Posted on 01/02/2006 2:14:48 PM PST by wagglebee
Everyone has to deal with the effects of publicity.
Haven't we been putting up with snarky critics in the MSM for years?
Maybe Hollyweird should try making something that doesn't suck.
I was at the theater over the holiday break - at least in my area The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe was absolutely jammed, and King Kong was as empty as a beer can with a BB in it. And it wasn't Drudge that is to blame.
It almost makes you feel some sympathy for the filmmakers, whose work is disappearing amid a foggy war of words.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................NAH!
Hollywood is now condemning wild speculation, rampant hyperbole, and lurid allegations? Just what do they think built Hollywood in the first place?
Suck (what?) or 'snark'? I usually snark vigorously when I've a head cold. I tried to write the editors but they didn't want to hear from me. I'll stay here.
Ninety-five percent of the reviewers gave Kong and Brokeback positive reviews, and many of the same reviewers disparaged Narnia.
Sorry, but not even Drudge is powerful enough to fix a Brokeback Movie.
If King Kong were an hour and 45 minutes long it would be winning by a mile. It's just that at three hours, it not only can't be shown as many times per day but it's such a huge time commitment for the viewer that it hurts repeat business. And Narnia is (somewhat) more appropriate for an under 10 audience.
I usually snark vigorously when I've a head cold
snarky
SYLLABICATION: snark·y PRONUNCIATION: snärk ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: snark·i·er, snark·i·est Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible. ETYMOLOGY: From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin. OTHER FORMS: snarki·ly —ADVERB
We took our granddaughter to see Narnia on a Thursday at 3:15. The theater was full... the only people I saw were going to Narnia.
I had a wonderful conversation with my gd(she's five) before Christmas. Her parents don't take her to Sunday school but she said, "Grandma, St. Nicholas died." I said, "Oh really?" She said, "Yup, but he came back to life as Santa Claus." Relieved, I said, "oh, good." She then asked, "How do you suppose he did that?" I just asked her how she thought it had happened. She brightened up and said, "Aslan did it!" I told her that was probably what happened.
As if he's not. These people are just losing it over the fact that intelligent, educated people have choices in info gathering and make up their minds based on a new media. Eat your hearts out you petty, self-important liberals.
Sounds as if Greggy is a bit jealous of Matt
Hollywierd executive #1: Nobody is going to the movies anymore, we need a blockbuster that will bring the crowds in. Any ideas?
Hollywierd executive #2: Well it would have to be something new and original, like a love story that will appeal to the "little people" in flyover country.
Hollywierd executive #1: How about an old-fashioned western with a love story?
Hollywierd executive #2: I've got a script right here about homosexual cowboys.
Hollywierd executive #1: That sounds great, let's go with that one.
Snarky headlines? Well, I sort of agree with this criticism. King Kong was much better than Drudge implied. However, the media and Hollywood have been leading their movies, stories, and headlines with snarky comments for years and years. Wasn't the movie 'Platoon' snarky? Or how about this headline; "Military leaders Fear up to 30,000 US Soldiers Will Die in Iraq." That is the gand pubah of snarky.
In fact, the last three years of Iraq coverage has been snarky. I started to read a story about how the 'innocents' in Iraq have suffered so much over the last three years. I expected to get a 'suicide bombing story' or perhaps an 'Al Qaeda is Evil' kind of thing. Instead, it was an expose of how a child was shot by a stray US marine bullet. It was a whole 'Snarky' story from top to bottom....nevermind that 90% of the innoncence killed in Iraq are at the hands of the terorist (In my mind, the other 10% killed are also the fault of the terorist as well....What about that angle media?)
In closing, the left getting a taste of its own medicine really doesn't bother me. I'm rather happy today.
That seems to be the problem, Hollywood. You're wasting Millions on a plethora of rancid dreck that no one wishes to spend $$$ to see!
Let's not just blame Drudge, Hollywood. When there's also Rottentomatoes.com, Boxofficemojo.com and dozens of other sites to shine some light on potential Turds-In-A-Punchbowl. Jack.
Well, OK, that was me. But the fivers were at it too...
Now, if there's someone out there saying she doesn't plan to check out "Kong" simply because Drudge was erroneously hinting it was dead-on-arrival, it's quite possible that person never seriously intended to see the movie in the first place.
I recall at the start of the war in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein the MSM erroneously trumpeting that the war was a dead-on-arrival quagmire. Despite embedded reporters witnessing a hugely successful victory to oust Saddam. Did the reporters seriously intend to see the war in the first place?
I recall toward the end of Kerry's 04 campaign a political analyst said the MSM reporting positive for Kerry vs negative against Bush gave Kerry ten points at the Presidential election.
That's the large Main Stream Media influence on an important matter.
The lone Drudge Report with one headline couldn't effect a trivial matter as a movie by even 1 percent.
If you add that both executives are probably gay, you have it about right.
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