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abcdefz
06-22-2007, 11:11 AM
Ahhh, Spike.* Hope you do it good. (y)



http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/movies_blog/062107_wildthingsare_big.jpg







...for those who don't know, he's using puppets. Which, considering his track record, sounds even greater than if I weren't considering his track record.










*...that would be Jonze, not Lee.
MC Moot
06-22-2007, 11:17 AM
exciting newz....(y)
kaiser soze
06-22-2007, 11:18 AM
Everything Spike Jonez touches turns to gold

I wonder if any Jackasses make an appearance?

this movie will be very cool
SugarInTheRaw
06-22-2007, 11:42 AM
...for those who don't know, he's using puppets.


Fucking great!

Fuck this CGI bullshit. I lost interest in it after Jurass-has-had-it Park.
beastieangel01
06-22-2007, 11:44 AM
Puppets was definitely the best way to go (y) that makes me happy.
abcdefz
06-22-2007, 11:55 AM
Everything speck of that promo image looks exactly right to me. That makes me happy.

The cast is good, too:

(Credited cast)

Catherine Keener

Forest Whitaker ... Wild Thing (voice)

Michelle Williams ... (voice)

Paul Dano ... Alexander (voice)

Catherine O'Hara ... (voice)
Tom Noonan ... Wild Thing (voice)

Michael Berry Jr. ... Daniel the Bull (voice)
Max Records ... Max
cookiepuss
06-22-2007, 12:28 PM
fuck yes for Puppets!!!! thank the lord. I miss Jim Henson.
TAL
06-22-2007, 12:35 PM
I have no idea what this is. So I looked it up.

Guess the book was/is popular with English speaking kids.
abcdefz
06-22-2007, 12:36 PM
Very charming and playful, tiny bit scary.
MC Moot
06-22-2007, 12:44 PM
The kidz are friggin MAD for it.....I have a friend whose whole lower back tatoo of the book cover...it will be nice to see the tykes in something other than spiderman or dora the explora attire.....
abcdefz
06-22-2007, 12:46 PM
...as long as Spike doesn't include any clandestine wall-humping puppet sexx. :D
Caribou
06-22-2007, 03:09 PM
I have no idea what this is. So I looked it up.

Guess the book was/is popular with English speaking kids.

It's popular all over the world and has been for quite a while. I think it was first published in the 60's.
I grew up with it too. I remember being about 4 years old and in school they had a tape with the story on it. And at the end, everyone got to dance like crazy monsters. That was awesome. :)

The pic from the film looks pretty good. That kid really looks like Max. I'm really looking forward to this. Spike Jonze + Good Memories= Interresting film watching experience.
TAL
06-22-2007, 03:11 PM
Guess I missed out then.
cookiepuss
06-22-2007, 04:16 PM
Guess I missed out then.

geez TAL. you were a deprived child. stop mowing your parents lawn, they don't deserve you!
TAL
06-22-2007, 04:20 PM
There a TONS of great kids books made in my area of the world. So I don't need your stuff.

I've never seen a Dr. Seuss book.
cookiepuss
06-22-2007, 04:22 PM
wa-whaaaaaaattttttt! NO SUESSSSSSSS?:eek::eek::eek::eek:

no cat in the hat?
no Horton hears a who?



What?:(


I guess it's good that you don't know what your'e missing.
TAL
06-22-2007, 04:24 PM
Just like you don't know what you're missing.
cookiepuss
06-22-2007, 04:40 PM
I have a pretty good idea. I'm missing out on a hunka hunka burning Tal.:(


I want to send you a suess book now.
TAL
06-22-2007, 04:43 PM
I don't want one now. I think it's something you have to grow up with (like Goonies), and since his books weren't translated into a language I understood when I was a little Thomas, I have no need for them now.
Caribou
06-22-2007, 04:51 PM
I've never read/seen a Seuss book either, and often don't get why everyone is always going on about how great it is, but I suppose TAL's right and it only has meaning when you've grown up with it.
DIGI
06-22-2007, 05:01 PM
*...that would be Jonze, not Lee.

Wheeeew!!!
NoLayupRule
06-25-2007, 02:13 PM
makes me wanna jump up and down in excitment!!!

or in excrement

either way
MC Moot
06-25-2007, 02:17 PM
TAl is still hung up on Beowulf and Grendel.....:D
BBboy20
06-25-2007, 02:26 PM
Interesting.
TAL
06-25-2007, 02:41 PM
MC Moot knows nothing. Or so it seems anyway.
MC Moot
06-25-2007, 03:12 PM
MC Moot knows nothing. Or so it seems anyway.


well pardon me, I thought you were either a Fin or a Dane.....cast not aspersions of ignorance,ye who yet to be washed by the wisdom of Seuss.....
TAL
06-25-2007, 03:18 PM
I do indeed live in Finland. But I thought we were talking about books for kids in this thread.

But maybe your dad read you Beowulf as bedtime stories.
MC Moot
06-25-2007, 03:20 PM
I do indeed live in Finland. But I thought we were talking about books for kids in this thread.

But maybe your dad read you Beowulf as bedtime stories.

he did!....that's one bad ass Troll....he also told me that Finland has more sauna's than cars.....(y)
abcdefz
06-26-2007, 08:06 AM
I don't want one now. I think it's something you have to grow up with (like Goonies), and since his books weren't translated into a language I understood when I was a little Thomas, I have no need for them now.



Suess doesn't age badly at all. Even as an adult, it's pure joy.

If nothing else, check out the Chuck Jones animated version of "Horton Hears a Who." Some folks like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or The Cat in the Hat better, but they're all available on DVD, I'll bet.

Forget the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey Grinch, though, which is beyond awful. (Carrey's pretty good, though, for the record, but the movie is horrible.)
MC Moot
06-26-2007, 08:15 AM
^ http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/


(y)
abcdefz
06-26-2007, 08:21 AM
^ http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/


(y)



...Amazon only has one used copy. Is this thing out of print already?
MC Moot
06-26-2007, 10:07 AM
^ not sure,saw the flick on PBS and caught the link...Independant Lens is a fantastic series.....
Randetica
06-26-2007, 02:57 PM
the thread title reminds me of bob