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Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 18, 2009, 11:21:08 pm
So I saw Where The Wild Things Are at midnight thursday morning.  Premiere wooh!

(https://legacy.gamingw.net/pub/25568/where-the-wild-things-are-poster.jpeg)

It was pretty awesome.  Really did a great job at portraying little kid imagination things.  Not everything made sense, but I think thats kinda the way a little kid's brain would work it all out anyway.  He wouldn't think of all the details and since he didnt think of them they werent there.

Intense and really well done.   And beautiful combination of the live action/puppets/cg stuff.

It has gotten some negative reviews though.   People citing slow pacing and a lack of depth in characters, a slim narrative, etc as bad qualities of the movie.

Personally I disagree with all of that.

Thoughts all?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 18, 2009, 11:55:56 pm
Can't wait to see this.  Also this:

Quote
Really did a great job at portraying little kid imagination things.  Not everything made sense, but I think thats kinda the way a little kid's brain would work it all out anyway.  He wouldn't think of all the details and since he didnt think of them they werent there.

Might explain why I got a really Son of Rambow vibe from the trailer.  The whole time I watched the trailer that's what I kept thinking of, and that movie did a great job of capturing CHILDHOOD which really isn't something a lot of movies can pull off.  I figured that this movie would be the same way.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Mongoloid on October 19, 2009, 07:07:45 am
I left a big post in the last movie topic but your post reminded me of some other stuff.

I don't think the characters were at all underdeveloped because A: in the book only a few of the wild things were even in more than one scene, and B: the movie did a pretty decent job at using the personalities of the wild things as plot. The movie really didn't have much going on, which was a tad bit slow and boring, but as it progresses you learn the personalities of the things and there's entertainment in that.

The thing I really didn't like was the obvious throw to contemporary culture; if this movie were made even 5 years ago, same people and tech involved, it would have been an entirely different movie.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 19, 2009, 11:10:54 am
Quote from: Skellyton on October 18, 2009, 11:55:56 pm
Can't wait to see this.  Also this:

Might explain why I got a really Son of Rambow vibe from the trailer.  The whole time I watched the trailer that's what I kept thinking of, and that movie did a great job of capturing CHILDHOOD which really isn't something a lot of movies can pull off.  I figured that this movie would be the same way.

I def agree with the son of Rambow vibe.  Totally very similar movies I didn't think about that before!

Quote from: Mongoloid on October 19, 2009, 07:07:45 am

The thing I really didn't like was the obvious throw to contemporary culture; if this movie were made even 5 years ago, same people and tech involved, it would have been an entirely different movie.

Can you substantiate this in some spoiler tags?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 19, 2009, 12:03:26 pm
Quote from: dark_papa_herma(n on October 19, 2009, 11:10:54 am
I def agree with the son of Rambow vibe.  Totally very similar movies I didn't think about that before!

I didn't think of it myself until the second or third time I saw footage from this film, then it just HIT ME I guess.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Mongoloid on October 19, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
sorry i didn't think that was a spoiler since it's pretty obvious even in the trailers
i really just didn't think they'd take it THAT far
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: goldenratio on October 19, 2009, 08:47:04 pm
I think he means can you expand on what exactly you mean in spoiler tags.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 19, 2009, 11:16:49 pm
Quote from: Mongoloid on October 19, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
sorry i didn't think that was a spoiler since it's pretty obvious even in the trailers
i really just didn't think they'd take it THAT far

sub·stan·ti·ate  (sb-stnsh-t)
tr.v. sub·stan·ti·at·ed, sub·stan·ti·at·ing, sub·stan·ti·ates
1. To support with proof or evidence; verify: substantiate an accusation. See Synonyms at confirm.
2.
a. To give material form to; embody.
b. To make firm or solid.
3. To give substance to; make real or actual.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: blood hell on October 20, 2009, 08:54:58 pm
oh its just that dog
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: the_bub_from_the_pit on October 21, 2009, 12:58:02 am
how was the soundtrack? anything special?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Mongoloid on October 21, 2009, 05:40:53 am
sorry ace, i had somehow never heard that word before

the soundtrack is very hipster

don't read this, these is my gripes with the movie after pulling a muscle trying to love it

Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on October 21, 2009, 06:27:57 pm
Spoiled First World child throws tantrums and bites mother over buying corn that doesn't appeal to his boureois appetite while starved and beaten Third World children die at the ends of imperialist guns worldwide.

Child gets whisked away to fantasy world so as to not have to face the crushing reality that he exists within the richest 10% of the entire population of the human race and that his entire role in life is that of a parasite.

In the end, he learns nothing and returns to his priveleged life of consuming exported goods produced from stolen labor.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Beasley on October 21, 2009, 08:40:07 pm
Quote from: Bat #3 on October 21, 2009, 06:27:57 pm
Spoiled First World child throws tantrums and bites mother over buying corn that doesn't appeal to his boureois appetite while starved and beaten Third World children die at the ends of imperialist guns worldwide.

Child gets whisked away to fantasy world so as to not have to face the crushing reality that he exists within the richest 10% of the entire population of the human race and that his entire role in life is that of a parasite.

In the end, he learns nothing and returns to his priveleged life of consuming exported goods produced from stolen labor.

you gotta learn to turn off sometimes man
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: the_bub_from_the_pit on October 21, 2009, 11:20:23 pm
Quote from: Mongoloid on October 21, 2009, 05:40:53 am
the soundtrack is very hipster

the fuck does that mean?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 22, 2009, 12:04:10 am
i would type more but my arms are bothering me so

Quote from: Bat #3 on October 21, 2009, 06:27:57 pm
Spoiled First World child throws tantrums and bites mother over buying corn that doesn't appeal to his boureois appetite while starved and beaten Third World children die at the ends of imperialist guns worldwide.

Child gets whisked away to fantasy world so as to not have to face the crushing reality that he exists within the richest 10% of the entire population of the human race and that his entire role in life is that of a parasite.

In the end, he learns nothing and returns to his priveleged life of consuming exported goods produced from stolen labor.

missing the point

Quote from: Mongoloid on October 21, 2009, 05:40:53 am
sorry ace, i had somehow never heard that word before

the soundtrack is very hipster

don't read this, these is my gripes with the movie after pulling a muscle trying to love it



you are an idiot
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on October 22, 2009, 01:23:28 am
Quote from: Bat #3 on October 21, 2009, 06:27:57 pm
Spoiled First World child throws tantrums and bites mother over buying corn that doesn't appeal to his boureois appetite while starved and beaten Third World children die at the ends of imperialist guns worldwide.

Child gets whisked away to fantasy world so as to not have to face the crushing reality that he exists within the richest 10% of the entire population of the human race and that his entire role in life is that of a parasite.

In the end, he learns nothing and returns to his priveleged life of consuming exported goods produced from stolen labor.

"stolen labor" maybe you should read less marx and more "basic economics"
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: crone_lover720 on October 22, 2009, 03:20:31 am
Quote from: Bat #3 on October 21, 2009, 06:27:57 pm
Spoiled First World child throws tantrums and bites mother over buying corn that doesn't appeal to his boureois appetite while starved and beaten Third World children die at the ends of imperialist guns worldwide.

Child gets whisked away to fantasy world so as to not have to face the crushing reality that he exists within the richest 10% of the entire population of the human race and that his entire role in life is that of a parasite.

In the end, he learns nothing and returns to his priveleged life of consuming exported goods produced from stolen labor.
lol review home alone next
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: EvilDemonCreature on October 22, 2009, 03:27:42 am
Hey, here's a way better story than Where the Wild things are.
 (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)
It knows what the point is supposed to be.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on October 22, 2009, 06:16:44 am
Quote from: eatmygore on October 22, 2009, 03:20:31 am
lol review home alone next

Rotten overpopulated First World family drains excessive resources from the Third World proletariat to fuel their repugnant, despicably decadent spoiling of their unappreciative children.

The parents further demonstrate their utter and disgusting lack of any identifiable human characteristics by forgetting one of their own children while they consume huge amounts of resources to take the entire parasitic clan on a thoroughly unnecessary and wasteful vacation to Europe.

Child uses myriad toys and supplies culled from the blood and sweat of 95% of the world's population under brutal imperial rule to selfishly and violently defend his family's repulsive superriches against other imperialists who do not obey a rule of law imposed by jackbooted AmeriKKKan thugs in police uniforms.

In the end no lessons are learned whatsoever by the audience or the main characters other than that McCauley Caulkin possesses the inordinate and frightening proclivity to repeatedly injure people over material possessions.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Mongoloid on October 22, 2009, 06:56:07 am
Quote from: dark_papa_herma(n on October 22, 2009, 12:04:10 am
you are an idiot

if it wasn't already apparent you buy into exactly this kind of stuff i might actually like to hear why you think that

dom or whoever that is is right pretty much the whole kid being sent to his room and maybe learning a lesson is completely destroyed by the movie, there is no message or ideal added onto the fact that there really is no point or plot to the movie. what you really just watched was a jim henson showcase, which would be totally cool if it had cost half as much
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 22, 2009, 11:53:54 am
wait a second movies have to teach lessons?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 22, 2009, 10:23:01 pm
Quote from: Mongoloid on October 22, 2009, 06:56:07 am
if it wasn't already apparent you buy into exactly this kind of stuff i might actually like to hear why you think that

please substantiate this
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: goldenratio on October 22, 2009, 10:56:21 pm
wait a second movies based on books with no lesson are supposed to make up lessons for the movie to teach?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: goldenratio on October 22, 2009, 10:56:53 pm
dont forget the message from the matrix - be a hacker and you can be neo
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: goldenratio on October 22, 2009, 10:58:15 pm
lesson from any steven seagal or chuck norris movie - he'll mess u up bad bitch
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 23, 2009, 01:31:35 am
Quote from: Mongoloid on October 22, 2009, 06:56:07 am
if it wasn't already apparent you buy into exactly this kind of stuff i might actually like to hear why you think that

Quote from: dark_papa_herma(n on October 19, 2009, 11:16:49 pm
sub·stan·ti·ate  (sb-stnsh-t)
tr.v. sub·stan·ti·at·ed, sub·stan·ti·at·ing, sub·stan·ti·ates
1. To support with proof or evidence; verify: substantiate an accusation. See Synonyms at confirm.
2.
a. To give material form to; embody.
b. To make firm or solid.
3. To give substance to; make real or actual.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on October 23, 2009, 03:18:06 am
Quote from: Skellyton on October 22, 2009, 11:53:54 am
wait a second movies have to teach lessons?

cultural revolution (with an associated shift in cinematic attitudes) must precede the JDPON.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Brad on October 23, 2009, 04:18:19 am
This shit kinda freaks me out..

I can see the younger kids having nightmares over these fucking things.

Actually this comes to mind:

Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 23, 2009, 12:01:02 pm
me and my bro watched the garbage pail kids movie two or three years ago on tv, i was thoroughly surprised it existed


the difference is that the garbage pail kids was SUPPOSED to gross you out whereas idk why you'd be scared over where the wild things are
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Lyndon on October 23, 2009, 02:25:47 pm
Quote from: Mongoloid on October 22, 2009, 06:56:07 am
what you really just watched was a jim henson showcase, which would be totally cool if it had cost half as much

You slammed the whole movie, then you said it would be totally cool, but only if it had cost half as much.

Just making sure you knew what you just said
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 23, 2009, 03:31:52 pm
hellort my name is mongoloid and i use cost as a factor as to how good or bad a movie is
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 24, 2009, 08:11:22 pm
just saw it, not much to say except with the exception of one or two songs the soundtrack wasn't indie it was just acoustic guitars so idk how it was such a dealbreaked and also i would argue that there were lessons learned

v., v. excellent movie
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 25, 2009, 02:55:47 am
yeah it was good right?

and i do think lessons were learned. 

Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: Vellfire on October 25, 2009, 12:28:05 pm
yeah really i think that was a PRETTY SIGNIFICANT LESSON idk how anyone could miss it
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: ericwr114 on October 26, 2009, 07:43:15 am
i haven't seen it ,but after these ,i am eager to watch it ,sounds well.
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: crone_lover720 on October 26, 2009, 10:57:00 pm
what specifically makes it sound well to you?
Title: [movie] Where The Wild Things Are
Post by: cowardknower on October 27, 2009, 03:40:17 am
hey mongoloid come defend yourself i wanna fight about htis