Theory: The quality of anything in inversely proportional to the amount of advertising for that thing.
Proof in progress: Elizabethtown
If I could go one day without seeing an ad for this movie, I'd be happy. The first time I saw the preview I was vaguely interested in a "both of those people are attractive enough to distract me for 1.5 hours" kind of way. But after 2 weeks of constant innundation I know there is no way this movie can be good.
Also further proof this movie sucks arrived when every time I tried to close a browser window and brought my mouse too close to my IM window a big picture of Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst swooning at eachother appeared. And if there is an advert for it on my IM, then I KNOW it isn't going to be good. (See Also: America's Next Top Model)
The sad thing is that advertising like this works, I am so brainwashed by this point I will probably go see this stupid movie just so I can say "THAT MOVIE SUCKED" every time I see an ad for it. (which will no doubt be ever 5 minutes for the next week at least, and then every 2 minutes when the DVD comes out in a month)
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Nice advertising;
One comment and one question:
1) I never heard of it.
2) Who are Orlando Boom and Kirsten Dunst? i never heard of them.
If you aren't being sarcastic, I want to live in whatever bubble you live in.
after years of net communication, I have a kill filter so effective built in the very firt neurons behind my retina... no matter the media... I didn't really absorbe this movie.
After following the link... I did realize "oh that"... and now... I'm wondering...well, Dunst for 1.5 hours... might be worth it.
heh.
PS: I'm almost certain Averroes is serious, but there are other distractions within the bubble, if I'm correct, yes Av?
absorbe... because there are never too many e's at the end of a worde.
Yes, folds, i was serious. i've never had much of a connection with pop connection. For instance, mostly the only reason i know hit tunes from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, let alone the oughts, is from those compilation album (tape, and now, CD) commercials.
The first time i heard of Freddy Fender was when i heard this on my TV, many yuears ago: "And who could forget Freddie Fender? [music]"Wasted days and wasted ni-ights."
To this day all i know izx that Freddie Fender sand a song with these five words sung in it.
i guess i was too busy wasting my days and wasting my nights.
With sex, drugs, and jazz. You knowl jazz is edgy, expressive, in your face. i much prefer it to elevator music like rock.
Well, if it makes you feel better, I don't know who Freddie Fender is either.
shinobi... could you delete that quick... and then keep my secret forever?
Yes. Yes I could. But only for you.
what a love... thanks. :)
Shinobi, your callowness explains, perhaps, your never having heard of Fender.
But to further make my bonafides here, last night i awoke to one of those "great hits of the 70s" infomercials. the controls were controlled by my sleeping wife,and i was too tired to get up. So i endured the hell fro 25 minutes.
The advertisement was "150 great hits by 150 different artists." i recognized about 10 artists. As for the songs, i recognized more, but simply from the fact that i had heard the hook on other such ads. For instance:
Y-M-C-A...la-da-da-da-da
by some guys in costumes one of which is an Indian. All i know.
Willy did something or something like that.
There was something by "Captain and the Neil" New to me.
And so on.
I have to confess, however, that my daughter, 19, actually does know pop music. occasionally i'll come upon her listening to some. She played me a "song" by someone named "enyo."
At such times, I can't resist hamming "Where have I gone wrong??"
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