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- deviouskoopa, on 03/16/2008, -2/+32This article is ***** retarded:
Hop on Pop
We don't even know what the story is. We just know you cast Martin Lawrence, get some kids to hop on him, and, presto, you have yourself an entertaining 90 minutes or so. - JenniferMiner, on 03/16/2008, -3/+28I worry more about these movies being done WRONG than being done at all. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat were just awful, real wastes of money and time.
- cap11235, on 03/16/2008, -0/+20No, someone put a nine before the zero.
- inactive, on 03/16/2008, -1/+17The Lorax and the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins are like, the only Dr. Seuss stories long enough and with enough of a story to actually work as a movie with minimal changes.
- stavrogin2, on 03/16/2008, -2/+14Only if Chuck Jones can be brought back to life to animate them.
- PCDestroyer, on 03/16/2008, -1/+13Damn Hollywood. They think all children's movies should be filled with animals suffering from ADHD.
- Jenadae, on 03/16/2008, -0/+12This is actually VERY uninteresting....
- pedo, on 03/16/2008, -0/+11uh, what about THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK? and why do we need yet another remake of the Grinch? I agree that a REMAKE of the Lorax might be great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Boo ... - inactive, on 03/16/2008, -1/+11That list ***** fails.
The Butter Battle - epic parallels to Cold War
Bartholomew and the Oobleck - hot girls wrestling in oobleck - mannymix03, on 03/16/2008, -2/+12Just got back from work at the theater, Horton made a killing today, lots of kids.
On a totally off topic subject, when did parents ever teach their kids that its ok to just leave your food on the ground? - unfinite, on 03/16/2008, -2/+11One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Green Eggs and Ham - SaladCactusKing, on 03/16/2008, -2/+111. None
2. Leave
3. Doctor
4. Seuss
5. Alone. - DoubleClef, on 03/16/2008, -3/+12I don't think any of them should be done, because if you look at history...well... Seuss movies are pretty much done terribly. Just keep them as they are so we can still love the books.
- Shrubber, on 03/16/2008, -0/+9Just so we're clear: the animated Grinch movie is a classic. The live-action Grinch movie sucked.
- ZenMojo, on 03/16/2008, -0/+6Sorry, but Star-Bellied Sneetches.... An epic tale of racial dischord and escalating conflict brought on by the modern rivens of industrialization. (Get Spike Lee on that joint right now.)
- MonkCanatella, on 03/16/2008, -0/+6The cartoon versions were usually good.
- foofightrs777, on 03/16/2008, -2/+8No Fox in Socks? I have no idea what the story would be, but the dialog would be worth it alone.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.
Mr. Knox. Now come now. Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now.... - gypsi, on 03/16/2008, -1/+7because all of the dr. seuss movies have been so awesome so far
- stevemur, on 03/16/2008, -0/+5The Sneetches (for my money, it's the very best Dr. Seuss story of all) and Yertle the Turtle (which was actually Dr. Seuss's reflections on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi state) would make great movies. The Sneetches is a good message to get out, with our iGeneration and (Real Housewives / The Hills / Britney drama / take your pick) that we seem to have these days. I loved Dr. Seuss as a kid, and now as a dad with toddlers, I've had the great pleasure of revisiting all the classic Dr. Seuss tales and just love them all.
- swimmingbird67, on 03/16/2008, -3/+8i couldn't agree more. i wonder if the people working for the seuss movies actually believe if what they are apart of is a correct portrayal of what it should be.
- VenDrake, on 03/16/2008, -4/+9FTA: "We just know you cast Martin Lawrence, get some kids to hop on him, and, presto, you have yourself an entertaining 90 minutes or so."
There's a typo in this version; someone slipped a zero after the nine. - HaloZero, on 03/16/2008, -1/+5I have to bury this just because its E Online, you can't support E Online, an entire channel dedicated to "entertainment" thus meaning celebrities.
- inactive, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4Ah, forgot about that one. The new tally is Star Bellied Sneeches, Lorax, and 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- burgermind, on 03/16/2008, -1/+5I'm only aware of the short cartoon from the early 70's. This article is about big budget Hollywood movies.
- Gemfinder, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Here's an idea:
Take his three best (I nominate "The Lorax," "Green Eggs and Ham," and "If I Ran the Zoo") and make an anthology movie.
Another idea: Instead of trying to directly adapt the book "Fox In Sox"...treat it as a director trying to cast a dramatic reading of the story, and in a desperate quest to find someone who can say it straight through without stumbling. - mal1964, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Uhhh the book was so much better than the movie.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.ind ... - tromboneamafone, on 03/16/2008, -4/+7The Lorax
Before there was An Inconvenient Truth, there was this touching, tragic and ultimately uplifting environmental tale. A half-hour cartoon was made of it in the 1970s, but unless we missed the part in the intervening years where the ozone layer rebuilt itself, we say the 21st century could use its own version.
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Instead of buying the book for a kid at his graduation, you can just hand him a movie ticket. It'll save you a few bucks. As long as it's a matinee admission.
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Somewhere, underneath all Jim Carrey's makeup in the 2000 version, beat the heart of a good movie. Probably. We say make another one, and then we'll know for sure. Certainly, the source material is worthy of the effort.
Hop on Pop
We don't even know what the story is. We just know you cast Martin Lawrence, get some kids to hop on him, and, presto, you have yourself an entertaining 90 minutes or so.
Go, Dog. Go!
Technically, this is a P.D. Eastman title. But it was released under the Dr. Seuss brand. And it does have everything moviegoers love: dogs, cars and a rabid, rowdy dog party. Rock on. - JaybeasCorpus, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Dugg for The Butter Battle Book - I love that book. I can actually see a movie made of it, too. I mean, Green Eggs and Ham and One Fish Two Fish are great, but a movie version? Really?
- tehbored, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Green Eggs and Ham was one of my favorite books when I was a little kid. I do hope it never gets turned into a movie though. Also, Lorax > An Inconvenient Truth.
- allhard, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Welcome to the theatre industry. You will soon lose all faith in humanity.
- gquaglia, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3I remember seeing the Lorax cartoon when I was a kid. I remember feeling very sad at the end. It shouldn't be remade, just shown on TV again along with the original Cat in the Hat cartoon.
- KrazyGamerHead, on 03/16/2008, -2/+490 minute features? Heck no, I say we make 30 minute ones. I like the older cartoons like The Lorax, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Sneetches (sp?)
- MurphyWatson, on 03/16/2008, -1/+3Dr. Seuss books were popular because they were written cleverly and imaginatively. ***** Jim Carey style comedy is neither, thus until whoever currently has control of the Dr. Seuss licenses relinquishes it, there won't be any good feature film Dr. Seuss movies.
- ZenMojo, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2They can't all be mice with the sultry class of Eva Gabor ... or cats with the sultry class of Eva Gabor ... or foxes with the sultry class of Eva Gabor.
- vdog, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2'The Lorax' should be done, or perhaps 'What was I scared of?'. The Sneetches however doesn't have that much depth, and would only be padded to 90 minutes with the 'comedy' of Mike Myers an/or Jim Carey- and nobody wants that.
- Elranzer, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2If anyone has the inkling to see movie versions of Dr Seuss books, just go rent the Fritz Freling/Chuck Jones cartoons created in the 70s (same animators as Looney Tunes, by the way). The cartoons were accurate and enjoyable. Any new movie based on Dr Seuss will be a CGI ***** and completely miss the plot and point of the original Dr Seuss material, much like the new Horton movie.
- edwartica, on 03/16/2008, -1/+3How about the seven lady Godivas?
- MutatedNantuko, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2Yertle the Turtle. Yertle must be played by Tom Cruise.
- propagandhi, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2Though they hired R. Kelly for this one.
- allisonaxe, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1how about just leaving them as books?
- G1MPY, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1No "1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"? Lame.
- fuzzynyanko, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Most of these movies deserve better. I mean, I can see them updating the Butter Battle Book with huge explosions, big military choruses, and seedy research labs. However, I'm not sure if I like the Robin Williams adlibbing treatment on the entire Horton Hears a Who.
- TheEarthlings, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1THE LORAX! The Earthlings need to understand from the heart, that we are turning the very truffula tree we are living on into a bunch of useless thneeds!
- threemagic, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I know a new book name:
"Pointless drivel from the mindless" starring you. - ZenMojo, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I just want a 25 minute beetle bottle battle...animated by WETA...filmed in 3-D.
- carbonetc, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I'm a little tired of watching Hollywood rape my childhood hero.
I don't know how the Horton movie even got made. I read somewhere that the person who owns the Seuss estate vowed never to let another Seuss movie be made after seeing the Cat in the Hat. - inactive, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1 Maybe all 5 need to be made into one movie of vignettes. The reason the Hollywood adaptations stink is because they are taking a 15 minute story and stretching into 90 minutes. So now they need musical numbers and hack bits to keep it all going.
- threemagic, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I was hoping someone would remember for me! I couldn't remember the name of the book, I just knew it was about jealousy... they have "starz upon tharz". Thanks
- Protoss, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Might not be 'good', but they make a killing in the box office.
- Protoss, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I think as long as they keep the movies CGI and not live action, they'll be fine. You can't show Seuss' environments in live action without it looking absurd.
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