What the hell, Spike Jonze? What the fuck were you thinking?
I mean, it's obvious you had a good idea and some good direction, and it was going pretty good for awhile there, but it seems that you HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE ABOUT HOW TO END A FUCKING MOVIE.
There was absolutely zero resolution to pretty much any of the conflicts. Hell, that douchebag you tried to pass off as a protagonist didn't even really resolve any conflict with his mom, he just came home and she gave him chocolate cake. Not that I really cared about his problems. Meanwhile, while all the other, much more interesting and sympathetic characters were just ditched without having ANY RESOLUTION WHATSOEVER. We the audience are left to believe the eternally go on with their awful, depressing existence. This wasn't even a bittersweet ending, it was just bitter. There was no sweetness at all.
I understand that you didn't intend this to be a children's film, and rather a film aimed at adults concerning adult ideas and concepts of childhood, but when you MAKE A GOD-DAMN MOVIE BASED ON A FUCKING CHILDREN'S BOOK then maybe you should TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THERE WILL BE CHILDREN IN THE AUDIENCE. I mean, it's only common sense. Having taken that into account, you would consider making it less nightmarish and horribly depressing. Fuck, I'm 22 and I was still deeply disturbed and depressed upon seeing this movie which I was expecting to be rather uplifting and fun. You know. Kind of how you presented it in YOUR FUCKING TRAILER.
I'll admit here, you really took me in. Maybe I should have known better than to trust a trailer. But that doesn't make you any less of a COCKSUCKING BASTARD for luring me and others to see your wretched angst-fest.
And Christ, what the fuck about Douglas' arm?
Yeah dude, the guy GOT HIS FUCKING ARM TORN OFF!!! YOU SICK MOTHERFUCKER!!! HOW COULD YOU EVER THINK THAT THAT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR A PG MOVIE!?!? YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST HAD THEM REATTACH IT OR SOMETHING BY THE END!!! You HAD to have known kids would be at this movie, and yet you left that in?! You should KNOW that kids can't deal with loose strings like that. Adults can't either, not in a whimsical tale about a boy that goes off to a land of "wild things" and has
an incredible amount of angst and horror adventures. Are you TRYING to rape these kids' childhoods? Are you TRYING to give them nightmares? Are you TRYING to make them go home and obsess over how Douglas lost his arm and didn't get it back? TRYING to scare them that THEY will lose THEIR ARMS?! Fuck, I bet you are trying to rape their childhoods. Fucking childhood rapist. Well, you know what? I hope YOU get raped. Oh yeah, I HOPE SOME BIG GUY COMES ALONG AND SKULLFUCKS YOU LIKE A RAPE SIMULATOR PROTAGONIST DOES. And I don't usually wish that kind of thing on people, so you know THAT YOU REALLY DESERVE IT when I do.
Making a piece of shit like this doesn't make you "a visionary director" like some people say.
A visionary would make works to change the world. Your work just reinforces the idea that the world is shit. Your "vision" sucks.
You say you didn't market it to kids? But you did. You totally did.
You say it should reflect the book? Fine. It did. But the book was for kids. You film isn't for anybody except emo freaks who obsess over how the sun is going to die.
Shit. Go back to directing Jackass. You JACKASS.