Wild Things and Squashlings

Where the Wild Things Are.

I wanted so much to like this movie, hence I am disappointed. However, what disappointed me the most is that the beginning of the film seemed SO promising. It just hit home right away with the emotions. But after that... once Max joins the wild things, there seems to be a lot lacking in substance. Whatever potential there is slowly dwindles away. It's not even something I can put my finger on. It felt disjointed and like there wasn't actually enough plot? or explanation? or backstory? to connect to it. A lot of the time I was trying to figure out if characters and situations were supposed to parallel Max's real life, or if they were semi-related-but-separate issues [I'm not very good spotting parallels anyway tbh]. The wild things are a unique and complex mix of characters for sure, but they often felt too mean (or insensitive to say the least) to sympathize with. I know that people and their relationships aren't without their problems... but something about the approach left me feeling cold.

I wish I had more than my own perceptions to express lol, it's just one of those completely intangible things that's impossible to explain.

There was actually the issue of alternating between "everyone going wild and acting beastly" and "dark/serious/moody/sad" moments. Like I said, it worked magnificently in the beginning.. but later on it felt too repetitive or even formulaic (not as in something that's been done before, but the movie's self-imposed formula). I feel like a movie solely about Max and his personal/family issues would have been way more involving. Definitely it felt like unfulfilled potential. Some of the ideas were great, but by the end of his visit to the monsters who almost ate him, it's really difficult to connect the dots. IMO, they needed to try to delve deeper instead of just throwing together a bunch of conflict and "emotions".

That said, some of the emotional stuff with the monsters felt.. not forced necessarily, but.. it didn't geniuinely affect me. Almost made me feel awkward sometimes. Is that terrible? I don't know. The beginning may have had a hint of that also, but still felt much more authentic. I personally liked the music, until that got pretty repetitive also. That it was done by the same artist aside, the songs themselves seemed all too similar beyond a certain level of necessary consistency.


I sound like I'm being super critical, but it's just because I truly wish it were better. It COULD have been better.


Moving along, I was torturing myself with this awful Hallow's End event and ALL I even needed was the Sinister Squashling! I don't even care about the title, I just collect pets (my collection). But finally, after almost precisely a week of trick-or-treating every hour on the hour (besides when I was sleeping, which I promise I did less of last week) my last ToT of the night at 5am granted me the pet!!! I was so happy, but I also felt really weird because my brain hurt and the sensation of not having to live my life around this process anymore was mind-blowing. So you can see all the turmoil this put my head through lol. But me so happyyyyy ^_^. Yokatta! Here it is, because I like screencaps:


And finally I leave you with... cornbread!

This Post is Not Intennnse

Every once in a while a few things pop into my mind that I feel compelled to blog about. But leave it to me to have it happen at the worst possible time, when I have too much to do and not enough time.

First of all, I just saw Backstreet Boys on Conan and... hmmm. I honestly love BSB, namely the album Millennium. I was totally into them when I was like 8 or 9? Rough estimation. But I kinda feel about them the way I do about 80s music. If you try to make an "80s song" today, it'll be stupid. But authentic 80s songs, while quite often cheesy, are totally ok. An awesome classic boy band song from the 90s is great, but if they keep trying to come back they will keep failing. Adults who used to love them are too over it to be impressed by their new but the same poppy melodies, but the youngins are into Jo Bros 'n stuff. I'll just have to actually listen to some of their new/er album tracks though. I think a lot of it is that they're all like in their 30s (or nearly) now, so it just seems less appropriate. Simple choreography? Yeah..

Another topic: The moon? Uhh.. I'm still really confused about this because google isn't turning out a whole lot of info for me. I guess that shooting-a-missile-at-the-moon thing happened this morning but I didn't hear about it 'til after the fact. Still foggy on the details and results—that is, if it really happened. I don't understand why a bunch of astronomers are ok with just firing something at our lunar friend though.

Ewww when did I become "current events girl"? I was just about to say how I thought it was odd that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize but I'm cringing at my use of commonplace news. I'll still say it though. Obviously it's because of his inspirational speeches and postitive attitude and such. Definitely premature though. If he really deserves it, the record will show in a few years. They could've waited those few years to be sure, but whatevs. We'll see if it impacts anything whatsoever.

Going to New York tomorrow!! Oh yeah! I'm terrible with exciting events cuz I put tons of extra pressure on myself to look and feel and have everything perfect. Make sure I'm completely prepared and all. Like now, I'm gonna go paint my nails just for this one day stint.

It's like the last warm day ever (of the year, at least it seems like) and I'm celebrating with a Java Chip Frappuccino. As if I don't have them all the time—even in the winter—anyway. But I went out in the beautiful world to get it and I'm wearing a skirt! Yeah, yeah, I know.. alert the media..

So I've been watching The Vampire Diaries. Which is pretty funny because at first I thought it looked so young-teen-ish and horrible, but after I actually saw it I was majorly impressed. I also thought the leads seemed potentially annoying and not good, but I like them now too. Nina Dobrev I'd seen on Degrassi but I wasn't feelin' her as vampire girl until I saw it. Blamin' it on the promos, cuz once I did see it I loved everything! In fact, I used the term "shit just got intennnse" in that giddy sort of way, so that proves it's good.

I really wanted to sound more interesting and post some pictures but I've been procrastinating all day and now I really don't have time or the concentration to do so. Hopefully soon!