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Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snacks-on-the-brain dept.

Lev13than writes "An article in The Globe & Mail discusses the disappointing performance of Snakes on a Plane. Despite extensive Internet hype and unprecedented audience involvement in the movie's development, it barely slithered into first place with a meager $13.8M weekend box office. 'The Internet stuff was just fun that people were having with it, but I don't think that necessarily meant that those people wanted to see the movie... those who had made that decision based their decision more on the traditional marketing than on all this Internet buzz.' Was all of the hype about blogger power just that — hype?"

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  1. Look to a blog for the answer. by BrewerDude · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    From marketing dude Seth Godin's Blog:

    I'm afraid we come back to something that marketers have been struggling with for a really long time--the best way to succeed is to have a really great product.
  2. Re:"Serenity," anyone? by XO · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, that's because everything that Joss Whedon has ever touched is made with the sole intent of getting young goth girls to hop in his pants. If you're not a young goth girl, nothing Joss makes should interest you.

    --
    "Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
  3. Re:Exactly by Threni · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > So that's why Christians get bashed so much around here.

    No, the reason for that is that they believe in a bunch of absolute bullshit that fails every single objective test, and because there are a lot of educated, scientific types here who have heard it all before.