Comments on: What Happened to the Wild Things?

By: agaly

agaly — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:33:17 +0000

@August Bergquist

Sometimes I refrain from watching the movie to keep the book from getting spoiled.

Also, how does that even work?

By: August Bergquist

August Bergquist — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:18:00 +0000

Don’t make books into movies unless you stick to the book. It ruins the book and the movie.

By: Cryptopur

Cryptopur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

I remember the Giving Tree. That was a wonderful story. And I hate to say it but somewhere in my distant memory I do remember somebody deconstructing that book and making all about the ‘internal struggle with selfishness’ or environmental exploitation or some such rot. It totally ticked me off.

Even Frued said ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”

By: adamans

adamans — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:56 +0000

Chris (Perkett) – I remember that tweet. Where The Wild Things Are is one of my childhood faves. This trend for me is intolerable. We took our kids to The polar Express because we love the book. It is so tattered from being loved. The film though (I loved the parts that were in the book) was filled with ridiculous plot additions. Come on, a ghost hobo? give me a break. The kids actually gave it a thumbs down. My opinion, don’t embellish on masterpieces. Ugh.
-John

By: Chris Perkett

Chris Perkett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:22:26 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! I came out of that movie so irritated. I tweeted that I hated it and so many people were disappointed in *me*, as though I were the one hacking apart their lovely childhood memory! I’m glad someone understands and agrees with me. It’d be like taking my other childhood fave – The Giving Tree – and turning it into that Poltergeist tree that breaks through the window and grabs you to show you the way life evolves….