The Lorax [2012]

........... I never noticed that before! WHY DO YOU MAKE ME WANNA REWATCH THE LORAX!?!!!? AWAY WITH YOU!

I remember watching it for the first time and just thinking "What the hell is wrong with the people in this town? They're singing about how messed up their world is, right down to some things that sound actively unhealthy, and they like it?"

As for the 'first time' thing, I frequently babysit a kid who loves it. Blargh.

And Zac Efron's character sounds way too old.

Just look it up on youtube

edited 26th Jan '13 10:04:42 AM by Zendervai

Zac Efron's character sounds too old? Hmm, I didn't notice. And that's often a hangup with me— in fact, that was my big hangup with How to Train Your Dragon— that the lead character doesn't sound like a kid to me. Same for Sid the Science Kid, if by some chance anyone here has ever seen that.

edited 26th Jan '13 11:48:51 AM by JMQwilleran

Because Hiccup is not a kid. He's a teenager. Like the other youth characters in that movie.

Hiccup's voice actor, Jay Baruchel(may have spelled that wrong) has sounded like that since he was a teenager. Ever seen Popular Mechanics for Kids?

Oh, okay. I was under the impression that the character was supposed to be a kid, but I guess I was wrong. My bad.

Anyway, personally, I have hope that The Cat in the Hat will actually be good. Though, I suppose if it isn't, there's still The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!.

At any rate, it can't be any worse than the last one, right? RIGHT?!

How ba-a-a-a-d can it be? If it helps the economy!

No don't you start this now!

Weird Fact: the books that How To Train Your Dragon is based on has the main characters as children. Dreamworks aged them up.

Aha, so that's why I thought the main character was supposed to be a child.

Well...Cat In the Hat doesn't have an incredibly blunt moral that's easy to derail by accident.

I totally go into the streets and sing about pollution and nuclear waste.

By the end of the movie I was just like: "Okay, everyone in this town is really stupid." I mean, Grammy Nora or whatever remembered the trees, the Once-ler is still alive and all that, so why does no one think not being able to leave the town is odd? And they go from singing about how artificial everything is awesome to singing about how the 'gift of the earth' is awesome, right out of nowhere.

DO NOT QUESTION IT, JUST BUY THE TIE-IN PRODUCTS AND HATE CORPORATE AMERICA! MELADANDRI COMMANDS YOU!

Acceptable Breaks from Reality in a musical generally extends to the whole singing and expositing thing.

edited 26th Jan '13 8:10:37 PM by Ronnie

ROTFL.

Though, if still looking for an explanation— how about this— this is a town that is relying on third-party air. So maybe there's literally something in the air?

Oh, all I meant is that people are more suggestible than you might think.

Maybe they are all mentally affected by O'Hare air and no one is "normal" enough to argue about it.

My biggest problem with the movie was the humor; not just that a lot of it was bad (some of it was Actually Pretty Funny), but that the movie refused to take anything seriously until near the very end. It had that Shrek-y *Wink-wink* We're not actually being emotional here, that would be lame! *Wink-wink* feeling everywhere.

edited 28th Jan '13 8:21:05 AM by RTaco

Yeah, I don't really like that kind of thing. It sucks a lot of the meaning out of it. I think that might by why I liked Megamind so much. It was the perfect candidate for that kind of humor, but they didn't use it in favor of putting an existential crisis in.

I think the biggest problem is just that they took the original book, crammed it into like three minutes and added way too much padding. Although, the padding was less stupid than in Horton Hears a Who. I mean, seriously, faux-anime action scene? Why?

Granted, that anime scene lasted roughly a minute and barely registers to people as to what's memorable about it. Still............. anime in a Dr. Seuss movie!?!? Really, Blue Sky??

Sorry for the bump, but I just found this.

An exercise done to try and work on the differences between presenting a board statically and presenting it as an animatic (also trying to work on finding a process I'm happy with....).

So.... this is what I was thinking- instead of a slow demise into greed.... what if there was one, precise moment where the once-ler had to make a choice about which way he was going to fall? I figured the "lighting ceremony" of Thneedville (aka turning on the power and zapping of all the natural resources of the area) would be a good place to start.

edited 3rd Aug '13 7:25:18 PM by lalalei2001

Great song, but I feel that that video gets the point exactly wrong. The problem with Onceler's arc in the movie wasn't that it happened over too long of a span of time - it's that it was all condensed into one moment. Biggering works great as the climax of Onceler's arc, but for the movie to truly work, Onceler's arc has to have him gradually become the environment-guzzling dick he is by the end. Given the more serious, cerebral tone of Biggering compared to its replacement in the final film, I suspect that Biggering was written to be the culmination of an entire character arc's worth of moving in that direction - not some kind of spontaneous snapping point like How Bad Can I Be in the final film.