Blu-Ray Review: Where The Wild Things Are

Book adaptations are as fickle as they come. Some are great (How To Train Your Dragon, Fantastic Mr. Fox) others fail miserably (The Golden Compass, The Lightning Thief). Where does The Wild Things adaptation fall? In the great category.

Max has a rough sister and is doing badly in school. One night, when his Mom's boyfriend comes over, he makes a scene and bites his Mom. After being called a wild thing, he runs off and finds a boat that takes him to a dangerous land. Full of dnagerous inhabitants.

The film impresses thanks to it's "Who Needs Kids?" approach. The film is dark, very dark. But so was the book. In fact, the film takes the books spirit and stretches it to a wonderful 100 minutes that will make you realize something: being a kid is heck. Horrible in other words. Other films would make childhood like like heaven. This says kids are given the worst in life and have to deal with more problems than adults can dream of.

The wild things home is an impressive visual experience. The animatronics/CGI approach gives realism and depth to the creaters. They seem to be exactly as a child might imagine. It's really beautiful. This film may have been snubbed in the Best Picture category, but here at Doug's Domain, it gets an A+!!

Rating: 9.1 out of 10 or A

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Considering Up

Up really has a good shot this year at the Best Picture. In fact, it (along with Precious, Invictus, The Hurt Locker and Up In The Air) is a shoo-in for Best Picture. Now this ad came in today for Variety ,asking the Academy to consider the film for Best Picture and Director!! I dearly hope it gets those nominations, because animation needs this recognition.

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For Your Consideration: The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Where The Wild Things Are

These two films relaly deserve Best Picture nominations at the Oscars. Each push boundaries in their kid film boundaries and bring fun and tears anyway. Below are what should be nominatted in the Best Picture category:

Up In the Air
Precious
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
Up
Where The Wild Things Are
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Serious Man
Avatar
Inglorious Basterds



Please Academy, Give all of those films the nominations. I beg you. Break the duldroms.

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Hamishing It Up At The Oscars

Hamish Hamilton (the one doing the surfer pose) will direct the Oscars this year. Come March 2nd, we will see if he can do a good job.

By the way, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are hosting. Duo hosting hasen't been done in a while, so this should be something quite interesting. The OScars should be fun to watch. Now if Up could just get in the Best Picture category..

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