflicts, almost like kids on a playground making up their character traits as they go alongespecially in terms of the namesake of the movie, Hans. Furthermore, in what is possibly the coolest aspect of all, the environment of Norwaynatural, manmade, social, and politicalserves the movie. See those power lines? Yeah, we all know what those are REALLY for. This device invokes comedy and wonder and takes you right back to what it feels like to pretend and what its all about. Sure, this could have been because of practicality in the production, but the ideas are so fun and they serve the story and its structure so well that it doesnt matter. Its wonderful. Luckily, the movie does deliver trolls. Lots of them. But itd work almost as well without them.