Marketing

[ehowton]

The Last Castle is, to me, a drama. It's about people. It's the plot which tells the story. But on the back cover of the DVD, they show the three scenes in which there was 'action.' You see James Gandolfini holding a gun, Robert Redford ducking for cover with an exploding helicopter in the background, and one other explosion still. Not really indicative of the movie, mind you but if some casual passerby were to glance at it, they might think it was an action-packed movie, and that's just gay.

My wife rec'd Munich as a Mother's Day gift. She had expressed interest in seeing it. Why? Because the commerical spots linked the few 'action' shots back-to-back and made it look like a Robert Ludlum movie come to film. Boy was she disapointed. Screw those people trying to make a buck off a lie. I hope to hell that comes back and bites them in the ass - i.e. they would have sold more to those interested in a docu-drama than an action film, but didn't purchase it because of the crap they released as a trailer. "Piracy is STEALING" the new ad's on DVD's say. Guess what else is stealing? Misrepresenting a movie to get people to buy it!

When I bought The Professional on laserdisc, the tagline from a recent review read, "Makes [the movie] Speed look like a walk to grandmother's house." Well, although I enjoyed The Professional much more than Speed, I felt that not only was that an inaccurate assessment of the movie, it was also misleading to those who watched it based on that. Asses.

Watched six P&T:BS episodes today on and off. Nearly caught up. Only six more to go! Yes, I've been hoarding them.

Most non-Texans don't know the difference between grilling, and BBQ'ing. What I do, is grill. I am the grill master! I fire up the grill, turn the heat way up, to say, 700 degrees, slap some meat on it, sear the everlivingshit out of it, close the lid, and lower the temperature, turning usually only once. It comes out, well, perfect. BBQ'ing on the other hand - usually involves some sort of sauce, and very low heat, requiring ceaseless turning of meat, and generous basting. Now, that's not to say I don't BBQ, I just usually prefer grilling. Today, I did both, which was the first time I've BBQ'd at the new place. It was quite an exciting smell, walking out on the back deck and smelling the sauce dripping onto the flash plates. It was a good day for it, as it's been unseasonably cool this past week and into the weekend. High 50's. Could'nt ask for anything better. The wife loved it.

So on my 'friends' page, I subscribe to the BSG RSS feed, which, though a little spammy, has been invaluable in providing me the information I need to know, when I need to know it. For example, those little die-cast toys on my desk? I bought them the day the feed told me they were at Target, and I haven't seen them since! Furthermore, and astro, pay attention, they just told me that Amazon is accepting pre-orders for the Season Two soundtrack! w00t!

Yes, I took that pic, in my own bathtub. Scary isn't it?

Comments

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

PLAYING with the Barbies in the bathtub again I see!!!

[professortom.livejournal.com]

Don't you? I do.

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

YEAH, it sucks also when they release a movie and then three months later the re-release the special extended edition.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

No dude, that's AWESOME! Because then you turn around and sell me the first one for $8!

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

It actually took them five years for the really special extended edition of Free Enterprise to be released.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

True, you gave me the others you bought ;)

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

That is why I haven't purchased the Kill Bill's yet. I'm still waiting for the special extended or director's cut edition to come out.
Learned my lesson with The Usual Suspects! I did break down and purchased the Special Edition when it came out though.

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

I'd rather buy multiple editions than have to go all that time without access to a movie I really liked.

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

You can't take the sky from me...............

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free...

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

This is why I usually do not purchase a DVD until after I've seen it!

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Smart girl.

[vember.livejournal.com]

Marketing is a fancy word for lying. The truth in advertising movement seems to have died ... but I'm not sure which I like less, the outright lies or the endless string of one or two-word adjectives they tack onto movies. Like some guy from some magazine saying "Brilliant!" is what I need to know about a movie... fleh!

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Movie reviews ought to conform to the labels they require on food items:

Character development..........8%
Plot..........................14%
Intrigue......................10%
Humor.........................26%
Action.........................9%
Soundtrack....................13%
Acting skills..................0%
Poor special effects..........12%
CGI............................8%

Still, it would no doubt still be subjective.

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

Last weekend I purchased Hostel on DVD.

The cover proclaimed that it was dubbed the scariest movie in a decade.

It certainly wasn't that, but it did teach me to stay the hell away from Slovakia.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it made it's point at least.

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I actually liked it. It was far better than I thought, but it was NOT the scariest movie in a decade.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

What is, in your estimation? Have you seen the newer ones which have come out?

[oxy-irony.livejournal.com]

Remind me why miss Barbie is missing an arm.

Most non-Texans don't know the difference between grilling, and BBQ'ing.

*Is a non-Texan and knows very well the differences between grilling and BBQing* I come from Wisconsin, bud, and my father does nothing BUT grill, usually. During the summer, just about every meal (with the exception of breakfast) is grilled- every day. Except for those instances where it's raining too hard to grill out, at which time my dad throws a frozen Tombstone pizza in.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Your dad and I, we'd get along just fine. I grill at least five days out of seven.

I have no idea why naked Barbie is missing a limb. I'll probably never know.

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

Remind me why miss Barbie is missing an arm.

There was a horrible industrial accident. She doesn't like to talk about it.

[oxy-irony.livejournal.com]

Poor dear. We should send her a fruit basket.

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

A fruit basket?

She lost an arm, she's not brain dead!

[oxy-irony.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ: she's a barbie. The only people who might exceed her in plastic content would be Britney Spears and Michael Jackson. Someone with that much plastic in them, intentionally, probably don't have the largest brains.

Then again, I'm being judgmental.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Very PC of you. Send her something which requires two hands to peel and eat. How thoughtful!

[oxy-irony.livejournal.com]

We could send her a basket full of apples- no peeling required!

Unless she has braces...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Periodontal Barbie!

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

I agree that a lot of movies are misrepresented by the studios as something they're not in order to attract a larger audience. What's really odd is to see 3 different trailers for the same movie that each portray the movie as being of a different genre.

You grill like a madman. - I should come visit. Mmm.


That's a compositionally fantastic photo.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Why thank you!

[professortom.livejournal.com]

I don't get it.

Who's the cute chick in the tub?