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[julieandrews]

Still very busy and spending my free time other places. Haven't even kept up with my flist, which means if it's not on Whatever, icanhascheezburger, or Cake Wrecks, and it's still happening in the blogosphere, I'm probably not aware of it.

I maybe shouldn't add to Avatar's hype by posting about it and giving it one more hit in the search engines, but really, it's gotten so unbelievable that I need to post about it.

What is with all the advertising? It's everywhere and it's obnoxious. It's even worse than the 'Team Edward/Team Jacob' Burger King commercial (which still manages to sell burgers to construction workers rather than teenage girls).

It's one thing to plug your movie with special full-length trailers during an episode of something or other. It's one thing to have special little 30-second segments during 2 hours of cartoons on Sunday night. It's another thing entirely to make the characters of "Bones" be your shills.

Who's going to wait in line for Avatar tickets? No one I know.
Who's going to skip work to go see Avatar? No one I know.
Who's going to go see Avatar at all? Well, maybe some people are. But if so, no one's told me they're going to.

I'm sure not. Even without the over-the-top, unbelievable Fox-pushing hype, which by itself is enough to make me boycott it, I had no interest at all in seeing it.

What's the appeal? Cool special effects? That's a reason to go see 2012, which I haven't yet done. That's not a reason for 99% of movies.

Blue people? Unless your name is Kurt Wagner, I don't care that you're blue. I don't even care if there's several of you and you're playing with paint on a stage.

Military action? Um. No. Never, ever a draw.

It looks like a video game? Is that a reason to go see a movie?

A magical cure for a paralyzed guy? There's an anti-reason to go see it right there.

The director? He's somebody big. I forget who.
The actors? Nobody I care about, as far as I know.

Teh awesome science fictional-ness? Nothing new.

One of the more annoying aspects of this is that it's not Avatar The Last Airbender, which is a movie full of its own fail.

So, Fox, really, give it up already. You're really ticking me off.

And now Daily Show is in on the act tonight.

*crawls off whining*

Comments

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

I saw that Bones ep, and was not only amazed that they'd done such blatant product placement (product embedding), but also that they'd read the tenor of the audience so badly. Avatar is not going to have lines of people busting down doors to see it, a la Twilight. I think it'll do OK, maybe break even. It'll probably have a great opening weekend -- but then fall off very quickly as the tech fanboys get their fill, and nobody else takes their place. I really can't see this becoming the next ET.

And I'm not planning to see it because it sounds like yet another stupid "what these people need is a honky" plot, in which the "natives" are ineffectual and helpless until some (white) human guy comes along to show them how it's done. In exchange they teach him to commune with nature and find himself, and maybe give him a little native nookie. Seen there, barfed that, from "Dances With Wolves" to "The Last Samurai" and back.

[julieandrews.livejournal.com]

I had seen the post on ABW about this movie awhile back. I just went back to read it in more detail. That interview with Playboy! Jeez!

He's gone to all this trouble to build up a world and a race and all of this, and then gives her boobs that make no biological sense just because movies need boobs? Or blue women need boobs.

For anyone reading this comment thread who'd like to go read it, the post is at http://theangryblackwoman.com/2009/11/17/linkspam-hollywood-fail-edition/