Will Sony get busted
June 5, 2001 7:41 PM Subscribe
Will Sony get busted for false advertising in its David Manning scandal? Lets hope so, maybe this will send chills down the movie and record industry and its quasi-payola schemes. Personally, I just want my eight-fifty back. Class action anyone?
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I doubt many people use the 8-10 word promos to decide whether to watch a film or not anyway. I never bother to read them anyway. If I'm gunna like the film, I'll like it. If I don't, so what?
I'd imagine many people would base their decision to see a film on a proper review.. I really can't imagine anyone basing it on a few words on a movie poster. Or do they?
(Of course, the 'bad' thing here is that Sony attributed a quote to a company which did not give it. Ho Hum.)
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posted by wackybrit at 8:49 PM on June 5, 2001
I'd imagine many people would base their decision to see a film on a proper review.. I really can't imagine anyone basing it on a few words on a movie poster. Or do they?
(Of course, the 'bad' thing here is that Sony attributed a quote to a company which did not give it. Ho Hum.)
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posted by wackybrit at 8:49 PM on June 5, 2001
Or do they?
They do. More to the point, they tell their friends "hey, I heard that's pretty good" without remembering the exact details. Good word of mouth is the most important thing in movie promotion. (Compare bad word of mouth (the reverse legs on "Pearl Harbor", which has done nothing but drop ever since the hopelessly gullible went the first weekend) with good ("Shrek", which has sustained the first weekend's box office because it's a good film).
posted by rodii at 9:32 PM on June 5, 2001
They do. More to the point, they tell their friends "hey, I heard that's pretty good" without remembering the exact details. Good word of mouth is the most important thing in movie promotion. (Compare bad word of mouth (the reverse legs on "Pearl Harbor", which has done nothing but drop ever since the hopelessly gullible went the first weekend) with good ("Shrek", which has sustained the first weekend's box office because it's a good film).
posted by rodii at 9:32 PM on June 5, 2001
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