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Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze film adaption

that trailer made me feel exactly the same way Do You Realise by the Flaming Lips does.

Which is obviously a wonderful thing
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I haven't read the childrens book. I was going purely on the trailer which looks really boring, maybe it assumes you know the book. I can't see anything particularly 'spike jonez' about the trailer but then my main problem with jonez is that he is simply overrated.
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Fair enough. The book is great though. Didn't read it as a kid, but my kids sure like it.

El Jefe said:
i'd quite like a "let the wild rumpus begin" tattoo :)
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In one of the trailers Max says "let the wild rumpus start". It's not like there's much text to mess up :rolleyes:
 
I wrote the whole WTWTA book series and entire concept off as a bizarre dream so am well happy to see this coming out :cool:

BTW any film Atomic Suplex says looks shit is 99% of the time brilliant. I use him as a recommendation service, only watching films that he thinks are rubbish :)
 
The Octagon said:
Who's Bill Murray then?
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Harrison Ford apparently. I think Sophia is in a little rich girl dream world.

The doc on the DVD (by spike jonze) is pretty damn shit but the bits of sophia team building are like some sort faceplam of mockumentry. Watching her 'direct' makes you wonder how they ended up with any film at all, plus, the doc is supposedly edited to show her in a good light. I think she was very lucky that she pulled a half decent film out of the bag. Murray was excellent and the locations all looked lovely thanks to the cinematographer. She still managed to fuck it up though by making it overlong (really sagging in the middle) and giving it a shitter than shit ending.
 
AndyO'C said:
In one of the trailers Max says "let the wild rumpus start". It's not like there's much text to mess up :rolleyes:
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Because they're the words in the book. Jef got it wrong. :p

"And now" cried Max "let the wild rumpus start"

My favourite part of the book, my son used to do a funny dance and say "Hubba Hubba" when we got to that bit.:)
 
Looking forward to this!
Still read the book about once a week to my daughter. I managed to get the animated DVD from the states - mostly done by Maurice Sendak himself. Mickey in the Night kitchen is particularly well done. He based the monsters in Where The... on his aunts and uncles :)
 
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So it's out now yes?
Who has seen it already? when are you going?
I'm very very excited. I might go and see it on monday afternoon, by myself...
 
I saw a preview of it last week and thought it was disappointing, especially as the film gets so much right. The Wild Things themselves are great, Karen O's soundtrack is beautiful, Spike Jonze's hyper realistic approach brings something unusual to the fantasy and the kid who plays Max is excellent. Unfortunately once he gets to the island almost nothing happens, not plot, no forward momentum. Characters seem to do stuff almost at random. It's a bit like a small kid making up a story on the spot: cute when it's your own kid, less cute when its another kid, tedious when it's a screenplay. Dave Eggers should stick to writing novels.
 
Not very good reviews on Newsnight review last night.

I was planning to see this but the young un isn't interested. It does seem to be a film for adults.
 
I thought the "not very good reviews" on Newsnight were more like 'uttely slaughtering reviews'. Not that I can vouche for any of what seemed like a slightly odd group of people.
 
Sounds like it could be saved with a little judicious editing. I bet there are a lot of recent films that would have been immeasurably improved with a more ruthless cut.
 
Santino said:
Sounds like it could be saved with a little judicious editing. I bet there are a lot of recent films that would have been immeasurably improved with a more ruthless cut.
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This seems so common these days. There are loads of films some by my favorite directors that just really need a bit of chop. Maybe the directors are too close to the work? I don't know. Gozu for instance could be a contender for my favorite film ever if it was an hour shorter. It's annoying because you can clearly see where it is flabby, you wouldn't even have to cut many actual scenes out, just make them shorter and snappier.
 
The length isn't the problem. The film has barely any story, no narrative momentum and not much of interest to say. I don't know how editing would solve this. It is tricky to expand what is a very brief picture book and they just didn't crack it.

Spike Jonze gave a Q&A at the end of the film and he came across as immensely likable, funny and, erm, very fanciable. :o

I hope his next film will be better again.
 
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