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[SEEN IT] So, I went to the paramount screening tonight...
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dalphx
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Location: Partying in Batcave with Lily & Beth!

 		arrrrr..gave in and read this review!
Time thing does seem to be a problem...Teddy has Jamie open Present after Dec 9th, with the sample of secret ingredient! How the hell do we get to MAY?

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rocksmars
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It's been mentioned that apparently they used to be lovers and then they broke up.


That happens 4 weeks earlier, a lot can happen in that time.



He got the job 2-3 weeks before the party. That is a week or at most 2 after sleeping with the girl of his dreams and having one of the best days of his life? He sounds as idiotic as Jamie frankly.

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blaaaaaah
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rocksmars wrote:
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It's been mentioned that apparently they used to be lovers and then they broke up.


That happens 4 weeks earlier, a lot can happen in that time.



He got the job 2-3 weeks before the party. That is a week or at most 2 after sleeping with the girl of his dreams and having one of the best days of his life? He sounds as idiotic as Jamie frankly.

A lot can fuck up a relationship REAL QUICK. Trust me.

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Fignut the Elder
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 		To all of those bitchin bout the time!!!
Remember they made this ARG/ARE to ENCHANCE the MOVIE!

They didn't make this Movie to enchance this ARG/ARE!!!

Get over it, cripes.

peace.

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rocksmars
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blaaaaaah wrote:

A lot can fuck up a relationship REAL QUICK. Trust me.


Sorry but it strains credibility. All they had to do was make the date for the flashbacks 3 to 6 months earlier and it works fine.

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mxpxrobbie
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 		Thanks for the review, I'm still excited about it...


However, I have an idea as to why the movie is only an hour and a half...

Any longer and the video camera battery would be dead... I have a hard time getting that much life out of my battery anyway...


Just an observation...

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InAFieldofClover
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 		Rob and Beth quite apparently have a tumultuous relationship. Why wouldn't they? They have this amazing night together and Rob is going to leave that behind for a job opportunity in Japan. Like New York isn't crawling with opportunities in the line of work Rob's looking to get into. You can understand how that would throw a relationship into a tail spin real fast, don't you?

And after the incident at the Chuai station, I can somewhat understand if they're holding off on doing business until May, which would cause a delay in Rob's plans. Fine. The timestamps on 1-18-08.com however point to the party taking place on January 18th. Aside from the obvious timestamps, there is that inscription from Jamie on the back of one of the photos that says "HAWKINS, PLATT, LASCANO - JANUARY 2008". You could say that maybe this was from another party, sure, but then why would the January timestamp be on several other photos?

And if the monster destroyed the Chuai station that close to New York, and is obviously on a rampage, why would he wait four months to ravage the city?

And Jamie is seen in the 1-18-08 photo partying it up, smiling, obviously having a good time. Now the only thing she's doing is laying on the couch? Maybe depressed about Teddy. But for a girl as promiscuous as Jamie, would she really be lying around depressed over a guy at a party five months later?

The other thing that doesn't make sense about the Rob/Beth finale is that the scene was shot back in July, which would mean that the May comment had been filmed around the time the website popped up. Which would give Bad Robot ample time to fix the inconsistency of the 1-18-08 emphasis.

This review smells fishy. You mean to tell me that Marlena explodes, we see her carried out on a stretcher with her stomach spread wide open, and the monster bites the heads off of people yet it's slapped with a PG-13 rating? I understand the MPAA have gotten somewhat lenient with their ratings, but they haven't gotten that lenient.

Fignut the Elder wrote:
Remember they made this ARG/ARE to ENCHANCE the MOVIE!

They didn't make this Movie to enchance this ARG/ARE!!!

Get over it, cripes.

peace.


Before I get another warning about my 'language', I'll refrain from the obvious comment and say one thing: Enhancement is fine. Being almost strictly dependent on the strength of the ARG as a way to get people amped for the movie and then rewriting history is sloppy, inconsistent story telling. Name one other ARG for a product that didn't jive with the timeline that project was set in.

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Slusho Addict
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InAFieldofClover wrote:

This review smells fishy. You mean to tell me that Marlena explodes, we see her carried out on a stretcher with her stomach spread wide open,


I thought it said you didn't see Marlena's body, but someone elses.
The BBFC rating mentions a man with an open chest cavity.

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blaaaaaah
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rocksmars wrote:
blaaaaaah wrote:

A lot can fuck up a relationship REAL QUICK. Trust me.


Sorry but it strains credibility. All they had to do was make the date for the flashbacks 3 to 6 months earlier and it works fine.


No, not at all. Clearly you've just never been in a relationship like that.

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dazed118
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 		I think the whole thing is a big pile of B.S. .


Nice idea though.

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InAFieldofClover
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Slusho Addict wrote:
InAFieldofClover wrote:

This review smells fishy. You mean to tell me that Marlena explodes, we see her carried out on a stretcher with her stomach spread wide open,


I thought it said you didn't see Marlena's body, but someone elses.
The BBFC rating mentions a man with an open chest cavity.


And still, that's a little too graphic for a PG-13 movie. And if the movie was never meant to be set in January, why would this ARG continue to put an emphasis on that date, with the Chuai videos, Rob's departure and everything else that's quite current. You can't be dependent on internet promotion for this long, to the point of relying on it to communicate the backstory of your film, then not keep up that level of consistency.

As I said, I'm very pumped for the movie, am quite certain it will be amazing, but that was lazy storytelling on Bad Robot's part if this review is in fact true.

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Slusho Addict
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InAFieldofClover wrote:
And if the movie was never meant to be set in January, why would this ARG continue to put an emphasis on that date, with the Chuai videos, Rob's departure and everything else that's quite current..


I'm sure you can work out why the marketing would put emphasis on the release date of the movie that it's advertising...

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InAFieldofClover
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Slusho Addict wrote:
InAFieldofClover wrote:
Enhancement is fine. Being almost strictly dependent on the strength of the ARG as a way to get people amped for the movie and then rewriting history is sloppy, inconsistent story telling. Name one other ARG for a product that didn't jive with the timeline that project was set in.


What's a better alternative?

The myspace comments are live, the website updates are live, you can't predate the myspace comments, so they have to be real time.
Would it be better to leave a 4 month gap in the story? Maybe it would.


Oh you can't predate comments on MySpace? Actually you can. The Slusho 7 all registered in the summer of 2007 and had posts up there that were backdated quite some time before they registered. Now tell me how you can do that if MySpace doesn't have the option to backdate comments?

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Mr. Mania
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 		As someone said above, a PG-13 film can't show destruction to that extent. It would immediately call for an R-rating. I mean, the stomach and the insides are show? C'mon.

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Crushed
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rocksmars wrote:
blaaaaaah wrote:

A lot can fuck up a relationship REAL QUICK. Trust me.


Sorry but it strains credibility. All they had to do was make the date for the flashbacks 3 to 6 months earlier and it works fine.


Maybe they broke up on 1-18-08. Rolling Eyes

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