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kiimo posted:She'll always be the idiot who eats dirt and suntans her vagina to me. How is this news to you if you live in California, that's every fourth person here.
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MikeJF posted:Also the fact that the story metaphor is about how the target audience are the evil Capitol while Chinese sweatshop laborers and African farmers are the oppressed good guy rebels. I don't think it's a coincidence that in a summer in the midst of an economic recession and mounting tensions about class inquality and income disparity a movie about a white guy who takes a nap and wakes up with super powers that let him take over a planet with ease failed to find an audience but a movie about a poor girl struggling to fight the system from within became a smash hit.
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Jun 3, 2015 00:47
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Wait, what was the first one?
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Sleeveless posted:I don't think it's a coincidence that in a summer in the midst of an economic recession and mounting tensions about class inquality and income disparity a movie about a white guy who takes a nap and wakes up with super powers that let him take over a planet with ease failed to find an audience but a movie about a poor girl struggling to fight the system from within became a smash hit. Hunger Games wasn't a summer movie.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:44
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Waffleman_ posted:Wait, what was the first one? John Carter?
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Jun 3, 2015 02:38
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Maybe you can write a dystopian YA parody, "the adventures of Mary Sue in the horrible future that is based on a fairly dumb ideological concept taken to extreme".
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Jun 3, 2015 03:07
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Sleeveless posted:I don't think it's a coincidence that in a summer in the midst of an economic recession and mounting tensions about class inquality and income disparity a movie about a white guy who takes a nap and wakes up with super powers that let him take over a planet with ease failed to find an audience but a movie about a poor girl struggling to fight the system from within became a smash hit. Yeah I don't think it was the economy that stopped John Carter from succeeding. It was more the being boring as gently caress.
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TetsuoTW posted:Yeah I don't think it was the economy that stopped John Carter from succeeding. It was more the being boring as gently caress. You're parents are very disappointed with your opinions.
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TetsuoTW posted:Yeah I don't think it was the economy that stopped John Carter from succeeding. It was more the being boring as gently caress. The poo poo marketing didn't help, and how the gently caress was it boring? It was a pretty decent fusion of Princess of Mars and Gods of Mars and had plenty of action.
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Jun 3, 2015 04:23
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The marketing made it look boring as poo poo.
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Jun 3, 2015 04:25
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achillesforever6 posted:I need to really work on writing a generic dystopian YA series that can be made into a movie and pay off my student loans. Throw in the idea that humans are/were supposed to be one human before Zeus hosed it up, and add in a young woman/love interest to run the gauntlet. You'll get all my monies just for that. You could have Artemis and Apollo backstabbing each other and helping/hurting the two humans' progress.
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Jun 3, 2015 04:39
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kiimo posted:She'll always be the idiot who eats dirt and suntans her vagina to me. Hey now, it's not cool to make fun of someone with Pica. I really like the third Hunger Games movie. It has its less sophisticated parts, but overall I think it's neat how challenging it is to its audience.
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She doesn't have pica, she eats dirt because she believes it has health benefits iirc e: and the poo poo like suntanning her vagina owns
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Jun 3, 2015 06:43
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achillesforever6 posted:I need to really work on writing a generic dystopian YA series that can be made into a movie and pay off my student loans. As a comic or as a YA novel there is real potential there. Hell there's even a solid arena video game in there.
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Jun 3, 2015 07:43
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I mean, it's basically a standard shonen anime/manga plotline. Honestly kinda gives me Saint Seiya vibes with the Greek myth theme and JoJo vibes with the quirky-rear end villains in particular. It's pretty well-trod ground over in Japan, but I don't think very much western stuff uses that kind of forumla, so it's worth a shot.
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It would be right at home in the third party Western comics market. Think along the lines of Image. It could also easily fit a tween market. It's a fairly flexible premise tonally.
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I'm just saying, "plucky teen bumblefucks into superpowers and must use them to fight a gauntlet of quirky villains" is pretty much one of the archetypical shonen plots.
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Jun 3, 2015 08:47
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LORD OF BUTT posted:bumblefucks into superpowers
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Jun 3, 2015 11:21
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What killed John Carter was marketing. I follow entertainment news sites and CineD and all that. I found out it had been released when I saw it in a Redbox. So 95% of people probably thought it was a cheap direct to video movie.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:What killed John Carter was marketing. I agree it had terrible marketing, in terms of style. But I saw millions of trailers of it when it was coming out. If you follow entertainment sites and really only knew it was out after seeing it at Redbox, then I'm gonna pin that one on you.
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Jun 3, 2015 12:17
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Yeah, Disney probably marketed their $260,000,000 summer blockbuster.
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Mister Chief posted:Yeah, Disney probably marketed their $260,000,000 summer blockbuster. Who can forget the summer of John Carter? The toys, the magazine covers, the wall to wall ads, the Burger King Tars Tarkas whopper, the stars of the movie doing a marketing blitz on the late night talk shows, the embedded audio pop up ads, the video game tie-in, the webcomic series, and the Carmike Cinemas collectable drink cups. Oh no wait, they basically threw out a trailer and washed their hands of it.
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Hmm, yes, I see. Clearly John Carter was marketed as well as The Avengers. It had a soundtrack and some thing that probably only sold ten copies on thinkgeek or whatever niche website. And do my eyes deceive me? A poster?! What kid wouldn't want a limited run collectable whatever that is? Meanwhile, back in reality, an example of Disney marketing:    In conclusion, you're literally dumber than dog poo poo if you think John Carter wasn't horrendously marketed. The Anime Liker fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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The marketing budget was $100,000,000. It doesn't mean it was good or effective but it was there.
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Mister Chief posted:The marketing budget was $100,000,000. It doesn't mean it was good or effective but it was there. The budget could have been a billion dollars and they bought every Super Bowl commercial spot. Still means gently caress all when you're marketing a kids movie by not marketing it to kids.
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Jun 3, 2015 13:36
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You guys are agreeing.
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Jun 3, 2015 13:39
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Jay Rust posted:You guys are agreeing. I know, but dingus is doing it wrong.
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Jun 3, 2015 13:42
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I still can't tell if this is a real movie or not.
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Will, are you really that hard up already?
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Waffleman_ posted:Will, are you really that hard up already? Lifetime made a parody of Lifetime movies. I seriously can't wait for this.
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Jun 3, 2015 17:24
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Will Ferrell looking like Richard Karn in that poster.
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I believe they decided to make a Lifetime movie for shits and giggles and they were just going to release it and see what happened but then predictably word got out because why the hell wouldn't it and now they are marketing it and there's this weird middle ground where yep you've made a Lifetime movie now that the joke is dead. Could be funny thought.
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Waffleman_ posted:Will Ferrell looking like Richard Karn in that poster. Yeah, a bit.
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Waffleman_ posted:Will, are you really that hard up already? Will Farrell has a history of just doing weird projects, like you know, a Spanish language movie or extremely local ads for Old Milwaukee beer.
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Jun 3, 2015 22:05
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I really respect Casa de Mi Padre.
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The MSJ posted:I still can't tell if this is a real movie or not. I hope the actors play the movie straight and just let the Lifetime stupidness provide it's own comedy.
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Jay Rust posted:You guys are agreeing. Not really, one is saying it failed because of mismarketing and the other is saying mismarketing had nothing to do with it.
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muscles like this? posted:Will Farrell has a history of just doing weird projects, like you know, a Spanish language movie or extremely local ads for Old Milwaukee beer. Don't forget The Spoils of Babylon. June 20th is a Saturday, but maybe that's part of the joke?
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