random thoughts about random things

I remember Epic Movie looked hilarious as hell. In the trailer. I remember Scary Movie looked funny as hell. In the trailer. I remember alot of movies that looked funny as hell. In the, wait for it, fracking trailer! When I actually got around to seeing them I found myself chuckle on the odd occasion at the play on words, like “He told me to polish his knob” in Epic Movie because it was so completely unexpected, and perhaps to an extent because I love puns. It’s like the movie’s IQ went up one point, or something, to a total of 4,1.

I’ll be using Epic Movie as an example since that’s the one I can remember the best right now, and even that’s not much. Now I know that these movies are made in large for the American audience, and I can understand that they’re sent abroad to us here in pee-wee Europe to make an extra buck or two. You know, I even understand why people go to watch it - the trailer, and the lure of a good laugh. People want to be able to laugh at a movie. A comedy that you can laugh at is amazing, a wonderful rarity.

What really amazes me is that a brilliant movie like Hot Fuzz, and the even better Death at a Funeral, doesn’t even reach our cinemas. Epic Movie does. A huge majority loved those two movies. 8.1 and (strangely low) 7.4 at IMDB for cheesecakes! Epic Movie got a 2.3, and still we saw trailers and whatchacallit’s all over the place. Why they don’t promote movies like Hot Fuzz and Death at a Funeral better is beyond me. Do they expect, for some daft reason, that they won’t be doing well just because they’re a work of genius british movie-making, or do they smoke lots of funny pink stuff at work when they make decisions?

The reason for this post is that I watched the really horrible trailer of Meet the Spartans, which was horrible because it wasn’t even remotely funny in any way, and epic flashes to an epically (sp/gr?) poor movie went through my head. They have to be for kids, 13 and below. That market’s got a big enough cash-flow, sure, but why don’t they massively market movies that actually makes you laugh, like the aforementioned ones as well? It’s a bigtime loser if not even the trailer can make my smile twitch. Very bigtime loser.

Maybe, some day, I will understand how the producers and promoters think. Maybe. Some day. For now I’ll just shake my head in disbelief at the amount of time, effort and money thrown into the toilet for no apparent reason other than making a pitiful buck or two. Perhaps there’s a massive market there, among the kids and “speshul peepul”, I’m just certain there’s a bigger one for the good movies.

[Edit:
HOLY HELLS! Meet the Spartans is at the US top box office. I'm taken by complete surprise. I should definately have checked out things a bit better before I wrote this. How the hell does something like this happen when there's a million better movies out there, that's even got humour, a good message, and quality? It's FRACKING BEYOND ME! Just like this blogger mentions intellect, I sincerely question the broad range of intellectual midgets in the nation across the pond. I did before too, but only as a half-joke, now it's not even funny anymore. Or maybe it's not intellect, it's just stumped taste in movies entirely, a stumped nation in general. Maybe it's a failed promotional engine. Whichever it is, something's failed.

I bet it'll top in Europe too, just to prove we've got our fair share of retards as well.]

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