Where the Wild Things Are
Is it just me, or does Spike Jonze’s big screen adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are seem like it will be the best movie made from a kids book/comicbook/toy line?
- Mutant MassacreIs it just me, or does Spike Jonze’s big screen adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are seem like it will be the best movie made from a kids book/comicbook/toy line?
- Mutant Massacre
March 27th, 2009 at 1:12 am
omg i just cryed tears of happiness
March 27th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Actually am I the only person to be pretty whatever on this? I never liked this book as a child, never understood the fascination around it and frankly this movie looks like the Juno of children’s movies… Nauseously quirky.
March 27th, 2009 at 1:52 am
same 45 words over and over and over and over and over and over…… not to mention the book makes no sense and goes nowhere but meh, drop acid and let your mind roll come october
candy flip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 27th, 2009 at 2:18 am
@ pal the crook
maybe it was the fucking fact that MY parents saw sending their children to bed without a supper as an acceptable punishment, but this book means a lot to me so . . . yeah I can’t wait. most parents don’t even know their kids exist nowadays . . . they’re so busy being important to the wold . . . maybe writing on a blog . . . I hate this world
March 27th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Isn’t the book just about a rambunctious kid with an overactive imagination who gets grounded?
Either way, I’m psyched to see giant puppets on screen again.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Spike Jones is fucking great, he has the Midas touch.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I like Maurice Sendak okay. He is no Dr. Seuss.
I agree with Crooksy.
Maurice Sendak believed that kids were full of evil and all kinds of intense and not nice feelings. Max wanted to be wild and bad but eventually came back to reality because he missed food and comfort.
This movie reflects the trend of giving characters victim status to make them more relatable. When Charlie Brown did it worked. Now it’s a whole generation of abuse survivor whiners who are NEVER WRONG.
Fuck victimhood. Go victimize others, that’s what I say.
AND ALSO:
The whole idea of CGI or live action movies based on children’s books is offensively shitty. Just cause I like something doesn’t mean I want to see it turned into a movie, videogame, or figural soaps.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
The Watchmen comic briefly mentioned that people cling to infantile things during times of conflict and war. As life gets scarier and scarier the emotional maturaty of people in America may have declined. I would say it started when America became prosperous and really hit it’s stride when JFK was shot. Now we are full on baby men.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:06 am
You my friend may be Baby-Man but I am Teen-Man forever and ever!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I guess that makes me a Tween man! I want my Miley Cyrus!
March 29th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I’m just glad it’s using live action and puppets in addition to CGI instead of just being yet another entirely CGI in mindblowing 3D blockbuster IMAX experience.