Andrew Dunn:
Last week I had some fun with the opaque language/culture of Wall
Street, and I wanted to continue with that theme. A few weeks ago
Zach had a great romantic comedy set at Occupy Wall Street (which we
all know will happen for real at some point), well, I think Occupy
Wall Street is due for some good old fashion exploitation:
Catching a Falling Knife
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Now I’m never one to cry racism (ok yes I am), but I just saw a new television ad for The Watch and it pissed me off. This is a film, that based off of the talent behind the camera, and the second trailer, and the inclusion of Richard Ayoade as a lead character, has me very curious. Yes it has Stiller and Vaughn in it, but this could be good.
Anyway what pissed me off was that it was one of those 30 second spots where in large font, they show the last name of one of the principal leads, and then a funny moment from that actor. The ad starts as you would expect with STILLER. then VAUGHN. then HILL. then it ends. No AYOADE. Why wouldn’t Ayoade get the big font tv ad treatment, if 3/4ths of the stars of the film get it? If your response is that he is not a household name like them, I guess I can agree, but why would he get billing in the trailer and not in the tv ad? Seems inconsistent. Also it just seems weird that you would highlight 3 members of a 4 member ensemble.
Simple solution: Give them all the big font treatment or none of them.
This shit happened with Ghostbusters and as a person of color, I guess these are the sorts of things that you notice in marketing. Winston (Ernie Hudson) had nothing to do with any of the ads, posters, promotional material, or videogames. He was a main character of a franchise that you would have never known was even in it because that is how it was sold. I don’t doubt the filmmakers just make the film they want without much concern over being exclusionary, but the directors don’t make the ads. Marketers do.
I’m putting you on notice The Watch marketers. Ya kinda being racially insensitive, but I’m still gonna see this movie cause it could be good, and could put Ayoade in a much better place in the US, and that’s a win for everyone.
Will Smith’s children and M. Night Shyamalan. Possibly the most hated movie pairing in quite some years. People don’t care about Jaden Smith at all and even the slight mention of M. Night can make people groan. so naturally they should make a Sci-Fi movie together.
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‘The Secret’ is the film’s terrible French title. ‘The Tall Man’ is it’s equally horrible American title.
This is the type of movie I think I understand the least.
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‘People Like Us’ comes this week. Don’t think we will fit it in for this week’s podcast but it’s the type of movie I just don’t get. It’s never going to win an award. It’s not going to make a lot of money. It can’t be meaningful to anyone because the plot is just so absurd. So here’s my shot at such a overly emotional pile of family poo.
Almost Like Family
The film opens on a woman walking around a kitchen in a short t-shirt and only her underwear making breakfast. She looks super happy and dances about setting up a tray of food. She walks with it and shouts something cute about last night and opens the bedroom door. She is cut off when she finds the room empty, the window open, and a man running down the street putting his clothes on.
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Dunn hits another out of the park. No introduction needed. Enjoy!
I think we can all agree that what has been missing from kid’s movies in the recent years is finance. Well I have the solution for that, I present
Bulls and Bears
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Here I am in Chicago, watching a 4 year old and 3 month old, dodging a thunder storm and of course writing my FMF! So here we go. This title probably has nothing to do with the movie.
Death Hits
Peter (played by Peter Smith) and Russ (played by Russ Stevens, or if he’s not available Hank Azaria) write for a semi-popular movie website with their friend Alex (played by Alex Kovios). Pete was the shining star of the website until Russ started to write more articles, receiving the most comments of any one, making Pete extremely jealous. Blinded by rage and alcohol Pete comes up with a plan to kill Russ. He writes it all out, then realizes how dumb he is being, laughs about it and goes to sleep.
Ashley returns again with possibly the most creative Fake Movie Friday we’ve seen. After two weeks of strange murder tails she comes in to try and show that she is more intelligent than us. Enjoy!
This fake movie friday is inspired by, and loosely based on, Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” tale in The Canterbury Tales. With Frankenweenie coming out, I thought it would be fun to make this one stop motion as well. It is set at some point in the past, with the a family living in a small two bedroom cottage, in a small town, possibly in the UK or New England.
The Wife of Bath
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I made a Romantic Comedy. Why? Because they are easy as hell to make, and do well.
Kiss Cam is the latest romantic comedy from Nicholas Stoller. Kiss Cam stars Jason Segel and Natalie Portman.
The film opens up with a split screen shot of two couples, Ben and Michelle (played by Jason Segel and Elizabeth Banks), and Jane and Mike (played by Natalie Portman and Mike Vogel). They are both rushing to get ready to go somewhere and we don’t really know where exactly. Michelle doesn’t really want to go, and we see that Mike doesn’t either, but Ben and Jane are both pushing them to get ready faster. Anyway they both get in the car and you can see they are both heading to Yankee Stadium. When they arrive, Ben throws on a Derek Jeter jersey and Jane put on her green Red Sox cap and David Ortiz t-shirt. It is clear these two are die-hard fans. Anyway as they find their seats in the nosebleeds the split screen merges into one as they all sit down simultaneously next to each other. As the game is going on we can see that Michelle and Mike really don’t have a lot of interest in the game. Michelle thinks it’s boring, and Mike is texting and laughing at the response to the texts (we think he might be cheating).
We talked earlier this week about this film, now we are excited to share a trailer. I think Russell Crowe will steal the show in this one. Something I didn’t know was WWE’s Batista as some sort of golden Colossus, which is brilliant.