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Hi, Hollywood/Chronicle
Feb. 4th, 2012 12:31 pmHi Hollywood.
Having just seen your trailers for upcoming films, we need to talk.
1. Other than the high school party film, your other trailers consisted of remakes and/or direct ripoffs from other films and/or adaptations. When your most original idea is a high school party, you have a problem. (I am using the words "original" and "idea" in the loosest senses of both words.)
2. It is our understanding that you are intending to market Silent House as a horror film "based on true events." I feel, therefore, that it is my duty to inform you of a recent true event: the entire almost sold out audience laughed through your entire trailer for this film, and a grand total of 0 audience members were convinced that the film had anything to do with true events.
Also, speaking of a lack of originality, didn't the original of this come out just two years ago?
3. Your decision to do a remake of The Three Stooges has been officially declared a crime against humanity.
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I can't exactly give a regular review of Chronicle, much less my usual snark, since the movie made me very dizzy and I ended up just listening to it, not seeing it.
Listening to the dialogue alone can really change your impression. I found myself predicting (correctly) pretty much every single thing that would happen in the film: from a plot and character perspective, Chronicle offers nothing new, with every beat falling exactly where you'd expect it to, a few decent jokes here and there at the beginning of the film.
Those who saw the film, however, were more impressed, talking about how different it had been, since apparently the film does various tricks with different found camera footage from security cameras and ATMs and so on.
Which once again, I guess, shows the importance of presentation. I heard a thoroughly predictable film that followed pretty much every trope in the book; they saw something original and new. It's not so much your idea. It's the packaging.
Having just seen your trailers for upcoming films, we need to talk.
1. Other than the high school party film, your other trailers consisted of remakes and/or direct ripoffs from other films and/or adaptations. When your most original idea is a high school party, you have a problem. (I am using the words "original" and "idea" in the loosest senses of both words.)
2. It is our understanding that you are intending to market Silent House as a horror film "based on true events." I feel, therefore, that it is my duty to inform you of a recent true event: the entire almost sold out audience laughed through your entire trailer for this film, and a grand total of 0 audience members were convinced that the film had anything to do with true events.
Also, speaking of a lack of originality, didn't the original of this come out just two years ago?
3. Your decision to do a remake of The Three Stooges has been officially declared a crime against humanity.
#
I can't exactly give a regular review of Chronicle, much less my usual snark, since the movie made me very dizzy and I ended up just listening to it, not seeing it.
Listening to the dialogue alone can really change your impression. I found myself predicting (correctly) pretty much every single thing that would happen in the film: from a plot and character perspective, Chronicle offers nothing new, with every beat falling exactly where you'd expect it to, a few decent jokes here and there at the beginning of the film.
Those who saw the film, however, were more impressed, talking about how different it had been, since apparently the film does various tricks with different found camera footage from security cameras and ATMs and so on.
Which once again, I guess, shows the importance of presentation. I heard a thoroughly predictable film that followed pretty much every trope in the book; they saw something original and new. It's not so much your idea. It's the packaging.