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01-06-2010, 05:01 PM | #1 | |
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Flint: I'm not going to see Avatar because it's been advertised too much. Dar: So you realize that means you are still being affected by the advertising Flint: Well, I wouldn't like it anyway because I can guess how the story will come out. So what you're saying is that a work of art is guaranteed to be no good if you can tell where the story will go? Novelty is the only attribute that matters to you in a movie?
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01-06-2010, 05:17 PM | #2 |
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What I said was that the overly-specific framing of the movies attributes would make viewing the movie itself into an excercise in comparative analysis, thus a completely out-of-the-moment experience for me. It wasn't my decision to be bombarded by a rigid preconception of this movie, I am placing blame where it belongs--the decision to execute an unrelenting media blitz.
The fact that seeing a preview of the plot was such a shocking disappointment was fueled by this same level of over-hyped expectations. I'm saying that the quality and quantity of media attention created conditions which preclude me being able to give an honest, fair chance to this movie. Again, this wasn't my decision. I am not claiming immunity to the advertsing campaign, I am saying it had consequences they did not intend.
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01-06-2010, 10:14 PM | #4 | ||
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01-07-2010, 01:07 PM | #5 | |
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The world needs curmudgeons too. Hey! You kids get offa his lawn.
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01-07-2010, 01:11 PM | #6 |
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nerdiness/It's "SF" -- NEVER "scifi"/nerdiness
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01-07-2010, 01:30 PM | #7 |
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I'll see your nerdiness and raise you one geekiness. I grew up reading asimov, clarke, and heinlein. I've continued to read scifi and watch scifi throughout my life. In all my conversations with other geeks, sf and scifi have been interchangeable.
syfy is, however, completely hokey.
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01-09-2010, 01:57 AM | #8 |
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Wrong, those people never grow up.
btw, here's what the theaters look like after they showed avatar.
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01-07-2010, 01:27 PM | #9 | |
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It wasn't so much that the story looked predictable (that's any movie, pretty much) but that the story looked dumb.
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Don't you mean Syfy???
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