No.591
I saw the Grinch movie today. It was okay. I thought that the whole "The Grinch was an orphan and he didn't experience christmas as a kid" thing took away more from the movie than it added. There was still the message of being with your family and spreading happiness being more important than consuming products but it really wasn't about that so much as it was about the Grinch getting over his bad childhood. Funnily enough for a while I thought that the movie was trying to suggest that the Grinch had some form of autism and honestly it would have been hilarious to see such a ballsy take on the original work. The B plot with Cindy Lou didn't really go anywhere either, it was just
>"I'm being a burden on my mom"
<"You're not being a burden on me"
>"Oh OK"
It didn't really add anything to the movie at all. I think that's the problem with making a movie out of a short book, it's just too concise to stretch out to an hour and a half and you have to make up shit that will never fit right. And it's hollywood, so it's still a commendable feat that the point wasn't completely lost and the work wasn't turned into an unintelligible mess. That's all you can ask for really.
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No.611
I'd say the Cindy Lou B plot is an overall negative, mostly because it glorifies single motherhood and single motherhood is cancer. Also, now how in the original Grinch and the other retellings, Cindy Lou was part of of a large family. In this version she only has two brothers, who have less than a minute of screentime and only exist reinforce the "muh stronk independent womynz, wow so noble" narrative. It's far more wholesome than what you expect out of Hollywood these days, so I'll give them credit for that.
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No.615
>>611
Oh yeah, that makes a lot more sense then. The way they structured the thing with the mom putting the intense amount of elbow grease into dealing with her kids made me think that it was going to be resolved somehow, but it's a lot easier to understand when you explain it like that.
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