Where The Wild Things Are

[Pezito]

My jaw just dropped to the floor when I stumbled upon the first trailer, a few weeks ago... Click the picture below to watch the trailer :

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This was like my favourite childhood book ! And they're making it into a film AND it looks very good (which wasn't sure at all) ! And it's made by Spike Jonze, who did the very good Being John Malkovitch ! And... I CAN'T WAAAIIIIIIIT. \(°___°)/

I'm having a difficult time convincing people of the potential of this movie, because most of my friends are younger than I and they've not even heard of the book. Which was such a masterpiece actually. ( ; _ ; )

[Zedie9]

:) This is an excellent story. I'm not sure that I read it as a small child, but I had before I was grown. It has been read to both The Boy and The Girl, both of whom love it. There is a Scholastic 'animated' version on dvd that is pretty good, once I got used to the music, and I've seen at least one live performance of it that was surprisingly good. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the film adaptation, too! :spin:

[Pezito]

They even did some very nice looking toys (http://www.spawn.com/toys/series.aspx?series=177)... But they seem hard to find, unfortunately.

[Elhaym van Houten]

Ooooooohhhhhhhhh :love:
I loved that book when I was a little kid :D. Wow, this is so cool. I'm so totally gonna see this movie.

Hihi, Pezito, I can imagine nobody of the younger people remembering that one - most people I hang out with atm are around 22, they never heard of it.
So, it'll probably me alone since I'll have a hard time convincing them to go see a movie based on a children's book :D

[Pezito]

Same here ! It was difficult enough already to convince people that Ponyo On the Cliff By the Sea was worth the money... Then again, I have an open mind when it comes to "childish or not childish" ; as long as the message is interesting and the picture is nice, I can appreciate it. ^^

[BAMAToNE]

I'm intrigued by this because I, too, was a huge fan of the book growing up. :D

[Pezito]

I guess Spike Jonze is aware now that should the movie fail, thousands of young adults world wide would be wanting him DEAD. :evilgrin:

[Zedie9]

Well, maybe not... there have been so, so many poor adaptations of books that I am more often surprised by good ones than not. :spin: