Just a bump to say that Attack The Block comes out on DVD in America tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th.
As far as over-promoting it, really? It’s hardly gotten any publicity at all. It hasn’t had any (or hardly any) press/billboards/newspaper-magazine-television ads or anything that your average Hollywood movie would take for granted. Barely anyone has even heard of it, let alone seen it. Its severely limited run around the country meant that most people will see it on DVD/streaming.
I can’t believe that MY love of the movie, and posting theaters it played in, is suddenly making it over hyped and over-promoted. That’s just…come on. I don’t even know what to say to that. Am I supposed to be mute (or muted) about a movie I love? I already am, most of the time. I’ve seen so many movies this year I deeply loved, and rarely mentioned them. This one is different because it’s just a good time, fun, and different. I’m compelled to put a bug into people’s ear about it. Those who might like it anyway.
I certainly don’t expect everybody to go gaga the way I have. Your reaction is perfectly great to me, good movie with several good laughs, that makes me happy. I said at the start that not everyone would like it. I’m fine with that too (unless the reason is bigotry and classism, those people can get eaten by alien gorilla wolf motherfuckers).
I just want people to know about it, there’s nothing wrong with that. My enthusiasm is my own, and anyone else’s who shares it.
And anyway, your hyperbole is worse than mine. I never said it was the Greatest Thing Ever. You want to talk about movies that are the Greatest Thing Ever we can talk in some other thread some other time about Brazil and Blade Runner and Citizen Kane and The Godfather and Days of Heaven and 2001 and Casablanca and Treasure of the Sierra Madre and on and on and on.
This is a fun little genre film, that makes me very happy, that makes me laugh, that makes me grin, that makes me want to watch it over and over because fun is addictive. Never said it was the Greatest Thing Ever. Sheesh.