What should or shouldn’t be shown on TV?

[K]

Is there any evidence that the op-eds translate into ticket sales, though?

This is sort of a niche film, whether or not the director pretentiously thinks it's great art. Will anyone other than its target audience rock up to see it just because there are tweets?

[stui magpie]

I'm sure you could find the answer on Google, but consider 2 things.

1. People writing op-ed pieces about it, before they've even seen it, is free publicity. It gets people who would never have considered watching a "super hero" movie suddenly are interested. If a percentage of those go to see it to make their own minds up, the answer to your question is clearly yes

2. If you read the review, the reviewer doesn't actually like the film but clearly dismisses all the hysterical rubbish being peddled

As far as the "right wing" theories in the Guardian article David posted, the BFI sees it differently.

[K]

I'm sure we cannot find the answer on Google, because it's probably not known and all anyone can do is guess. Guesses could be right, though.

I reckon young males don't read op-eds. But they might read tweets.

[stui magpie]

If they read tweets......


https://twitter.com/search?q=%23JokerMovie&src=typeahead_click

[K]

Bad Reviews Can Boost Sales. Here’s Why

https://hbr.org/2012/03/bad-reviews-can-boost-sales-heres-why

"t’s a time-honored adage: There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Yet studies have consistently shown that negative news hurts sales. Bad publicity about Tom Cruise is thought to have cost the 2006 movie Mission: Impossible III $100 million in ticket sales, to cite just one example.

Every so often, though, exceptions emerge. ..."


["Thought to have cost" must mean just a guess, though.]

[stui magpie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBFq_6Zj2aA

[think positive]

hmm, have to say hes the perfect choice for the part, and some of the other actors make it worth a look. Scream the movie still creeps me out, what should be shown on telly? well kids should be in bed by the time they play these movies, and if they are on foxtel, well mum or dad should have enough sense to censor it. but im old fashioned, i believe in parents actually raising and disciplining their kids!

with the internet, its a mute point, i see literally babies with ipads connected to the net. scary shit. anyone can watch whatever they want when ever.

the Kartrashians, thats what should be banned! ugh, just the commercials make me want to puke!

[David]

I don't care much about the film TBH, I'm just here to mark the day that Stui started posting links to Sight & Sound magazine articles and quotes referring to Luis Buñuel films.

(That New Yorker piece is great, by the way. Amazing to note, as the reviewer does, that all of this ink has been spilled over a film that hardly anyone has seen.)

[stui magpie]

^

hah, I just googled Joker Reviews, read a couple and posted the one I thought was best.

I have no idea and less care whether Luis Buñuel is a director or a pastry.

[David]

As a surrealist, he'd probably enjoy that juxtaposition!

Seriously, though, if you never watch a Buñuel film, at least check out the 'dinner' scene from The Phantom of Liberty. Genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Mptgi23YE

[stui magpie]

^

WTAF did I just watch?

[think positive]

not sure, but the drink and food thing in the wall is good, id like one of those please!

David, you have strange taste, oh and the comments!! ok then!

[ronrat]

lamb cutlets and red wine are luxury products here and thanks to those to those bastards drjving the dollar down retired expats dont buy it. not one aussie product has been reduced in price in the supermarketw.That scene was shot in the reserve wank boardroom

[luvdids]

[David]

Oh, a lot more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaCrALB51o