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Behold The Greatness Of The New WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Trailer!!

Published at:  Aug 06, 2009 10:08:12 PM CDT


Merrick here...



You can see it HERE - over and over again in Glorious QuickTime...







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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:10:42 PM CDT

    Looks good!

    by dark knight lite

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:11:39 PM CDT

    No need, will be blasted in front of EVERYTHING like teaser

    by anything but tangerines

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:15:41 PM CDT

    Harry must get paid by the Exclamation Mark!

    by ingeld

    Really!! Almost every article!! Putting exclamation marks after the headlines is like magic!! It turns okay news into COOL NEWS!!

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:16:00 PM CDT

    Goat Boy gets em wet!

    by trannyformers_apologist

    "One of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate, and beautiful, use of the psychoanalytic story of anger."

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:20:39 PM CDT

    When the kid grows up...

    by the dum guy

    He'll most likely rethink his stance on eating people.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:23:04 PM CDT

    I CANNOT WAIT....

    by jackislost

    for this movie. Everything about it looks great so far. I am willing to entertain the possibility that it could still completely suck, but for now I have reason to be an optimist...

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:27:47 PM CDT

    Nominee For Best Picture...

    by maliswan

    Mark my words...

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:32:48 PM CDT

    ...I'll eat you up, I love you so.

    by flickapoo

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:33:12 PM CDT

    ...I just like saying that.

    by flickapoo

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:36:35 PM CDT

    What's the name of the music in the trailer?

    by johnno

    It might be perfect for something I'm working on!

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:37:49 PM CDT

    I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE SLOBBERING OVER THIS....

    by carlthormark1978

    Yeah, I loved the book as a kid too, but it's only 48 pages long and this has been in production for four years while David Eggers is the type of hipster douchebag that most people on this site despise. Oh but they make the creatures and the kids costume look as close to the book as possible while playing doucherock designed to manipulate your emotions about childhood blah blah blah and you sentimental pussies fall for it. Suckers.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:38:16 PM CDT

    Amazing.

    by jimmy_009

    No other word for it. This looks like it's going to be one of "those" movies that stick with a kid for the rest of their life. Can't wait.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:39:32 PM CDT

    Awesome

    by subtitles_off

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:43:52 PM CDT

    Looks great

    by redjester

  • Aug 06, 2009 10:45:33 PM CDT

    Dogshit for music.

    by locust

    Looks great. Music's shit, though -- sounds like the barf they play at the gym. Tell me more about David Eggers, Jimmy.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:49:11 PM CDT

    Music = Arcade Fire - Wake up

    by httphil

    The music is a song called Wake Up by Arcade Fire off their album Funeral. Not my favorite song of theirs, but personally I like it in the trailer.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:52:11 PM CDT

    CarlThorMark aka douche

    by torgospizza

    You are so metal! Way to show those pussies with their "feelings" and their "childhoods" who's boss! Let's chug some Bud Light and then date rape some sorority chicks! In other words, go fuck yourself, "bro."

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:55:53 PM CDT

    CarlThor

    by virgilhilts

    Dude, if it's not too late, call your Mom and ask for a hug. Jesus.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 10:56:19 PM CDT

    too much nostalgia around here

    by mynemaborat

    i dont buy into that whole 'inner child' crap. u need to grow up as u get older, its fine to have fond memories of your childhood, but u shouldnt try to get it back or live in the past or envy children for fuck sake. thats michael jackson territory... everyone bagged him for wanting to be a kid forever, but many people around here are doing the same. live in the now!

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:01:10 PM CDT

    Awwwwe...

    by palinode

  • Aug 06, 2009 11:05:56 PM CDT

    HEY! WUTH THUH NAYMA THUH MYOOTHIK???

    by anything but tangerines

    get a fucking life

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:09:53 PM CDT

    Arcade Fire!

    by darth_beerfart

    fucking awesome canadian band..this song has been out for a while, i think they performed it on SNL, but holy fuck does it fit well with these trailers...go canada!

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:13:09 PM CDT

    kinda evokes the

    by one_guy_from_andromeda_

    donkey rhubarb video, no?

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:17:03 PM CDT

    Tony Soprano

    by jobs_are_for_wimps

    I've been looking forward to this one for a while now. The only drawback I foresee so far is the choice of James Gandolfini for the main monster's voice -- they should've probably chosen a less recognizable actor, in my opinion. Still, can't wait.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:17:19 PM CDT

    This movie

    by cujo_fugate

    looks fucking great. If you don't think so what the fuck are you doing on a movie message board?

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:23:43 PM CDT

    Lauren Ambrose

    by sn2214

    sounds oddly sexy. im gonna start counting the days.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:25:19 PM CDT

    Some of these people need hugs or therapy.

    by lovecraftfan

    Seriously some of you need to chill out.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:29:13 PM CDT

    mynemaborat

    by jimmy_009

    I'm an adult with a family, an awesome job, and I'm completely adjusted to adulthood, probably a hell of a lot more than you are judging by your comments. There's nothing wrong with revisiting your childhood every now and then. Try it some time, maybe you'd be happier for it instead of being a giant asshole that hates his life and wishes other people did too.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:31:43 PM CDT

    Some real douchebags here.

    by obsd

    "What?!? Everybody wants to se it?!?! Then I must hate it!" Seriously, if these trailers don't stir something in you, you have no soul.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:44:21 PM CDT

    This is possibly one of the best trailers I've ever seen

    by the ringwraith

    Absolutely beautiful. God, this movie looks amazing. I hope I hope I hope it lives up.

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:45:31 PM CDT

    KingOfMilwaukee

    by the ringwraith

    There are HD options there...looked pretty great to me

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  • Aug 06, 2009 11:53:41 PM CDT

    This is Merrick's best article yet

    by glory_fades_immaxfischer

  • Aug 06, 2009 11:54:36 PM CDT

    Looks like this movie will blow...

    by anonymoose

    ...me away! You see what I did there?

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:01:38 AM CDT

    Wow....

    by gabba-uk

    Beautiful. I want my nephews to see this soon so I'll have an excuse to go.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:10:21 AM CDT

    Spike Jonez = Best Director Nominee at the least

    by glory_fades_immaxfischer

  • Aug 07, 2009 12:12:53 AM CDT

    Unbelievably awesome.

    by skidmarkedundies

    It's like Tony Soprano wacked George Lucas before he could rape me of my childhood. I love it.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:13:55 AM CDT

    It's easy to make a good trailer when you use "Wake Up".

    by flim springfield

    Possibly the best song of the decade.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:15:26 AM CDT

    lol..Skid

    by glory_fades_immaxfischer

  • Aug 07, 2009 12:26:32 AM CDT

    WHY THIS IS AMAZING

    by glory_fades_immaxfischer

    because a director had the balls to turn away from fucking flat looking CGI GI JOE/Van Helsing BULLSHIT...and embrace realisim again...Look how fucking bad Jabba the hut looked in the star wars redux compared to the early 80's giant puppet..Even if it looks cheap or cheesy...these are real characters, on the set..the actors can interact with them and not just some fucking green screen..so even if it looks like saturday morning cartoons..people are still convinced..because a bunch of idiot CGI losers arent tryign to match lighting to the ACTUAL scene being filmed...THATS WHY THIS LOOKS AMAZING..and thats it..it's a return to Jim Henson...it's a return to real fantasy...and thats pretty much it.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:35:38 AM CDT

    Yup-guess Jonez had to reshoot...

    by mr.lordbronco

    every single scene with a monster in it--probably looks 50 times better for it-go practical effects movies!

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:44:44 AM CDT

    SPIKE JONZE IS A GENIUS

    by fassbinder79

  • Aug 07, 2009 12:45:40 AM CDT

    It would be super sweet

    by mockingbuddha

    if this turned out in the end to be an H.P. Lovecraft movie! Koochooloo eating Max would rule! James Gandolphini could sit gibbering in the corner after witnessing it as the screen faded to black and the credits rolled.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:46:53 AM CDT

    Can. Not. Wait.

    by crisp_one

    I second (or third...whatever it is now) the notion that going back to puppets = brilliant move. Actually, I think these are mostly puppets with a little bit of CGI around the face. Del Toro did a lot of this in Hellboy 2 and Pan's Labyrinth, and I hope he does the same with The Hobbit.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:03:47 AM CDT

    This really...

    by codymr

    Does not look like the disaster I was reading about around this time last year. At least from the trailer, the teaser and that test footage it looks like Jonze got the look and feel just right.

    I don't really want to wade into to practical vs CG effects debate too much, but I do think the people in the CG camp run into problems when you are tying to get subtle/natural performances out of the human actors when hey play off 100% CG characters. While people in the practical/optical camp seem to look at much of the work done in the 70s, 80s & 90s through rose coloured glasses - while a lot of it is masterful, a lot also looked kinda shoddy.

    WTWTA seems to strike a good balance between the two schools of thought.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:06:24 AM CDT

    The Emperor has NO cloths. This looks like pigshit

    by borock_a_boomer

    It might take some of these basket cases up to 20 years before they admit they got assfucked by this thing

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:14:40 AM CDT

    Locust....You Dont Go To The Gym

    by frodo t. baggins

    Comeon Buddy....Comeon...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:15:52 AM CDT

    The Teaser Is Best Trailer Of All Time. Total Jizz

    by frodo t. baggins

  • Aug 07, 2009 1:25:40 AM CDT

    Looks top!

    by the_skook

    Can't wait! Feels a less contrived than usual 'family' fare. It's not just about 'inner child', it's findig the 'inner monster' too! Grrr...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:39:37 AM CDT

    Gandolfini

    by kingarcane

    I loved the trailer, but I don't think there will be a single second of Gandolfini's time on screen that won't take me out of the moment.

    But, I'll see it for sure. Hope I'm proven wrong.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:41:58 AM CDT

    Never read the book------

    by dahauk--

    ---and not even the slightest interest in seeing this film.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:43:58 AM CDT

    It reminds me of that Sigur Ros video with the kids flying

    by iron-kong

    ... though this is creepier.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:55:47 AM CDT

    Some books should remain unfilmed

    by benbraddock

    This looks amazing, sure, and no doubt people are gonna love it, but is it really "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE"? We'll see but I remain thoroughly sceptical

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:00:34 AM CDT

    Even the author has signed off on this movie

    by jimmy_009

    Because this is Spike Jonze's personal vision and that's why it works. He's not trying to copy the book and he's not trying to cash in. If Maurice Sendak says it's good, that's enough for me. And I agree about the people bitching about it. Say whatever you want, but you are just being contrary to be contrary. If someone said this and the teaser were two of the best, most effective trailers ever cut I'd have a hard time refuting that. It's some good shit. Period.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:05:28 AM CDT

    Is it Wrong that I Want to Molest the Creatures

    by ass clown

    I was just revisiting my childhood and discovered that I have repressed sexual attraction to these wild thing critters. I call dibs on the one with the big nose.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:16:12 AM CDT

    FUDGE ME!

    by everyonesreimagining_or_er

    My ear just took a poop.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:22:09 AM CDT

    yeah

    by pushmonk

    I can't stop watching this, and I don't want to.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:23:14 AM CDT

    umm

    by pushmonk

    I don't want to stop, that is.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:28:42 AM CDT

    "Whew!"

    by moosemalloy

  • Aug 07, 2009 2:34:00 AM CDT

    Oh yeah...

    by pushmonk

    I forgot why I don't, after reading this shit for more than 12 years, post in the talkback. So many of you are such fucking jaded assholes that you can't just see something that has the potential to be pretty awesome, and say, "yeah, perhaps".

    You have to mock it, and anyone that doesn't hate it. I know this has been stated hundreds of times, but for FUCKS sake, get over your fat, lonesome, selves.

    Some people like watching movies. Try it sometime, ya douchebags.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:38:33 AM CDT

    I saw it today in IMAX, and...

    by growltiger

    I feel disappointed. Okay, so it is just a trailer, and it was not at all bad, but it just did not feel right for some reason. Maybe I expected more, or least something different, when they roar their terrible roar and roll their terrible eyes.

    I missed out on the book when I was a child, but I thought the illustrations and story were keen when I eventually discovered it. I loved reading it to my own child. Maybe that is it. I guess I feel it should be shared as book with children rather than viewed in a theatre.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 2:59:52 AM CDT

    oh my sweet jesus...

    by mechasheeva

    okay, most trailers... "THIS SUMMER...BIG EXPLOSIONS...GIANT CGI CRAP..." this trailer... "everything you've ever seen... everything you've ever done... everyone you've ever loved..." seriously. fuck avatar. fuck whatever else i might be looking forward to. this looks like joy boiled down to its perfect essentials. i have never shed a tear during a fucking preview before this but the beauty... truly something to behold. i have never before been convinced by a preview that movie will be perfect... but count me there at the first midnight showing, ready to revel in it all.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:00:51 AM CDT

    Oh Dear..

    by subfreq

    The Kid can't act. Bit of an oversight that one.

    The rest looks amazing.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:31:24 AM CDT

    love it

    by funkyknitwear

    why are people not loving this? when you think about all the films that are released for kids today - hannah montana, anyone - and then spike jonze comes up with something like this... what the hell???? gotta agree with mechasheeva: this trailer made me well up. someone name another kids movie that has looked as good as this. this is just bitching for bitching's sake... and on this web site. hmm. that's unusual

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:41:03 AM CDT

    This looks awesome, BUT...

    by playkins

    I'm not as wild about James Gandolfini's voice as I thought I'd be. Maybe it'll grow on me, just not what it sounded like in my head. I always imagined something like Chewbacca. I guess I finally get to find out what the Wild Things' names are, tho...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:42:13 AM CDT

    pushmonk:

    by playkins

  • Aug 07, 2009 3:42:16 AM CDT

    pushmonk:

    by playkins

  • Aug 07, 2009 3:43:14 AM CDT

    WTF?!? Sorry... server error?

    by playkins

    Anyway, pushmonk: My sentiments exactly.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:48:04 AM CDT

    Mockingbuddha: I'm sorry, I gotta comment on this-

    by playkins

    Koochooloo? Sorry, mate- THAT got me chuckling. Wouldn't mean "CTHULHU" by chance, wouldya? LOL.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:59:49 AM CDT

    Lookin good.

    by dingbatty

  • Aug 07, 2009 4:03:15 AM CDT

    This could end up being a modern classic

    by zombieheathledger

    It's taking me a little bit to get past the Tony Soprano voice coming out of the main monster but this looks amazing so far.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:37:15 AM CDT

    Looks wonderful and most importantly

    by sepulchrave

    ..it shows every sign of having a heart, unlike the stony piffle that everyone but Pixar seems to insist children enjoy. It looks like something Henson might have made if he were still about, with a touch of Terry Gilliam in its sepia grandeur.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:42:32 AM CDT

    All you Americans need more hugs

    by sepulchrave

    you get less physical contact than anybody else in the world. That's why that crazy dick shot those women in that gym (how ironic, a man who can't get a relationship with a woman because everyone has to be a gym-toned millionaire shoot a bunch of women in a gym). A side effect of all this loss of physical contact is that American kids are constantly touching themselves: they stroke, fidget, poke, and rub against themselves in a vain subconscious attempt to simulate 'other' contact. there's this huge chasm in American life between the love, friendship and sex that you think you're entitled to and what you actually have, which is fuck-all.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:44:14 AM CDT

    Anyone who uses the word 'douche' ...

    by sepulchrave

    ..probably is one. Brah.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:56:03 AM CDT

    A BUNCH OF OVERGROWN CHILDREN HERE LAMENTING…..

    by carlthormark1978

    Their lost childhood but, HEY, here comes along a movie that will allow you to vicariously relive the fantasy of what most of you have deluded yourself into believing, that childhood was a carefree dance through a sunlit field of roses on a summer day without any responsibility with Mommy and Daddy taking care of you which is really what you want to return to. Your all like a Rod Serling cliché of a man looking to escape from the pressures of the adult world as in such Twilight Zone episodes as ‘Walking Distance’ and ‘A Stop at Willoughby’. The only question for most of you is whether you’ll grow up and accept your responsibilities as an adult or throw yourself off a train.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:09:27 AM CDT

    The movie looks wonderful....

    by vicenzov

    ...but the music they picked to accompany it is truly horrendous. Seriously, it's like Spike Jonze's most commercial project yet and the trailer screams "only see this is you like independent quirky shit!!"

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:15:11 AM CDT

    Sepulchrave, WHAT YOU SAID IS PRETTY MUCH SPOT ON...

    by carlthormark1978

  • Aug 07, 2009 5:16:00 AM CDT

    The Lovely Bones trailer looks equally amazing.

    by redjester

  • Aug 07, 2009 5:19:52 AM CDT

    Sepulchrave, I'M GUESSING YOU'RE FROM EUROPE? BRITAIN?

    by carlthormark1978

    I find that the USA and Canada are more sexually repressed then Britain and European’s. There seems to be a streak of Puritanism that runs through North America and it’s because of all the bible thumping fucktards polluting the country with their bullshit that sex is a bad, dirty thing.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:24:24 AM CDT

    Creepy Thin Man / Sepulchrave

    by zombieheathledger

    CTM- Your point was made. No one is agreeing with you. Harping on it with repeated posts, each time getting more insulting, isn't going to make what you are trying to say any more agreed upon or true. Lighten up, dude.
    Sepulchrave - And where is this magical land of warm fuzzies and endless physical affection that you are from pray tell? (And you are completely wrong to generalize an entire country by the way.)

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:26:24 AM CDT

    What's that smell?

    by vicenzov

    It reminds me of hypocrisy.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:33:03 AM CDT

    I guess that happens....

    by vicenzov

    ...when people start talking about other people's lack of effection and sexual repression on internet message boards.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 5:39:06 AM CDT

    Sepulchrave, you sound like an idiot, no you're an idiot

    by doctorzoidberg

    Where the fuck do you get off on a Freudian analysis of a culture to which you don't belong? Americans "stroke, fidget, poke, and rub themselves"? WTF. I am sure our adolescents rub one out as often as the next country. As far as getting less physical contact than the rest of the world?? Please. I have been everywhere except Africa and Asia. I haven't seen the Japanese, Brits, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Norwegians, Germans, Swiss et all sitting on each other's laps and running fingers through the hair of friends. All the huggy-kissy Euro mentality appears to be confined largely to Spain, Italy, and France. Which is great for them, but get off your rickety soap box.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 6:09:19 AM CDT

    I'm going to cry at this.

    by biggusdickus

    I just know I'm going to end up blarting like a baby when the credits roll.Wow. Looks absolutely wonderful.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 6:13:19 AM CDT

    Oh, and about exclamation marks...

    by biggusdickus

    Only one is ever needed. Multiple exclamation marks betray a limited education and a juvenile demeanour.Just sayin'...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 6:19:01 AM CDT

    Carlthor and Sepulchrave

    by blindmessiah

    Were almost certainly diddled as kids. When the rest of us were being read books like this, imagining how wonderful it would be to really see those monsters moving and talking...
    Carl had a rectum full of Uncle. So I understand where the hostility comes from.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 6:33:45 AM CDT

    Sensing some anti-American feeling here...

    by biggusdickus

    Nothing wrong with Americans. Salt of the earth people. Their only fault - if you can call it that - is that they're brought up believing that America is the centre of the universe.Any English child can point out Florida or New York on a globe, but I doubt that many US kids could even find Europe, let alone London or Manchester.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:03:07 AM CDT

    BLEH. HERE'S YOUR QUOTE ON SENTIMENTALITY.

    by scottindc

    Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:07:08 AM CDT

    ANOTHER!

    by scottindc

    Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ~ Carl Jung. This trailer is WAY too overly precious. Spike Jonze knows this better than anyone...the preview screenings have gone HORRIBLY; with audiences not connecting with the young actor at all. At least the costumes are cool in a throwback Labyrinth kind of way.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:16:34 AM CDT

    Awesome.

    by henrydalton

    Never really read the book as a kid, but I'm hugely looking forward to this. Great teaser, great trailer. (I'd actually say the teaser was slightly better but this was still top notch).

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:19:47 AM CDT

    BlindMessiah, WHAT’S WRONG, ADULTHOOD WEARING YOU DOWN?

    by carlthormark1978

    Is that the reason for your desperation to make yourself feel like a child again? Being young is a state of mind and only those who’s hearts have died are always trying to find a way to feel like they did when they were young. Next stop for people like you is a one way ticket to Willoughby.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:28:09 AM CDT

    considering the book is 8 pages long...

    by six demon bag

    i think this looks pretty damned good...if you dont like this film or are not moved by the trailer, you had a sucky childhood and i blame your parents. end it and start over fuckers.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:36:24 AM CDT

    carlthor had a rectum full of uncle

    by six demon bag

    i laughed out loud..thanks for that one.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:47:13 AM CDT

    Great creature effects.

    by rev_skarekroe

    But like other people have said, isn't the book super short?

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:53:04 AM CDT

    mynemaborat

    by rev_skarekroe

    Tough talk for a guy who can't be bothered to spell out the word "you".

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  • Aug 07, 2009 8:04:23 AM CDT

    Hard to tell whats cgi and whats a suit

    by geomancer21

    I'm impressed. good job.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 8:16:52 AM CDT

    I loved the art of the book but it was written like shit...

    by alienindisguise

    This looks f'n sweet.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 8:41:00 AM CDT

    Well fuck my eyeballs!

    by rubiks doob

    That looks like a hit.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 8:45:31 AM CDT

    Looks fuckin retarded

    by dkev00

    But I'm sure the kids will love it.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 8:47:11 AM CDT

    the people who like this trailer...

    by bingo the clown

    ...must have read a different book than I did. The Wild Things are supposed to be scary, not cuddly.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:17:23 AM CDT

    dickus

    by raskolnikov_was_framed

    u kinda proved america is the center of the universe when you admitted brits know our geography and we probably don't know yours...we don't have to haha

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:31:04 AM CDT

    I think this, not Avatar, will be the gamechanger movie of '09

    by soylentmean

    I don't think all of the advances made for Avatar are going to fully register on most audiences (we've grown so accustomed to CGI) but the use of CGI seemingly seamlessly mixed with practical effects in Where the Wild Things Are looks astounding. This world looks real.

    I don't see how anyone is going to mistake the world of Avatar for real.

    The trailers keep pushing Where the Wild Things Are further up my anticipation list.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:44:26 AM CDT

    Nostalgia vs. Peter Pan Syndrome

    by soylentmean

    For those of you who can't get over the fact that people like looking back at their childhoods (or at least the good parts) and claim that liking anything geared toward children is regressive, well I aim this raspberry at you. Pthhhhhhh!

    Now that's outta the way it must be said that anyone who can't enjoy a movie like this or say a Pixar movie due to their age, well that person or persons is dealing with too many issues. Trying to put on a front of maturity and even more horrifyingly, of forgetfulness, to assert one's adulthood is just sad. It's a lot of work to pretend you were never a child. Unless you grew up in a dank, dark, dilapidated basement, lived off gruel, and were forced to participate in the drowning of kittens; odds are you had at least a few fleeting moments of goodness in your childhood.

    There's nothing wrong with looking backwards as you move forward with your life.

    Acting like a child and ignoring responsibilities, however, is something to get upset over.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:59:06 AM CDT

    Alan Moore declared...

    by kaladrax

    "Where the Wild Things Are is Unfilmable."

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  • Aug 07, 2009 10:34:40 AM CDT

    Six Demon Bag, FIRST YOU WANT TO REGRESS BACK TO CHILDHOOD.....

    by carlthormark1978

    Next thing you're Michael Jackson and wanting to fuck children.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 10:45:39 AM CDT

    bingo the clown

    by theblackknight

    Watch the teaser again, and the featurette. It definitely hints that everything is not going to be cute and cuddly. It wouldn't be much of a good film if Max ran around the forest for his dear life from the children-eating Wild Things.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:07:54 AM CDT

    CTM bares his ugly, twisted soul and psyche...

    by doctorwho?

    ...for all to see yet again. No one does it with such bombast and regularity... and like the proverbial car crash I must slow down and witness. Mommy and Daddy really did a number on you...and a "rectum full of Uncle" didn't help either I'm sure.
    If you like the trailer...you're a pathetic wimp wanting to regress to your childhood, curl up into the fetile position and weep. So listen to CTM everyone... SUCK IT UP! Squash those silly "feelings" down deep into the pit of your stomach and get back to work! Life is misery and beauty and experssion is for the WEAK!
    Now go pound some beers tonight CTM and chest bump your buddies.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:12:38 AM CDT

    torgosPizza!

    by doctorwho?

    re: your post at 10:52. LOL and spot on.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:12:40 AM CDT

    Uh they did a major scientific survey of touching

    by sepulchrave

    ...contrasting Europeans with Americans kids. And they found that American kids touch each other about 50% less, don't hug, stroke or hold each other and have weirder attitudes to sex and their own attractiveness because of it. They develop depression and self-loathing issues, put on weight and art always scratching and rubbing at themsleves (in an neurotic, fidgety, not a masturbatory way, you understand) Google the study. Nobody shoots up aerobics classes here becasue they can't get a date.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:15:52 AM CDT

    Oh and I'm married to an Michigander

    by sepulchrave

    I know plenty about the sexual and psychological attitudes of the US. My sister in law shot herself in Arizona last year. Both her kids are on dozens of pills. The boy is a nine year old bed-wetter. The millionaire husband weighs over 350 pounds and drives a canary yellow Hummer (he was featured on a popular starical TV show). So yeah, I have the skinny on you folks.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:17:49 AM CDT

    Of course, i had a real childhood.

    by sepulchrave

    I can't really undestand what it must be like for kids that can't just walk out of town into the wilderness; kids who live surrounded by endless deadening miles of suburban sprawl. My childhood was like The Lord of the Rings crossed with Swallows and Amazons by comparison.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:22:03 AM CDT

    carlthor...

    by six demon bag

    no i keep young thru playing with my children and re-experiencing my youth by doing just that...no child fucking here thanks.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:27:37 AM CDT

    Actual US headline: Should Teen Hugging Be Banned in High School

    by sepulchrave

    Apparently, kids are sick of being isolated but their parents don't like the idea of them being physically confident.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:56:27 AM CDT

    Thanks for the song gents!

    by johnno

    Movie looks great! I know nothing about the property aside from some cool McFarlene toys. Anyway, what the fuck is this shit about touching and hugging and sex? And some idiot blaming religion for everything again because one side of the world touches themselves less? How the fuck did a muppet movie trailer come to this? You know what, fuck you guys I don't have to get involved in this...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 11:58:30 AM CDT

    If you don't know who Maurice Sendak is..

    by sepulchrave

    then just fuck off.

    And you called it a 'property', you soulless jackass.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:11:10 PM CDT

    DoctorWho?, I ACTUALLY DON'T DRINK, SMOKE OR DO DRUG, ALSO.....

    by carlthormark1978

    I never played sports as a kid, I was more or artsy/science nerd type (non-Goth), which is pretty much what I still am today, so your piss poor attempt to psychoanalyze me is full of massive FAIL. I’m completely in touch with my feelings but that doesn’t mean that I become a blubbering wreck over a trailer with some kid running around with a bunch of monsters which really symbolizes his retreat into fantasy when he realizes that Mommy is foaming at the gash for a big fat cock and that she isn’t only there for him anymore. Also, using terms “beauty” and “expression” makes me think that you’re really hurting inside and that, some days, all you want is to be held by Mommy who, when you were growing up, told you that you were a really smart, handsome boy who all the girls will go nuts for when you get older. Except that isn’t true and Mommy is lying just the way she and Daddy told you that there is a Santa Claus, just to make believe that there is magic in the world when the truth is that you are less than nothing, floating aimlessly in a cold remorseless universe that will never know that you ever existed. Next stop for DoctorWho?.......Willoughby....

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:32:28 PM CDT

    Sepulchrave

    by doctorwho?

    Sounds like your exhaustive knowledege is based on your wife's neurotic, twisted, fucked up family. Yeah, you've got it all figured out eh? "Michiganders"...what an inclusive cross section of America.
    BTW, I pity you for any family functions you are obligated to attend. Sucks to be you.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:35:38 PM CDT

    And THANK YOU CTM...

    by doctorwho?

    For validating my point perfectly!
    " Also, using terms like "beauty" and "expression" makes me think that you're really hurting inside"
    LOL!!!!!!!!!

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:44:05 PM CDT

    CG vs practical

    by stickmangrit

    we're really starting to see an interesting shift back to the traditional uses of CG effects work in film. whilst the use of full cg for things that are just flatly impossible to film is prevalent, movies like Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy 2, Benjamin Button, and now WTWTA are trying to use practical effects whenever possible, using CG to cover the zippers, allowing both to integrate into a much better whole than either could accomplish individually.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:45:42 PM CDT

    DoctorWho?, HOW DID I VALIDATE YOUR NON-POINT?

    by carlthormark1978

    You were the one that brought those terms up, not I, so my only guess is that your adult life must be so devoid of love or human contact that your only source of emotional stimuli is through watching movies.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 12:45:42 PM CDT

    DoctorWho?, HOW DID I VALIDATE YOUR NON-POINT?

    by carlthormark1978

    You were the one that brought those terms up, not I, so my only guess is that your adult life must be so devoid of love or human contact that your only source of emotional stimuli is through watching movies.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:02:05 PM CDT

    WOW! You're not to bright are you Creepy?

    by doctorwho?

    Allow me to illustrate the obvious for your 2nd grade mentality...
    Your quote...
    "Also, using terms like "beauty" and "expression" make me think that you're really hurting inside"
    Following along so far? Good.
    My point is that you have a fucked up psyche (as stated above) due to what... I can only imagine. Boo fuckin hoo for you.
    Still following?
    One types the words "beauty" and "expression" and your bitter and joyless thought process reaches what conclusion? That I am "hurting Inside"? LMFAO!
    Validation expalined! You probably even winced when you typed the word beauty.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 1:36:00 PM CDT

    DoctorWho?, YOU EQUATED WTWTA WITH "BEAUTY" AND "EXPRESSION"....

    by carlthormark1978

    Otherwise why bring them up? Oh, that's right, you were trying to say that I was a cold, heartless bastard for not crying like a little bitch over the trailer for a fucking movie. I guess that your life is soo empty that you can't find "beauty" or "expression" through anything you do or experience on a daily basis in the cold blackness of your non-life which is why you need fake Hollywood bullshit to tell you how to feel with cloying sentimentality replacing genuine warmth which you probably haven’t felt since you were a child which is why you’re soo easily suckered into handing over your hard earned cash to a movie that promises to fulfill some emotional need that you want to experience again or that you have never known which eats away at you psyche day by day until you buy that ticket to Willoughby.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 3:34:15 PM CDT

    CMT meet Livingwater

    by doctorwho?

    I'm confident you hold 2nd place for the most hilarious, bat-shit insane TBer's here. Please, please, please return again after your next banning.
    What do you find beauty in dip shit? Movies are just ONE of a MILLION things to find beauty in...nature, music etc. Why do you or anyone go to the movies or read a work of fiction? To willingly suspend your disbelief, commit emotionally to story and character and hopefully be entertained. Damn those fucking sheep!
    I find it hilarious that your bitterness and wild leaps of logic are on full display...but embarrased for your lack of self awareness of it all.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:09:39 PM CDT

    DrWho? / CreepyThinMan / Sepulchrave

    by zombieheathledger

    Just out of curiosity, if CTM holds 2nd place, who is in first?
    And CreepyThinMan, you are overstating. Just because we like a movie trailer doesn't sum us up en toto. This is a movie site, hence we discuss why we like this trailer or not. If this work is making someone feel good and excited why would you want to judge that and take a big shit on their enjoyment? If it's not for you, cool, but to try to get into somebody's else's head disparagingly over what you assume is there rationale for liking said trailer is a being a bit of a parade pisser. If it's not for you, it's not for you, but why can't it be okay with you if the rest of us find enjoyment in it without you raining scorn and derision on us repeatedly with your assumptions?
    Sepulchrave- Ehh, I've noticed that you have dodged my question as to what country you are posting from? Whatsamatter? Chicken?

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:24:21 PM CDT

    Really? That didn't look good to me at all...

    by the_ritty

    That trailer looks like it plays on your memory of the book (which I don't remember)otherwise blah... I'm sure it WILL be good but that trailer doesn't make me want to see it and James Gandolphini's voice just seems wrong to me... I just can't get Tony S out of my head when hearing his voice... I dunno...

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  • Aug 07, 2009 4:39:25 PM CDT

    lol "a rectum full of uncle"

    by ironic_name

  • Aug 07, 2009 5:11:55 PM CDT

    ZombieHeath

    by doctorwho?

    Livingwater gets the #1 spot...hence the post "CMT meet Livingwater."

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  • Aug 07, 2009 7:42:04 PM CDT

    Bingotheclown...

    by the_coyote

    ...judging by the footage shown at Comic-Con, as well as having read the script, I can assure you that the Wild Things are not cuddly in this film. They're dangerous, intense, and destructive. The last act of the script gets pretty dark, and they captured the spirit of the book very well.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:24:23 PM CDT

    Fucking clueless

    by smatt584

    You people are trolling a WTWTA talkback and you wonder why people think you're bitter, repressed assholes? Remind me not to visit the place that spawns such clueless and self-important twats. You do your country a disservice by existing.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:38:32 PM CDT

    I don't get all the Gandolfini bashing

    by boyalien

    Seriously, you guys can't get "Tony S" out of your thick heads? Have you NOT seen The Man Who Wasn't There, The Last Castle, Fallen, The Mexican, A Civil Action, All The King's Men....Etc, Etc....Dude's a fucking ACTOR, not a fucking Gangster. Get over yourselves.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:39:26 PM CDT

    Oh, and the Trailer looks amazing.

    by boyalien

    Haters suck it.

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  • Aug 07, 2009 9:41:18 PM CDT

    no subject

    by boyalien

    Sometimes, I had trouble watching The Sopranos without thinking about Bear from Get Shorty. Guess what? I got over it in about five seconds.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 12:33:07 AM CDT

    boyalien: If you're refering to me...

    by playkins

    I don't have any feeleings one way or the other about Gandolfini, and I wasn't bashing. I'm saying, my opinion here, that human voices are not what I imagined for the Wild Things. That's just me, my mind's eye (or ear). I'm sure it will be fine.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 8:24:23 AM CDT

    Actually, I am very sane.

    by livingwater

    I also work in this industry. CarlThorMark1978 is right. There is nothing "bat shit" about anything I have said FYI. How petty of to make an artificial wrong minded judgment of someone you never met based on the destruction of your ignorance. Peter Jackson has ACTUALLY stolen my work because he is a backstabber......I could list 7 names. He ran with my concept in my script, found a book that correlated to a major metpahor and adapted it into a child mutilation film for Christmas. He knows that. Fran does. I do. The academy does. YOU DO NOT. Why ? because he is satanically orientated and all his own projects fail.... so he has to steal and lie his way through life. He was born of Oct 31st, that seems to have created a deep problem in his psychology. The masses think he is Tolkien because he can sit in a chair and watch the best actors, best cinematographer and best editors use other people's money for something he has nothing to do with. PJ could have gone on holiday for LOTR and it would have worked better. Later, him and a few people in the industry LITERALLY stopped my career, which was very high profile. Why ? because of money. I am a threat. He has failed in the oppression. TALENT WINS OVER POLITICS BECAUSE POLITICS MAKES NO MONEY. Soon people will see the truth in a very very public way. He has tried to stop my persona life and HE FAILED too. You think he is a fat hobbit. He isn't. In fact, Charlie MCklellan wanted Harry away from LOTR, I convinced him otherwise, to use AICN as a marketing tool for LOTR. That is the only reason Harry Knowles wore that boa. In fact I even sat next to Harry at the LOTR wrap party. Don't tell me who I am. I know. Don't tell me I am a liar because of your ignorance. I am not. Please keep your ignorant projections. You don't know me and never will. Eat them. I am not a liar. BTW Sepulchrave is very clued in on the USA psychology, but this production lacks sincerity.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 9:08:42 AM CDT

    no subject

    by the goat

    After reading that, I am now convinced that livingwater runs a major studio. Pretty sure its Tom Rothman. Back on topic, whiskers look great, and anyone who dislikes Arcade Fire truly deserves to get curbed.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 10:07:05 AM CDT

    Guess we'll just have to adjust

    by the goat

    In honor of full disclosure;

    http://tinyurl.com/yrmk4s. Clip is from 2007, song's from 2004, but you already knew that, didn't you?

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  • Aug 08, 2009 11:04:41 AM CDT

    Sepulchrave is from Yemen I bet

    by thebloop

    They are very touchy feely people, especially with their tent boys. How it that new Hot/Cold K-Y gel stuff working out for you?

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  • Aug 08, 2009 11:24:06 AM CDT

    Yeah, I'm from Yemen

    by sepulchrave

    ..but the tedious homophobic college boy bullshit is 100% USA. Man, you peopel just never grow up, do you? oh and it was about ARABS too, ho ho, you guys, you're almost as funny as that retard Glen Beck. Queers! Ragheads! Priceless!

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  • Aug 08, 2009 12:21:18 PM CDT

    Sepulchrave

    by smatt584

    Sorry, have to call bullshit on the last post. Ever been to Manchester, UK? Or are you referring strictly to homophobia of those who attend college? If so, then yeah, I'm sure machismo, ignorant homophobia doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. You shoul get out more, it'll really destroy your faith inhumanity instead of limiting yourself to xenophobia.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 12:23:05 PM CDT

    Ahhh, a Brit lecturing Americans about physical intimacy?

    by zombieheathledger

    Are you fucking kidding? You limey bastards have the market cornered on rigidity. Pot meet kettle.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 12:44:56 PM CDT

    ZHL

    by smatt584

    Why does Madonna and Guy Richie come to mind when you say that?

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  • Aug 08, 2009 1:41:49 PM CDT

    Right, so you're a BNP homophobe?

    by sepulchrave

    Great. One of Nick Griffins closet-case fuckwits. Go bash a Paki. And yes, I've been to fucking Manchester, AND Yemen AND Russia AND China AND the USA, to ention just a few places. What the hell? You call me a xenophobe because YOU make jokes about Arab pedophiles?

    Jumping fucking Jesus.

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  • Aug 08, 2009 5:12:17 PM CDT

    Not to contradict

    by smatt584

    Crazy, but I can't seem to remember making jokes about Arab pedophiles, although that would make for a mighty fine sitcom...
    HOT DAMN, WHERES MY TELEPHONE?!?

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  • Aug 08, 2009 8:22:51 PM CDT

    Hey, Livingwater.

    by thewaz


    When someone writes a sentence that reads, and I quote: "TALENT WINS OVER POLITICS BECAUSE POLITICS MAKES NO MONEY" I can make a reasonable deduction that you're not the professional writer you claim to be.

    I'll also add that comments like "Soon people will see the truth in a very very public way" could very well be taken as a maniacal veiled threat against Peter Jackson. I suggest you have a little chat to someone before it all goes bad eh?

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