How to Sell a Movie

[yellowwoodII]

The new way to market a move, it seems, is to create some kind of controversy about it.
Not so long ago I heard several people avow that they were going to spend their hard-earned money on "The Interview." Somehow, it seemed to them, by sitting through a lame movie like that, they were striking a blow against North Korea and for free speech.
Now I'm hearing similar conversations regarding "American Sniper." "But it really happened," one friend said.
The level of violence in this country is probably fed by the violence in movies like "American Sniper." Why encourage the movie industry to produce these movies by going to them? I'm thinking of others like the Tarantino films, too.

[leveymg]

1. Same marketing device applies to Super Bowls, as well.

[HappyMe]

2. People that don't want to see them, don't have to go.

That's pretty much the way it is with any kind of movie.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. Bullshit!

"The level of violence in this country is probably fed by the violence in movies like "American Sniper." Why encourage the movie industry to produce these movies by going to them? I'm thinking of others like the Tarantino films, too. "

That is a bullshit statement that has been disproved time and again. Violent movies, violent video games, rock music, rap music. All to blame for violent acts.

If you don't want to watch a movie, don't fucking watch it.

[olddots]

4. people are made to think they should check our these movies .

Free will is swayed all the time by hype and sales techniques that make mindless dweebs.

We all fall for the crap in one form or another .

[Dawson Leery]

5. Violence sells.

It's why Michael Bay has done so well.

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Controvery! Controversy! Controversy! People tend to get curious what all the trumped up brouhaha is

about, and then pay their hard-earned dollars to find out.

For this reason alone, I will not go to the theaters to see the movie, I will not download it, I will not rent it. Ever. And I've advised my group of young voters to steer clear of it as well.

I don't want them supporting a movie that glorifies and/or glosses over a bloody, unnecessary war that we should have never gotten into; one that, once again, benefits the insatiable hunger for more power by the elites who strive to gain complete control of the world's oil, but who would never send any of their privileged children to die for it.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. What I have learned is that DU and Americans in general are so culturally

illiterate that even when faced with a film they detest which has many excellent arguments against it, they are not able to make those arguments and instead offer arguments that are really not valid and which are not at all persuasive. It's sad.