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Re: Where the Wild Things Are - will you see it? - Doc - 10-09-2009
> Did you even bother to look at the other films of Spike
> Jonze's, which he actually DIRECTED, and not just
> produced?
(...and wrote.)
Yes. I've seen both Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. Adaptation was boring. Being John Malkovich was vaguely interesting, but lacked characterization and the third act was gutted. The original script for Malkovich was far better than the movie and it was beyond his meager talent to translate it to the screen.
He has no directorial style. He has big ideas and no follow through. Even his music videos start off well and end with something lame and dull.
Nevertheless, I'm still waiting for the reviews to come in before I decide whether to drop my hard earned money on the movie. If the studio kept final cut away from him, it might be tolerable, even though he was allowed to work on the script.
Re: Where the Wild Things Are - will you see it? - Seacrest - 10-09-2009
Doc wrote:
> Did you even bother to look at the other films of Spike
> Jonze's, which he actually DIRECTED, and not just
> produced?
(...and wrote.)
Yes. I've seen both Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. Adaptation was boring. Being John Malkovich was vaguely interesting, but lacked characterization and the third act was gutted.
Matter-of-fact, I am not a fan of his past "artsy" work either.
To me, Jackass is the best stuff out of his oeuvre.
But the trailers and excerpts I've seen for WTWTA look awesome.
Re: Where the Wild Things Are - will you see it? - mrbigstuff - 10-09-2009
AAA wrote:
My sweetest memories of our first born is when I would read this to him, and he memorized it.
It's a dream of mine to live in that moment once I pass this world.
Thank you for that revelation. I, too, feel something for this book that borders on idolatry.
Where the Wild Things Are was less a book to me as a child and more like an encapsulation of the possible, and I know I'm not the only person who feels that way.
Re: Where the Wild Things Are - will you see it? - dk62 - 10-09-2009
Arcade Fire in the trailer - -of course I will see it.