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Effing Wild Things.

CleoKittyCleoKitty member
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We bought "Where the Wild Things Are" for ds a few days ago on DVD- we didn't get a chance to see it while it was still in the theatre.

Now ds is sitting here next to me all worried and upset with lots of questions about how the sun is going to explode and eat up the Earth and our house and we're all going to die...

He looked at me with big sad eyes and said, "It really isn't a very happy movie, is it?" 


 

 

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  • AnnapolisLariAnnapolisLari member

    I love Miles.

    And no, kiddo, it really isn't.

    AKA KnittyB*tch
    DS - December 2006
    DD - December 2008

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  • GingerSBGingerSB
    yeah, not really litttle kid appropriate.
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  • AnneUCSBAnneUCSB member
    Poor little guy :(  Thanks for the heads-up about the movie.  Looks like we won't be renting that.
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  • DandRDandR
    yeah, I didn't really think it was that great either.  Luckily, it was Audrey that wanted to go to it, and she didn't really ask questions about the sun blowing up or whatever...but yeah, not a great movie for under 10.
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  • cnybride2becnybride2be
    thanks for the warning!
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  • CleoKittyCleoKitty member

    imageGingerSB:
    yeah, not really litttle kid appropriate.

    It never occurred to me that a movie adaptation of a beloved children's book would NOT be little kid appropriate! 

    Ds isn't easily scared and although I vaguely remembered hearing some controversy over the movie when it was in the theatre I wasn't too concerned since ds handles things like that just fine. I was kind of like, "Eh, no worries. He's not going to be scared about some big monsters. That's fine."

    But, I didn't realize that the movie is really dark and almost depressing- it wasn't scary all. Just disturbing and unsettling.  Not what we were expecting, I guess.


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  • joseysbridejoseysbride member
    Yeah, I read the reviews and quickly learned that it wasn't little kid appropriate, but that really kind of ticks me off.  I mean, how many little kids love that book?
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  • SumnerBrideSumnerBride

    I got it OnDemand yesterday for Ashlyn and I to watch.  OMG...not a happy movie at all.  I'd never read the book.  We didn't even finish it because she was getting too upset when they were all throwing dirt balls at each other.

    Bad mommy for not reading the book first....

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  • GrowingFamilyGrowingFamily

    imageGingerSB:
    yeah, not really litttle kid appropriate.

    This.  After I read the reviews that movie got when it came out, I decided there was NO way we were taking our 6 & 4 year old DDs to see it.  It's too bad they couldn't have made it more kid-friendly since they kind of marketed it to kids.

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  • CleoKittyCleoKitty member
    imageSumnerBride:

    I got it OnDemand yesterday for Ashlyn and I to watch.  OMG...not a happy movie at all.  I'd never read the book.  We didn't even finish it because she was getting too upset when they were all throwing dirt balls at each other.

    Bad mommy for not reading the book first....

    Your dd will probably love the book. It's really nothing at all like the movie. 

    Check it out for yourself. They've added some music and sound effects into this, but otherwise they're just reading the story word for word:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOEFnppm_A

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  • GingerSBGingerSB
    imageCleoKitty:
    imageSumnerBride:

    I got it OnDemand yesterday for Ashlyn and I to watch.  OMG...not a happy movie at all.  I'd never read the book.  We didn't even finish it because she was getting too upset when they were all throwing dirt balls at each other.

    Bad mommy for not reading the book first....

    Your dd will probably love the book. It's really nothing at all like the movie. 

    Check it out for yourself. They've added some music and sound effects into this, but otherwise they're just reading the story word for word:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOEFnppm_A

    The book actually scares my dd too.

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