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Immerse THIS, limey.
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Ozy_y2k
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Carmel, Indiana

Immerse THIS, limey.

Apparently, not everyone out there enjoys the "full-contact" blurring of art and reality that ARGs provide, regardless of whether or not they asked for it at the time. From today's IMDB.com news reports:

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Twentieth Century Fox's telephone marketing campaign in Britain for the DVD edition of Minority Report has been censured by the country's Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA had received complaints from cell-phone users who said that when they answered their phones, they heard a voice saying, "Where's my minority report," then screaming, "Do I even have one?" It turned out to be the recorded voice of the movie's star, Tom Cruise. Only at the end of the recording did an announcer state: "Don't miss out on your Minority Report. But it now on DVD and video." The ASA said that those who heard the voice would not necessarily recognize that it belonged to Cruise, that it sounded "menacing," and that the overall campaign could "cause serious and widespread offense." Fox maintained that the messages were targeted at people who had registered on its website and has asked for more information about its movie and DVD releases.

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Boo hoo. John Ashcroft is tapping directly into our brainstems for surveillance and eating our babies by the metric ton, and people are getting worked up over a little bit of phone harassment from TOM CRUISE?!??! Spare me.

Ozy the chronically unsympathetic

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:36 pm

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