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[Vanity] WARNING!! The Lorax...
Two reviews I read ^
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Posted on 03/02/2012 5:11:43 AM PST by Pharmboy
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:11:44 AM PST
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Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
I heard the reviewer on NPR this morning. Even he hated it.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:14:17 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: Pharmboy
I heard the reviewer on NPR this morning. Even he hated it.
BTW, if you want to save the trees, produce more CO2. They love the stuff!
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:14:49 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: Perdogg; Bender2
Ping...in case you missed a review of this crap
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:14:55 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(She turned me into a Newt...)
To: Pharmboy
Even in its original form the Lorax was an environmentalist story.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:15:30 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Pharmboy
I figured it would be following in the footsteps of the original Lorax (i.e. the Dr. Seuss animated tv special/book from the 1970s). The fact that it’s being released in a movie “dump season” (i.e. Jan/Feb and thereabouts) rather than in the summer also said a whole lot about the prospects for the film.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:17:36 AM PST
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
"Pharmboy, this movie must really be awful..."You really call yourself that in private?
To: Last Dakotan
You win!! I was wondering what post number someone would say that...LOL! I originally was going to say "Self,..." but I had heard a comedian do that and I did not want to just steal the line.
And, I need to know whom I am speaking with...
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:29:06 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(She turned me into a Newt...)
To: Pharmboy
Georgia Dept of Agriculture is giving away tree seeds to every movie goer of this movie.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:30:36 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: autumnraine
They better give away tickets...a poster above said even NPR hated it. That says a lot...
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:36:26 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(She turned me into a Newt...)
To: Pharmboy
If you ever read Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” book, you’d already know that.
I read The Lorax to my kids when they were little. ONCE. Then it got tossed. Not in the “trade” box but in the garbage, where it belonged.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:36:32 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: Pharmboy
Wait... wha? Hollywood produced a film with an ultra-liberal message? Where am I? Bizarro World?
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:36:32 AM PST
by
bolobaby
To: bolobaby
Well, true enough...but with sweet-looking cartoons you may not expect a diatribe. I, for one, was not familiar with the original story line.
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:40:13 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(She turned me into a Newt...)
To: Last Dakotan
“You really call yourself that in private?”
Maybe he works in a drug store?
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posted on
03/02/2012 5:59:11 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
To: Little Ray
“Act of Valor” was called ‘propaganda’, so what is this Lorax thing??
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posted on
03/02/2012 6:22:34 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: bolobaby
Wait... wha? Hollywood produced a film with an ultra-liberal message? Where am I? Bizarro World?
And NPR, NYT and NYP gave it bad reviews!!! This is truly Bizarro world.
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posted on
03/02/2012 6:23:50 AM PST
by
BobinIL
To: Pharmboy
The Hollywood version has likely been twisted to fit the socialist mindset of the left coast. However, I have used the cartoon version in my economics class to illustrate the danger of over using free resources and the Tragedy of the Commons. The whole problem started when the main character, the Oncler, found and utilized the trufulla trees without having either ownership of the resource or having to pay for their use. The Oncler thus had no economic incentive to conserve, preserve or replant this resource and simply exploited it until it was gone.
The use of a free resource until it is no longer available is often referred to as the Tragedy of the Commons...where the unowned common grazing land in small villages could be over grazed and thus useless to anyone. A more modern illustration would be the provision of free taxpayer funded wi-fi system in a city. The system would quickly become over utilized to the point of being unusable
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posted on
03/02/2012 6:25:18 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
To: Carpe Cerevisi
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posted on
03/02/2012 6:29:48 AM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: GeronL
Act of Valor was called propaganda, so what is this Lorax thing??
Indoctrination of our kids.
I remember watching a cartoon version of this when I was a kid and getting all sad about all the trees getting cut down.
I kept thinking “where did all the seeds go”?? Mr. Seuss conveniently forgot to address this in his story.
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posted on
03/02/2012 6:31:08 AM PST
by
BobinIL
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