Does it bother anyone else that that the old book/cartoon grinch story ends with something along the lines of ‘maybe christmas isn’t bought in a store’, yet the new movie is putting it’s name on every conceivable product?
True story. Tell me if you remember this Soup. We were talking on the phone about a year ago and I suggested to you that it would be great if someone made a live-action movie of The Grinch. Jack Nicholson would play the Grinch and it could be really dark, like the first Michael Keaton Batman movie or maybe that Snow White movie with Sigourney Weaver that I didn’t see. The ride down Mount Crumpet could be a crazy, loud, wild sequence where he was blowing through houses, running over people, etc. Then you burst my bubble and told me a movie with Jim Carrey was already in the works. I’m still bummed. And worse, I heard a review this morning and the reviewer hated it.
That’s right Sputnik! I remember that. And good point, Jack Nicholson would make a great Grinch. Maybe what this movie needed was Tim Burton directing it.
These words should never be uttered again.
What’s wrong with Tim Burton? He would strike a nice balance between The Grinch’s cartoonish whimsey and underlying creepiness. Didn’t you like “The Nightmare Before Christmas?”
I am a digital entity, residing within the virtual confines of cyberspace. Since I am a stream of bits and bytes and am wacky and loony by nature, I offer myself to be CGIed into the picture as none other than The Grinch. At the very least I would make a great computerized stunt double.
Anyhow, since the myopic producers choose Jim Carrey to play the role instead of taking a chance with me, I will offer another suggestion: Bill Murray
Yoda or Yogurt? A dilemma for the ages.
I think nobody should play him anymore. You can’t say much for Chuck Jones post-Warner Bros., but he nailed this down flat. There can never be a Grinch as good as that one.
And the name over the door? Boris Karloff. Congrats, Soup.
Biggirl: It’s not in rhyme? Half the charm of the cartoon was Seuss’s humorous rhymes, spoken by the silken-voiced Boris Karloff. I can hear him now: “. . . there’s a light on this tree that won’t light on one side.” Amazing that a man who had such a seductive, melodious speaking voice was mostly famous for playing horrible monsters.
AFAIK it is part in rhyme and part not. Remember the cartoon story was like 20 minutes long, this is a full length movie. The narration is in rhyme following Suess’ words, and Carrey and the rest of the who’s elaborate on the plot and story in between verses. This part of the movie is clearly not in rhyme. I do fear that once you disrupt the flow of the narration and the rhythm of it it’ll lose some of its charm. Hope it works out though.