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Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards
superflippy writes " Wired journalist Ben Mezrich gets the scoop on the online forums that film producers and other Hollywood heavyweights use to "track" the buzz on spec scripts, actors, writers, etc. "The tracking boards are the herd mentality gone digital," says one tracker. This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters."
Imagine what a goatse redirect would do!
Nah...back to Fox. ;-)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
But since the linked article had eye candy, you get a pass.
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
"that movie's gonna make some huge bank."
"What buzz?"
"The Internet buzz."
"What the fuck is the Internet?!"
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
So, if I see a link on one of those boards to a film called "two hands and a stretched anus", does that mean I should NOT click on it? ;^)
I wanna be diffrent just like everyone else.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
You pretentious little fuck.
reading a board is one thing, basing your decesions on it another.
Then again, there is this anecdote from Terry Pratchett. He met a Hollywood executive who wanted to make a movie out of his book "Mort" (that is about Death taking on an apprentice). Here's what happened in the word of Pratchett himself:
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
That's why I only watch indy movies. I like to steer clear of herd mentality. I don't put much stock in mainstream stuff anyway, since lately it's all bull.
I don't watch movies at all, it's a waste of my fucking time.
And no, I don't consider "porno movies" actual movies so they don't count, but those don't waste much time as I just watch short clips.
--Drunk as in Beer
Perhaps we can send them some of our trolls.
I wonder what they'd do with the Stephen King or Natalie Portman ones....
(And before anyone suggests we send them the goatse trolls, that's a different kind of movie studio.)
I don't only watch Indy movies, but I do have to agree that they are quite good. There are few movies as timeless as Raiders of the Lost Ark, that's for sure.
If not all sentients are human, couldn't it be possible that not all humans are sentient either?
Actually, the next Indy movie is set to cost $130,000,000 up front (Indiana Jones 4, starring Ford and Connery, directed by Lucas and Spielberg). You're telling me that's not a mainstream movie??
Blacklisting people hurts their feelings, so don't blacklist anyone, especially me, please!
Premiere Magazine has been reporting for years about how H'wood chooses and sinks projects. Now they do it at the speed of broadband. Thank god Wired was on the scene to break the story that someone in a big office now has a teenager.
A knock on the door of the KID's room, heavy, authoritative. The EXEC enters loudly.
EXEC
Young lady, you need to explain the bill for
your cell pho-- What's that?
KID
(glued to screen, typing)
I'm on a talkback board.
EXEC
I think you talk back plenty already.
KID
Dad! No, it's like when you want to discuss
stuff with people. You know, like movies or
stuff.
EXEC
Is this that Internet thing I keep hearing
about? Wow!
(beat)
You know, that gives me an idea...
Slashdot readers have a chance now to read a message board filled with even bigger assholes than they are!
Amazing!
So Slashdot, the movie died on one of these boards?
Can you imagine, Wil Wheaton playing CmdrTaco?
StarTux