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Lost in Space (2018)
Unwatchable
Both seasons are just plain boring. The characters are all unsympathetic - annoying and inconsequential flashbacks, absolutely no synergy among the cast members, limp scripts - action in the place of plot. Not even fun to watch as a road wreck. They don't seem like a family, in fact the don't see like actors, just bored people going through the motions.
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Where the boring and depressed things are
Incredible that so many people have well received this film -- it is long, dark both in visual terms -- but even worse, it is dark in emotional terms. "Where the wild things are" turns out to be a place where the animals/monsters are all passive/aggressive depressives. How do you take one of the best visualized children's stories that has only a couple of hundred words of text into a feature length movie? Answer: you don't. For whatever whimsy the book contains, it is distorted into a singular, overlong and morose personal version. I found the angst of the characters to be completely unengaging and most of all boring -- as did my four year old. Fantastic Mr. Fox is an incredible contrast -- wonderfully visualized with sufficient intellectual content to carry a feature length film -- and most importantly, upbeat and positive in outlook. The monsters in "Where the wild things are" really are analogues for unhappy, bitter adults with deep emotional problems -- YUCK!