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Did anyone here enjoy "Where the Wild Things Are?" (Movie, not book)

post #1 of 8
1/30/10 at 6:57pm
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I recently watched the movie, "Where the Wild Things Are."

I have to say that it has been many years since I've seen a movie I actively disliked as much as this one.

It managed to be boring, depressing, and unengaging all at once. The characters were uninteresting, the plot non-existent, and the dialog banal.

I felt like I'd gone over to a friend's house and had to sit through an interminable dinner while everyone in his family quarreled with each other and threw plates.

Is Maurice Sendak still alive? I have a hard time believing that he would lend his name to this messed-up rendition of his classic book.
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post #2 of 8
2/20/10 at 11:47pm
I agree totally. I took my two boys to see it, since it is one of their favorite stories...complete disappointment.
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post #3 of 8
2/20/10 at 11:54pm
I liked it. It was a bit too long, I felt. Ironically, I felt the framing scenes at the beginning and end were more engaging than the middle, although I did like the middle. I've never read the book though.
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post #4 of 8
2/20/10 at 11:54pm
It blew. So disappointed, was really looking forward to it too.
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post #5 of 8
2/21/10 at 2:13am
as the french would say: it blew chunks. are people incapable of making good films anymore? i just realized i havent seen a movie i thoroughly enjoyed without some fatal flaw that was made in the last decade
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post #6 of 8
2/21/10 at 2:22am
Anyone could've seen this one coming. What a terrible idea for a film adaptation.
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post #7 of 8
2/21/10 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by Jekyll View Post
I liked it. It was a bit too long, I felt. Ironically, I felt the framing scenes at the beginning and end were more engaging than the middle, although I did like the middle. I've never read the book though.

I liked it too. The book is like 400 words long, so I knew they would have to extrapolate a lot.

Rather, they managed to put in a lot of subtext about relationships, maturity and causality. It made for great teaching points for my nephew and niece.
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post #8 of 8
2/21/10 at 1:14pm
I haven't seen the movie, but when I was little I didn't enjoy the book half as much as my mother apparently did. Same thing with the movie E.T.
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