tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post1179928754743562223..comments2024-03-05T21:05:36.848-05:00Comments on CommentaramaFilms: Hollywood Marketing = FraudAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-75556080515697489272015-09-17T22:30:15.299-04:002015-09-17T22:30:15.299-04:00I remember sitting in a theater, something I almos...I remember sitting in a theater, something I almost never do anymore in 2012 and I saw a preview for the "new" Spiderman film.<br /><br />All I could think of was, You F**king brain dead idiots, you just shelled out money to see this exact same film with Tobey McGuire only 10 F**king years ago! The whole origin story again! My God, how stupid can you be.<br /><br />Well, as Andrew once pointed out, movies today are marketed at teenagers and "adult morons" who swallow this crap hook line and sinker.<br /><br />Yeah, I hate Hollywood too.PikeBishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761380937971970762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-48375669830241555412015-09-15T17:53:18.285-04:002015-09-15T17:53:18.285-04:00Jason, I kept thinking about the cat too.
I agree...Jason, I kept thinking about the cat too.<br /><br />I agree with you. It strikes me that in the past, you never really heard from the stars, so you didn't hear the idiocy that comes pouring out of their mouths and you didn't spend half the time going, "What did that ass say?!"<br /><br />Could you imagine Jimmy Stewart running down his films? Or Bogart going on about how we were waging WWII for oil? Nope.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-26438466974110352462015-09-15T17:44:54.698-04:002015-09-15T17:44:54.698-04:00Eh, Garfield should just shut up and go back to ki...Eh, Garfield should just shut up and go back to kicking Odie off the table…oh wait, wrong Garfield. :)<br /><br />It’s comments like this that make me long for the old studio system days, when the studio bosses had stars under contract and would keep them from making stupid comments to protect their investment. I think this chap would be thrown out on his ear in the 1930s if he dared insult a good swath of America (i.e., movie ticket buyers) like that. Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-33887370714488043762015-09-15T12:28:05.965-04:002015-09-15T12:28:05.965-04:00GypsyTyger, Exactly! He knew what he was signing ...GypsyTyger, Exactly! He knew what he was signing up for. This was not going to be an art film or some passion project to make "the real" Spiderman. He signed up to do an exploitive cash-machine remake. So whining about how it was just this big ugly commercial project meant to hit demographic buttons is asinine. That's like getting a job at McDonalds and then whining that you never got to make 4 star cuisine.<br /><br />What's more, he knew this the whole time he was out there pimping for this movie telling people that he's a super fan and how they did their best to make the movie something special when that was never the case. He lied through his teeth to get rich. He got rich. And now he's full of crap as he tries to disassociate himself with what he did so he can pretend to be an arteest. He's a whore, not an arteest... deal with it, Garfield.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-531489175593972922015-09-15T12:20:50.286-04:002015-09-15T12:20:50.286-04:00When I was a kid comic books were looked at as fri...When I was a kid comic books were looked at as frivolous so we didn't get them all the time. Every once in a while when Mom was in a good mood we could get a quarter out of her and buy a comic book. I always bought Spider Man. I just loved him. I loved that Peter Parker was an introvert and that his id, Spider Man was a smartass. I loved the villains he fought. I loved everything about it, and the fact that I got them so rarely made it even more of a treat. So come 2002 when Spider Man with Tobey Maguire was released I refused to see it because they made his webs shoot out of his wrists instead of out of artificial webshooters like in the comics. I happened to catch it on tv a few years later and was I surprised! As far as I'm concerned they really nailed it. Tobey Maguire embodied Peter Parker, repressed sexuality, haircut and all. Kirsten Dunst did a great job as Mary Jane Watson and J.K.Simmons was wonderful as J. Jonah Jameson, over the top without being hammy. That's a hard line to walk and he pulled it off.The movie was like a tribute to the comic books.<br />So when the Andrew Garfield movie came out the only reason I saw it was that it was a summer release and every summer my wife and I try to go to the drive in. As you know the drive in is a rapidly fading piece of Americana and we're lucky enough to have one reasonably close to our house.<br />It just sucked. It was one of the worst and most unnecessary remakes of all time. The whole thing just sucked, including Mr. Garfield. And here's the thing. He knew it was a big budget summer blockbuster when he signed up and when he did the sequel. Nobody drafted him. If he was serious about preserving his purity as an arteest he'd be doing independent films or stage acting or writing poetry. He wanted to reach into the ink bucket to get the pile of money at the bottom of it but he didn't want to stain his hands.<br />Asshole.<br />GypsyTygerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-1228880892523077912015-09-15T10:34:26.008-04:002015-09-15T10:34:26.008-04:00tryanmax, I suspect this is a combination of eliti...tryanmax, I suspect this is a combination of elitism and of face saving.<br /><br />The elitism is when they trash their big commercial projects -- whether they make money or not. You can get away with that because everyone in Hollywood likes to think of themselves as "arteeeests," so it's acceptable to attack commercial work because that just gives you smug-cred with the rest of them. "Sure, I made lots of money, but I'm better than money... I'm an artist."<br /><br />Attacking the failures is about disassociating yourself from the blockback. That probably works because the director/studio usually ends up the fall guy and the actors can then get away with saying they had no control... even when they had a lot of control.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-77056442043639695402015-09-15T10:20:39.417-04:002015-09-15T10:20:39.417-04:00Putting the fraud aside, I've noticed a buildi...Putting the fraud aside, I've noticed a building trend of Hollywood stars trashing their own films after they've flopped. Lot's of stars have been accused of being spoiled brats, but this particular behavior takes the cake. It's one thing to be a demanding diva on set. Sometimes you can get away with biting the hand that feeds you if nobody really sees. It's quite another thing to make a public show of trashing your livelihood. Now you've stirred the pride of powerful people who choose to never hire you again. I find it astounding. Of course, types like Garfield would be quick to whine about how they were blackballed merely for speaking the truth, and probably gain more support than they deserve. tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.com