It didn't work for me.
The Wild Things seem too old. They are dealing with things totally foreign to Max - sexual tension, group dynamics, the need to challenge authority. They feel more like middle schoolers and Max is a third grader.

Nabin—
I think you're stuck in a rut.

Hey look-
Another "A" grade given to a remastered album from years ago.

this is probably the first movie
that should receive an "R" rating for "graphic scenes of animal husbandry."

So…
three albums get "A" grades this week, and two of them are reissues of '70's bands?

You expect me to believe…
the guy's agnostic? Then who is the "you" in the lyric?

hmm. I don't think that's the correct etymology of the phrase - I think it comes from Elizabethan theater, when the cheap seats were right up front - but I googled the phrase, and find it's not as outdated or uncommon as I thought. Shows up quite often in politics blogs. So I retract.

Wow..
AV Club is making me all nostalgic tonight. First Noel Murray accuses a movie of "playing to the cheap seats" - a phrase I don't think has been used, or socially acceptable, since the 40's — and now Scott Tobias is telling me I should listen to the radio instead of watching the television.

Playing to the cheap seats
Lest we forget that poor people are dumb, and can't handle complexity and nuance.

You know what I could do without forever?
Critics telling me "that's not how real-life _______ works." Training. Therapy. Raising a child. Falling in love. Baking a cake. Like they're authorities on everything and how it works.

strange
to think that this movie and "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" would have anything in common, but there it is. The same screenwriting workshop.

Whatever.
Every song that doesn't advocate suicide is an anti-suicide song. The whole point of sticking around is so that you don't miss out on the good stuff. And even the bad stuff. And seeing the bad stuff turned into good stuff through art. Like great songs.

is anyone else talking about this?
Tarantino doesn't just love movies, he worships them, and, as with any object of worship, there are rules involved. And here's the Cardinal Rule: Movies Are Fake. Movies are about fantasy and wish fulfillment, and this is, contrary to many opinions, a good thing. We can want…

(gets off his high horse now)

Um, no I DON'T know that and neither do you. The stereotype is that somehow Native Americans are more spiritual, and thus less able to handle injustice, and that's why they drink.

that may be true, but it's ridiculous. If a character drives a Toyota, does Toyota get paid? If they wear Nikes, does Nike get paid? If they use a Motorola cell phone… oh, wait.

and why…
are computers in movies always running some OS that clearly isn't Windows, Mac or Linux?

how about….
The Native American/other minority character who is more spiritual than everyone else, and thus either a)if it's a comedy, teaches the white guy valuable life lessons or b)if it's drama, can't handle the injustice in the world and becomes a homeless drunk.

hmph
I guess there wasn't enough story for me. I love Wrapped Up in Books, but I just couldn't get going with Little, Big. I got fatigued by the overly decorative language and penchant for exhibitionism, and gave up after about a hundred pages.

Man..
If Patton Oswalt will teach me how to make that jetpack sound effect and Sharlto Copley will teach me how to make that laser sound effect, I'd spend all my time flying around on my jetpack and lasering people who make sound effects.