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    Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    Don't mess with the studio marketing departments, or they'll take away your Thursday night television!
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven 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 promoted this comment The Curse of Millhaven was starred The Curse of Millhaven was unstarred
    Image of Magister 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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    Image of goetz goetz
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    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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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    451 Followers. What's that I feel? Ennui? The bleakness of absurdity?
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    ...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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    PaisleyPajamas was starred PaisleyPajamas was unstarred
    Image of kookla 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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    Edited by kookla at 07/21/09 8:12 PM kookla was starred kookla was unstarred
    Image of SNForrester 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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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    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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    Conchie Birdie was starred Conchie Birdie was unstarred
    Image of Royalpeach Royalpeach
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    Solution: Make better movies.
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    ManchuCandidate promoted this comment Royalpeach was starred Royalpeach was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate 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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    ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    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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    mexiback promoted this comment SpyMagician was starred SpyMagician was unstarred
    Image of Natasha VC 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?
     Reply
    Natasha VC was starred Natasha VC was unstarred
    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    07/21/09

    @Natasha VC: Not the bees!!!
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    Edited by SpyMagician at 07/21/09 9:27 PM SpyMagician was starred SpyMagician was unstarred
    Image of mexiback mexiback
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    Silly studios, what about the fact that sometimes a sucky movie is a sucky movie?
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    mexiback was starred mexiback was unstarred
    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    07/21/09

    In reply to Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
    "because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, how bad they are."

    Absolutely brilliant fact.
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