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In Reply to: Ebert's top 10 is out... posted by RGA on December 19, 2005 at 18:54:26:
No mention of Good Night & Good Luck or Constant Garder, huh? I would put both of those above Crash. And is Munich in theaters yet? Its not playing around here.
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...its marketing campaign was -- to have no marketing campaign! Let it be a sleeper that generates its own advertising, by not advertising.If it works, then, great!
clark
He ran little to no advertising for Schindler's List either and it made a pile of money($321 million world wide off of meger 22 million budget). 3hours 15 minutes in black and white with no house hold names (at that time) in the movie and about a depressing subject matter opening on Christmas Day 1993 (some places Dec 15). 131 all time world wide take -- pretty good for the kind of film with little to no advertising and often with only one showing a night instead of two due to the running time.Good movies don't need advertising - They ran very few theatrial previews, zero television advertising. E.T. as I recall had posters - until the engine began to roll and E.T took over every toy shop book store music outlet, lunch pale, pez dispenser etc. Today all that crap comes out months before the film is released to help it. They even have video games and pre DVD's on the making of movies before it's in theaters (King Kong) and people actually buy that stuff??
Interestingly Schindler's opened Christmas Day 1993 and closed September 29th, 2004 which is 240 days / 34.3 weeks
z
Yeah but at least you heard the product before you bought it. With the new King Kong there is a DVD in stores before the movie even came out about the making of King Kong. To me that's just nuts. I love movies and all but I'm not about to buy the making of Munich. A video game I can see -- interestingly Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on X-Box has a vastly superior and more interesting story than the films (episode 1 and 2).
x
I saw a preview last week when I went to see Syriana. That was the first time I even heard of Munich.......
Constant Gardner made his honourable mention list (he had two honoruable mention sections.I saw Crash last night and I liked it - want to see it again. I was not expecting much given some of the bashing it has taken by some on forums but I don't think it was at all preachy. Slice of life films with multiple stories compressed into a film "hand pick" the events the storyteller wants to tell.
My only problem, which is not a real big one, is that because there are several stories going on with several people and not a lot of time, we never really get to know anybody very well so it's more about the message or themes than the people. I felt that way about a movie called Traffic several years ago -- but Crash is even more Aloof. (all based on one viewing though).
Interestingly this film reminds me a bit of Grand Canyon in the early 1990's which was preachy but IMO still effective.
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