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[Red Walrus]

[jojo]

Coincidence?? Could be nothing...

[brettoniasam]

[Melampus]

Just to clarify - when I said that Jamie was a glutton for (alcoholic) beverages, I wasn't thinking of the 7 deadly sins, although that is an interesting possibility. I was actually thinking of Noriko, in the Slusho History: she was a glutton for tasty beverages. That's the only connection I had in mind. Again, though, the 7 sins angle is worth keeping in mind.

There do seem to be a lot of overt drinking references on the myspace pages. Lena's profile pic has her drinking from a straw. Beth's old profile pic also had her w/a drink and a straw (and, there's that pic w/her drinking from 3 straws at once). Rob has the blog entry, "7 empty bottles of beer" (apparently, he couldn't drink just six), and Hawk "chugged a Sluhso" in his blog.

And, "Hud" is named after a river - as he points out in his profile quote.

I don't know what this means, if anything, except the obvious general connection to Slusho.

[NYC5]

Where is everybody?

[Duckie]

...Welcome to the "game", NYC5


The absolutely breakneck pace of this advertising campaign reached a peak in its first few weeks, were you were lucky if you got one minor update per week.

I hesitate to say they might be overestimating our abilities and that there really is more to find-- if you've got the entire internet unable to get to the next big breakthrough, you're just not being realistic.
Although, God knows that could be one reason they haven't been on.
"Gee, guys, they didn't even find robhasastalkercrushonbeth.com yet, we can't reference it til they find it! Oh noes!"

[casemyo]

[NYC5]

Well said Duckie

[Chump Force 1]

I should have been a Marketing Major

[InAFieldofClover]

No, I think the marketing is on point. It may not seem that way for ARG enthusiasts who, when not getting any new substantial information, participate in ten page threads analyzing a character's bladder infection, but it's perfect thus far. By throwing the internet audience a bone very early, they've cornered that market. By throwing the general public nothing, they recognize the short attention span of your average consumer.

I'll put it this way. The reason Snakes on a Plane wasn't successful was because it only targeted the internet audience. That can't build a film on its own. As of now, the internet is still abuzz over Cloverfield and someone said the general public has forgotten about the trailer? Yes, they have short attention spans, this is understood. But building hype like a normal movie a month or two before the film is released, with a new trailer, an official title, and some preview clips will rectify that. More than that, it'll have the internet audience interested again, and further build on that one section of the audience.

Internet geeks + average consumers = a big box office.

This is JJ Abrams we're talking about. Not to blow smoke up his ass, but he's a fairly well known mainstream entity. Do you honestly think JJ is going to throw us a bone every week knowing that the internet audience only counts for a small fraction of the audience? No. And if he did, then this film would be an 'internet movie' plain and simple and you can ask Samuel L. Jackson how effective a strategy that is. For anyone complaining about the marketing, please give it a rest. There's a little over three months until the movie is released. A full scale campaign is usually launched a month or two before the film's release in keeping with the "out of sight, out of mind" fear that most companies have when marketing to the general public.

Internet geeks and ARG enthusiasts (not to put down either), like your average consumer, need things right here and now. Otherwise they'll whine on ARG forums about there not being anything new, how they're not interested in the movie anymore while still replying to every new thread thereafter, how marketing sucks, how Bad Robot doesn't know what they're doing, and how shitty an ARG is when it was never announced that 1-18-08 was an ARG. (thus being unable to discern the differences between an 'ARG' and 'Viral Marketing' which, sadly, not many people seem to be able to do)

No matter how 'sick' of the film these internet geeks are, my money says they'll go and see the film once it hits theaters. You can't always get what you want. Sadly, most of us learned this when we were five years old when mommy wouldn't buy us that really cool Police Academy toy house. Even more sadly, most of us learned it and neglect it much to the displeasure of those who aren't actually spoiled brats. You decide which is the lesser of two evils.

[NYC5]

Spoiled a good point....

[TaninimBait]

Robby left HUD a comment today:

"That's pretty cool, what you are doing with people's comic book characters. Am I allowed to play, or do am I still banned from the discussion until I read The Watchmen? "

Just letting everyone know.

[Chump Force 1]

[jojo]

Jamie & Beth losing friends?

[jojo]

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