Comments on: Where the Wild Things Are (2009) http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/ The Best Films of the 2000s. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:30:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Best Films of the 2000s: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | The Best Films of 2000s: This Guy Over Here http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Best Films of the 2000s: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | The Best Films of 2000s: This Guy Over Here Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:28:27 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-146 [...] childlike films, and thank goodness, (though let’s be honest and admit that neither this nor Where The Wild Things Are are children films.) Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation flick is anything but [...] [...] childlike films, and thank goodness, (though let’s be honest and admit that neither this nor Where The Wild Things Are are children films.) Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation flick is anything but [...]

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]]> By: What This Guy Watched: October 2009 | The Best Films of 2000s: This Guy Over Here http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-92 What This Guy Watched: October 2009 | The Best Films of 2000s: This Guy Over Here Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:38:00 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-92 [...] The Invention of Lying 9 Where the Wild Things Are [...] [...] The Invention of Lying 9 Where the Wild Things Are [...]

]]> By: this guy over here http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-90 this guy over here Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:22 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-90 It's interesting that it hit you so similarly yet so vastly different from how it hit me. Oddly, as you say it made you realize what at brat you were, I have that feeling at a massive amount of other films. But being an only child, I connected with his loneliness and isolation and I felt a sense of salvation from his immense imagination... and then watching that salvation crumble as you grow to understand your surroundings. It’s interesting that it hit you so similarly yet so vastly different from how it hit me. Oddly, as you say it made you realize what at brat you were, I have that feeling at a massive amount of other films. But being an only child, I connected with his loneliness and isolation and I felt a sense of salvation from his immense imagination… and then watching that salvation crumble as you grow to understand your surroundings.

]]> By: KZ http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-89 KZ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:21:06 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-89 See, I felt a bit like the Grinch with the small heart. This movie hit home for me mostly in the bad way where I reflected on what an ungrateful brat I had often been as a child, and why that probably stemmed directly from a sense of isolation (by the time I was seven, we had moved to five different houses in four different cities). For me, the movie was just as much about learning to appreciate love as it was about the guilt, shame, and sacrifices that you have to make and recognize to get there. Being a kid can suck, but having to grow up sucks worse. See, I felt a bit like the Grinch with the small heart. This movie hit home for me mostly in the bad way where I reflected on what an ungrateful brat I had often been as a child, and why that probably stemmed directly from a sense of isolation (by the time I was seven, we had moved to five different houses in four different cities).

For me, the movie was just as much about learning to appreciate love as it was about the guilt, shame, and sacrifices that you have to make and recognize to get there. Being a kid can suck, but having to grow up sucks worse.

]]> By: this guy over here http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-76 this guy over here Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:39:32 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-76 I concur with your concurrence. I concur with your concurrence.

]]> By: Chase http://thisguyoverhere.com/2009-films/where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Chase Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:21:25 +0000 http://thisguyoverhere.com/?p=569#comment-75 I concur. Completely. I concur. Completely.

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