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Originally Posted by dyna mo
50 mile high wave!
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Nearing 500 views on this one post about the film by an inadvertent critic who saw the movie. Now ask yourself, if you had a 160M dollar movie, six months to plan ahead and a couple dozen people like me working on it... how many views and opinions might we change? How many points on IMDB ratings might we impact for opening weekend? How many extra tickets might be sold before people find out how bad the movie is... and how many sheep might actually like the movie simply because we told them they should...?
In reality, Sony/WB had more like 2 years to plan ahead and instead of dozens of people their PR Marketing Blogging and Reviews machine is likely to include hundreds of people controlling thousands of "real" accounts on sites like IMDB, MetaCritic, home spun Blogs and all the rest. In the world of marketing, human consensus often dictates reality and while reality can not be manipulated... human consensus can be manipulated much easier than many people seem to think by people who do it well... and the people who do it well happen to often be employed by the people with 160M dollar budgets
