Ok. :)

:sits down now:

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Do I win a prize for the most entries in this thread?
Or get a punch because I just can't let go...?

Where the Wild Things Are.

Why?

No, I haven't seen it - it's not out here yet.
No, I won't see it.
It was a b.e.a.utiful book.
Perfect for it's adherence to the art of short story writing - omit unnecessary words.

The night Max wore his wolf suit
And made trouble
Of one sort or another

(quoting from memory, but there's not a lot to get wrong thanks to Sendak's spare prose)

THE WORLD IS FULL OF WRITERS! GET AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY!
STOP PISSING ON MY CHILDHOOD!

Yeah, I know I said I was calmer these days.
But not when it comes to this.

Great big fat gusty sigh. And with pickled onion breath. Ner.

Oh, yeah? Here's what Maurice Sendak has to say to you!

I own the part of my life that the book occupied. And I'm an atheist. So fuck him right back.

But sensibly - good that he is behind it. It would be an even bigger kick in the teeth to me if he was dead and not getting anything from it. On a similar note - found out Acker Bilk was alive just the other morning. And white. And English. I was eating Shredded Wheat at the time and warm milk fell dowm my chin.

ANYway. Gaiman wrote the screenplay for Coraline as far as I remember - still didn't go see it.
I've supported both authors financially (drops in their respective oceans I know) but I will not pay to see the films.

I hope they make Halloween costumes just like Max's jammies this year. And if they do, I hope the kids don't fight me too bad, beauase that's what they'll both be going as...

They aren't pissing on your childhood. They can't, it's long gone.
They are creating new childhoods for the kids that like this movie. I suppose for the kids that don't also.

I respect what they're trying to do by turning the old kids classics into movies. Even the ones that suck, I respect their effort. It's a new era, a new generation. And at least even shitty movie versions of old kids books are better than most of the shitty original stuff disney and their ilk come up with nowadays.

Actually I'm glad Disney has stopped making cartoons of fairy tales.
At the end of Snow White, the wicked stepmother is laced into red hot boots and dances herself to death. Now that's a proper story!

You're right Bruce. No-one can touch what the books originally meant to me.
(Unless I get taken to Room 101 of course)

Would it be weird for me to make wolf suit pyjamas for Diz?

I can't believe no one has seen this yet. Ahem ahem....



Every worm is saaaacred
Every worm is great
If any worm gets waaaasted
God gets quite irate!

Can someone post an image of 'Matilda' to confirm that we're thinking of the same Matilda.

I'm assuming Matilda as in, the Roald Dahl story with the telekinetic girl... i do recall that movie being more or less up to par.

And I liked Coraline as well. One of the first three Blu-Rays I just bought.

If you enjoy reading to your kids, Heckedy Peg is excellent. Modern, but reads like a folk tale.