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ScottFromWyoming
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Oct 21, 2009 - 6:51am |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Hmmmm- I think I'd like to take junior to see this- sounds like Justine and A had a good experience and N is within about a year of A in age. I don't think that junior's read the book yet so that'll be the first thing. Childhood isn't all about Princesses and ponies- I'll check out if she wants to see it first though. Our next door neighbour has hijacked her to take her to "Up" this weekend- pipped HJ to the post.
Up is a Good Movie. See it even if you're not towing sprogs along. 2¢
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Oct 21, 2009 - 5:03am |
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Hmmmm- I think I'd like to take junior to see this- sounds like Justine and A had a good experience and N is within about a year of A in age. I don't think that junior's read the book yet so that'll be the first thing. Childhood isn't all about Princesses and ponies- I'll check out if she wants to see it first though. Our next door neighbour has hijacked her to take her to "Up" this weekend- pipped HJ to the post.
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DownHomeGirl
Location: American Russia Gender:
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Oct 21, 2009 - 4:13am |
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Hairfarmer wrote:It sounds like you went to an "Imax" licensed theater rather than a real Imax. I've read a lot of gripeing about this practice. They add little to no screen area over a standard theater and add their sound system, then let the theater call it an "Imax". The old school Imax theater screens are as much as, or more than, twice the size (97'x76') of a contemporary "big" stadium theater (58'x28' or smaller). The screen actually decends15+ feet below the lowest row/entry level of the theater. They get away with it because so many of the original Imax theaters have different screen dimensions proportional to the restraints of the building. That's what I was expecting. I was disappointed.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 7:53pm |
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Hairfarmer wrote:It sounds like you went to an "Imax" licensed theater rather than a real Imax. I've read a lot of gripeing about this practice. They add little to no screen area over a standard theater and add their sound system, then let the theater call it an "Imax". The old school Imax theater screens are as much as, or more than, twice the size (97'x76') of a contemporary "big" stadium theater (58'x28' or smaller). The screen actually decends15+ feet below the lowest row/entry level of the theater. They get away with it because so many of the original Imax theaters have different screen dimensions proportional to the restraints of the building. Maybe, I don't know, but this is at Navy Pier, the number one Chicago tourist site, so I doubt that.
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Hairfarmer
Location: The birthplace of Rock & Roll, baby. Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 7:47pm |
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hippiechick wrote:We went to IMAX to see this last night. We thoroughly enjoyed it, although toward the end, I was tempted to offer therapy for the wild things. The color palette matched the book illustrations perfectly, and I thought it also did an excellent job of capturing the inner psyche of a 6 y.o. boy. (One little kid walked out swinging his light saber).
About IMAX: OK, it has a really great sound system, but really I didn't think it was worth almost twice the price of a regular movie ticket. I remember when all movie screens were that big. And the screen was dirty, which drove me crazy.
It sounds like you went to an "Imax" licensed theater rather than a real Imax. I've read a lot of gripeing about this practice. They add little to no screen area over a standard theater and add their sound system, then let the theater call it an "Imax". The old school Imax theater screens are as much as, or more than, twice the size (97'x76') of a contemporary "big" stadium theater (58'x28' or smaller). The screen actually decends15+ feet below the lowest row/entry level of the theater. They get away with it because so many of the original Imax theaters have different screen dimensions proportional to the restraints of the building.
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DownHomeGirl
Location: American Russia Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 7:10pm |
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hippiechick wrote:We went to IMAX to see this last night. We thoroughly enjoyed it, although toward the end, I was tempted to offer therapy for the wild things. The color palette matched the book illustrations perfectly, and I thought it also did an excellent job of capturing the inner psyche of a 6 y.o. boy. (One little kid walked out swinging his light saber).
About IMAX: OK, it has a really great sound system, but really I didn't think it was worth almost twice the price of a regular movie ticket. I remember when all movie screens were that big. And the screen was dirty, which drove me crazy.
Totally agree. Don't get what the big deal is. Was expecting IMAX to be a lot... bigger. It wasn't any bigger or better than the "good" theatre back in Abingdon, VA (tiny little town with a good theatre). Wish I had just gone to see it there. BUT it was cool to see BDB. BDHubby had the flu, so he couldn't come. It was very sad.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 7:02pm |
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hobiejoe wrote: Good for Maurice Anyone who thinks it's too scary doesn't understand the mind of a child.
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appy_monkey
Location: between here and there Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 6:23pm |
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saw WTWTA at the IMAX in Knoxvegas. Had some good company, OCD & BDB!
the movie was pretty good. enjoyed the cinematography more than the delivery of the story. I wasn't convinced by the characters.
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bokey
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Oct 20, 2009 - 4:41pm |
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hobiejoe wrote: Looks like Phil Jackson
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 4:23pm |
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Maurice Sendak pictured at the film premiere of Where the Wild Things Are in New York. Photograph: Stuart Ramson/AP Parents who think the new film of Maurice Sendak's picture book Where the Wild Things Are is too frightening for children can "go to hell", the author has said. Telling the story of a naughty little boy, Max, who is sent to bed without his supper only to journey by boat to a land where wild monsters live, Sendak's classic tale was first published in 1963 and has captured children's imaginations ever since. With a film version adapted by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze out later this year, Sendak told this week's edition of Newsweek that he would "not tolerate" parental concerns about the book being too scary. "I would tell them to go to hell," Sendak said. And if children can't handle the story, they should "go home," he added. "Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it's not a question that can be answered." Sendak also criticised Disney, saying it was "terrible" for children. As a child himself, he'd loved Mickey Mouse as "the emblem of happiness and funniness", and at the cinema he would stand on the chair screaming "My hero! My hero!" at the mouse – who at that point still had teeth. "He was more dangerous," the author told Newsweek. "He did things to Minnie that were not nice. I think what happened was that he became so popular – this is my own theory – they gave his cruelty and his toughness to Donald Duck. And they made Mickey a fat nothing. He's too important for products. They want him to be placid and nice and adorable. He turned into a schmaltzer. I despised him after a point." He based the monsters of Where the Wild Things Are on relatives who visited his family home as a child, speaking practically no English. "They grabbed you and twisted your face, and they thought that was an affectionate thing to do," he said. "And I knew that my mother's cooking was pretty terrible, and it also took forever, and there was every possibility that they would eat me, or my sister or my brother. We really had a wicked fantasy that they were capable of that. We couldn't taste any worse than what she was preparing. So that's who the Wild Things are. They're foreigners, lost in America, without a language. And children who are petrified of them, and don't understand that these gestures, these twistings of flesh, are meant to be affectionate." Sendak also recalled a fight he had with his publisher about Where the Wild Things Are, with the safety-conscious publisher keen to change the word "hot" to "warm" at the end of the book, when Max returns from his reign as king over the monsters to find his dinner "was still hot". "It was going to burn the kid. I couldn't believe it. But it turned into a real world war, just that word," Sendak told the magazine. He won out eventually by "just going at it", he said. "Just trying to convey how dopey 'warm' sounded. Unemotional. Undramatic. Everything about that book is 'hot'." Good for Maurice
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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Oct 19, 2009 - 7:57am |
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hippiechick wrote:We went to IMAX to see this last night. We thoroughly enjoyed it, although toward the end, I was tempted to offer therapy for the wild things. The color palette matched the book illustrations perfectly, and I thought it also did an excellent job of capturing the inner psyche of a 6 y.o. boy. (One little kid walked out swinging his light saber).
About IMAX: OK, it has a really great sound system, but really I didn't think it was worth almost twice the price of a regular movie ticket. I remember when all movie screens were that big. And the screen was dirty, which drove me crazy.
and It's hard to say about iMax, because I don't know how different it was (because I didn't see it in a regular theatre). Definitely worth a big screen, even if not iMax. (it's IMAX not iMAX. mac to the core here. ) And yes to the fond memories of all movie screens being big! I NEVER go to the megaplexes with the little living room sized screens. ugh. We have 2 local theatres that have not-big screens, but they are also tiny audiences, so it's fine. and local.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Oct 19, 2009 - 7:49am |
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We went to IMAX to see this last night. We thoroughly enjoyed it, although toward the end, I was tempted to offer therapy for the wild things. The color palette matched the book illustrations perfectly, and I thought it also did an excellent job of capturing the inner psyche of a 6 y.o. boy. (One little kid walked out swinging his light saber).
About IMAX: OK, it has a really great sound system, but really I didn't think it was worth almost twice the price of a regular movie ticket. I remember when all movie screens were that big. And the screen was dirty, which drove me crazy.
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rmgman
Location: North of the Pinelands in NJ Gender:
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Oct 18, 2009 - 1:30pm |
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Oct 18, 2009 - 8:53am |
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triskele wrote: saw it yesterday....liked it. amazing what they did with a book that only contains something like 6 sentences of text.... too dark and scary for little ones, though.
agreed.
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Oct 18, 2009 - 8:19am |
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triskele wrote:...maybe today....
saw it yesterday....liked it. amazing what they did with a book that only contains something like 6 sentences of text.... too dark and scary for little ones, though.
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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Oct 18, 2009 - 5:38am |
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duchamp wrote: I could never get past the pictures and read the book. Having said that up front, to me, it's a creepy book.
..especially after seeing the author and his friend around.... double creepy!
He wrote some pretty creepy stuff! The movie has a definite creepy edge. I thought it totally lacked the feelgood element of the book (not that it was a huge feelgood book). My husband and 24-yr-old daughter LOVED it. The symbolism and realism. Cinematically, it's fantastic.
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duchamp
Location: Florida Panhandle Gender:
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Oct 18, 2009 - 5:29am |
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rosedraws wrote: We've been spreading the word: "Not A Kid's Movie".
I could never get past the pictures and read the book. Having said that up front, to me, it's a creepy book. ..especially after seeing the author and his friend around.... double creepy!
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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Oct 18, 2009 - 5:21am |
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Alexandra wrote:.the wild things are depressed creatures, and you never find out why.
Spoiler Alert!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Max says it: "You need a Mom".
The creatures, of course, are all parts of himself. And he realizes they don't need a king, they need a Mom. And he wants to go home 'cause he appreciates his Mom after that realization. It's all artfully subtle — and I don't think that any of that psychology was in the book!
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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Oct 18, 2009 - 5:18am |
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JustineFromWyoming wrote:I took Augusta to see it this afternoon. I am so glad I didn't take Charlie. I enjoyed it, even though I caught myself thinking of a nap a couple of times during the movie. I had almost talked myself out of going because of a couple of the reviews, but I listened to David Edelstein on NPR and decided it was worth a try. Augusta cried and asked some good questions about it and even offered a couple of explanations that had us adults saying "hmmm..." And, most important to me, she realized that even though Max was obviously sorry, he never said so. That was something good to talk about...
We've been spreading the word: "Not A Kid's Movie".
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Oct 17, 2009 - 9:29pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote:Heh heh. She said "full on puking."
It's twue! It nearly happened to me with "Bourne Supremacy." Had to leave after the car chase......and when I staggered up my walkway at the apartment, I'm quite sure people thought I was drunk. Stupid vertigo. Can't have (watch) anything nice!
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