Congratulations, You FINALLY Discovered Postmodernism. Now Will You Please Shut Up

Listen, I'm just as excited for Where the Wild Things Are as the next "accidental hipster" or trendy teenager, but this movie is not INDIE or new. Its post-modernism and it is PRODUCED BY A MAJOR CORPORATION. (While I'm at it, I might as well burst another bubble. The Gap owns Hot Topic. Goths, start shredding your Slipnot tee now!) Also, taking a children's book and making it into a movie is not new. Everyday at school, I hear countless people talk about how they will cry as they watch the trailer and have always owned a Wild Things doll, even though, we all know they bought it at Urban Outfitters. (Also, a corporation. Sorry for bursting SO MANY bubbles.) The movie looks great, but stop acting like you just discovered Fellini and Spike Jonze is some underground hero. They sell his music videos and/or Adaptation at Target and Best Buy. Get real.

This is the eqivilant to Cat in the Hat or Transformers. It's a children's icon transformed into a movie...except, this time the movie has substance...which is great...but its still a refurbished icon turned into a movie. It's the "Man in the Mirror" of a picture book turned into an adult product. Jonze takes an awful corporate idea and makes it into thought provoking art. Which rocks! I'm just sick of people finally realizing post modernism rocks and thinking they are the first to discover it when others (I'm looking at you, Caroline. Everyone else, read her FANTASTIC blog http://lareinehedoniste.blogspot.com/. ) have been blogging about it for MONTHS! I hate to compare Spike Jonze's movie to a Miley Cyrus song, but this is the same thing as the jock at my high school discovering the brilliance of catchy pseudo-country disco. I'm glad everyone digs post-modernism, but stop acting like it makes you hip. I found it over the summer, but I knew I wasn't the first. Art History text books beat you and me to it a long, long time ago in a galaxy called 2001.

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