Where the wild things are

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Anyone else caught a look at this new trailer?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/

I'm actually, dare I say.... somewhat looking forward to this. :o

Perhaps it's the layout of the trailer but I'm almost transported back to my childhood(movie wise). Watching all those classics like never ending story.

I think and hope this turns out to be one of those classics for the kids of today - forget start to stop CGI, this appears to have a decent mixture of well acted live action, animation and fingers crossed, a good story!

Might get the other half to buy me it when it comes out on DVD :o

:)
 
Cautiously optimistic about this too. Vaguely remember the book as a child, but Spike Jonze will hopefully do a good job at the helm.
 
I will quote a review that word for word, sums up my feelings:

What a disappointment it was. How can a film that gets so much right be so tedious ? The kid who plays Max is tremendous, Karen O's soundtrack is beautiful, Jonze's super naturalistic style really gives a unique spin on a story of the fantastic and the wild things themselves are beautifully realised: hugely expressive and utterly grotesque, they are also incredibly cute. The idea to give them the voices and vernacular of neurotic, adult Americans is quite funny too.

Unfortunately, once Max is makes it to the island no story materialises and the film becomes one long snooze. It's a bit like listening to a child who makes up a story on the spot: Cute if it's your own kid, less cute if its someone else's kid, hugely boring when it's a film. The characters do and say stuff (almost randomly), but nothing coheres into a narrative.

I've heard the film described as melancholy, but I found it just dreary. Check out Let the Right One In instead, which deal with very similar themes (the frustrations of a lonely kid finding an outlet when he encounters the supernatural monster/s of his Id) in a way that is both compelling and poetic and which also uses naturalism to make its supernatural elements work.

The applause at the end was lacklustre at best and a few people with kids left before the end. Spike Jonze gave a Q&A afterwards and was hugely engaging and funny, so I choose to blame the overrated Dave Eggers, who has completely failed for the second time this year in writing a decent screenplay (the other one being for the smug quirkfest Away We Go).
 
Seen it...wasnt that impressed with it tbh but its a nice premise for a movie though...the non human characters are a bit freaky but its not a movie id say definitely go and watch...its mediocre at best.
 
Spawn said:
Seen it...wasnt that impressed with it tbh but its a nice premise for a movie though...the non human characters are a bit freaky but its not a movie id say definitely go and watch...its mediocre at best.
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Agreed, and the interaction between the humans and the wild things just didnt seem to click for me.

A classic bedtime book raped by hollywood i feel.
 
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