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

[Stewball]

....for environmentalist's children.

I was pissed. This is an ambush movie from the get-go. I saw none of this in the synopses or trailers--made worse by the fact that it was so **incredibly** over the top once your butt was in the seat and the movie started. It's like Avatar only without the innovative graphics and with the propaganda meter buried into the peg. I'm certain even the parents who're in the tank for every anti-evil-greedy-capitalist piece of crap that comes along saw through this, but I'm just as sure they figured it was worth it for the cause--brainwashing their children that is. It's been going on for 10,000 years for one faux cause or another.

I did rate it above a zero for the music in spite of the fact that it's singing the same tune; after all, some great music used to be written for the church too.



Need to put the Lorax, Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and (it hurts me to add her but she gotta go) Taylor Swift in the choir there. Not sure what Sara Palin's doing there (but I can guess), and Condoleezza Rice appears to have vampire fangs(????). Whatever, the rest is Mastercard priceless.

2/10

[kyle.loomis]

It amazes me that people actually see DeesIllustrations and instead of wondering what pharmacopoeia has been ascribed to his bloodstream, they use them to 'prove' a point about something that only the mentally ill believe.

Do you have the one with George Bush and a polar bear flying a jet into a pair of towers, twin towers you might say, full of fiat money and reptile jew bankers? That might be my favorite.

[Filligan]

Goddamn it. Come on. We're not supposed to be this stupid anymore.

[Anomaly1]

What makes this thread even funnier is that there were something like 70 or so corporate sponsorships for The Lorax, including having the character appear in ads for (non-hybrid) SUVs from Mazda. Hollywood? Hypocritical? Why I never!

Do you have the one with George Bush and a polar bear flying a jet into a pair of towers, twin towers you might say, full of fiat money and reptile jew bankers? That might be my favorite.

Nah, but I do have them fightin' Putin:

[kyle.loomis]

Punchin' Putin is definitely his masterpiece, I think I was combining it with several others. It amazes me that someone can literally believe every conspiracy theory, but Dees found a way.

[Bojangles]

The overriding purpose of this movie appears to have been to make money. The fact that they chose source material with environmental themes probably means nothing more than they thought they could cash in on a trend and make more money. Money: that's something you can get behind isn't it Stewbal?

[heyimdylan]

Can you list some examples of the environmentalist indoctrination in the film?

From what I've seen, the environmentalist messages seem really vague and inconsequential. Even if there was any sort of influential content, I'm not really sure why you would be upset with it. Do you disagree that pollution & deforestation are damaging the environment irreparably, and that our current level of resource consumption is unsustainable long-term?

With all due respect, it seems like you're trying to politicize something that shouldn't be politicized.

[Stewball]

Goddamn it. Come on. We're not supposed to be this stupid anymore.

Yeah, i know, you'd think we'd have learned by now, but we just keep sippin' the wine and drinkin' the kool aide. Doesn't matter what's right or wrong, just shut the fuck up, I know.

What makes this thread even funnier is that there were something like 70 or so corporate sponsorships for The Lorax, including having the character appear in ads for (non-hybrid) SUVs from Mazda. Hollywood? Hypocritical? Why I never!

Yeah, some corps been playing both sides against the middle for a long time. How you think GE got where it is, or the unions at GM or Wisconsin.

Money: that's something you can get behind isn't it Stewbal?

Not money make through theft or fraud. There are going to be corrupt corporations like there are corrupt people. There is just going to be more of it when corrupt politicians look the other way while holding their hands out under the table.

The overriding purpose of this movie appears to have been to make money. The fact that they chose source material with environmental themes probably means nothing more than they thought they could cash in on a trend and make more money.

Yeah, and I can't believe how so many have bought into this theme being jacked up 100 fold. I mean now their objecting to cutting down one tree, and the corporate weenie doesn't want trees to come back because they make oxygen...for free. And people are buying it, particularly the 7 year olds and their parents who don't want to cross the environmental lobby that're like Muslim religious police. What we have here is a religion, just as closed minded and relies just as heavily on blind faith as the worst Creationists.

[JJJames]

how are you shocked by this? have you read the fucking book or seen the fucking tv special every other child in the western world has?

[Stewball]

how are you shocked by this? have you read the fucking book or seen the fucking tv special every other child in the western world has?

Thanks for the rancor, and no I hadn't until this movie came up which is ten shades blacker than the book. But that's OK, I understand that faith, no matter what brand, is often deaf and blind but never dumbstruck.