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So they're making a movie for "Where The Wild Things Are".

PERSONAL REACTION: *gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Where have you been?

I know, the news is old, but the trailer (at least to my knowledge) isn't.

Oh, shit, I hadn't seen that. Looks... indie. Guys in suits. I like it.

Never read the book, so obviously, I don't care.

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Unless I'm misreading that, aren't you stating the bloody obvious somewhat?

I'll be honest (why lie?); I've never read the book. Never even seen it in a bookshop. Don't know anyone that's ever read it. Never heard of Maurice Sendak. Americans seem to go mental for it, though. Popular over there, is it?

I suppose if Jonze follows this up with an adaptation of The Very Hungry Caterpillar I'll shit my pants.

I remember that book being about 4 pages long, a sentence a page. How are they going to make a feature film based off of it?

Majestic Joey wrote:I remember that book being about 4 pages long, a sentence a page. How are they going to make a feature film based off of it?

I know right, it didn't especially work for "Horton Hears a Who".

"Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" is also getting the feature treatment (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/18/clo ... e-trailer/) and doesn't look like it's going to work either. I mean, these books are more premise than story anyway.

Hmm? Horton Hears a Who is 72 pages long with gobs of text and although the movie does expand on a lot of things I was surprised by how close it is to the original, I don't think they actually added that much, especially compared with what was done with The Grinch. A more apt comparison for Where the Wild Things Are is going to be more like The Polar Express or Jumanji.

I suspect Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs could actually be a fun premise for a movie, if you throw out the entire book and just make it a disaster movie like hypothetical Hollywood takes on Tetris and Katamari Damacy. As with Jumanji I think the trick is to take the "rules" introduced in the story and apply it to a more movie-like story (at least, I think it worked for Jumanji).

Personally, I'm looking forward to Dinotrux, but it's probably a bad sign that the rights to the movie were secured before the book it is based on was even released.

I heard they were planning a movie of the Mortal Engines series. Look it up. There's a motherfucker I want to see in action.

Another thing to consider is that they don't deviate too much from the original spirit of the book. Casting Mike Myers in Cat in the Hat made the titular character way too annoying and slap-sticky, and boundaries were even more overshot in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. But they got the Harry Potter films mostly right, although I haven't thought too much about them.

I feel kind of silly critiqueing comedies based off of childrens' books.

Edit - That said, the Potter films had much more of a story to work with, which necessitates less filler.

This topic reminds me of how annoyed i am over the fact that Pippi Longstocking, my countries flagship character when it comes to children's literature, missed out on two potentially very interesting film adaptions, due to the stories original author Astrid Lindgren worrying over that the directors would deviate from the source material. Both of the proposed films were to be made by directors considered to be among the greatest of all time, the first being none other than Ingmar Bergman, and the second being Hideo Miyazaki. And when Lindgren finally did agree to let Pippi hit the big screen, she gave the job to fucking Nelvana, which of course meant we got a movie of about the same quality as an average Care Bears episode. God, what a stupid, stupid woman...

The Pippi films gave us the most memorable theme song of all time, though. Her death was not in vain.

Also, I really liked How the Grinch Stole Christmas. What was wrong with it?

Dr. Watson wrote:Hideo Miyazaki

LOL

The possibilities are endless right there. What would it be? Metal Ghibli Solid? Oh man.

Also, I really liked How the Grinch Stole Christmas. What was wrong with it?

The scene that ruined it for me was when the Grinch goes on a rampage in Whoville, and ends up burning down the Christmas tree in town square or something like that. Besides being needlessly tasteless (in the context of a family comedy), it kind of screws up the Grinch's personality. I've always imagined him as a sly, sneaky grump, not a raging badass.

In the live action movie he seemed like deep down he was a okay, misunderstood person but in the animated cartoon movie he was so tight because throughout the whole story it seemed like he had no redeeming qualities at all. He had just so much hate for everything until his revelation at the end of the story.

Then it seems I liked the live-action The Grinch for all the wrong reasons, too.

G.Silver wrote:

Dr. Watson wrote:Hideo Miyazaki

LOL

Ditto.

Jim Carrey basically killed the role. He has a tendency to do that. Makes me wonder who else they could've gotten to play the Grinch.

To be fair it's not like the writing was helping him out there. I thought he did a great job in Horton.

I heard that they were originally going to make Where the Wild Things Are much darker (closer to the book, if you ask me), but they were worried that it would scare kids. (I don't have a source for this, so I could be completely wrong.)

The movie we're getting looks like it's catering to the "indie" crowd (like j-man said), who are big fans of this sort of thing, so I guess it makes sense.

You mark my words. Sales of Wild Things messenger bags and beanies will fuckin' skyrocket.

G.Silver wrote:To be fair it's not like the writing was helping him out there. I thought he did a great job in Horton.

Man, you liked Horton? Apart from the random gag with Katie and the musical bit at the climax, the movie was a goddamn trainwreck.

it ended with all the main characters snapping and singing a pop song for crissakes.

I did, in fact. Whatchoo gonna do about it? Huh? Huh?

Wait, G.Silv and Rappy are having a feud? There's only one way to settle this.

Art duel!