Comments on: More on JUNO and the “Crossover” Issue http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:55:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: M. Robert Turnage http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-56068 M. Robert Turnage Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:25:02 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-56068 >Sometimes the way a film is >marketed is more interesting >to talk about than the film itself. This is very true. My favorite example of marketing overshadowing the film itself is 'The Blair Witch Project'. >Sometimes the way a film is
>marketed is more interesting
>to talk about than the film itself.

This is very true. My favorite example of marketing overshadowing the film itself is ‘The Blair Witch Project’.

]]> By: David Poland http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55889 David Poland Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:58:50 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55889 I am so sick of that game. Can't someone have an opinion of a film AND an opinion about the world into which the film is being sold? It's like people are pained about the fact that the people who fund movies care more about marketing than the movies and then the messenger has to be shot. And shooting Karina??? Of all of us? You know, I am now Mr Old School to people like Karina and Stu VA and the Reverse Shot kids. I am some industry rotted fogey... and great! I can take it. I don't write for everyone. I write for me. And like anyone else who is trying to do something good, there is no choice. If you are writing for others, you are very unlikely to do work that is remotely interesting. And unlike Traditional Media, no one is forcing anyone to read it. I am so sick of that game.

Can’t someone have an opinion of a film AND an opinion
about the world into which the film is being sold? It’s
like people are pained about the fact that the people who
fund movies care more about marketing than the movies and
then the messenger has to be shot.

And shooting Karina??? Of all of us?

You know, I am now Mr Old School to people like Karina and
Stu VA and the Reverse Shot kids. I am some industry rotted
fogey… and great! I can take it. I don’t write for
everyone. I write for me. And like anyone else
who is trying to do something good, there is no choice. If
you are writing for others, you are very unlikely to do
work that is remotely interesting.

And unlike Traditional Media, no one is forcing anyone to read it.

]]> By: karina http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55833 karina Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:30:38 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55833 Well, sometimes people have relationships with the people they have sex with. Sometimes the way a film is marketed is more interesting to talk about than the film itself. Well, sometimes people have relationships with the people they have sex with. Sometimes the way a film is marketed is more interesting to talk about than the film itself.

]]> By: M. Robert Turnage http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55827 M. Robert Turnage Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:05:26 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/01/03/more-on-juno-and-the-crossover-issue/#comment-55827 I love the fact that the discussion of film is more often than not a discussion of film marketing. Much like how sex advice columns more often than not wind up being relationship advice columns, what we say we do and what we actually do are not really related. I love the fact that the discussion of film is more often than not a discussion of film marketing. Much like how sex advice columns more often than not wind up being relationship advice columns, what we say we do and what we actually do are not really related.

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