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Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

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I feel Blair Witch was better if you were one of the first people to see it in limited release when no one fully knew what the deal with it was, versus well after it got big and talked about ad nauseam.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
They’re ok. I didn’t think the space one was as bad as everyone else, but it wasn’t very good. The second one was decent.
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TBH the space one shouldn't even count. It was a different movie and they shot a very brief, very lame "Cloverfield" wrapper and jammed it inside like Luke in the tauntaun.
 
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French Rage said:
I feel Blair Witch was better if you were one of the first people to see it in limited release when no one fully knew what the deal with it was, versus well after it got big and talked about ad nauseam.
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Agreed. I didn't know anything about it so I was completely surprised. Same with Paranormal Activity which I saw without any preconceptions and found really scary.
 
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French Rage said:
I feel Blair Witch was better if you were one of the first people to see it in limited release when no one fully knew what the deal with it was, versus well after it got big and talked about ad nauseam.
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The marketing for TBWP was probably the best in history. A lot of people will say Deadpool (and that was brilliant) but TBWP was on another level. They ran a documentary about the history of the Burkettsville witch on the Sci-Fi network (back when that meant something). They peppered the area for hundreds of miles around with missing persons posters. The actor's parents were getting sympathy cards from people who thought they really had disappeared. The Internet was still small enough that they were able to put information out there, like phony FBI files, fake newspaper articles, historical documents about the town etc and it wasn't easily debunked. Everything seemed completely legit. I knew it wasn't real because I wrote movie reviews and traded on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, so I had followed the story for months. People I worked with thought it was real, and I was more than happy to play along like it was. TBWP helped pay for my trip to the 2000 Hockey East tournament, so I appreciated it!
 
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Kepler said:
Agreed. I didn't know anything about it so I was completely surprised. Same with Paranormal Activity which I saw without any preconceptions and found really scary.
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I would agree with that, also. Obviously I saw it well after it came out, however I purposely avoided anything about it, so as not to ruin the surprise.

As for marketing, Blair Witch started the viral stuff, IMO, and Deadpool and Dark Knight utilized that strategy in masterful form.
 
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The Bird Catcher. A teenage girl in Nazi-controlled Norway assumes a new identity as a boy on a farm run by a Nazi sympathizer. A great story but I felt the acting was hurt by having the actors speak in English rather than with subtitles. It's still powerful and engaging and does a good job of portraying the suffering and loss caused during times of war.

Putney Swope. From 1969 and directed by RDS. A token black executive is accidentally elected to replace the company's previous chairman and once in power enacts sweeping changes much to his co-executives chagrin. Great racial satire but I suspect viewers will love or hate the film - no in between.
 
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Slap Shot said:
The Bird Catcher. A teenage girl in Nazi-controlled Norway assumes a new identity as a boy on a farm run by a Nazi sympathizer.
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Nazi Germany stories have been evergreen for writers for 80 years. Soon people will be writing these stories about America right now.
 
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ticapnews said:
The marketing for TBWP was probably the best in history. A lot of people will say Deadpool (and that was brilliant) but TBWP was on another level. They ran a documentary about the history of the Burkettsville witch on the Sci-Fi network (back when that meant something). They peppered the area for hundreds of miles around with missing persons posters. The actor's parents were getting sympathy cards from people who thought they really had disappeared. The Internet was still small enough that they were able to put information out there, like phony FBI files, fake newspaper articles, historical documents about the town etc and it wasn't easily debunked. Everything seemed completely legit. I knew it wasn't real because I wrote movie reviews and traded on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, so I had followed the story for months. People I worked with thought it was real, and I was more than happy to play along like it was. TBWP helped pay for my trip to the 2000 Hockey East tournament, so I appreciated it!
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The best viral marketing I saw was for Snakes on a Plane. It included a fake Facebook post by a screenwriter who'd been called in on a treatment 18 months before release. They released it into the wild and just allowed it to percolate through the web until it went viral.

Cloverfield's was apparently very good, too. They created a fake Asian energy company with an inscrutable technical web site and then had "reports" of weird happenings first in the South China Sea and finally off the coast of NY. This was something that got picked up in the nerd world but I had aged out by then and so was unaware. Because the audience was more sophisticated than the gen pop there was a strong suspicion at the time that it was a campaign of some kind but the debate over what the campaign was then drove mass interest -- a meta-viral strategy!
 
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Slap Shot said:
The Bird Catcher. A teenage girl in Nazi-controlled Norway assumes a new identity as a boy on a farm run by a Nazi sympathizer.
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So it's the story of a criminal crossdresser hiding from the proper authorities?
 
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The Man In the High Castle.

Though it was written when I had hair on my head.
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I saw an interview with the cast and showrunners for Amazon's TV adaptation. They said the writers threw away full scripts they had already written months in advance because they were too on the nose on current events when they got around to actually filming. :eek:
 
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Kepler said:
The best viral marketing I saw was for Snakes on a Plane. It included a fake Facebook post by a screenwriter who'd been called in on a treatment 18 months before release. They released it into the wild and just allowed it to percolate through the web until it went viral.

Cloverfield's was apparently very good, too. They created a fake energy company with an inscrutable, technical web site and then had "reports" of weird happening first in the South China Sea and finally off the coast of NY. This was something that got picked up in the nerd world but I had aged out by then and so was unaware. Because the audience was more sophisticated than gen pop there was a strong suspicion at the time that it was a campaign of some kind but the debate over what the campaign was then drove mass interest -- a meta-viral strategy!
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Snakes also had the web site where you could put in a bunch of information and have Sam Jackson robo call your friends. I freaked my buddy out with that one :)
 
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Executive Suite (1954)

Company president drops dead late Friday and all the VPs and board members and their wives and mistresses get busy strategizing over the weekend before the market opens Monday morning.

Very good, nasty little drama about corporate politics from the era when Americans were waking up to the tender mercies of their capitalist swine.

Amazing cast: Holden, Stanwyck (a little long in the tooth), March, Shelly Winters, and the incomparable Walter Pigeon. June Allyson is so wholesome it makes your teeth hurt but otherwise a smart, bitter, knowing show that fits perfectly with what I've observed on Mahogany Row. A minus.
 
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aparch said:
I saw an interview with the cast and showrunners for Amazon's TV adaptation. They said the writers threw away full scripts they had already written months in advance because they were too on the nose on current events when they got around to actually filming. :eek:
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I watched the first two episodes not long after Trump things had started to ramp up and I just couldn't watch any more after that given the political climate. Same with rewatching the West Wing...
 
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aparch said:
I saw an interview with the cast and showrunners for Amazon's TV adaptation. They said the writers threw away full scripts they had already written months in advance because they were too on the nose on current events when they got around to actually filming. :eek:
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Jesus Fcking Christ. And I had my Southern co-workers recommending this show to me last winter when we were on-site together.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Jesus Fcking Christ. And I had my Southern co-workers recommending this show to me last winter when we were on-site together.
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It IS a good show. I've enjoyed it so far. Disappointed that they're only doing four seasons.
 
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XKCD with the newest internet challenge:

<img src=https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions.png>
 
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aparch said:
XKCD with the newest internet challenge:

<img src=https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions.png>
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All I see is a guy with 2 chicks who isn't making the slightest effort to bang either of them.

Millennials are so lame.

The Village, 2004, 44%
 
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Kepler said:
All I see is a guy with 2 chicks who isn't making the slightest effort to bang either of them.

Millennials are so lame.
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maybe cool millennial men go for colored chicks??
 
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