<![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began? - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began? - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> @Benovite: DeCaprio's character in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" is Max plus a few years. And a shitload of Titanic money.

If they could do that thing to Ray Winstone for Beowulf, don't see why they couldn't Max-up Leo.

wattwatt

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> I can easily see DeCaprio in dripping goth black hair ala Toby Maguire in Spidey 3. He already has an anime look to him, but his age could be a problem.

This is something he should have done around the Titanic/'97 era maybe.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> @anotherlovetko: Aye, Akira! Pick me up some PBR!

Tenno

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> @The Real JR: I almost hurled when I read they were doing the Akira remake. Set in NYC, no less. They BETTER NOT TOUCH GHOST IN THE SHELL THOUGH...

anotherlovetko

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Are they fucking kidding me?! Kids saw 'The Dark Crystal' and it was scary as fuck and it was muppets. MUPPETS!

Jeez. That's how classic films are made. It's supposed to be a bit scary.

Tenno

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Oh ya, I'm excited. Although I'm a bit torn too because it's such big, weird story, maybe the type that's a bit hard to translate to the big screen unless they dumbed it down. But we all know Hollywood has no problem dumbing things down for us.

I don't know the director's work, I haven't seen his short yet, but what I can imagine for the movie is a cross between Blade Runner, Black Rain and Strange Days.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> @Benovite: No comment on the Akira live action remake?

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> It's a bit like having sex with Dolly Parton.

Sure it may feel good but it would look kind of silly.

Some things are best left to the imagination.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> I'd like to know who the people in these test audiences are? My guess is that they aren't kids...

I mean, if kids from the 80s were able to handle Labyrinth and that flying dog thing in Never Ending Story, then this shouldn't even be an issue. This just goes to show you how much of a downgrade CGI has become in children's movies. The puppets are so much more imaginary friendly than that realistic computer imaging crap (not that I have anything against CGI...)

Zephyr_in_the_Sea

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> @gwendemarco: I know that's what made it so great!

Wait are we talking Wild Things or Transformers?

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> I've seen some footage and loved it. I'd take Henson puppets any day over CGI. That uncanny valley stuff is still easy to peg and difficult to ignore. This isn't a damn cartoon, this is a story who's largest fan base has been having kids for around ten years. It's OKAY to be scary or creepy. Trust me, if we can handle Lohan's crotch in our face every day, we can handle "Where the Wild Things Are."

Shumina

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Looked like any other weekend afternoon at Griffith Park. Except they would be speaking Spanish and the WT would be filled with unnamed potentially deadly Chinese-made candy to be recalled later.

gwendemarco

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Sorry, Transformers raped your memories and came out the victor IMO. = /

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Is it wrong to be slightly gleeful that the annihilation of the last shred of my childhood heretofore unplundered by Hollywood might get delayed a wee bit?

Gives me time to stave off the utter raping of my memories, left raw after Transformers and reports of G.I.Joe and The Smurfs.

Also buys me time to sabotage Goodnight Moon: On Ice! and Paris Hilton as Jem.

MadgeicLife

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> This flap is all carefully designed to promote the scripted Lost-in-La Mancha-style mockumentary about the making of Where the Wild Things Are. And now we have fallen into their trap and are like canaries in a cage doing their viral marketing for them. Soon Spike Jonze will rule the world! Bwahahahahhahahahhahah!

WGARefugee

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Btw I wasn't overly impressed with the screen test footage, even though I'm a huge fan of Jim Henson and his creature shop.

I kept expecting John Malkovich to appear in the scene.

Something like this is Terry Gilliam's territory I think. But hey, I didn't hate the footage either.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> Um, they tried that same 'actor in a suit and we'll CG the head' approach with Jar Jar in Phantom Menace. They eventually ditched that idea(but not Jar Jar!).

I know I know, I hate to invoke the Dreaded Curse of Jar Jar Binks(even though I love Episode I), but as was seen in the documentary, it was easier [and somehow cheaper?] to just CG the entire beastie rather than match and apply.

So apparently this is a 'technical difficulty' rerun.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?]]> i bet dakota fanning would shave her head for this one.

hughman

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