View Full Version : Where The Wild Things Are trailer
roosta
03-25-2009, 04:07 PM
looks good (http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12598-iwhere-the-wild-things-arei-trailer/)
beastieangel01
03-25-2009, 05:02 PM
(y) I'm excited.
skra75
03-25-2009, 09:50 PM
It looks amazing can't wait. Spike Jonze + Giant Puppets = :O. I was gonna make a thread for it but you beat me to it.
Now that I'm done obsessing over Watchmen, this is set to drop. *dusts off unbridled excitement*
zippo
03-25-2009, 10:01 PM
i cried in marley and me :(
awesome. that was one of my favorite stories when i was a kid. i daydreamed about being that kid for hours.
Dorothy Wood
03-25-2009, 10:46 PM
HOLY SHIT
it's pretty neat that dave eggers is getting into movie stuff. haven't seen if it works out or not, but good for him. Years ago I met him and gave him a letter and a drawing like a groupie. I was really embarrassed and nervous. but then i saw that people gave him like manuscripts and shit so I didn't feel too bad.
anyway, puppets! yes!
The Notorious LOL
03-25-2009, 10:49 PM
Maurice Sendak and Dr Suess and Richard Scarry and Sesame Street are almost entirely responsible for making me who I am.
i never read this as a kid. i was too busy not watching the goonies to get around to it
skra75
03-25-2009, 10:53 PM
Lowly worm's car fucking rules
I guess I read other things as a kid, because that meant nothing to me.
Audio.
03-26-2009, 04:42 PM
cool. been waiting for a few years to see this thing done.
DandyFop
03-26-2009, 06:05 PM
I think this trailer gave me an orgasm
mathcart
03-26-2009, 06:12 PM
awesome. that was one of my favorite stories when i was a kid.
Maurice Sendak and Dr Suess and Richard Scarry and Sesame Street are almost entirely responsible for making me who I am.
Because I (as I would imagine most people) agree that it was a very important part of my childhood- I'm a little nervous about it. And not because of the people involved (in fact thats a huge plus for it). Rather I'm feeling a little violated recently by the wholesale mining of my childhood. Its just starting to feel a little gross. How ironic that an absolute icon of the power of imagination from my childhood is making me angry and bitter about the dearth of it in the world in my adulthood.
On top of that, where the wild things are is one of the quintessential examples of a story thats so powerful because of the deeply personal images one develops to do the story justice in your head as you reread it nite after nite (if your anything like me). I don't want someone elses vision of it spoiling mine. I think movies of great societal works of imagination are an injustice to all subsequent generations that don't get to meet it first on their own terms in their own minds.
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
— Bill Hicks
Maybe I'm just feeling a little extra crotchety today though. When I saw it yesterday for the first time I was excited.
:(
i disagree, i don't really think it'll ruin it for me. day dreaming about that is gone for me, i moved on to women, saving the world, and being rich. maybe my kids' perspective on the story, but who knows.
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
— Bill Hicks
i don't agree with this at all. my imagination is just as crazy now as it ever has been, and i'm totally down with the whole tv, movie, and video game scene, for sure.
roosta
03-27-2009, 08:21 AM
i know nothing about the source material, i just think it looks great.
mathcart
03-27-2009, 05:07 PM
i disagree, i don't really think it'll ruin it for me. day dreaming about that is gone for me, i moved on to women, saving the world, and being rich. maybe my kids' perspective on the story, but who knows.
i don't agree with this at all. my imagination is just as crazy now as it ever has been, and i'm totally down with the whole tv, movie, and video game scene, for sure.
I've also clearly moved on- its not about whether or not this "ruins" the original for me. In fact I'm quite sure I will see it and enjoy it.
It was the other thing I was sounding off on. I just worry about peoples declining abilities to create their own images. I can't prove that there's X% less imagination in the world then when I was kid because that's a totally subjective quality that would obviously be impossible to quantify. It just feels that way to me.
Instead of making up new stories for movies (and books and tv) more and more the same old ones are being used. And while I will certainly grant you it of course takes imagination to come up with these continuing sagas- the really creative part is already done for you- the actual dreaming up of a new world inhabited by whatever.
Look I'm glad you still feel like your imagination is as strongly intact as when you were a kid, but...
this wasn't about you.
It was just the way I felt watching the trailer (and all the other mined nuggets of my youth). Just feels a little exploitive to me, which doesn't necessarily have to do with my actual complaint about their being less imaginative people in the world potentialy. It just feels related to me.
Whatever, I gotta stop rambling on about this stuff...
Looks Great!
abcdefz
08-09-2009, 03:54 PM
The second trailer (http://www.hitfix.com/video/play?bcpid=16737337001&bctid=32742360001) looks even better.
cosmo105
08-09-2009, 05:13 PM
Lowly worm's car fucking rules
I WANT THAT APPLE CAR SO BAD :(
the first trailer always makes me tear up a little. something about this story, this movie, is just so goddamn moving and intense.
destructo
08-09-2009, 10:24 PM
The trailer looks too sunny and happy.
mathcart
08-09-2009, 11:48 PM
The second trailer (http://www.hitfix.com/video/play?bcpid=16737337001&bctid=32742360001) looks even better.
*sigh...*
looks great...
pshabi
08-10-2009, 12:02 AM
When my son was a toddler, I would read this to him 5 out of 7 nights before he went to bed. The same copy I had as a kid. He's going to be in 8th grade in two weeks. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS.
In the 2nd trailer, when Max said, "let the wild rumpus start....."......well.....that's just good shit right there.
Documad
08-10-2009, 01:07 AM
That book scared me when I was a kid. I saw the trailer at the theater last weekend. I looks gorgeous. Plus Spike Jonze can be counted on to make a movie that you might not love, but it won't be the same old shit. Likely worth seeing.
That link to the second trailer--I followed it and I stumbled into the website for the movie with Jimmy Page, the Edge, and Jack White. I can't wait to see that! I have been sort of obsessing over Led Zeppelin lately. Out of the blue I started obsessing. And I love the Edge more than anything. I have to wait about a month for it to open here though. :(
Nuzzolese
08-10-2009, 01:22 PM
The preview makes me feel so excited, and emotional, and sad and happy at the same time. I almost always tear up a bit when I see it. The trailer was enough for me. Those images did it. Those images were enough to bring the short book to life. Maybe I don't need to see the movie.
I'm sure I'll see the movie, because I really want to, but not in theaters where a ton of annoying people will crowd in and laugh and shout and be there while I possibly experience something that's possibly going to give me an emotional reaction.
If I see the movie, then it might only heighten the yuckiness I get from this thread. The previews made me feel so excited, but I was hoping it would be an excitement I could enjoy without realizing other people are excited too, and that they are the kinds of people who will enjoy it for some nostalgia and community of "yeah, we all shared the same childhood!"
When something feels important to me, and personal, then I see a bunch of others talking about it like it's just Cool or just part of who we all are, it makes me think I'm not really an individual, I'm just a product of the culture of my generation, like Notorious LOL who said TV and popular books made him the person he is. I don't actually think and feel and imagine, I'm just the same reaction to what's been given to me, as everyone else. I'm just another version of all the "dudefuckinsweet" morons. The only difference is that in my case, I actually think I'm feeling something original and that my responses to stuff everyone has seen are something that belong to me, something of value. What a joke! Why be afraid that my memories and inspirations will be cheapened by others when it turns out they're not worth anything in the first place?
DipDipDive
08-10-2009, 01:40 PM
Why be afraid that my memories and inspirations will be cheapened by others when it turns out they're not worth anything in the first place?
They're worth a lot. Creative people wouldn't create if their crafts didn't cause those reactions in people.
Nuzzolese
08-10-2009, 02:47 PM
They're worth a lot. Creative people wouldn't create if their crafts didn't cause those reactions in people.
Well, maybe some creative people create to express themselves honestly and it's not so important if other people get something out of it but that's neither here nor there.
I hate realizing when I'd been under the impression that my own feelings are more legitimate and are deeper than others'. They're not. When other people say they like something that to me feels really personal, I sometimes immediately think "oh, but it doesn't mean as much to them as it does to me. To them it's just pop culture and they just like it out of some communal generation sharing of experiences." But no, that's wrong. Just becuase I sat in my little room on my little window seat and pressed my little head against the glass and sighed and screamed at mom to "leave me alone!" so I could day dream about my favorite books and imaginary worlds - it doesn't make that inspirational stuff belong to me anymore than it does to anyone else.
ToucanSpam
08-10-2009, 03:14 PM
What is the song in the first trailer? It looks good but as always I remain cautious of children's books turning into movies. Cat in the Hat was a monstrosity of shit. Still, WTWTA is in good hands.
Lowly Worm is the man, I used to have a toy from McDonald's of Lowly Worm and his car.
Nuzzolese
08-10-2009, 03:38 PM
What is the song in the first trailer?
Wake Up by The Arcade Fire
Nuzzolese
08-10-2009, 03:41 PM
I always thought the Hamburgler was the shit and that The Little Prince was THE MAN and Strawberry shortcake's house was dope az fuk...seriously, when I was a little child these were my exact thoughts.
pshabi
08-10-2009, 07:04 PM
I always thought the Hamburgler was the shit and that The Little Prince was THE MAN and Strawberry shortcake's house was dope az fuk...seriously, when I was a little child these were my exact thoughts.
They were my EXACT thoughts too. See, your memories really are cheap.
Nuzzolese
08-10-2009, 09:02 PM
They were my EXACT thoughts too. See, your memories really are cheap.
They're twelve for ten cents. I don't know why people only offer a penny.
Audio.
08-24-2009, 10:25 PM
So Karen O is doing the soundtrack.
spike jonze, just like arcade fire, is so overrated. looks weak as hell.
jabumbo
10-13-2009, 10:41 AM
soooo, i got a pass to see a sneak preview of this tonight
i don't know whether to be excited or not about this....
hpdrifter
10-13-2009, 12:27 PM
Anyone ever read a book when they were a kid called A Picture for Harold's room? I love that book.
MC Moot
10-13-2009, 02:26 PM
We're going to see it as a staff outing on Friday...I'm stoked...I wanna read the book as well...well the other book,anyway's...Dave Eggers take on it… (http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Things-Dave-Eggers/dp/1934781614)
hpdrifter
10-19-2009, 12:32 PM
Saw it this weekend with a 4-year old. I didn't think it was super kid friendly but he stayed still and watched the whole thing without once asking to go to the lobby and play pacman.
I thought it was really well done. That doesn't necessarily mean it's completely enjoyable. It's sort of confusing but a pretty true interpretation of the book. It plays very much how children's minds work.
MC Moot
10-19-2009, 12:38 PM
I loved it...so visually stunning...my new fave children's movie...even trumps The Princess Bride,Stardust and The Fall...muppets rule...although there was a kid in front of us on the way out,7-9 yrs old I'd guess,who asked his mom "why are the monsters so sad?"...:rolleyes:
skra75
10-19-2009, 12:45 PM
(y) Ten Thumbs Up
jabumbo
10-19-2009, 12:47 PM
oh yeah, i definitely enjoyed it. i can see how some of the younger kids would be a bit confused by it all, but that is sort of the joys of the book as you read it more and more times as you grow up. so many things you pick up on each time!
Nuzzolese
10-27-2009, 11:54 AM
It's sort of confusing
I saw this last week and remembered someone saying it was confusing. How on earth did you think it was confusing?
lolkat
10-27-2009, 12:05 PM
there was a kid in front of us on the way out,7-9 yrs old I'd guess,who asked his mom "why are the monsters so sad?"...:rolleyes:
haha, yeah what a fucking moron that kid is
hpdrifter
10-27-2009, 12:06 PM
Less confusing and more uncomfortable. Challenging I guess.
It's a totally different style of storytelling than I've ever seen in a film before.
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