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rrrobinsonjr
12-10-2006, 12:57 PM
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When did the 2000 craptastic movie with Jim Carrey change it's title???

When it was originally released, all the posters said "THE GRINCH".

Now every Christmas when I add it to my TiVo, the movie and the original 1966 classic Chuck Jones special have the same name! Even imdb list both as "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas' and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

False Advertising!!!!!!
SparkleMotion
12-10-2006, 01:30 PM
The Jim Carey move TRIED REAL HARD.

I mean, George W. Bush-level HARD.

But it just failed. :( Which is too bad...but it was a kid book stretched into a 24 minute cartoon. Stretching it into a 90 minute movie? A deadly proposition. :(
Bob_Newhart
12-10-2006, 02:47 PM
It should have been a 24 minute live action movie.
DevdogAZ
12-10-2006, 03:10 PM
I always have to look in the program info screen to figure out which one it is.
rrrobinsonjr
12-10-2006, 04:01 PM
always have to look in the program info screen to figure out which one it is.

Yes me too. I was burned once last year. Never again!
sushikitten
12-10-2006, 08:53 PM
Just buy the right DVD and you don't have to worry about recording it. :)
rrrobinsonjr
12-10-2006, 09:06 PM
Jen Hudson!? I hear you're great in Dreamgirls.
That Don Guy
12-10-2006, 09:44 PM
When did the 2000 craptastic movie with Jim Carrey change it's title???It didn't. It was always "officially" called "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The ads just called it "THE GRINCH" because (a) it made it easier to say on TV, and (b) the long version wouldn't fit on those movie marquees that list the show times they have at theaters now.

-- Don
Royster
12-10-2006, 10:23 PM
Now every Christmas when I add it to my TiVo, the movie and the original 1966 classic Chuck Jones special have the same name! Even imdb list both as "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas' and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Hmmmm. I got it with an auto-record wishlist for "Grinch" using the categories Children and Animated. I got the one I wanted and not the Hollywood craptacular.
SteelersFan
12-10-2006, 10:56 PM
Just buy the right DVD and you don't have to worry about recording it. :)
Why own a Tivo then??? :rolleyes: :) :D
marrone
12-12-2006, 03:09 PM
I didn't think the movie was bad at all. Yes, it wasn't true to the original, but so what?

Wasn't there a long version of the cartoon shown one year? I remember a 60min version (with some animation creation special as part of that time)

-Mike
Honora
12-12-2006, 03:53 PM
The original Grinch has the same problem as the early Charlie Brown shows, the networks have upped the amount of time that goes to commercials since they were made. In order to see an uncut version of both, you have to pad a 60 minute timeslot.
Honora
12-12-2006, 03:56 PM
It's on ABC tonight from 8 - 9.
DaveBogart
12-12-2006, 06:22 PM
The word grinch will never have the same meaning to me now thanks to How I Met Your Mother.
DevdogAZ
12-12-2006, 06:46 PM
The word grinch will never have the same meaning to me now thanks to How I Met Your Mother.
Dr. Seuss' How the See You Next Tuesday Stole Christmas.

Doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?

;)
cherry ghost
12-12-2006, 08:15 PM
It's on ABC tonight from 8 - 9.


and in HD
DarkAudit
12-13-2006, 09:44 AM
Was it just me or did they just replace Phil Hartman with Tom Bergeron for the 'making of' section. It was virtually a line for line version of what Phil did.
rrrobinsonjr
12-13-2006, 03:16 PM
I guess Phil's tragic end has made him less palatable for a children's Christmas special?? That's too bad.