Hurmm sorry...superadieMarch 12 2008, 14:00:01 UTC
Dumb blond moment... Didn't get it. At All... Sorry... :( Maybe a cultural thing under it... Going to hang myself, too ashamed to keep on living.. Can I borrow a rope? ;) Sorry, have a nice day
Not being terribly familiar with Horton Hears a Who (I didn't read Dr Seuss as a child) I don't quite know what the criticism in that strip is aimed at. The film in particular? Using it to illustrate whoreness of other films?
Horton Hears a Who is a political allegory, written by Dr. Seuss as an analogy for the treatment of Japan after World War II. It's a daring work written by a brilliant man.
The movie looks like a soulless exploitation of a beloved classic. I can't say it is as of yet, I haven't seen it, but that's certainly how it's being marketed.
Which is directly counter to Dr. Seuss' intention with the work, thus it would be exploitation. Dr. Seuss wrote some books strictly for fun, but he wrote some that were more than that. Horton Hears a Who is one of the latter, and stripping its message, still relevant fifty years on, is soulless exploitation.
I understand adaptation, and I do not generally criticize based simply on aesthetic or presentational changes, but true adaptation retains the core essence of the original work. To do otherwise is to do it simply exploit a work for the sake of marketing and branding.
(Also, to be clear, I'm not accusing the movie of doing that as I haven't seen it.)
Given the horror of Meyer's CITH and Carrey's Grinch, I understand where you're coming from. But people who've actually seen the film are giving it largely positive reviews.
I don't think it'll be as awful as The Grinch or Cat in the Hat.
I think I'm mostly channeling Lenny Bruce's classic "All Broadway musicals sound the same" skit, here...what I've seen of it is the kind of easy CGI humor that could come from any recent animated film.
If my dad hadn't been an obsessive Bruce fan I'd have no idea what you're talking about ;-)
"what I've seen of it is the kind of easy CGI humor that could come from any recent animated film."
Take a look at Rotten Tomatoes. A reviewer from the Village Voice liked it, and he seems to hate anything you wouldn't see in an art haus.
I haven't seen anything of it beyond the trailers, but based on the early reviews I think it may surprise some people.
My loaner kids are out for a couple of weeks (so I probably won't see it in a theater), but it does bug me when people rag on something before they've seen it.
Not you specifically, of course! I understand where the humor is coming from. After he died I was concerned what Hollywood would do, and that fear was more than justified.
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Didn't get it. At All... Sorry... :(
Maybe a cultural thing under it...
Going to hang myself, too ashamed to keep on living..
Can I borrow a rope? ;)
Sorry, have a nice day
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Thanks again, have a nice day!
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But you'll never have me believing you're dumb.
It's a kid's book that's been made into a big-budget movie.
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I think my exact words were: "Well ... at least it's not live action this time."
Edit: Saw an add, not an odd. Leaving the original post text intact because I found my typo appropriately amusing.
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The movie looks like a soulless exploitation of a beloved classic. I can't say it is as of yet, I haven't seen it, but that's certainly how it's being marketed.
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I understand adaptation, and I do not generally criticize based simply on aesthetic or presentational changes, but true adaptation retains the core essence of the original work. To do otherwise is to do it simply exploit a work for the sake of marketing and branding.
(Also, to be clear, I'm not accusing the movie of doing that as I haven't seen it.)
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I think I'm mostly channeling Lenny Bruce's classic "All Broadway musicals sound the same" skit, here...what I've seen of it is the kind of easy CGI humor that could come from any recent animated film.
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If my dad hadn't been an obsessive Bruce fan I'd have no idea what you're talking about ;-)
"what I've seen of it is the kind of easy CGI humor that could come from any recent animated film."
Take a look at Rotten Tomatoes. A reviewer from the Village Voice liked it, and he seems to hate anything you wouldn't see in an art haus.
I haven't seen anything of it beyond the trailers, but based on the early reviews I think it may surprise some people.
My loaner kids are out for a couple of weeks (so I probably won't see it in a theater), but it does bug me when people rag on something before they've seen it.
Not you specifically, of course! I understand where the humor is coming from. After he died I was concerned what Hollywood would do, and that fear was more than justified.
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