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1. Well, I've figured out what distinguishes Fifty Shades of Grey from 90% of the erotica fiction out there, specifically BDSM and Boddice Ripper fiction:
( What Distinguishes Fifty Shades - Trashy Pop Culture Phenomena of the Moment from other's of its ilk. )
Okay, maybe a sample from Fifty Shades...would work better. Although admittedly it may remind you of Bridget Jones Diary, it reminds me of Bridget Jones Diary. Except with better sex.
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2. They are advertising the bejeesus out of the Avengers. General Hospital did a product placement for it - first time I've seen GH do a product placement for anything. And
it's on the cover of EW with a four page interview with everyone in the cast. If it doesn't pull in the big bucks, someone will be upset. The movie cost over 200 Million. To put this in perspective? Hunger Games cost about a third of that to make and reaped over 300 million in 6 weeks. Cabin in the Woods which cost even less...reaped 17 million. If Avengers doesn't make at least 100 million it's opening weekend? It may end up being a bomb. Expensive movies are nightmares. That's why they are going nuts on the marketing.
Sigh. If only they'd done this 4-5 years ago. Even three years ago. I might have been excited. Now? I couldn't care less. (sorry, couldn't think of a better phrase, wait, I know I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.) What can I say? Sometime between now and 2010 I got burned out on the whole superhero genre, comic books, violent stories with lots of explosions, and Joss Whedon. I'm no longer fannish about any of the above, I honestly don't know why.
I think that I have finally figured out what it is about Whedon's writing that is not working for me? (As you know, I keep changing my mind about this...which I know is irritating to some people, but I change my mind about pop culture stuff all the time. It's a given.) He's too focused on plot-twists, and action, not enough on small character moments, and relationship discussion (which appeared sporadically in his series but not enough to satisfy me - hence the fascination with fanfic, particularly in the later seasons). I'd say it was a gender thing - but Kevin Williamson does it as does Matt Weiner (Mad Men), George RR Martin and the tv writers of Game of Thrones, and Aaron Sorkin along with a lot of the male soap opera writers. Granted not everyone needs these sorts of discussions - I do. It's a subjective thing. I get that.
( What Distinguishes Fifty Shades - Trashy Pop Culture Phenomena of the Moment from other's of its ilk. )
Okay, maybe a sample from Fifty Shades...would work better. Although admittedly it may remind you of Bridget Jones Diary, it reminds me of Bridget Jones Diary. Except with better sex.
( Read more... )
2. They are advertising the bejeesus out of the Avengers. General Hospital did a product placement for it - first time I've seen GH do a product placement for anything. And
it's on the cover of EW with a four page interview with everyone in the cast. If it doesn't pull in the big bucks, someone will be upset. The movie cost over 200 Million. To put this in perspective? Hunger Games cost about a third of that to make and reaped over 300 million in 6 weeks. Cabin in the Woods which cost even less...reaped 17 million. If Avengers doesn't make at least 100 million it's opening weekend? It may end up being a bomb. Expensive movies are nightmares. That's why they are going nuts on the marketing.
Sigh. If only they'd done this 4-5 years ago. Even three years ago. I might have been excited. Now? I couldn't care less. (sorry, couldn't think of a better phrase, wait, I know I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.) What can I say? Sometime between now and 2010 I got burned out on the whole superhero genre, comic books, violent stories with lots of explosions, and Joss Whedon. I'm no longer fannish about any of the above, I honestly don't know why.
I think that I have finally figured out what it is about Whedon's writing that is not working for me? (As you know, I keep changing my mind about this...which I know is irritating to some people, but I change my mind about pop culture stuff all the time. It's a given.) He's too focused on plot-twists, and action, not enough on small character moments, and relationship discussion (which appeared sporadically in his series but not enough to satisfy me - hence the fascination with fanfic, particularly in the later seasons). I'd say it was a gender thing - but Kevin Williamson does it as does Matt Weiner (Mad Men), George RR Martin and the tv writers of Game of Thrones, and Aaron Sorkin along with a lot of the male soap opera writers. Granted not everyone needs these sorts of discussions - I do. It's a subjective thing. I get that.