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Where Does It Get Its Balls?

Gabe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:05:01 +0000

After I saw Where the Wild Things Are, I told a friend that a mash-up with Tony’s dialog from The Sopranos would be funny but that I didn’t need to bother making it because the Internet would make it for me. Took longer than I would’ve thought, but does Daddy know his Internet? (WOW! YUCK!)

The Videogum Movie Club: Where The Wild Things Are

Gabe — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:15:00 +0000

I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when you spend most of your days following movie anticipation trends on-line. Now, of course, we know that Where the Wild Things Are was the number one movie in the country, and it earned a WILD (sorry) $32.5 million. That is so many million! But we didn’t know that back then when we were like, “Sold out? That is not very enchanting.” So I went to the movie on Sunday instead. They had added a second, simultaneous screening, and both of them were packed. But packed with whom? There were certainly plenty of children with their parents in my theater, but there were also plenty of man-children, if you know what I mean. The dude sitting to my left was in his mid-30s, and he was alone. The young couple sitting next to me pulled books out to read before the movie started, and she was reading Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit. Of course she was! This movie was really hitting on all cylinders, if there are only two cylinders, and they are children and over-educated upper-middle-class white people in their late 20s-mid-30s.

Also, security was super tight? Like, they wouldn’t let me into the theater at all because I had a banana in my bag, which I had to eat in a fury, like some kind of forest creature, cowering in the corner next to the garbage can. And then when I got to my particular screening the security guard hassled me about my ticket stub? And actually made a call to the head of security on his walkie-talkie before letting me into the movie? We’re still talking about a movie written by Dave Eggers based on a children’s book published 43 years ago, right?

Yes. We are. So let’s talk about it!

Where The Gremlin Things Are

Gabe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:28:21 +0000

“Another day, another movie trailer mash-up. Sisyphus must learn to love watching them.” — Albert Camus

Where The Wild Things Should Be

Gabe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:49:52 +0000

Let the wild Photoshop begin! (Feel free to leave your photobombs in the comments. NO PRESSURE.)

Where The Word Things Are

Gabe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:27:23 +0000

The New Yorker published an excerpt from the upcoming book-length Dave Eggers’s Where The Wild Things Are…movie novelization?…adaptation?…fan fiction? Whatever it is, you can read it here.

This New Where The Wild Things Are Poster Is Virtual Insanity!

Gabe — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:37:16 +0000

Oh yeah what we’re living in (let me tell ya)
It’ a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big
That should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we’ll be doing for us.
And I’m giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can’t see, I can’t breathe
No more will we be
And nothing’s gonna change the way we live
Cuz we can always take and never give
And now that things are changing for the worse,
See, it’s a crazy world we’re living in
And I just can’t see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these

Futures made of virtual insanity
now always seem, to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh now there is no sound for we all live underground

And I’m thinking in what a mess we’re in
Hard to know when to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the color of her child
That’s not nature’s way
Well that’s what they said yesterday
There’s nothing left to do but pray
I think it’s time I found a new religion
Whoaaa it’s so insane to synthesize another strain
There’s something in these futures that we have to be told.

Where The Wild Things Are Is Not The Answer, Probably

Gabe — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:08:56 +0000

New Where the Wild Things Are trailer, you guys:

I think these trailers are sending the wrong message. I love them so much that I am fully expecting this movie to “fix” everything. I don’t even know what that means! And yet that is what I anticipate will happen. We’ll all go to see it, and the Matrix will change from wet and gray-green to bright and a full-color spectrum. The internet will get turned off because it’s too mean, and brother will not lift up sword against brother, and eracism, because life is precious, and God, and the Bible.

Of course, that’s not going to happen.

Where The Wild Things Are Continues To Look Like Where The Great Things Are!

Gabe — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:59:49 +0000

Maybe a little late on this (so sue me, in Time Court) (huh?), but if you haven’t already seen: there’s a new WTWA trailer and also a making-of featurette. Nice.

Where The Wild Things Thrash!

Gabe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:07:26 +0000

These Where the Wild Things Are skateboards kind of take away from the magic of the trailer and poster. It’s, like, one step away from a Where the Wild Things Are energy drink. “UNLEASH THE BEAST.”

Where The Wild Things Are Focus Group #1

Gabe — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:27:10 +0000

Lance Bangs posted this video in which Spike Jonze tests out one of the Where the Wild Things Are masks on a potential moviegoer.

Where the Wild Things Awww!

This guy knows: