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daveyjonesisdead
07/21/09

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Don't mess with the studio marketing departments, or they'll take away your Thursday night television!
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The Curse of Millhaven
07/21/09

In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
It is called word of mouth. maybe now that twitter makes that happen fast enough to impact the opening weekend, Hollywood will have to rely less on marketing and more on quality to get that first three days.
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Magister
07/22/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: One could hope that they'd make better movies, but you could also say that the three examples were poorly marketed.

Bruno clearly wasn't going to play in the hinterlands; Year One had the kid from AD playing his stock character and Jack Black being Jack Black, the movie just screamed "wait for cable" and the PG-13, Will Ferrel thing was never conceptually explained, plus it was marketed with a urine joke.
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goetz
07/21/09

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I feel sorry for the people who have to sit there videotaping the awful movies I don't feel like paying to see.
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raincoaster
07/21/09

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451 Followers. What's that I feel? Ennui? The bleakness of absurdity?
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PaisleyPajamas
07/21/09

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...because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, how bad they are..

Good. Maybe these sucktastic marketing departments that have been running Ho'wood for the last 4 decades will die a quick death and we can get back to making worthwhile cinema.
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kookla
07/21/09

In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
I wouldn't rely on a Twittered opinion of a movie anymore than I would go onto a website where people rate products. With or without the internet, you can figure out if a movie is worth seeing. More often than not, just by watching the trailer.
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SNForrester
07/22/09

@kookla: You can fake product reviews. You can fake a good trailer out of a bad movie. You can't easily fake thousands of people sharing their good or bad opinions of a movie.

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter opinions count for a lot.
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Conchie Birdie
07/21/09

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A purpose to twitter that directly affects my daily life. Thank you, twitterers, for stopping me from subjecting myself to yet another craptastic movie.
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Royalpeach
07/21/09

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Solution: Make better movies.
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ManchuCandidate
07/21/09

@Royalpeach:
Easier said than done. It would mean that the studios would have to put some creative people in execubot positions, not MBAs. The horror. The horror.
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SpyMagician
07/21/09

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Look folks if people don’t pay good money for bad movies, then Hollywood will then have to stop making bad movies and then what will all you ironic hipsters have to mock? NOTHING!

Because it will all be nice and good and worth $11.75 a pop and worth your time and irony will be dead. THE END!
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Natasha VC
07/21/09

@SpyMagician:

Truth! How will
hipsters know which bad movies to watch on purpose!

And how will we be able to tell good Nicolas Cage movies apart from Great Nicolas Cage movie?
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SpyMagician
07/21/09

@Natasha VC: Not the bees!!!
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mexiback
07/21/09

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Silly studios, what about the fact that sometimes a sucky movie is a sucky movie?
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Cheap Shot
07/21/09

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"because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, how bad they are."

Absolutely brilliant fact.
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BxgrlJeri
06/15/09

In reply to No Amount of John Travolta-Brand Gatorade Can Cure This Hangover
All of the supporting cast in Fat Actress were brilliant. Including Kelly Preston (Travolta's wife) whose insane "diet guru" advice was "eat paper (no calories, fills you up)." She was "recommended" by John Travolta playing himself. (Kelly is NOT playing herself).

In thinking about Travolta...his stardom, fall from stardom, resurrection after Pulp Fiction/Michael/Face Off (and a few others), and then decline again got me to thinking they should do Fat Actress again.

Her assistants were wacky and wonderful. I wish it would either come back on (now that Kirstie has regained) or become a movie. There's just about nothing that draws me to the movie theater these days.
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BxgrlJeri
06/15/09

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The Pelham Bay line is the number 6. When this movie came out in the 70s that is what it was supposed to be.
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Wrapitup
06/15/09

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The most disturbing news I have read today is that some people still like Tony Scott movies after Man on Fire and Domino. This does not bode well for humanity. If you're one of those people, please don't even reply to my comment. I'm that scared I'll catch your germs.
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Cheap Shot
06/15/09

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I had to see Pelham 123 yesterday with my dad. I knew it was going to be a McMovie as every movie with Denzel Washinton is now. It should do okay because he gets a built in black audience.

I thought the acting was pretty good (especially John Tuturro) but the editing and everything else was weak. The intro was the most bizarre sequence I've ever seen, kind of like an advertising or music video rather than a movie.

I generally stay away from mind numbing movies like this but the 'rents love them.
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