I wonder why it took them so long to movie-ize the best children writer's work. I thought the would alot sooner....... I know they dis the cat in the hat, but maybe re-do old ones that were good, like Green Eggs and Ham and The Guy Who lOved The Forest and stuff....

They had to wait till he died and his greedy relatives got rights to his stories. Dr. Suess had too much integrity to lit some directors piss all over his books.

Oh yeah, thye Copyright law says that seventy years after death is when the stuff goes public, but why not just have the People who own it let them honor his work.

*places books on toilet and get ready to use it, then notices everyone is looking at him* What? so we're NOT supposed to yet?

Anyway, its called directors think that people love visuals more than storylines, which is a total lie.

And in the case of the Cat and The Hat and The How the Grinch Stole Christmas (live action), fart jokes.


You are not going to convince a capitalist like myself that the sole reason it was done wasn't for the money and the money alone. They did not do it for the purpose of honoring Dr. Seuss or they would not sacrifice the story the way they did.

Exactly, why not just tear it to peices, what like they did to eragon, completely tore apart the storyline for better visuals.

The only movie that stuck with a book's storyline pretty good was "The Shining" miniseries directed by Stephen King...

With this in mind, the directors who do want good sales and a good storyline (a.k.a. closest to original as possible) would be to get some opinions of the author or family of the author while they make the movie.

Unless the family wants to jerk with the story then get a fanboy of Dr. Suess to help give pointers lol.

There was nothing for them to tear apart in the first place. FFS, all the author did was change the first letter of Dragon to make a character name. How unimaginative can you get?

Back on topic.

I think it's unfortunate how so many classic books are being destroyed by movies. It only seems to be about the money these days. Oh, wait, it never was about anything else. Whoops.

Integrity? The guy was high when he wrote his "children's" books. Such integrity there. A great example for the children.

In defense of drug-fueled art, if we excluded the art provided us by drug addicts we will be removing huge swathes of our culture.

The beautiful part about art is that a work can have merits and qualities that its creator had none of.

I saw a emo girl in the movie so I am going to watch it.....






What?

Dunno, what other movies have ruined books? we must talk about this so LFG isnt ruined by a mo- never mind =D

At least some of his best known work 'Green eggs and ham' or 'One fish, two fish' can't be made into a film
.... or @ least a decent film

Behold, if Geniuses ruled the world!

I think we need to hire a good filmmaker to create a decent green eggs and ham film, like make more of a story.

Lord of the rings was a hit.

It made some record for being the first fantasy movie to... something... involved with winning awards.

Stuff like Lord of the rings was as borat would put "Great Success"

i dint notice that before, however the books are very good, and the fact that the author was so young is impressive. (just a side note)

Lord of the rings was as good as book movies get (at least most of the time) Hell they should have kept tom bombadill! the hobbits were ether constipated or gay, and the main characters (though admittedly cool) barely got a scratch on them the whole movie... and the movie was still good. I think that if you make an excellent book (Read lord of the rings, very good) you might be able to make a good movie. its like that thing were the camera adds 10 pounds, if your really skinny you look normal.

yes i really love the storyline, great twist at end of second book. As an added bonus he's extending to four books.

i didnt know that either! thats awesome! (though he sure does take his time in his writing)

If i find the vid link i'll post it.

As much as the books were still a bit better than the movies... Legolas with two swords beats Legolas with a dagger any day.

Yeah, but aragorn still owns most, and Gandolf owns all, even the balrog which he defeated in the end of fall as you all know.

I wasn't impressed.

I don't care how young you are, copying the plot to Star Wars isn't hard or worth publishing and since his first book was self-published, most publishers agree with me.

Of course, once it's popular, I'd want to be making it for the money. It's just not good.


Well, he can't copy the prequel movies because George Lucas outsmarted him and worked backwards. He has to find somebody else's story to steal all major plot progression from.

Verboose, calm down, it's still better than nothing, and i like the characters.

Rorin Forever! (he's cooler than eargon)

STRONGHAMMER!

LONG LIVE STRONGHAMMER

he should have his own dragon

As much as I might be verboose, that was not notably angry.

I just disagree that plagiarism is better than nothing is all.

...That's a guy.

I think I would find a Green Eggs and Ham feature length movie somewhat disturbing...

I suspect it'd be a vaguely sexual movie.

So Sam I Am was sexually harrassing him as well as trying to make him eat rancid food?! For shame!

Yes, but the lawsuit never happenned, he didnt have it in him.....

Rancid Food can be kinky if you desire it to be so...

Ah yes, there's nothing like the sight of mold and the scent of rot to get a gal in the mood... *dreamy sighs*

Works for me.