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Haters Gotta Hate and Crabs Don’t Like to See Successful Crabs!

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Couldn’t really come up with a cool image for this. Of course I thought about the Chappelle Show characters for the Haters’ Ball…but that wasn’t very “horror” related. This week I decided to talk about mindset and what I see going on with fans/a lot of the population.

Years ago I heard a story about someone that would go catch crabs with family and they would take a shallow basket to put the crabs in. It sounds odd but apparently that’s all you need. The trick is you have to have a minimum of two crabs in the basket. If there is only one crab it will notice that it can get out and proceed to get out. If you have more than one crab, the others will pull the escaping crab back into the basket. This seems to happen with people as well. If someone is doing well, trying something new or following their dreams…people will tell them they can’t do it or they are crazy for trying it. For artists, this is highly frustrating because we see our visions clearly and want to work towards them. Others just tell you that it can’t be done.

To me this comes down do mindset. Some people have a mindset of scarcity, others have an abundance mentality. I think this is kind of funny in the film business because of the final product. If a movie cost $100 or $200 million to produce the DVD usually cost what? About 20 bucks. Also look at it like this. If you buy DVDs, do you own just one DVD? I really doubt it. If you rent DVDs, do you rent one per year or one per lifetime? No, we rent movies or buy movies all the time. So what is the point of being so negative towards other filmmakers, etc…?

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Review: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

From We Are Movie Geeks: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is a classic amongst children’s books, not so much due to mere entertainment value, though it has that, but because of how much it means to children whose parents have read it to them. Children empathize with Max, a boy whose mother sends him to his room after he acts out his more aggressive side, a boy who finds solace in a mystical world he creates where monsters roam and wild rumpuses abound. To say Sendak’s story is magical to children is putting it lightly, and saying Spike Jonze’s feature film adaptation is commendable in regards to Sendak’s story is as much of an understatement as you can muster.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is a master work. It tells its intricate and nuanced story with grace and care that only a parent can give a child, and its characters come to life in startlingly exquisite detail. More than just a coming of age story, the narrative Jonze has expanded from the original book takes the themes Sendak created and flashes them in an immense presence. He does all this without ever allowing the film to feel forced or less than genuine. Such a feature film adaptation of a children’s book could have easily been just that. Jonze, to his credit, is anything but a bogus filmmaker. His visions come across on screen every time he steps behind the camera, and, with WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, he truly captures the feeling within all children that sometimes it is easier to be the wild thing than the conformed.

via Review: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE- We Are Movie Geeks.