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Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the clips-and-crazies dept.

CABridges writes "According to the official movie site, some interesting "security excerpts" have begun popping up online, first at iFilm. The videos (two, so far) appear to depict River Tam during various stages of her incarceration and mental capacity. More to come?" Also, in vaguely related and somewhat humorous news XJHardware writes "For those of you who really need an obsessive/compulsive hobby here's a good example. Seems this fellow Chris Doyle built a model of Serenity from the upcoming movie and too-quickly canceled series Firefly."

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  1. Firewhat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Seriously, does anyone care about this except Joss Whedon fanboys? God knows I don't.

  2. What the fuck is serenity and firefly? by OpperNerd · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What the fuck is serenity and firefly? How can I ignore movie news on the homepage?

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    1. Re:What the fuck is serenity and firefly? by zenneth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You can just try avoiding the site entirely. I mean, if you're going to bitch about something, why not bitch about the fact that you never get any?

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  3. Re:Viral Marketing by Legion303 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Even more precisely, it's a marketing attempt to generate buzz about a product by getting company whores to act like real people and claim their product is great. As such, I wouldn't go within 100 yards of this movie no matter how much I liked the series (assuming I'd ever watched it). Not because the company whores are necessarily wrong about the awesomeness of their product, but because marketing hacks are soulless leeches and they all deserve to be kicked in the nuts.

  4. Re:Firewhat? by drsquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Every heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Go and watch that and you'll be sending poison letters to Joss Whedon. Apparently Firefly has the same awful style of characters and dialogue. The target audience is teenage girls.