Movie-Specific : "Lorax" Earthday School indoctrination...

[TheDenizen]

Old enough to have read them to my son and his two young boys.

Ah, there you go....at 36, I'm usually safe in assuming that I'm older than most people I encounter online. Clearly not true in all cases.

Fact of life ya gotta just learn to deal with it I s'pose, like Obama.

I'm in Canada aka Obama-free zone. Of course, our Prime Minister Steven Harper is a dangerous moron too.

[Stewball]

At least your liberals resisted the temptation to trash the mortgage/banking industry, which collapsed our economy--while making millions for themselves, however. I resist the siren call of the north to emigrate almost daily. But which southern border would be worse?

[Replicant]

I hate everyone sometimes

If you'd come around on Chronicle, the clouds would part, the Sun would shine, and you'd never have a persecution complex ever again.

I hated the Lorax, I hate the typical American "liberal," but I hate the stupidity in this thread so much more.

Is that why you deleted a whole bunch of ratings

Nah, I felt like it was way behind so I'm just starting over.




Also Chronicle was full of cliches wtf

[Stewball]

Also Chronicle was full of cliches wtf

Oh man, you had to go and ruin it. (sigh)

[kyle.loomis]

[Ununnilium]

Blah blah liberals whatever. The real problem is, this movie doesn't actually understand the environmental messages it's making. The book actually understood why people short-sightedly screw over natural resources, not out of Generic Evil but out of wanting to make their annual fiscal goals and not being rewarded for thinking past the five-year plan.

In short, go watch WALL-E if you want to see what a modern kids' film with an environmental message is supposed to work. (And no, I didn't steal that comparison from the Nostalgia Chick.)

[Stewball]

About Wall-E, no comment.

[Anomaly1]

Movie-Specific : "Snorlax" Pokemon School indoctrination...

[ShogunRua]

In short, go watch WALL-E if you want to see what a modern kids' film with an environmental message is supposed to work. (And no, I didn't steal that comparison from the Nostalgia Chick.)

Uh, no.

WALL-E preaches a banally moronic, brain-dead environmental message. You know what we don't need? Hollywood movies reducing a complicated scientific and mathematical issue into a retarded, one-sided slogan for little kids.

If you want to learn about the environment, read some textbooks or take a class. Hell, you're better off reading Wikipedia or websites offering differing perspectives. That way, you learn the relevant math and science, hear BOTH sides of the debate, and can ultimately make up your mind on which one is more persuasive.

But I understand that it's easier to form opinions on serious, complex world issues by watching an animated film for 8 year-olds whose main goal was to make hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide.

Which, by the way, goes for "The Lorax" as well.

[Stewball]

If you want to learn about the environment, read some textbooks or take a class. Hell, you're better off reading Wikipedia or websites offering differing perspectives.

Or Crichton's State of Fear. Footnotes in a work of fiction, I love it. I'm sure Michael Moore would be totally befuddled trying to make that into a movie, I mean actual REFERENCES to actual FACTS. "What's THIS shit?"