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kosmopol
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Will Cloverfield fail in Germany? OK, I hope not.
But...
I watched today "The Darjeeling Limited". (Cool movie, btw.)
I also wanted to order the ticket for "Cloverfield" (start at 31st January in Germany). But the online ticket ordering system cannot check it till Tuesday (29th January). And the people at the ticket counter didn't knew anything about the movie coming next week ("Clover...what?"). The most discouraging thing is: even in the monthly gratis cinema magazine there wasn't anything about "Cloverfield" (in January and February issues). The only hint about the movie I've found in one cinema journal was just like "we cannot write nothing about Cloverfield, because we've got too few information about it".
So, I would say, marketing in Germany failed. It was too secret and this secrecy was counterproductive. Only the movie itself can save Cloverfield. (And it'll do it, I hope).
OK, to be fair: the "Cloverfield" standee was sighted in Munich in November 2007 (http://cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/2007/11/cloverfield-movie-poster.html ).
And they show TV spots everyday.
And there are 2-3 humble German blogs about Cloverfield ( ).
And German Wiki article about Cloverfield ( ).
But beside of it, there was no another information about the movie in Germany.
I won't wonder if in the day of the premiere in the cinema will be only German Cloverfield nerds like me.
In USA was marketing great vehicle for the movie success. In Japan it seems to get original way with manga. In Germany it wasn't such good.
But I cannot wait till 31st January. It will rock.
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:22 pm
e2c
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gibt jez auch trailer im tv u.a. dmax usw... glaube schon das ne menge leute den film sehn werden.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:24 am
kosmopol
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Ich hoffe ja auch. Gestern in Cinestar habe ich den gleichen Karton-Standee gesehen.
Aber sogar in diesen kostenlosen Kinozeitschriften war kein Wort darüber gefallen.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:30 pm
Hanging.Moon
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Oh je ich weiß nich welche sprache ich sprechen soll.
Well, I think it will flop. No one really knows or cares about the film here. The marketing is inexistant outside of TV spots. It sucks but hey I got 7 people to watch it today and will get another 4 to watch it saturday so yeah, I'm doing the best I can.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:21 pm
HaloKitty7
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Ich werde ihn mir nächste Woche ansehen. Er soll aber nicht so gut besucht sein, wenn ich mal so rumlese. Ich schätze, der ganze Hype war eben für die Vereinigten Staaten. Viele Bekannte, die ich fragte, kennen den Film nichtmal.
Eigentlich ist mir der Film gar nicht mal so wichtig, er ist nur der Abschluss auf ne Menge Spass, die ich die letzten Monate im I-Net hatte. Und diesen Spass werde ich vermissen.
....wobei ich bis heute nicht verstanden habe, wieso ein solches ARG drum gestrickt wird, was letztendlich nichts mit dem Film zu tun hat? Ich hab mir sagen lassen, dass das typisch für Abrams sei. Ich bin ja nicht so der große Lost-Fan... daher ging das komplett an mir vorbei. *g
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I am going for it the next week. I think it is not as popular as in the US, because all the Hype was made for the US. A lot of people I asked did not know the film.
I will miss the fun I had the last months and the film is the Final Ending to close this Part of my I-Net-Life.
But I have a real problem with the consideration that this ARG was for nothing? It is not tied to the Film anyhow... For what was it for? I was said by friends that it is typically for Abrams to act by this way. OK, but it is wasted, somehow...
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:51 am
DarknessRising
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HaloKitty7 wrote:
But I have a real problem with the consideration that this ARG was for nothing? It is not tied to the Film anyhow... For what was it for? I was said by friends that it is typically for Abrams to act by this way. OK, but it is wasted, somehow...
yup, It would have been much better if it actually had to do with tagruato and slusho. We only see them on a shirt and on the ship. Abrams sucks. yes i said it.
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:59 pm
Elenenedh
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Seen it late tonight, cinema was empty besides 20 people and there were enough who either didn't understand that it's "just" a monster-film and thought it was crap - or well, they thought it was a good done monster-film. At least I have seen what I expected to see, not more, not less - after following the UF-posts for some months. But as the hype mostly just happened in the states I'm pretty sure that it won't be too successful in Germany.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:47 pm
eliwein
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Ich redt nischt Deutsch, ober ich redt Yidish. Tzu kent ich arayntret in der shmues?
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:28 am
kosmopol
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eliwein wrote:
Ich redt nischt Deutsch, ober ich redt Yidish. Tzu kent ich arayntret in der shmues?
Apparently, I just sound inbred, but understandable. True?
Well, I can understand you , so kum arayn un zol es dir voyl bakumen
(Hope it was correct)
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:48 am
punk_rocker94
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to be honest with you, i'm not really sure if cloverfiled will fail in germany, but if it all goes according to plan, it might be a success. i mean, what's the worst that can happen?
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:58 pm
kosmopol
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Well, I was at a premiere on 31st January 2008, and I'd say the cinema hall was not really empty, but not really full. And it wasn't really PR for the movie in Germany.
And even if the Cloverfield-DVD has the same contents as an US one, there wasn't a pamphlete or something, and it was really cheap. I don't like expensive DVDs, but it was a sign for me, 15 EUR for the premiere DVD is in Germany too cheap. Perhaps they feared, nobody will buy the movie, because nobody knows about it...
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:03 am
Lairosiel
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kosmopol wrote:
Well, I was at a premiere on 31st January 2008, and I'd say the cinema hall was not really empty, but not really full. And it wasn't really PR for the movie in Germany.
And even if the Cloverfield-DVD has the same contents as an US one, there wasn't a pamphlete or something, and it was really cheap. I don't like expensive DVDs, but it was a sign for me, 15 EUR for the premiere DVD is in Germany too cheap. Perhaps they feared, nobody will buy the movie, because nobody knows about it...
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it has nothing to do with how many people know a movie, how much it is..
I payed 20 € for the DVD in a metal box.. Pirates of the Carribean 2 for example was sold for 10 € in Saturn when it was released, and you'll agree, that's a movie, everybody knows
cloverfield was not that successful in Germany like it was in US or Japan..of course not, because there was almost no real marketing here, just a few reviews in magazines, such as TV Spielfilm or Cinema..
In January there were much more commercial movies (regarding the famosity in Germany) released, like National Treasure: Book of Secrets, or I am Legend, so people mostly watched that movies, because of international superstars
but I wouldn't call it a FAIL ..
because I liked it xD
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:42 pm
kosmopol
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Lairosiel wrote:
but I wouldn't call it a FAIL ..
because I liked it xD
Yeah, actually it's the most important aspect
I'd also say, Cloverfield rulez
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