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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I think I'm one of the few people that won't be conned into seeing this crap just because of the Nostalgia factor. The trailer looks boring and I'm not interested in it at all, and yes, I read and liked the book as a kid. Nostalgia != interest for me. It's gotta be more than that.
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Not to bluntly say I'm in the same boat, but to preface: I don't get hyped up for feature films or movies, never have and I still am very indifferent to what the media endorses to me; I know I'm in an even lower minority than those that don't care for this one movie, but I got to say, I don't care for a film until I sit through the entire thing and re-evaluate it thereafter, deciding later if it was a worthwhile endeavor or just a lazy waste of my computing intellect into a hinged plotline. I just don't feed the machine.
That said, even without owning a television, I have heard entirely too much advertisements for this film. It's absurd. I thought it would have premiered last week considering the sheer volume of commercials I've seen and heard offhand, but now, it's still not out? After all this time.. alright. People are excited, I understand. Word's got to get out. Minor annoyance I can avoid.
Also, not to be the resident 'debbie-downer', but the single most grating thing I have a problem with is that in the same repetitive commercial they keep cycling day and night, why does the kid propose a contest of 'imaginary warfare' amongst the beasts he encounters? That just kills the piece of mind that the wild things universe was a docile place of monsters, and because of the arrival of one small boy who has been fostered to enjoy cowboys and GI Joe, he turns the place where the wild things are into a consummate pandemonium of grotesque cannibals.
I don't think it'll be a bad film, though, I'm just making all sorts of leaps because I don't like the kid, especially when he talks.