Breaking Amazing

dlevanchuk said:
marketing, thats the key :-)
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Truth.


I can't tell you how amusing I find it that the P&A budget frequently nears, surpasses and sometimes more than doubles the production budgets of a fair number of wide release films.
Totally bizarre to me.

Spend $2 to market a $1 product.

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:rolleyes:
 
Lol, I love the oatmeal.


Anyhow, I'm building a rocketship to get the fuck out of this planet, until all the retaded-ness dies down. Then we can come back.
Seriously, fuck twlight, fuck twilight just for existing in the same dimensional plane than us.
 
So if all the people who do not like the "retaded-ness" leave the
planet how will calm it down and get better? You really think the
ones who stay will finally get it?

How about staying here and making some good movies?

Much harder than building a rocketship and getting the fuck off
the planet.
 
I have friends who really love the "Twilight" series. They think our movies are boring. To each their own.

For what it's worth, a lot of people on this forum, and filmmakers in general, really dig horror movies. Do you not realize that this puts you in even a smaller segment of fringe-fans than the Twilight series? Most people look down on horror, so before you look down on Twilight, check your mirror. And I'm not pointing fingers; I've got my guilty pleasures, too.

On a side-note, I saw the first of the series and almost died of boredom. A few months later, I watched it again, but this time with the aid of rifftrax. YES!!! Non-stop laughter. I highly recommend the experience, and I plan to eventually watch the entire series with rifftrax.
 
The rifftrax guys? From MN, about 45 minutes from my house ;) They are the MST3K folks and that started on public television in Hopkins, MN.
 
Rifftrax is the only way I'd ever try and sit through Twilight. (I barely managed to get through the first film. Ugh.)

(Sidenote: I liked MST3K so much that I got some friends together for a riffing of War of the Planets. We even managed to be mildly amusing at times.)
 
They popularized something that their target audience was already doing in those cold shut-in nights in MN in the winter... but they were much funnier and cooler than we were.
 
Another way to look at this: look how much money people are spending on going to see movies! Not that anyone here has the marketing machine that they have, but it CAN be done!

As for Twilight itself, it doesn't really bother me one way or another. I have zero interest in it; didn't like the vampire romance when Anne Rice did it (though I do like True Blood; it does have a sense of humor about itself, but even still, every episode has its share of eyeroll moments). Popular opinion has no bearing on my personal opinion. I am comfortable liking things other people don't. That doesn't make me better or other people dumb...just different, and the universe is big enough for all of us!

I also love the MST3K/Rifftrax stuff, being of a similar mindset. I'll take a bad movie over a comedy any day!
 
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I've gotta say, I really enjoyed the "Director's Notebook"... it showed alot of cool BTS information about movie making in general.
 
Also remember that Twilight isn't just a movie. It is a full on brand with deep market penetration. The money the latest film is making is based on years and years of building a large loyal fan base.
 
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