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Post by pegasuswarrior on Dec 17, 2016 11:09:03 GMT -5
Saw it a few months ago and people are going to like it, sorry to burst bubbles from people cocked and loaded to hate it. The thing is, I get the rage and hate potential in discussions like Ghostbusters and Transformers while the film is still a secret, but there are a lot of writers and people who had already seen this a while back and it was already getting not-negative reviews from sometimes negative reviewers. It's just still baffling to me how movies like this that people already know about are getting lynched regardless based on misleading previews designed to appeal to people that don't know pre-wide release/public premiere screenings are a thing. Previews/trailers are never accurate these days and are the ultimate lie, I've come to find. I never ever watch previews for movies I know I'm going to see. Well over 90 percent of the time, I'll see the preview afterward, and it's almost never a justifiable representation of the film, and is ALWAYS designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator to try to get a couple of more butts per screening in the seats.
It's not like people who are spewing didn't have something to look up before blindly spewing. Lots of people have seen this film already.
Not praising the name of Sing, but trying to turn it into Ghostbusters is just unnecessary when lots of people without preconceived notions already saw it before the karaoke preview hype train trying to pull in families based on a few sound bytes.
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Post by Cela on Dec 17, 2016 12:47:31 GMT -5
Saw it a few months ago and people are going to like it, sorry to burst bubbles from people cocked and loaded to hate it. The thing is, I get the rage and hate potential in discussions like Ghostbusters and Transformers while the film is still a secret, but there are a lot of writers and people who had already seen this a while back and it was already getting not-negative reviews from sometimes negative reviewers. It's just still baffling to me how movies like this that people already know about are getting lynched regardless based on misleading previews designed to appeal to people that don't know pre-wide release/public premiere screenings are a thing. Previews/trailers are never accurate these days and are the ultimate lie, I've come to find. I never ever watch previews for movies I know I'm going to see. Well over 90 percent of the time, I'll see the preview afterward, and it's almost never a justifiable representation of the film, and is ALWAYS designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator to try to get a couple of more butts per screening in the seats. It's not like people who are spewing didn't have something to look up before blindly spewing. Lots of people have seen this film already. Not praising the name of Sing, but trying to turn it into Ghostbusters is just unnecessary when lots of people without preconceived notions already saw it before the karaoke preview hype train trying to pull in families based on a few sound bytes. A bad advertising campaign is a justifiable reason to not give something a chance. Remember Bucky Larson? That movie could have made Schindler's List look like Bucky Larson, but repeated ads of a dude yelling at the audience to go see it turned a lot of people off.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2016 14:26:27 GMT -5
Saw it a few months ago and people are going to like it, sorry to burst bubbles from people cocked and loaded to hate it. The thing is, I get the rage and hate potential in discussions like Ghostbusters and Transformers while the film is still a secret, but there are a lot of writers and people who had already seen this a while back and it was already getting not-negative reviews from sometimes negative reviewers. It's just still baffling to me how movies like this that people already know about are getting lynched regardless based on misleading previews designed to appeal to people that don't know pre-wide release/public premiere screenings are a thing. Previews/trailers are never accurate these days and are the ultimate lie, I've come to find. I never ever watch previews for movies I know I'm going to see. Well over 90 percent of the time, I'll see the preview afterward, and it's almost never a justifiable representation of the film, and is ALWAYS designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator to try to get a couple of more butts per screening in the seats. It's not like people who are spewing didn't have something to look up before blindly spewing. Lots of people have seen this film already. Not praising the name of Sing, but trying to turn it into Ghostbusters is just unnecessary when lots of people without preconceived notions already saw it before the karaoke preview hype train trying to pull in families based on a few sound bytes. Hype is a double edged sword. If you push too hard, for too long, on something that doesn't feel groundbreaking (or is being hyped as such), there will be backlash. The ads also didn't explain the story at all. Why is the koala looking for talent? Who are the central characters & why they want to win the contest (besides the money, of course)? Is the bravado pig the antagonist & does he have any relationship to the single mother, who is the designated "heroine"? What turned it off for me, however, was the car wash sequence where the talent promoter & his partner are sexually grinding on the vehicle in speedos. It felt like a combination of gross out humor & gay bashing by presenting "the effeminate people are weirdos!" stereotype. But that'd be just my opinion.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Dec 17, 2016 20:02:34 GMT -5
I remember seeing a trailer in Theaters and being like "Eh looks alright". But the recent advertising has been bad. Maybe it's just because WWE has been pushing it so far but it took a couple of times for me to watch the commercial and realize "Wait. It's not for the dvd? It hasn't come out yet?"
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Post by Pensacola Tableheads on Dec 17, 2016 22:51:06 GMT -5
I remember seeing a trailer in Theaters and being like "Eh looks alright". But the recent advertising has been bad. Maybe it's just because WWE has been pushing it so far but it took a couple of times for me to watch the commercial and realize "Wait. It's not for the dvd? It hasn't come out yet?" Only reason WWE has been pushing it so much is because all the Universal networks are doing the same thing on their programming as well.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 18, 2016 9:33:15 GMT -5
I remember seeing a trailer in Theaters and being like "Eh looks alright". But the recent advertising has been bad. Maybe it's just because WWE has been pushing it so far but it took a couple of times for me to watch the commercial and realize "Wait. It's not for the dvd? It hasn't come out yet?" Only reason WWE has been pushing it so much is because all the Universal networks are doing the same thing on their programming as well. It's no different from Disney networks collectively hyping the new Star Wars films.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 6:12:19 GMT -5
I saw a trailer yesterday. It looks like 8 MILE with animated animals going thru the rough tribulations of animated life that prevent them from following their animated hearts & singing.
I don't want to see real people doing that in movies, much less animated elephants and badgers or what not.
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Post by agent817 on Dec 23, 2016 10:20:48 GMT -5
I saw the movie a few days ago. I enjoyed it okay. I liked the songs in the movie.
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