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| wcmartell... |
 Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:10 pm |
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Let's see how much power the audience has. This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
If you don't live in one of those cities, why not skip TRANSFORMERS
and see UP or HANGOVER or PROPOSAL again? Or whatever movie that's
slipped past in the glut of summer movies and may be on its way out of
cinemas? If you're going to see a movie this weekend, why does it have
to be the new one?
Michael Bay got paid $80 million for the first TRANSFORMERS, let's see
if we can make him sweat a little?
Pass it on... Pass it on to any teens you know, too. It will be a fun
little game for all of us to play - and especially get anyone in
Hollywood's coveted 15-25 age demographic to play along. See something
*other than* TRANSFORMERS 2 this weekend and see what happens. Let's
see if we can make it #2 instead of #1!
Pass it on!
- Bill |
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| Mark... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:33 am |
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On Jun 23, 3:10 am, wcmartell <wcmart... at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote:
Quote: Let's see how much power the audience has. This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
If you don't live in one of those cities, why not skip TRANSFORMERS
and see UP or HANGOVER or PROPOSAL again? Or whatever movie that's
slipped past in the glut of summer movies and may be on its way out of
cinemas? If you're going to see a movie this weekend, why does it have
to be the new one?
Michael Bay got paid $80 million for the first TRANSFORMERS, let's see
if we can make him sweat a little?
Pass it on... Pass it on to any teens you know, too. It will be a fun
little game for all of us to play - and especially get anyone in
Hollywood's coveted 15-25 age demographic to play along. See something
*other than* TRANSFORMERS 2 this weekend and see what happens. Let's
see if we can make it #2 instead of #1!
Pass it on!
- Bill
Thanks Bill, not that I'd have gone to see such crap
in the first place.
I would like to say that it's kinda tempting to go and
see UP again, but The Hangover looks like fun too.
Mark |
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| Blackwingbear... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:31 am |
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On Jun 23, 12:10 am, wcmartell <wcmart... at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote:
Quote: Pass it on... Pass it on to any teens you know, too. It will be a fun
little game for all of us to play - and especially get anyone in
Hollywood's coveted 15-25 age demographic to play along. See something
*other than* TRANSFORMERS 2 this weekend and see what happens. Let's
see if we can make it #2 instead of #1!
Haven't you realized, they hand-pick which films will be
"blockbusters" - doesn't mean anyone actually liked it or even went to
see it, but they paid critics to praise it so they could tell us what
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| Blackwingbear... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:32 am |
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On Jun 23, 7:10 am, "Kishin" <notha... at (no spam) nowhere.com> wrote:
Quote: I'll be going next week during business hours so I hope the crowds wont be
TOO bad. This sounds like a perfect movie for me: realistic giant robots
smashing things. Works for me! I already have a number of toys from the
movie.
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The Machine God
Ye Gods, man - I know you are a Transformers buff, but please don't
support that train-wreck. |
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| Albert Conklin... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:43 am |
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wcmartell wrote:
Quote: Let's see how much power the audience has. This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
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- Bill
Never saw the first one, so won't go see the 2nd one.
What is Hurt Locker about? Or, do I have to go up to imdb to find out.
Albert |
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| Kishin... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:10 am |
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"wcmartell" <wcmartell at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:623ffa53-4765-46df-91c6-1985b0cc9715 at (no spam) y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Let's see how much power the audience has. This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
I'll be going next week during business hours so I hope the crowds wont be
TOO bad. This sounds like a perfect movie for me: realistic giant robots
smashing things. Works for me! I already have a number of toys from the
movie.
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The Machine God |
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| Avoid normal situations.... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:47 am |
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In alt.horror wcmartell <wcmartell at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote:
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Quote: Let's see how much power the audience has.
The only part of the "audience" here, sir, are those of us who are smart
enough to still be reading Usenet. We've always been a small subset of the
population, and we seem to be shrinking all the time.
Quote: This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
You mean a big point break?
Quote: If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
Uh... because some of us would rather be seeing the innumerable smaller
films that don't have a real distributor anymore or never received one, but
which are now available on the net?
Just for starters:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=19352079
Betcha that's better than most of the stuff playing in multiplexes right
now.
Quote: If you don't live in one of those cities, why not skip TRANSFORMERS
and see UP or HANGOVER or PROPOSAL again? Or whatever movie that's
slipped past in the glut of summer movies and may be on its way out of
cinemas? If you're going to see a movie this weekend, why does it have
to be the new one?
Uh... because most people are mindless lemmings who go to see whatever the
TV tells them to see?
--
alt.flame Special Forces
"In a society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only
arbiter of behavior is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the
tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than
any system of law." -- George Orwell |
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| The dog from that film you saw... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:13 am |
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"wcmartell" <wcmartell at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:623ffa53-4765-46df-91c6-1985b0cc9715 at (no spam) y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Let's see how much power the audience has. This weekend has been set
aside for TRANSFORMERS 2... no other major releases will open. In
limited release we have Katheryn Bigelow's HURT LOCKER which looks
great... and I think she's a great director who deserves a big break.
If you are interested in that film, and you live in one of the cities
where it's playing, why not see HURT LOCKER instead of TRANSFORMERS 2?
i skipped transformers 2 this weekend - and watched terminator 4 instead!
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Gareth.
that fly...... is your magic wand.... |
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| Maxruehl... |
| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:37 pm |
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In article
<623ffa53-4765-46df-91c6-1985b0cc9715 at (no spam) y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
wcmartell <wcmartell at (no spam) compuserve.com> wrote:
Quote: why not see HURT LOCKER instead...?
I saw it last night and thought it was really good. I don't think I've
ever liked a Kathryn Bigelow film before. This one was riveting. |
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