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Sexy Celebrity
10-17-09, 05:59 PM
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WBadger
10-17-09, 06:06 PM
Wow, quite the different review than Holden Pike.
Wow, quite the different review than Holden Pike.
Why, yes it is. What were you expecting....everyone to have the same opinion has Holden? LMAO
WBadger
10-17-09, 07:59 PM
No, but I didn't expect a jump from 4.5 stars to 1 star.
me neither... i just read his review. I was like WTF???? I haven't seen it yet, but I doubt it deserves 1 out of 5. ya kidding me?
honeykid
10-17-09, 11:20 PM
I haven't seen it yet either, but then I'm not expecting to see it. :nope: However, if I did see it, I think it'd be lucky to get 1/5 from me. It looks like those awful 80's kids films that I hated.
WBadger
10-17-09, 11:39 PM
Well, I don't know how everybody feels about Roger Ebert, but he gave this film 3/4 stars.
As I said in Sexy's review thread, I give it 3.5, but I'm not ready to discuss it. I enjoyed the direction and the awesome "wild" locations and sets. The kid was just about perfect, and I was surprised to hear so many songs with Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) singing and not screaming with no electric guitars within earshot. However, I was disappointed that I never heard or saw the Wild Things gnash their terrible teeth. :cool: Brenda cried at the ending, and even though I didn't, it was poignant. I've read this book to hundreds of little kids sitting on the floor in front of me, and they always laugh and scream. It's a wonderful participatory book, at least if you can roar your terrible roar and gnash your terrible teeth the way I can.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t203/bejmaf/gnashteeth.jpg
Aww, mark, how cute. I'm imagining you gnashing your terrible teeth, lol.
My roommate just took her 5 year old niece. They loved it and my roommate said she got a bit choked up at the end. This is someone who doesn't seem to like many movies, to be honest.
I must have read that book to both my sons a thousand times.
Yet you were the only one to give me negative rep for it!
Well maybe I didn't think you should have given it what you did. The movie wasn't that bad to give it such a harsh review. You are practically the only person who probably hated the movie :p
iluv2viddyfilms
10-18-09, 09:10 PM
I haven't seen the film, but Karen O is sexy. Of course in an interview I saw with her she appeared like a complete ditz. But I like her music.
iluv2viddyfilms
10-18-09, 09:13 PM
Wow, quite the different review than Holden Pike.
Where is his review ?
Where is his review ?
He posted a link to it in the first post in this thread......
Avoid it at all costs.
My review is here. (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=575295)
TheUsualSuspect
10-18-09, 09:24 PM
I think he meant Pike's.
iluv2viddyfilms
10-18-09, 09:27 PM
I think he meant Pike's.
Yep, that's what I meant.
TheUsualSuspect
10-18-09, 09:54 PM
It's under the reviews section of the site, look at the top of the page.
Avoid it at all costs.
I heard that too.
honeykid
10-20-09, 12:04 AM
Well maybe I didn't think you should have given it what you did. The movie wasn't that bad to give it such a harsh review. You are practically the only person who probably hated the movie :p
So now people have to limit their criticism of things they don't like? Does this work in reverse? If someone gives a film 5/5 and declares it they favourite film of all time, will they get neg repped too?
I'm trying to put together a top 100 of my favourite films for this place, but, considering the films on it, I think I could get neg repped to the ninth circle if this is the new law of the land. :p
meatwadsprite
10-20-09, 11:22 AM
I really enjoyed it. (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=576012)
Although Sexy's review was enjoyable in it's own right :laugh:
GodsOtherMonkey
10-20-09, 12:44 PM
I think the big question here is:
WILL YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD LIKE IT?
and nothing else matters.
I hope it does really well so that the Jim Henson Company can go on to make other pictures.
MUPPETS! (rule)
meatwadsprite
10-20-09, 01:48 PM
I mean, who was the villain? Doesn't there need to be a good antagonist in movies? Who is bad in Wild Things?
Carol
TheUsualSuspect
10-20-09, 03:14 PM
Since when do movies need villains?
Also, the film is catered to adults more, since the book came out so far back. How many kids these days even knew about the book before the film came out?
It still gets read in many elementary schools. My wife has a copy of it in her fourth grade class, and back when I substituted at elementary schools, I'd take it with me just in case it wasn't in a teacher's class, but usually it already was.
The villains in the movie are older people and people who don't want to have fun. After all, the film is basically a dream as opposed to a nightmare. Remember, since Max bit his mother and is a wolf, he's already a wild thing, although I don't believe he thinks that he's bad or a "monster". He's just happy to find "bigger people" who still want to have fun, but he learns that when you get bigger there are apparently more important things than having fun. If anything, that's the villain (or at least, the conflict): the responsibilities of being older and bigger make it difficult to do what you want to do. In the long run though, forgiveness is better than fighting.
meatwadsprite
10-22-09, 08:03 PM
The villains in the movie are older people and people who don't want to have fun.
I thought Carol was the main antagonist, like Max at the start of the film, he can't get what he wants. He dreams of a perfect world "where only the things he wants to happen, happen". He doesn't really understand the other monsters and has giant destructive fits, which reflects Max's inability to cope with his mom dating, his sister not wanting anything to do with him, and his lack of other friends. When Max leaves the island, he's much more wise. He realizes that he can't act like Carol, he has to adapt to change and face his reality - rather than create his own world.
Going to see it tomorrow and looking forward to it.
latoure
01-13-10, 02:54 AM
Is this movie appropriate for an 8 year old?
Kelly Wilson
05-28-11, 08:35 PM
I confess to not remembering whether, as a child, I was read Where the Wild Things Are. Perhaps I was, but perhaps not. In any event, the nine sentences penned by Maurice Sendak (almost fifty years ago) have since been put to screen by Spike Jonze.
Max is a lonely eight year old boy who inhabits two seemingly different worlds. The first he shares with his mother and his sister, both of whom incur his wrath in the opening few scenes. After incidents with each, Max, decked out in a wolf costume, runs away. Emotionally, he enters into the second world he inhabits, and here exist the wild things.
I was basically wondering if people saw it and what their impressions were. Plus, I wanted to say "Hi." This is my first post.
Kelly Wilson
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