There were a couple of people who, strangely enough, came out of the SBC filmic experience looking surprisingly empathetic: the driving instructor from 'Borat'; and (without wanting to excuse the bigotry that underlies his mission) the Alabama preacher man.
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.
@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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The storyline is probably "Rachel finds out the coach of Vocal Adrenaline is her birth mom."
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Pretty sure that's a well known fact. Indeed, [news.bbc.co.uk]
Not sure if that makes me like him more or less...
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That's what I tell all the girls I date.
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So this is a remake of "Grizzly Man," with Faris in the Werner Herzog role? #justintimberlake
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(No homo.) #justintimberlake
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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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