Twilight (book series) - Page 13

Moonliner · 11-20-2008, 10:40 AM

Yea! Twilight opens TOMORROW! Yip.

I have secured tickets via Fandango at the best theater in town.

Everything is set, I'm so damn excited because finally Headliner is off to see a movie like this with her friends and I am not invited. Life is good.

Betty · 11-20-2008, 10:45 AM

I bought through Fandango as well. They sent me an email to download Bella's lullaby remix through itunes which I did.

What a crock! It's a few lines from the preview over and over again over some very non-memorable muzak.

Fie!

Hope the actual version is better then that. I kept waiting for some actual lullaby music and then the song ended. WTF?

I hope it's as good as the non official version that's been making rounds online by Yiruma. Have you heard that one?

innerSpaceman · 11-20-2008, 11:09 AM

Interesting that Ebert's review mentions the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, which I recently heard RAVES about over Chinese lunch post-Nationwide Protest Rally last Saturday.

There's no Mormons in Sweden, are there? If not, and since the Swede film was officially GAY recommended ... I think I'll spend my vampire dollars on that one. Twilight, from the synopsis in Ebert's review, seems ... with apologies to Gemini Cricket ... completely gay.

Betty · 11-20-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Interesting that Ebert's review mentions the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, which I recently heard RAVES about over Chinese lunch post-Nationwide Protest Rally last Saturday.

There's no Mormons in Sweden, are there? If not, and since the Swede film was officially GAY recommended ... I think I'll spend my vampire dollars on that one. Twilight, from the synopsis in Ebert's review, seems ... with apologies to Gemini Cricket ... completely gay.

I'll have to check out Let the Right One In. hmmmm... you think that's in English or will I be reading subtitles?

Gemini Cricket · 11-20-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

... with apologies to Gemini Cricket ... completely gay.

You can not have the goat that you're attempting to get from me.

innerSpaceman · 11-20-2008, 11:23 AM

Subtitles.

Downside for me, yeah. Upside? Maturity.

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You can not have the goat that you're attempting to get from me.

Baaaaaaaaah.

Betty · 11-20-2008, 11:25 AM

I can work with subtitles. Just read a little review of it. I'm intrigued.

Alex · 11-20-2008, 11:26 AM

There is a Mormon temple in Stockholm so I assume that there are at least three mormons in the country. But it seems unlikely they're making vampire films.

Alex · 11-20-2008, 11:54 AM

Frequently that is what it means, and that is pretty much always how it is taken. But then it is in the review industries interest to take it that way.

But I don't think it is quite that simple. Sometimes I think they just feel that, even if they have a good movie, press reaction can't really do anything to help them. The people who are going to go on opening weekend were going to go anyway even if the reviews are good and so all reviews could do it possibly convince some people to not go (even the best movies have bad reviews). By the second weekend press reviews are almost completely irrelevant since everybody is then mostly relying on word of mouth from people they know personally who have seen it.

Then you also have the fact that different individual personalities running publicity simply like different levels of control or have certain strategies in mind.

For example, my screening invite for Milk includes this line and I don't think there is anyone doubting the quality of the movie:

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And lastly, we request your cooperation in not running/posting your reviews prior to Wednesday, November 26, 2008.

As for the number of screenings, I don't know if that is at all a reliable indicator of quality. I've seen great movies that only had one screening in the entire Bay Area and awful movies that have had four screenings each in five different towns. I think this is more a product of the marketing budget than the movie quality.

All of which isn't to say that Twilight doesn't suck and that the attempted embargo isn't a sign of that. It may. I just don't think it is a universal sign of that. Refusing to hold press screenings at all is probably a better indicator of real suck (though that has also increased in the last couple years into less sucky territory).

Gemini Cricket · 11-20-2008, 12:00 PM

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Refusing to hold press screenings at all is probably a better indicator of real suck (though that has also increased in the last couple years into less sucky territory).

Like Bangkok Dangerous and Snakes on a Plane. (Those 2 I got from a quick Google search.)

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Betty Kicking up my heels! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Silver State Posts: 3,783	I bought through Fandango as well. They sent me an email to download Bella's lullaby remix through itunes which I did. What a crock! It's a few lines from the preview over and over again over some very non-memorable muzak. Fie! Hope the actual version is better then that. I kept waiting for some actual lullaby music and then the song ended. WTF? I hope it's as good as the non official version that's been making rounds online by Yiruma. Have you heard that one? __________________ Nee Stell Thue
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Interesting that Ebert's review mentions the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, which I recently heard RAVES about over Chinese lunch post-Nationwide Protest Rally last Saturday. There's no Mormons in Sweden, are there? If not, and since the Swede film was officially GAY recommended ... I think I'll spend my vampire dollars on that one. Twilight, from the synopsis in Ebert's review, seems ... with apologies to Gemini Cricket ... completely gay.
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Betty Kicking up my heels! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Silver State Posts: 3,783	I can work with subtitles. Just read a little review of it. I'm intrigued. __________________ Nee Stell Thue
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11-20-2008, 11:26 AM	#8
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	There is a Mormon temple in Stockholm so I assume that there are at least three mormons in the country. But it seems unlikely they're making vampire films.
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