This film's road to being made was fascinating (including the infamous teaser on The Grinch that no one seems to think even existed), and the end result was too dark and weird for kids but had a following with adults who grew up with the book. I love, love, love this film. I find the vocal performances by James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hara to be profoundly moving. It's such a beautiful, abstract insight into a child's anxiety-prone mind, that alienated most audiences who expected the wild rumpus the (excellent) trailer promised.
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I'm here on behalf of my film THE MULE which will be available on VOD and Digital platforms on November 21, 2014. The film's cast includes Hugo Weaving, Leigh Whannell, John Noble and Georgina Haig.
THE MULE SYNOPSIS: It's 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, ‘the Mule’ makes a desperate choice; to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence...literally. And by doing so becomes a “human time-bomb,” dragging cops, criminals, lawyers and his mother into his impossible escapade. Inspired by true events.
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Where the Wild Things Are was released October 16th, 2009.
I feel that this film is overlooked within Spike’s larger body of works like Her, Being John Malkovich & Adaptation. The film’s response from critics was fair but the audience score was Luke warm at best.. It has gained this reputation as being a strangely dark Children’s book adaptation. To which I say, it can’t be darker than this shit..
The Film has much more to offer than being just a dark kids film. It creates an atmosphere of melancholy and displaying a child grow up. It’s a film that teaches that you can be a child at heart without being incredibly destructive. It’s pretty existential for being a children’s film and ask bigger questions that most children’s films would rather not answer.
Look at this scene for example: “The sun is going to die.”
This scene I feel is representative of the film. It’s a reflection of Max talking to himself. Max tries to run from bigger questions by acting like he’s above everything else & stays within his own world. Which is also reflected in this scene as well and shows Max’s growth from where he started.
“Where The Wild Things Are” is beautifully acted, shot, and scored. I would recommend this film to almost anyone and is in a fantastical journey through a child’s psyche. It’s almost like a child’s imagination giving therapy for the child lost in the world around him.
I remember watching the film when I was younger, probably the target audience for the film. Throughout the entire viewing experience I was just reminded of a broken home, and a sense of dread washed over me from the very start. The book never had anything to do with the grueling existence that the monsters go through, it was about being a kid at heart and never letting your imagination die, regardless of how old you are. The filmmakers totally missed the mark, and we were left with the very thing a lot of people who saw the movie were trying to escape; a tense, depressing life, rife with emotional abuse and tragedy.
I rewatched the movie last night and had a very different reaction than I did in 2009.
I felt unsettled and scared when I watched it last night. I can appreciate, though, the symbolism and deeper meanings, and the imagery is beautiful. I think they did a great job at recreating the characters and the skeleton of the story. There’s not much of a plot in the book, so I did like the characterization of the wild things and the conflict that was created between them. I looked at old threads on this sub and people didn’t really like it/get it.
Has anyone any thoughts on the film nowadays? I high recommend a rewatch if you had any feelings either way back then. Look forward to hearing your thoughts!
This film has been fatally overlooked. It's not a children's film: it's a film about childhood. I don't know how, but Spike Jonze has somehow captured childhood - not my childhood specifically - but the general idea of what it feels like to be a child, and all the loneliness and excitement and anger and love and fear and joy that entails, and bottled it up into a slow and sad dream unfolding in front of me.
Everything about this film works cohesively. It tells a beautifully simple allegory about growing up and learning to deal with turbulent emotions with poignancy and humanity. The gorgeous sunset-splashed cinematography, the warmth and levity of the dialogue, the soul-wrenching pathos of its score - all contribute to an achingly melancholic and touching story.
If it sounds like I'm overselling it, I can only say that I'm just trying to be honest in expressing how deeply this film moves me. If you haven't yet, please watch this film, if only on the off-chance that it might have as powerful emotional hold over you as it does over me.
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Where the Wild Things Are seems to be a movie not many people talk about and I know that it received a mixed audience when it was released. But I truly think it's one of the best movies ever made in the last ten years. Spike Jonze's direction is incredible and the set design is remarkable. It also captures the mind of a child very well. Does anyone feel the same way?
It deserves more than a regular blu-ray release. I see it in the $5 bin at Best Buy all the time.
I recently watched it and oh boy i realized why that movie gave me nightmares as a kid. First of all the kid is a furry who destroyed his sisters room and bit his mom.Then he just randomly trusts these monsters(because hes a fucking retard) he breaks up their entire village and willingnlly puts himself in real danger then at the end of the film when the big striped one tries to eat him he lets the girl monster VORE him then after the big guy leaves she sits there rubbing her belly fully intendeds on digesting this kid until he starts talking. That movie is fucking weird.
Hi everyone! I wrote this script for myself as an actor in order to create my own work. This is the first script I ever wrote, and in the process I've fallen in love with writing and filmmaking.
I'm scheduled to film in early January after a couple months of prep and I could not be more excited. I'm mostly looking to gauge levels of interest in the project, if it appeals to you, and any and all constructive criticisms/positive remarks on the writing itself.
Link to script here.
Logline: Living in the woods with his soldier friend, a monster grows increasingly worried at the soldier's choice to isolate himself from society.
He played the kid from Where the Wild Things Are movie ten years ago. Last thing he was in was some indie film that came out in 2016. What ever happened to him?
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This is a small scale hunt for the winner's choice of an original one-sheet, either Alien 3 (1992) or Where The Wild Things Are (2009) as pictured below:
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To win a poster you obtain a single word from the clue above. Once you have obtained the correct word you must direct message it to u/posterhunt.
This mini-hunt will be open until Tuesday June 27th at 11am EDT. Everyone that correctly messages me by that time will be entered into a random drawing to win their choice of poster.
User accounts must not be brand new and must have decent history on them.
This is a guest puzzle created by u/kwprules!
Good luck!
I’m coming to visit my girlfriend for a week starting Friday as I make my way from Montana to your city.
I’ve told her it’s her city and I’ll do anything she wants, but she’s tasked me with picking something I’d like to do.
We both like animals, so I’m wondering, in a local’s opinion, what is the best animal experience in LV? I don’t know where she has and hasn’t been as far as seeing animals goes, but she’s a free spirit and down for whatever.
Thanks for your thoughts in advance.
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