where the wild things are - Page 2

my_scatterheart · 10-06-2009, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by verklingen

and i don't have to like it! hmph

.....correct

**Kompressor** · 10-06-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by al-Mu'akhkhir

Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how he expanded a ten sentence picture book into a full hour and a half movie

Jumanji anyone?

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my_scatterheart · 10-06-2009, 03:26 PM

and that was a GREAT movie

verklingen · 10-06-2009, 03:36 PM

jumanji was a book?

**Kompressor** · 10-06-2009, 03:45 PM

Yup, same writer/illustrator as The Polar Express.

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crookedhatinator45 · 10-06-2009, 04:18 PM

polar express was dope.

catastrophe · 10-06-2009, 05:22 PM

I for one and very excited to see this. Glad enough to have saved a free movie pass for something that comes along just like this

awwsuga23 · 10-06-2009, 05:39 PM

im rly wanting to see this movie.

crookedhatinator45 · 10-15-2009, 11:56 PM

my girl's taking me for my birthday. soooo stoked. she knows how key that book was to me growing up and says everytime she sees the commercials and shiz for it she thinks about me.
*d'aaaaaaaaaaaawwwww wwwwwwwwwww*

JcP · 10-16-2009, 02:06 AM

just got back from a midnight showing of this...was NOT impressed. Visually it was awesome, and the kid playing Max is phenomenal in it, but without any semblance of journey for the character...without learning anything, without the story actually GOING anywhere, and without Max leaving the Wild Things with some sort of epiphany, when the credits rolled I turned to my BF and said, "what the hell just happened?"

I suppose it's "brilliant" in its ability to tell a story like a young boy would (meandering, unforused but obscenely creative, etc), but I mean...how many times have you listened to a young kid tell stories? It's amazing and fun for ten minutes, then not so much.

verklingen · 10-16-2009, 07:22 AM

about what i expected

maybe ill wait for dvd

**Bearsy** · 10-16-2009, 08:07 AM

I'm going to see it with a group of friends... excited to see it

ionlylooklazy · 10-16-2009, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by JcP

just got back from a midnight showing of this...was NOT impressed. Visually it was awesome, and the kid playing Max is phenomenal in it, but without any semblance of journey for the character...without learning anything, without the story actually GOING anywhere, and without Max leaving the Wild Things with some sort of epiphany, when the credits rolled I turned to my BF and said, "what the hell just happened?"

I suppose it's "brilliant" in its ability to tell a story like a young boy would (meandering, unforused but obscenely creative, etc), but I mean...how many times have you listened to a young kid tell stories? It's amazing and fun for ten minutes, then not so much.

bummer! i figured that was the case from the reviews. ive already got plans to take my date to see it

JcP · 10-16-2009, 10:41 AM

this is DEFINATELY a love it or hate it movie tho.... I'm sure there are people out there who will think its amazing and awesome and great. Just wasn't that at all for me.

kitch · 10-16-2009, 11:51 AM

I'm glad they did the monsters with animatronics instead of CGI, well I guess they did some CGI on the faces based on the actors' own facial expressions which is pretty chill.

JcP · 10-16-2009, 04:54 PM

I try to. Plus summer/fall movies are my bread and butter. I consider it research to a degree as an actor.

meh

Sir-Ex · 10-16-2009, 06:10 PM

You're an actor? That's pretty cool how'd you get into that?

JcP · 10-16-2009, 08:18 PM

it involved a 747 airliner and a Cambodian circus performer named Mr. Winkle.

I'll spare you the details, but I'm an actor now.

Sir-Ex · 10-16-2009, 09:29 PM

Must you spare them? Sounds like its quite the story .

Sir-Ex · 10-16-2009, 11:33 PM

That hollywood could not capture the magic of a timeless kids story book is, I think, not a bad thing at all.

10-06-2009, 03:26 PM	#23 (permalink)
my_scatterheart Today, I am alive. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NJ Posts: 4,065 Thanks: 1,300 Thanked 2,713 Times in 1,579 Posts	and that was a GREAT movie __________________ Be mindful even if your mind is full. -J. De La Vega

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verklingen Radical Dreamer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: texas Posts: 8,031 Thanks: 795 Thanked 1,470 Times in 940 Posts	jumanji was a book? __________________ “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” rip matt

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Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,066 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2,849 Times in 1,509 Posts	Yup, same writer/illustrator as The Polar Express. to __________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

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catastrophe intuēri Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Minnesotaaa Posts: 1,215 Thanks: 613 Thanked 185 Times in 135 Posts	I for one and very excited to see this. Glad enough to have saved a free movie pass for something that comes along just like this __________________ “Liƒë Is a Drëam, From Which Wë First Must Wakë Bëƒorë Wë May Drëam Again…” RIP Gov “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

10-16-2009, 07:22 AM	#31 (permalink)
verklingen Radical Dreamer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: texas Posts: 8,031 Thanks: 795 Thanked 1,470 Times in 940 Posts	about what i expected maybe ill wait for dvd __________________ “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” rip matt

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Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 10,469 Thanks: 1,411 Thanked 3,131 Times in 1,874 Posts	You're an actor? That's pretty cool how'd you get into that? __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

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Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 10,469 Thanks: 1,411 Thanked 3,131 Times in 1,874 Posts	Must you spare them? Sounds like its quite the story . __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

10-16-2009, 11:33 PM	#40 (permalink)
Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 10,469 Thanks: 1,411 Thanked 3,131 Times in 1,874 Posts	That hollywood could not capture the magic of a timeless kids story book is, I think, not a bad thing at all. __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

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