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Where the Wild Things Are released recently over here. Wow. What an incredible flick.

What is the film about? A boy and his problems. Don’t you read children’s books? Seriously, this one has just 17 illustrations.  Oh. And I guess that’s one of the amazing things. The feature film is fun to watch. Although there is only this small teeny book. I guess a lot of props go to Spike Jonze. His previous two flicks were very interesting and were directed wonderfully. Hm. But he never wrote the scripts of his previous two films. That was Charlie Kaufman. I guess Dave Eggers, who was partly responsible for the screenplay of Away We Go helped Spike a lot.

I don’t like retelling stories for reviewing pleasures, so I just copy and paste the synopsis of IMDB. It’s nice and short

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

Obviously the film is a little bit different. Instead of sent to bed without  supper, he runs outside after he gets disappointed by his mother and sister.

The monsters are probably still the same as in the book. But I guess the difference between the book and the film is that in the film, they represent Max’s subconscious, while in the book, it seems to be simply a small different world.

All people have problems with films. This one had less than Avatar though, so let’s defend the points I’ve heard are against the films awesomeness.

• It’s boring and slow. Fucking boring and damn slow, that’s for sure!

Boring? I was almost crying after noticing that the film was already over. If you expect some epic kids fantasy, you are wrong here. Max meets people and he will deal with them like every other child. And these people seem child’s at heart too, except that they are big and could eat him.

This film is entirely child’s logic. So if Max says he wants to build a castle that automatically removes the brain of people that are not allowed in there, the monster don’t ask “How the hell would you do that?”, the actual question is “How will it find out who is not allowed in there?”

All those dialogues were so sweet and fun to listen to that I’ve got never bored. Not to mention, the film is fun to look at. The mix of Puppets and CGI was a desperate measure. The puppets were too heavy with mechanical faces, so they decided to do CGI instead. In Star Wars 4. Han Solo was supposed to be a green faced alien, but they couldn’t do that, I think because they practically had no money, so it was a human Harrison Ford. I guess that has a little similarity?

• The music is so distracting.

…what?

Wait, distracting because it’s the most   incredible soundtrack of the entire year?

Stop being stupid, internet.

That’s all I have to say. Oh, one thing:

I’ll eat this film, I love it so.

About damn aliens, that’s right…

Man, this is hard if you try to not spoiler anything.

This film gets a lot of criticism from people that think their critique is important. And they are all right. This is, what, Dances With Wolves 2, Pocahontas 3, Ferngully 2?

Of course it isn’t.

I’m trying to explain to myself why I like this. Because it’s definitely not a good story if you write it on paper. Which I won’t do by the way.

It has one dimensional characters. About 2 or 3. People hated them. I loved their over-the-top performance. For example, there is this one Chief, you may  know him from trailers, that one with the scars. The only things he says are very sarcastic one-liners. He is always shown as a badass. And I loved that. I feel like every film needs a terrible character. You can’t expect films to be perfect all the time.

Oh, and I guess that’s a big problem. Because, well, it is a Cameron film. People expect Cameron to deliver the perfect film. They waited for, what, 15 years now? And what they get is a good film. Yeah, I bet that’s a problem. It’s not perfect and the story is worn out. How can anyone expect that from the Cameron? Not me. I guess I expect that he doesn’t make turds every time. But that’s all I expect from him. Hey, I love his filmography. Two awesome Terminators, True Lies, the Abyss, even Titanic. Every single film is incredible. Is Avatar not incredible? Not for me, no. Because story is not everything. Have you looked at the fucking visuals? Like the other HUGE thing about movies? What you see? God damn, that was the craziest shit I’ve ever seen. Marvel at the beauty man creates from computers. Because I am amazed, sirs.

And I’m not talking about 3D.

Oh, oh, and have you followed the, like, main character of the film? Because that one is definitely not living in one dimension. I loved his monologues in those vlogs. Voice overs are like excuses for bad story telling, right? Probably, but gee, I do wonder why there is a lot of really good films still doing that. And why it’s still worthwhile. Also Weaver. Like one friend of mine said. She’s definitely lives two lives in that film. One is the pissed Science lady that seems to hate life and work and everything, the other, well, watch the film. I won’t tell. I’m the person that hates spoilers in any size.

Then there is Whiteman’s guilt. Some people got all enraged about this guilt bullshit. Because, like they say, these films are constantly lecturing you of how you, white man, suck and never learn out of your faults. Screw you for killing Indians!

That’s true. It’s a big issue. And you know what? I didn’t care. I never felt any guilt, as this is not my world, my dimension or my responsibility. I blame the people in the movie. Not anyone else. The end.

There are other problems still. But these are major spoilers. And now please turn away people that didn’t see it. Small spoiler, but still. I want to hide it!

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