Is Nothing Sacred!

[Goon]

Saw "Hulk", thought it had enough Hulk Smash, could have made the rest of the movie shorter...

They had a trailer for a "Cat In the Hat" movie.  Live action.  With...  Mike Myers.
A friend and I were two of the four people in the audience.   I swear we both heard Dr. Seuss spinning in his grave.  Why, Hollywood?  Why?!

-----ooo-'U'-ooo----Kilroy was here.

[Dunners]

to answer that questionI'll point out that mirimax wants to doa contemporary remake of 'the seven samurai' blasphemers.

[Foywonder]

Actually, they wanted to make CAT IN THE HAT a few years ago with Tim Allen but he rejected the script because they loaded Dr. Seuss' childrens classic with fart jokes and scat humor.

[ErikJ]

Foywonder wrote:

> Actually, they wanted to make CAT IN THE HAT a few years ago
> with Tim Allen but he rejected the script because they loaded
> Dr. Seuss' childrens classic with fart jokes and scat humor.


I'm not a fan of Tim Allen but I'm glad he did that. At least it shows he has some class.

[AndyC]

I saw the same trailer. Had to pick my jaw up off my chest. After seeing how badly the Grinch sucked, I wouldn't have thought it likely another Seuss classic would be turned into a grandiose, overhyped, overmerchandised bastardization. Unfortunately, there is a whole pile of little kids who don't know any better, and they make this crap profitabl, along with parents who aren't very discriminating about what they buy for their kids.

[Fearless Freep]

to answer that questionI'll point out that mirimax wants to do a contemporary remake of 'the seven samurai' blasphemers.

Why not?  "The Magnificent Seven" turned out ok.  Even "Battle Beyond The Stars" was pretty entertaining.

[AndyC]

True, Seven Samurai is probably one of the more successfully adapted stories.

[The Burgomaster]

AndyC wrote:

> True, Seven Samurai is probably one of the more successfully
> adapted stories.

Of course, the Italian shlock-fest "The Seven Magnificent Gladiators" was also based on "The Seven Samurai" (yeeesh!)

[Flangepart]

As long as they don't try to redo the exact original script and characters....hey, who could replace Mifune?