This is easilly one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks for the good ol’ fashioned nightmare fuel. :eek:
Wow! Thanks, saoirse I loved that!
Couldn’t find the fulm film online, but I found the filmmaker on MySpace and I just sent him a “Add” request!
I disagree, I thinks the system works, because you still see a lot of movies! 
You must go to a lot of ‘Art House’ type theatres.
The films you mentioned are all limited releases. Very limited.
When a film is distributed that way, the film company may ask the theatre, perhaps the only theatre in the market to be getting that movie, to play the trailer on every screen. So when you go see several movies a day, you get to see the trailer over and over.
Trailer advertising is very effective. It goes only to people who go to theatres to see movies. Very few people would have the problem you face.
There’s one scene from the film on YouTube. It looks like the movie is not finished yet. I’ll have to add it to “Most anticipated movies of 2007” list.
The “True Crime” genre can get like that.
I see trailers for Eragon played all the time. The best reviewer quote they can come up with is something like "‘The latest fantasy epic’ - John Smith, WKBV TV.) Wow, that’s powerful praise!
I’m also seeing a lot of trailers for that new computer-animated fairy-tale movie, and for background music of course they have to use…“Bad to the Bone.” Arg.
Well, not in the theaters, but on television - the trailer for the stupid movie “Stomp The Yard” is driving me nuts.
Who gives a rat’s ass if one fraternity can stomp the yard better than another? Speaking of which, prior to this obnoxious trailer, has anybody ever heard of stompin’ the yard? And they are trying to infuse some macho gangsta mean m’f’ker attitude in a film about a bunch of black preppies doing a hip-hop version of a country and western two step…oooo…I am so scared…what if the mean black man dances real fast in front of me? “Run, Bettylou, run for your life! Negros are dancing in the quads!”
I haven’t seen any of those trailers, or even heard of most of the movies. But then, I also see only 2 or 3 movies a year in the theater. Come on, lottery!
That would be the bizarrely-punctuated Happily N’ever After.
Speaking of computer-animated films, when going to see Happy Feet a couple days ago, I saw an enjoyable theater-chain PSA featuring characters from the upcoming Disney’s Meet The Robinsons featuring a band of frogs singing a parody of I Heard It Through The Grapevine about not talking during the movie. At least Disney did new animation (apparently) for the PSA, unlike the Cars turn-off-your-cell-phone ad, which was just a clip from the film with a cell phone noised added.
Yeah, I’ll go to the “Art House” theatres as often as I go to the big chain theaters.
I live in Los Angeles, so “very limited release” means that the film’s for sure released here (if released in this country at all).
Never thought of this, but it makes so much sense it must be true.
worst over playing of a movie trailer i ever saw was for the movie “ravenous” the local theatre in franklin TN spliced it onto the film for rocky horror picture show, then promptly left it there till about 3 months after the movie had came out… on dvd. We had gotten to the point where we had regular heckles for the trailer as well as the movie.
Have you seen this trailer?
I put get movie trailers played in theatres for a living.
Click with Adam Sandler.
and to a lesser extent
The Paciifer with Vin Diesel.
My God if that trailer wasnt before EVERY film.
It doesnt help if they show the same exact trailer in the “pre-show entertainment”.
What really got me, was that some people laughed at THE joke, and the trailer had been out for ages.
They need to show additonal pieces of the movie in different spots. That would help cut the number to 2,500 right?
Over here in Bangkok, depending on the type of theater, a movie ticket runs anywhere from the equivalent of US$2.50 to US$12.50. But the $12.50 ones are for the super-luxurious theaters, with padded reclining Lazyboy chairs and slippers and a blanket. Plus they’ll bring your snack-bar selections to you after you’ve settled into your seat.
The normal movie theaters top out at about $4, and that’s for the ones in the super-modern shopping malls like Siam Paragon. $3.50 is about average at most places. We do have a couple of art-house cinemas, and those are the $2.50 ones. “Perfume” just started at one, and we hope to see it. We go to the movies just about every week. Of course, we don’t get quite the selection you guys do.
If it’s any consolation to the OP, our favorite movie critic, Roger Ebert, did not like “The Motorcycle Diaries,” so we didn’t bother to see it.
Wow. This is so attractive, and yet repellent. The idea of paying $25-30 for that kind of treatment, well it seems so undemocratic, but going to a multiplex movie theater is such a hassle these days. That was really quite disturbing
$25 to $30? Is that what it costs there now? I said $12.50, and that is SO outrageous here that my wife won’t agree to go. (Not that I would want to.) Do you even have that style of theater over there now? I mean with the blanket and slippers and Lazyboy recliner.
We just now returned from seeing “Blood Diamond” at the Scala Theater in Siam Square. A big old movie house, decades old, not one of the new multiplexes that are springing up over here. Big, BIG screen. We paid 100 baht each; at the current exchange rate of 35 1/2 baht to the US dollar, that worked out to about $2.82 each for the ticket. Two boxes of popcorn and a couple cans of drinks ran us another 92 baht total, or $2.59. So, total – two tickets and refreshments – cost us a whopping US$8.23. And that was for the 6pm show.
Also, I would neither avoid nor make it a point to see a movie just because a certain actor was in it. That can be so hit and miss. Even the best of actors can really screw up. Witness Jack Nicholson in “Anger Management” with Adam Sandler. And then witness a crappy actor like Adam Sandler turn in a great performance in “Punch-Drunk Love.” No, I pay more attention to the director than to any actor. A good director can pull a magical performance out of just about any actor. But best of all is to find a movie reviewer whose taste seems to mirror your own – Roger Ebert in the case of me and my wife both – and see what he or she thinks. You can even use this method in reverse: When Gene Siskel was alive, I tended to avoid movies he liked, because he had awful taste!
Oops, no. I was extrapolating. Ordinary, run-of-the-mill theater: $3.50 in Thailand, $7-10 in the US. Luxury Theater: $12.50 in Thailand, therefore, if they existed here it would run $25-30. I could see that sort of thing taking off here, but it just seems wrong, with all the mythoology about Fred Astaire getting the country through the Depression.
Whoa there! Let’s not knock Fred! “Top Hat” and “Swing Time” are two of my favorite Depression-era movies.
Absolutely. But single-handedly curing the country’s financial woes is a lot to put on Fred and Ginge.