They're at your local cinema!

oh man. i cant wait to see thisss

It is beautiful!

mike you saw it? good?

It's not a long book. Basically the kid sails in and out of weeks and meets some monsters, becomes their king, has a rumpus, gets bored, and sails home to find his tea waiting for him. How long is the film?

I posted up a semi-review.

And its an hour and a half. But it felt like a pretty long hour and a half. But I far from minded it.

Just got back, took my 9 year old daughter & my 6 year old nephew.
The nine year old LOVED it, the 6 year old HATED it!
He said it was way to scary :(

Me. I ADORED it! Seriously wonderful!
also, RUMPUS is an awesome word!

I loved it. My friend didn't because it was emotional and sad and not the book. I thought it was great.

We just got back from it. It was great, but I was disappointed during the sea voyage.
My kids loved it.

I want to see this too

I can't wait to see this

I read that test audiences didn't like the actor who played "Max".
I thought he was perfectly cast and did a great job.

Can't wait til early december when it arrives here!

At least Ingllorious Basterds finally arrived today, gonna watch it tomorrow.

Jonze was a perfect choice. The characters look like they hopped right off the page!

I get choked up when I watch the trailer (Arcade Fire version). It's understood.

Taking the fam for sure!

The Rumpus was brought!

im glad people liked/loved it. i was less than impressed by. it was just a bunch of set pieces really for me. and the magical land just wasnt all that magical for me. where the wild things are needed to be more wild. i was a little bored by it and everyone was so angsty all the time. there were other issues but that was the major one i guess.

hector, i loved inglorious basterds. i had a lot of fun with that movie. i liked it more than pulp fiction even.

inglorious ftw.

I can see what you mean there. How was the turnout when you saw it? I mean, were there a lot of kids?

Inglorious Basterds was really fun in the theaters. I kinda regret not catching it a second time.

i need to see it ! :)

Basterds stood up to a second viewing better than I had expected. such fun.

weren't a lot of people at Wild Things for me at 4pm. Mostly adults, a few kids who wouldn't stop talking.

Not coming out in NZ until December 3rd! Bugger

That's a bummer, Nicke!
You'd think they'd release it earlier there, considering most of it was filmed in Australia. It looks like NZ and AU are getting it Dec 3. :(

am i the only one who thought that the basterds lacked in tarantinoesque kinda of feeling?

okey... it was a pretty good movie. but i got out of theater with that "there's something missing.." thing in my head... i had really high expectations on that movie...

and as for the one movie in question here... you guys should feel pretty blessed to get it early december.. the movie is set to debut only on january 10th here.

bummer.

I thought the whole movie was "Tarantinoesque."

Movies should release the same time so everyone's happy. :(

really man? i thought it had that... but it was kinda softcore... ahieohaoiehae if i may say...

i thought that this was about my pants.

If anything, his love for old films showed a hell of a lot more than his "signature" I think. And people argued that the movie was pretty much just talking, which in my opinion, is pretty Tarantinoesque. I think I know what you mean, though, if you meant that there weren't many larger than life "BANG" moments, other than the characters.

When you said you were less than impress, Paul, that's what I was worried about

tbh at this point I've heard more disappointment in the movie than people who were impressed. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally going to see it, and I'm looking forward to seeing it, but for a movie that was promoted til the cows came home the overall feeling has kind of been..

meh. (a la fatheed)

I think it's a lot easier to like it if you weren't way excited for it or forever obsessed with the book

I think I'm an exception, Becca.

But I guess for me, it was just a sigh of relief finally watching it, after being way excited for it and being over obsessed for the past few years.

i don't know man... i was quite scared and distracted through the whole movie... there was this weird couple sitting next to me and my girlfriend... and they kept saying things in german, talking about the guns, the SS, Gestapo and the German army... i thought they were going to break out in the middle of the room and start a shooting frenzy... but anyways... i thought that the movie was quite predictable... and got a little strange from the middle on... i don't know... maybe it wasn't as exaggerated as i was expecting it to be... it lacked in "crazyness" i guess... but it was an awesome movie... i think it takes more than on go to get in to it.

I hope I agree with you about the basterds, it will also be my first Tarantino film in a theater.

I remember when Kill Bill 2 arrived, didn't go to the premiere cause I got all my friends to watch the first one on the weekend. We planned to go on the next wednesday but, oh surprise, they had already taken it down to put up Shrek 2 in 5 screens, and of course the only other theater in town (even lamer one) never even got it. 5 fucking days it lasted, same with The Fountain.

Aww man that really sucks! :(

Basterds was my first Tarantino film in theaters, and its such a good experience, even better if you have a good audience.

Man, I'm hoping for a good audience, at least I'm going late-ish so there won't be much highschoolers.

Just got back from it, There were a few things that I didn't like about it. The look of the film was really great. Very Spike Jonze. There were a few scenes that just felt like prolonged music videos.

All in all, it was what I expected; no more, no less.

i loved it.

I approved of It

I think it was pretty interesting how they kind of put Max in this position where he had to handle situations you'd normally see an adult take care of, they put him in this sort of authoritative role that instead of like developing into this larger than life leader, he sort of handles it with the sheepishness, and innocence of a child.

i remember seeing movies

I know, I've heard a lot of people who really didn't like it and then people who loved it. The whole thing is completely from a kid's perspective. A guy I was talking to said that some parts were stiff and didn't make sense, that it didn't "flow" -- but if you look at those parts from the eyes of an eight-year-old, it completely makes sense. Even the Wild Things, which are sort of adult figures, work like kids and make sense to kids. I think it was amazing just for that.

it was funny because when I went to see it (like 2 o'clock or whatever) there were only a few other people, there was this mom and her probably 5 or 6 year old daughter and a her lady friend, and they walked out before me and they were like "that was terrible' and I was like "what, really!?" in my head. I really liked it.

Yeah that's what I thought was cool, like how the wild things sort of do things that I think everyone sort of experiences as a kid. Because being a kid isn't just fun and games, and without that adult figure it's kind of interesting to see how kids sort out their social issues. Like I said before I thought it was kind of neat how even though max was the kid, he sort of acted like an authority.

Love it.
Great book as a kid, great movie.

Very imaginative, and the colors/music is AMAZing!
I recommend.

I liked Wild Thing Are, but I could have liked it more.

I agree with a lot of Johnny's criticisms of the film, I was hoping for the environment to feel a bit more Jungle-ish and untamed, the scenarios to be a bit more inspired, and I really wanted to see Max's room transform into the jungle instead of a kind of cop-out of him "sailing" to another world.

I did love the wild things, they were all really different and interesting in their own ways both visually and emotionally, and I loved how each one of them played out a different part of Max's emotions (agrressive, loving, logical, anti-social, jeoulsy etc).

I thought Max was really good for a child actor in this role, i wonder if he got the edge for the piece since his name was Max already, lol.

I guess the hype got to me about this one, and all the amazing talents attached to this piece I thought it was going to be extraordinary, but it was still enjoyable and a recommended film for me, maybe it'll take another viewing or so to really fall in love with it.

As for Inglorious Basterds, I thought it was extremely "tarintino-ish", but not self-consciously so, it seemed like the characters would really talk like that and the way their mundane discussions evolved to scenes of extreme tension shows he's grown a bunch as a screenwriter. I saw it twice and loved it.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....worried but cant wait

anyone else's thoughts on this movie? Rolling Stone gave it a perfect four stars. No way Peter Travers, get off the wacky.

i still need to see inglorious basterds.

Rob, you totally do dude! See it before it goes out of the theaters! It's my third fav QT flick, behind Fiction and Dogs. I've seen it twice, i wish i could just give you one of those viewing experiences.