the street of the lifted lorax

[dilletante]

saw the new lorax movie. cute bokeh for an entirely-animated film...

also, acceptably cyberpunk, for dr seuss's most cyberpunk book. there's a romantic subplot i don't seem to recall from the original, but i think all movies are required to have one by some secretive guild or something.

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[ukelele]

One of the things I most liked about Moneyball: we walked out of the theater, looked at each other, and said, wait, there was no romance plot, was there? (The book didn't have one. It would have made no sense in the story. And they didn't shoehorn it in. Near-miraculous.)

[harimad]

Near-miraculous.

Indeed. And most welcome. Ditto A Few Good Men. Demi Moore's role was originally written for a man, it was changed and they still didn't add a romance.

[ukelele]

...I'm going to have to watch that movie on that basis alone. Not succumbing to the temptation to add a romance plot when you have Demi Moore, no less? Well done.

[harimad]

More reasons to watch:
- written by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, Sports Night), from his own play
- directed by Rob Reiner (too many good ones to list, my fave is The Princess Bride)
- uncredited rewrite by William Goldman (greastest living screenwriter, perhaps greatest of all; more good ones than Rob Reiner)

It's not the best courtroom drama ever, not even second after Twelve Angry Men, but it's very good.

[nakor]

And it stars Jack Nicholson in a role he performed in one day, in two otherwise-unbroken takes, having never seen the script. He was nominated for an Oscar for four hours of work, and maybe should have won it.