See, I didn't want to go into Where the Wild Things Are with any premonitions. I read reviews by people that all pointed towards the “this movie sucks” category, but they mostly related to it not being good for kids. Seeing as how it has been many years since I was a kid, the reviews that mentioned the word Oscar were the ones that appealed to me. When someone starts saying that Spike Jonze should be nominated for an Oscar, I might give a little listen. After all, I like some of his videos and love his films. The guy seems to have a great way with camera and especially mood on camera.
Allow me to set the record straight. Where the Wild Things Are was the worst film I have ever seen. Imagine if you took all the joy out of a children's book, made every character an indie emo tool, put a kid with no acting talent at the forefront and combined it with a horrible score and soundtrack and there you have WTWTA.
First, there was nothing good about this film. The cinematography was only palatable. There was a dimness and desolation set with the light and cameras in the beginning that looked promising, but as I was treated to a wide-eyed, emo-haircut, effeminate looking boy with emotional problems brought on by his own brattiness, I couldn't help but wonder if I had just wasted my money. I did waste it because the movie went nowhere from there.
What followed was a bratty kid running away to a place where the most boring creatures ever exist, whose only purpose is to sit sullenly at intervals in the movie so that Max can go console them yet not offer one good word of advice. Seriously there was no point to this movie. How it has at the time of this blog a 8.1 rating on imdb.com is pretty simple. Indie-hipsters were going to jump on this like flies on shit because anything stolen from a different time is cool to them and WTWTA is that (referring to the book of course), and they saw previews for the movie with the same things that are appealing to the hipster mindset (Arcade Fire song played over preview, shots of kid wearing 80's outdoor clothing, the outdoors which are appealing to every hipster, and orange and brown hues of sunset which are mainstays in all videos trying to appeal to hipsters) so they went on imdb and insisted this was a great movie before it even came out. Does this make them bad? No, they genuinely wanted this movie to be good, and since hipsters are perpetual children, I bet some were disappointed. The others just convinced themselves it was good no matter what, because that is what many of us do when we really want to enjoy something.
Oh but no, the hipsters are not to blame for this movie sucking. If anything they have the most right to be angry, because this movie was targeted at them and many of them will still see it just because they refuse to believe it can be bad.
This movie is of no importance. It has no meaning. Rarely do I want to leave a movie so soon after it has started hoping something good will happen. Nothing good ever happens. This movie made me want to walk out without even knowing what would happen. The characters have no redeeming qualities whatsoever and this is all on Dave Eggers, another writer in that whole gen-x wanna-be hipster genre that David Sedaris has so raped minds with. This guy has always been an over-rated lout and this story only solidifies that. I would like someone to tell me how anyone could enjoy a film where characters talk about happiness but never quite define what it is other than it being gone. Oooh, lets give them humanistic names to be even more clever!!!!
Oh and the soundtrack? Fucking sucked. Dumb bitch from Yeah Yeah Yeahs sucks, has always sucked, will always suck and it was yet another worm to dangle for the hipsters having her do the soundtrack.
I mean, I could not imagine a movie sucking this much. If you see it and you like it, you are an idiot. If you see it and don't hate it, you are an idiot. I forever lose respect for Spike Jonze, Katherine Keener, Katherine O'Hara, James Gandolfini and others for being part of this film. I will judge people by this movie. Because if you liked it, you are full of shit and stupid. Maybe a movie shouldn't be such a judge of such things but this one was that bad.
Worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Period.
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