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The Lorax
2012 · Film · 86 min
Directed by Chris Renaud
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
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> He's even flying to raise funds for cancer research.
The best line from the Lorax film is in this song where he’s trying to put a positive spin on his aggressive commercialization and they say “a portion of proceeds goes to charity”!
I loved that movie, and everyone I know at least liked it, a lot.
It flopped because of The Lorax, and THAT was massively disappointing.
The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch movies also were completely warped by Hollywood.
I can count the number of times I've been to a theater in the last 10 years on one hand. I ended up seeing The Lorax in theaters when it came out for some work thing. I was there to be entertained, I didn't like being lectured at.
Things are much, much worse now.
You all do what you want, I'm more than happy with old movies.
Not really, depending on the thing. There (maybe) comes a point where the accounting of who owes what becomes more expensive than the thing you're tracking.
It can also go the opposite direction. Air is free right now, but then see the movies Total Recall and The Lorax (not joking).
Nobody mentioned The Lorax movie where O'Hare air sells air to the smog ridden city. :-)
That cat in the hat movie was an abomination. I mean, the source material isn't much to work with, however they just took the character and plopped him into some nonsense storyline with naught but suggestive glances towards the book.
Horton hears a who was pretty good though, and I think that was because the book had a plot that you could work with. The lorax had that possibility, but they just mucked it up.
If you're wondering how bad The Lorax feature film really was, put succinctly it felt like it was embarrassed about its source material. Few of Seuss' words remain in the dialogue; on the one rare exception, the words were spoken by a character not found in the book and then immediately dismissed as weird.
If The Lorax had Seuss rolling in his grave, The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers had Seuss spinning hard.
Horton Hears a Who on the other hand is quite good; an honorable example of how Seuss' material can be adapted to a feature film.
Looking forward to reading with some kiddos I know who are big fans.
Too bad they don't take the same care in developing other Seuss projects... it was just awful what they did to the Lorax in the last movie. Poor Dr. probably rolled over in his grave.
If you have kids check out The Lorax movie where the two marketing dudes are pitching the ad for bottled air.
I must have been some highly developed child growing up. When I was around 4 or 5 my parents read to a lot of Shel Silverstein and of course plenty of Dr. Seuss.
When I saw the Lorax film, I immediately knew it was about over consumption of resources and a little later on (ages 8 or 9) felt a strong environmental pull during the whole movie.
Even the Sliverstein books made me sad. Take for instance, the Giving Tree. People to this day talk about what the meaning really is:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/omc/kidsphil/questions/Givingtree/givingtree_discussion.html
When my parents read it to me, I was saddened by the fact the tree gave everything to the child, and the child never seemed appreciative of the gifts. On the one hand, I felt it was about being selfish and even when life has handed you everything, happiness was still elusive. On the other hand, it also spoke to me about generosity, and giving to others who don't have as much as you.
Other books just confused me. Alice in Wonderland just gave me nightmares, never mind what the actual meaning of the story was. I'm content to think it was just some crazy acid trip Carroll was recounting.
I feel like the more depressing themes seemed to connect with me as a child, while some of the deeper meanings (The LOTR series and Wizard of Oz) I totally missed. Even after seeing the Star Wars movies, a friend had point out all the biblical parallels. Like Darth Vader being his father. Father in German is Vater. Vader, Vater, it's so very close, but once pointed out, so obvious.