Is anybody else absolutely jacked for this? I'm terrified that my hope for this is enormous. Like Hollywood could possibly make up for raping a major part of my childhood with Transformers and G.I. Joe just with this film. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOkQ4dYVaM"]YouTube - Where the Wild Things Are - Official Trailer[/ame]
i might be the only one, but I never really liked this book as a kid. didn't connect with me, I guess.
I was Ok with the book. I didn't have the connection as others seem to do. Probably see the movie because it does look interesting from the previews...
I love the previews. I love that the director eschewed violence and fart jokes. Also, Sendak himself said that he loved the film, and this apparently saved it from studio tinkering. Here's the most amazing thing about the book: as the story progresses deeper and deeper into Max's imagination (and the land of the Wild Things), the pictures consume more and more of the page, until you reach three (well, six) consecutive pages of wordless wild rumpus. As Max begins to feel lonely, text again encroaches on the page. The last page is a single line of text with no accompanying picture. I'm totally looking forward to this movie.
Hipster. You missed the point. If Goatwhore was the music in the trailer, then the movie would be good.
Turning anecdotes into generalizations is neither that funny nor perceptive. But I guess they know that, so it's ironic or something. #50!
Yeah, it's a bit hit-and-miss, but some of his stuff is quite good. The funniest thing is that it took a liberal white guy to show conservatives how best to mock liberal whites. Incidentally, I have a theory that Where the Wild Things Are is a book that almost noone actually read as a kid, but got exposed to it at some later age as some sort of faux nostalgia. Same thing with Speed Racer.
Fortunately not for me. This was easily in my top five probably being edged out by Harold and the Purple Crayon and slightly above Babar the Elephant and Curious George. The second I saw the preview I got choked up because it instantly took me back to being a little kid. Happier times for most of us.
Really? Well, I suppose all I can counter with is anecdotal evidence, but I read the book when I was in 1st or 2nd grade......right about the same time that I was watching episodes of Speed Racer, Marine Boy and Kimba the White Lion in the afternoons on WDCA 20 hosted by Captain 20.
I also read a lot of WTWTA when I was little--and, dude, your mention of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" just opened up a little corner of my brain that hasn't been active since I was about 5.
You forgot Ultraman... Which, thanks to the wonder of Netflix, I have shared with my kids. As far as the movie goes, I'm not holding my breath, I'm not going to see it. What a travesty. The whole point of the book lies in its utter simplicity and lack of any plot (that, plus a final punchline easily accessible to a Kindergarterner). The book works because it only takes four minutes to read.
You forgot Ultraman. And thanks to the wonder of Netflix, I have been able to share this gem with my children. As far as the movie, what a travesty. The book works precisely because there is no plot and there is a kindergarten-accessible punchline at the end. The stark simplicity (that, and the incredibly lush illustrations for the time) is WTWTA's greatest attribute.
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