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    Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    10/13/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    Are you kidding? "Mr. Fox" looks like I made it. That's some of the worst stop-motion I've seen outside of a Davey and Goliath cartoon.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    I love the Sendak book, but I'm already trying to get my excuse perfected to avoid the movie. I just don't see how you can get a full length movie out of the book.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    Everyone loves to hate these days. All their films are great and blog reviewers are, at best, wannabe writers. being critical of anything or anyone is easy, writing a review of two of the worlds most talented filmmakers that explores exactly what it is that they do that makes them so appealing, well, that's hard, requires intuition, smarts, and understanding of cinema that you either have, or you don't. I wonder what films you find intelligent and interesting?
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    10/13/09

    @AbbottOrville: Yes, because no one ever trashed a film or a director or a director before 2003. God knows no one ever said a bad thing about the boy genius Orson Welles...

    I prefer a hater to someone drinking the kool-aid any day.
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    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    10/13/09

    @AbbottOrville: Well, if you want a youngish filmaker, I'd take Paul Thomas Anderson over both of these guys combined for starters.
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    Image of BoKnowsMagic BoKnowsMagic
    10/13/09

    @Macloserboy: Sure, but sometimes hate is the kool-aid.
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    skahammer promoted this comment BoKnowsMagic was starred BoKnowsMagic was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @Bulkington: You just blew my mind.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    10/13/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    You guys, we need our boy geniuses. They keep us motivated. Let's not destroy them.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Baby Jingles Is to Be Enjoyed by Adult Collectors Only
    For those who find cats too needy.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    Where the Wild Things Are is a favorite in our house. It's probably the only book we read to our kid which has provoked many thoughtful discussions between my husband and I. What DOES it all mean? I love it, and hope my 4 yo doesn't freak out too badly at the theatre, because I don't really want to miss any of the movie. I also really appreciate Sendak's comments about parents who bitch because it's too scary.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    What a lazy, snarky peice of writing. Adaptation was "mildly celebrated?" Four Oscar, six golden globe and 4 BAFTA nominations, as well as 91 percent fresh rating make it mildy celebrated? And reviews of Where the Wild Things Are are "very mixed at best?" There are far more good reviews than bad.
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    10/13/09

    @montucky: I know, that Variety review is the only bad review I've heard of.
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    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    10/13/09

    @montucky: The current metacritic score is 60. That = lukewarm to negative...
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    Image of noahjacquemin noahjacquemin
    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    Wes Anderson movies come across as overly long, hand chafing jerk fests without a climax played to the best of the Kinks soundtrack. Seems all his movies have potential to be something special but they kind of end up not really paying off. So now that he's getting the opportunity to pleasure himself full time without interruption, the movie is either going to be the best thing he's ever done or the worst.
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    skahammer promoted this comment pumpkinsoup approved this comment noahjacquemin was starred noahjacquemin was unstarred
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    10/12/09

    @noahjacquemin: But there's already been a Transformers movie this year.

    You're just going to have to wait another 18 months before watching any more trailers, and that's that.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    So far 79% fresh on rottentomatoes, but only 14 reviews counted. I want to hate it, but it looks different and creative, something sorely lacking in films lately.
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    Image of musicmope musicmope
    10/13/09

    @dandles: When did we begin cloudsourcing our aesthetic judgments?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    10/13/09

    @musicmope: I don't know, but I'm sure there's a wikipedia entry on it.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    The smarty-pants new "At the Movies" guys loved Where the Wild Things Are.

    And however the Mr. Fox movie turns out, that L.A. Times article was hilarious. Since Anderson was living in Paris while the film was being stop-motion-animated in London, he received dailies by e-mail, and sent back notes as well as "short films of himself enacting certain scenes." The cinematographer calls him "sociopathic," to which he responds, "I would say that kind of crosses the line for what's appropriate for the director of photography to say behind the director's back while he's working on the movie."

    That's comedy gold.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    10/12/09

    @TedSez: Marry Me...
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    10/12/09

    @NinaHagen: I'm free a week from Sunday.
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    10/12/09

    @TedSez: This almost makes me want to start reading the LAT again.
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    I'm on board with Where The Wild Things Are. I know you have to judge it as it's own film, but I think the guy should get SOME credit for making a movie about childhood (arguably a kids movie) that isn't lowest common denominator Jim Carry voiced dreck. At least he gets some vibe out of it... something relatively honest. And as much as I enjoyed Anderson's early flicks, I'll give Jonze credit for making three movies that aren't virtually identical.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Are Wes and Spike Headed for Boy Genius Dammerung?
    Let the Wild Rumpus Start!
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    Airvault promoted this comment Edited by momof3wildkids at 10/12/09 8:35 PM momof3wildkids was starred momof3wildkids was unstarred
    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/12/09

    In reply to Baby Jingles Is to Be Enjoyed by Adult Collectors Only
    # 2 in the series will be Baby TuckerMax!

    "TuckerMax" is realistically sculpted (right down to his adorable protuberant premature beer belly. He's covered with hand-applied homohair. Best of all, he's costumed just like an asshat human fratdouche, in a little knit tee that says "Your MILFy Mommy's Little-Dicked Monkey," with matching cap, shit-filled tiny diaper, wee Pumas, and fancy socks with holes. He gets his name from the self-entitled misogynist horseshit he makes up!

    # 3 in the series is Baby Julia Allison.... (take it away, kids, I'm heading for home).
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    10/12/09

    In reply to Baby Jingles Is to Be Enjoyed by Adult Collectors Only
    This playful little sweetheart is quite a handful.

    That's exactly how Louis Malle introduced Susan Sarandon to Burt Lancaster on the set of Atlantic City.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/12/09

    In reply to Baby Jingles Is to Be Enjoyed by Adult Collectors Only
    Michael Jackson died too soon.
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