Comments on: Childhood is a scary place: “Where the Wild Things Are”

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Screen Machine » The “to do” list: week starting 14/1/10: — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:06:34 +0000

[...] Screen Machine’s #2 (!!) top film of 2009 Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are at Moonlight. We wrote about it here. [...]

By: Brad Nguyen

Brad Nguyen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:37:28 +0000

Ha ha yeah. As much as I love John Hughes, I can’t imagine it being great. It’s already pretty miraculous that the Bill Melendez version is as fantastic as it is.

By: Brad Nguyen

Brad Nguyen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:35:49 +0000

http://weloveyouso.com/2009/07/wlys-exclusive-interview-max-records/

By: Brad Nguyen

Brad Nguyen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:33:15 +0000

This interview with Max Records is pretty adorable.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:15:56 +0000

ouch. I’m leaving this tedious online stoush well alone (says the queen of tedious online stoushes).
But I like your review and I want to see the film.
Interesting to read your previous piece though, on hipster bashing- so easy and so fun to do, and yet so ultimately meaningless.
Doesn’t it just come back to personal taste- and isn’t that informed by such a complex web of personal experience, education, memories, associations- which change over time so completely. I think it’s just easy (and lazy) to hipster bash, rather than put yourself out there- regardless of whether it’s Dave Eggers, or 3000 in the firing line.

By: Jake Wilson

Jake Wilson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:44:38 +0000

I love Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes too. Did you know that John Hughes actually had plans for a live-action Peanuts movie in the early ’90s? That would have been weird.

By: nicky

nicky — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:23:24 +0000

i’d rather read your blog posts than ThreeThousand any day. .n

By: Adam Christou

Adam Christou — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:59:08 +0000

uh oh, this is about to turn into another tedious online stoush.

I’mma get my popcorn.

By: Mel Campbell

Mel Campbell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:40:06 +0000

Brad, you’re itching to have a fight with me that I do indeed consider tedious. We are never going to agree about this film and you can think what you like about my review.

However, I had the goodwill to follow you on Twitter, have read and agreed with some of your other reviews, was genuinely curious to see what you thought about this film, and then was appalled to see it degenerating into an attack on me.

Is it really the best you can do to imagine that because you don’t agree with me, I mustn’t have read the book? At ThreeThousand I get 200 words per review, not 1,230 as you have used here. I didn’t have space to elaborate on my impressions about the source material, and its relationship to other pop-cultural representations of childhood. Sorry about that.

Next I read that I’m “desperate to define [my]self as a figure of cultural authority”? Brad, I’m sensing your desperation, not mine. Blog posts like these are a really bad way to build a reputation as a writer and as a critic.

By: Zora

Zora — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:08 +0000

I like it when I agree with you Brad.

It makes me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOxe8u8Y9R8

I found it an almost unbearably personal film. Being thrown so strongly into past emotional states is often uncomfortable, and that’s what this film did for me. Also Max Records is a splendid child. I want to keep him.