Anyone else’s theater crack up when they heard the title of this octopus vomit of a movie? Pathetic. And i bet you can find about 600 movies with the same premise in the Drama section of your local video store, from jelious girls, to guys, to “other women”, to dogs, to little boys, to little girls, to roommates, to paperboys. Why wasn’t this direct to video? Some executive needs a shotgun blast full of rocksalt in his behind.
I also appreciate the fact that they basically give away all the events in the movie in the trailer. Why bother seeing it? This is becoming more and more common, and I try to avoid entering the theater until 10 minutes past the start time for this reason.
Judging from the trailer, I already saw this movie–it was called Fatal Attraction and featured Glenn Close and a boiled bunny.
Trailers are getting bad at giving away the movie’s plot points, but the one for “Swimfan” set a new level of spoilerism; it gave away EVERY SINGLE MAJOR PLOT POINT, from the very beginning to the very end of the film. I could practically transcribe the script.
It looks terrible, anyway.
Me too - I actually laughed out loud at that trailer. Damn, that was hilarious.
I can’t help but think those trailers are counterproductive. The trailer for the movie What Lies Beneath actually kept me from seeing the movie, because it gave away so much; if it had been intriguing and suggestive instead, I probably would have gone. Same thing with the trailer for the Jennifer Lopez movie Enough; it’s hard to imagine there could be any surprises in the movie after seeing the trailer.
I thought the girl was Reese Witherspoon until I saw the credits. That Erika Christensen is a dead ringer for her!
Or Julia Stiles.
Oooh it looks so awful, except for what may be promising glimpses of young men in Speedos. And was the volume on the trailer really loud for anyone else? To jump off what gobear said, it’s like Fatal Attraction meets Fear (which I thought was pretty good bad fun).
It reminded me of Devil in the Flesh 2, that being the latest of the obsessed stalker movies i’ve rented. I do have a weakness for them, but in tape form only. But even ones named Mikey or The Paperboy sound better than Swimfan@! (and i thought it was Julia Stiles at first two, until they said it wasn’t)
Lovely title. They should’ve just made it swimfan@aol.com – can you imagine the money AOL would pay for that!
And isn’t that role of obsessed stalker usually played by Alicia Silverstone? Was she busy or something?
They showed this as one of the 12 trailers before Minority Report, and it was the worst by far.
Just to bump this instead of wasting a second thread on this mediocre garbage, how the monkey@%^$ did this make #1 for the week? Story
I won’t see it. It was ok the first time I saw it when it was called Fatal attraction, and only slightly better the second time I saw it when it was called Malicious, and starred Molly Ringwald.
I’ve seen it enough times already.
Actually, that movie was pretty good for another reason, or two reasons…
The original title was Swimfan85, after the character’s screen handle.
I can also find no reference to there being an at sign in the current title-it’s simply Swimfan.
There was when i started the thread. I guess the laughter in the audience caused the powers that be to take drastic action— eliminate the @ sign. Because the movie made it to number one, we can only look forward to more bad movies having shorter titles. (at least it will make it easier to ID them early)
I for one appreciate this trend of trailers presenting the entire movie. For instance, I’ve now seen pretty much the entirety of both Blue Crush and Swimfan, in less than ten minutes. This is a highly efficient use of time, and I recommend more of these types of micromovies.
OK, has anyone here actually seen the movie?
Yes I am dumbfounded as to how these movies get greenlit.
I have to echo LolaCocaCola here: Has anyone seen it yet?
Sure, it’s probably going to suck. But maybe not. There’s a non-zero quantum probability that it will be moderately tolerable and have gratuitous breast scenes.
Well, see… after the trailer revealed every single plot point, I would say we all have seen the entire movie. Without having to pay for it- thanks 20th Century Fox!