electriclite
06-30-2008, 11:06 AM
Did not see the trailer for "Beverly Hills Chihuahua".
Now I know the trailer has been online for a while now, but seriously, after reading the title and looking at the poster, who was seriously going to say "Man! I gotta see what this masterpiece is about!"?
No, they were avoiding that link like an ebola cocktail!
Because the same warning system that told us a lion was about to attack us when we roamed the plains of Africa, saw that link and went off like the robot on Lost in Space!
Unfortunately Disney, in its shrewd marketing prowess have attached this ABOMINATION of a film's trailer to WALL-E and for those who saw WALL-E this weekend... my condolences. My heart and my sympathies go out to you. I hope you were able to recover the eyeballs you vomited out and the eardrums you gouged in time for the work week.
I managed to avoid this horror twice, since I managed to see a screening of WALL-E and had skipped to it on Sunday, showing up on time only to catch the middle of "Presto". It wasn't until this morning that my luck had run out. I get daily emails from New York Magazine online, called Agenda. Lots of articles on pop culture, high culture and the in-between. Usually a fun read for a workday morning. But today, after WALL-E's sweet boxoffice came a small article in their "Trailer Mix" (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/nine_million_americans_exposed.html) section about "Chihuahua".... and then I too was exposed.... and angry.
Seriously, I have not known rage like this since, since.... I have no idea when. I seriously want whoever greenlit this project and came up with the concept and brought it to fruition to be shot in both kneecaps and hung upside down over a landfill so they can come close to the feeling that I and 9 million other theatre goers and countless YouTube viewers had when forced to watch this excrement.
And don't give me "its only a movie. You don't have to watch it!".
That's not the point, its the ad campaign that will hit high gear near its opening weekend that has me PO'ed. its fucking DISNEY, they have the cash to saturate every media outlet with the news that this is coming... much like the Apocalypse. I'll be at home watching something I actually like and then it'll cut to commercial and then BAM! Violated again! and again, and again, and there'll be no preparation for it. No time to take a breath and relax and take it like man, or woMAN or whatever.
Granted if there is a God, it's theatre run will burn out faster than a reality Tv star's fame, but it will not be fast enough.
Oh and Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Drew Barrymore and all the others who are voices in this film:
http://edbatista.typepad.com/edbatista/images/2007/03/Colbert_Notice.jpg
Now I know the trailer has been online for a while now, but seriously, after reading the title and looking at the poster, who was seriously going to say "Man! I gotta see what this masterpiece is about!"?
No, they were avoiding that link like an ebola cocktail!
Because the same warning system that told us a lion was about to attack us when we roamed the plains of Africa, saw that link and went off like the robot on Lost in Space!
Unfortunately Disney, in its shrewd marketing prowess have attached this ABOMINATION of a film's trailer to WALL-E and for those who saw WALL-E this weekend... my condolences. My heart and my sympathies go out to you. I hope you were able to recover the eyeballs you vomited out and the eardrums you gouged in time for the work week.
I managed to avoid this horror twice, since I managed to see a screening of WALL-E and had skipped to it on Sunday, showing up on time only to catch the middle of "Presto". It wasn't until this morning that my luck had run out. I get daily emails from New York Magazine online, called Agenda. Lots of articles on pop culture, high culture and the in-between. Usually a fun read for a workday morning. But today, after WALL-E's sweet boxoffice came a small article in their "Trailer Mix" (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/nine_million_americans_exposed.html) section about "Chihuahua".... and then I too was exposed.... and angry.
Seriously, I have not known rage like this since, since.... I have no idea when. I seriously want whoever greenlit this project and came up with the concept and brought it to fruition to be shot in both kneecaps and hung upside down over a landfill so they can come close to the feeling that I and 9 million other theatre goers and countless YouTube viewers had when forced to watch this excrement.
And don't give me "its only a movie. You don't have to watch it!".
That's not the point, its the ad campaign that will hit high gear near its opening weekend that has me PO'ed. its fucking DISNEY, they have the cash to saturate every media outlet with the news that this is coming... much like the Apocalypse. I'll be at home watching something I actually like and then it'll cut to commercial and then BAM! Violated again! and again, and again, and there'll be no preparation for it. No time to take a breath and relax and take it like man, or woMAN or whatever.
Granted if there is a God, it's theatre run will burn out faster than a reality Tv star's fame, but it will not be fast enough.
Oh and Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Drew Barrymore and all the others who are voices in this film:
http://edbatista.typepad.com/edbatista/images/2007/03/Colbert_Notice.jpg