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Who owns the copyright/trademark/IP that is allowing this whole Lorax thing to happen? That’s where our ire should be directed.
BTW, looking at Geisel’s wikipedia page, I found this:
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So not only is it crass, it’s doubly crass as it pretends to be about getting kids to read, but in reality is promoting a film as well as cars. A film of a story with a supposedly anti-consumerism bent, no less.
:rolleyes:
Missed the edit window, but here’s the IMDB page for The Lorax.
ETA: I found this link in one of the comment forums on IMDB, where someone makes the claim that the film has over 70 product placements.
Dammit, I keep missing my own edit windows.
Just wanted to say, for the record, I will not be watching this film, ever, if it in any way costs me money to do so.
Further, I’ll think carefully before giving any money to anyone involved in the film in any way, including Danny Devito. That last one’s gonna be hard, because I’ve actually met him a couple of times, and he is (or was) a pretty cool guy. But perverting this story like this is just too much.
What’s next? A film version of Silent Spring where they show how much more humane and caring it would be to slaughter all the birds and deer and rabbits so they don’t die of exposure or starvation or disease?
This pitting is everthing that is wrong about the so-called 21st century. The truth is: We should be driving cars in Loraxland instead of this fucking excuse for reality. Does anyone know anything about SkyActiv Technology? Are you satisfied that your car has merely cruise control? Don’t you wish you had the option to let the car drive you to where you want to go like in I, Robot or Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century? Do you understand the humor in the Lorax interrupting the Mazda commercial announcer? What do you drive?
Zoom Zoom.
I don’t think this thread is complete without this.
You never can tell what some people will buy.
Like…green eggs and ham at Village Inn, with Truffula pancakes. (Or maybe it was IHOP.)
Actually–and I haven’t seen the movie–I have seen some reviews who say the characterization of The Lorax is angry and bitter–not funny. Like this is a criticism.
For he’s a jolly good Onceler. Aren’t we all?
My wife laughed at me when she caught me glaring menacingly at the TV when a Lorax commercial (for the movie, that is) came on. I knew there was just no way they would remake it with any semblance of respect for the original. Can you imagine the pitch? “And it ends with the creepy old guy giving the kid a single seed!”
The gloom! The sickening smack! The sense that all may already be lost! There’s no way they would remotely consider these things.
Then I read that the remake includes a kid and his efforts to attract a particular girl. They can’t help writing the same movie over and over, and we can’t help paying them to do it. I wouldn’t fuck this movie with Snowboarder Bo’s dick, even if he hadn’t already thrown it in the quarry a long time ago.
(notices the poster’s location)
Don’t tell me you went to Correia. I remember those assemblies. Even got to go to a pizza party for it.
It took me a second read to understand what you wrote. I was about to say that you really need to read The Lorax, but you clearly have.
The couple people I’ve known who saw the movie thought it was pretty good for a movie, actually. (And apparently people are confusing product placements with product tie-ins.) But good god the marketing. Irony is dead.
Corporate sponsors in education - Channel One News - Mazda - environmental themed stories promoting SUVs. Stadium, locker room, practice facility, library, building, named for corporate donor.
Religious sponsors in education - This alternative history lesson brought to you by oG.
Pass this lottery bill - A portion will go to our state’s underfunded education budget (which we’ll hack out of next years actual funding).
We need this/these Casino(s) to help fund education - See above on lottery.
Stolen from another poster -
[FONT=Calibri]Lily Tomlin said…“No matter how cynical you get, you can never keep up!” [/FONT]