The marketing campaign for 13 Hours sold the movie based on the apparent allure of grimy, sweaty professional soldiers carrying around guns and achieving the impossible. The movie, I found, delivers on that promise but has a depth that was unexpected. The story is set in 2012 Benghazi, Libya. Yes, that Benghazi. The focus is … Continue reading After the Campaign: 13 Hours
Picking Up The Spare: 13 Hours and Ride Along 2
Ride Along 2 Kevin Hart and Ice Cube dropped by “The Bachelor” a few days before the movie opened and basically aimed to ruin the moment between the guy and the woman he was on a date with at every available opportunity. 13 Hours Despite the repeated refrain in mainstream press that the movie avoided … Continue reading Picking Up The Spare: 13 Hours and Ride Along 2
Movie Marketing Madness: 13 Hours
Michael Bay is a...divisive filmmaker. For as much money as his movies make, the “smart” critic crowd pretty much views him as the devil, the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with mass audience movies. While he occasionally tries something different like Pain & Gain (which I have not seen) that gets decent, if not overly-glowing, … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: 13 Hours
Before The Show: The Hateful Eight 1/9/16
Whole lot of crickets in the audience for just about all these trailers. There were some scattered reactions to Deadpool, but that was about it. Also, if the movie is 2:47, maybe cut the trailer load down to four or five tops. Desierto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEt8Mhya3vI Hail Caesar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMqeoW3XRa0 Brothers Grimsby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xWokFJztY 13 Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CJBuUwd0Os Jane Got … Continue reading Before The Show: The Hateful Eight 1/9/16
