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Posted on 07/17/2004 8:50:22 AM PDT by Jalapeno
Saturday, July 17, 2004 Posted: 12:37 AM EDT (0437 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Sci Fi Channel admitted that it lied last month in claiming it was at odds with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and was making an unauthorized biography about his "buried secret."
The hoax was part of a "guerilla marketing campaign" that went too far, network president Bonnie Hammer said Friday.
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Yeah right. This is also out of th Moore playbook. People eat this stuff up.
Next thing you know, someone is going to say that the Blair Witch Project wasn't really made by three college students who disappeared in Maryland.
And this surprises who...?
They did the same thing with a faux documentary about the Blair Witch Project and backstory like 5 years ago.
How is this different from other Hollyweird hijinks? Hey a rapper can make lyrics talking about abortion babies and get fired from his radio station (his CD coming out soon). Paris Hilton's sex tape,etc.
I just got the Sci Fi channel after wanting it for a long time.
It was perfectly obvious that the promo was a spoof; I can't imagine anyone thinking otherwise.
But, hey, more pub for the movie.
Sheesh! Now what am I going to do with all this popcorn and beer? Next thing ya know they'll be saying that wrestling is choreographed. Oh, the heartbreak of it all . . .(slaps head)
I was a balloon handler at the parade once. The announcer dude directing the floats cussed a blue streak *LOL* Glad I wasn't there when Sonic the Hedgehog took out a lamppost.
I saw previews for this movie. There is a Village surrounded by woods that no one can leave because of an agreement with mysterious creatures that live in the woods. Let me go out on a limb and conjecture that everyone is the Village turns out to be dead--they only think they're alive. Wouldn't that be totally unexpected? (wink, wink)
And I assure you wrestling is real. No way "The Rock" could be faking so much raw emotion in those interviews....
At least, I hope that's not also the idea behind The Village. I've been looking forward to it, and if that turns out to be the secret, I won't know who to be madder at - Shyamalan for ripping off The Others, or you for spoiling it... ;-)
hehehe I think the Rock is the real deal unlike that steaming pile of jabroni Effing Kerry ;-)
Truthfully, I have no idea what the twist will be (or if there even will be one). But I was ticked since I thought the Others has basically the same surprise ending as the Sixth Sense (which meant the "surprise" had lost its punch). I would hate to think he would have the gaul to use the same twist a 3rd time (but who knows). I was also disappointed with Signs (aliens who've mastered interstellar travel can't seem to figure out door knobs). Unless The Village gets really great reviews, I will likely wait till its out in DVD to watch it.
It was obvious it was a spoof when the Raven flew out of the room when they opened the door..
But I could easily see dense people (and there are a lot of them) believing it was a "real" documentary.
Oh, there's a twist.
I have a feeling this one will simply PO people rather than amaze them.
As soon as the program was over we ran to the Internet to find out more on the back story only to find out it was a movie. I thought it was an extremely good marketing campaign.
You know this is really funny, last night I was commenting to my wife about how much this "documentary" is nothing but hype to build this Shyamalan guy up. Get his name out there and what do you know.. all of the sudden he releases a movie.
Well!
How disappointing.
If you can't believe TV, what can you believe any more?
Shyamalan was behind "The Sixth Sense". He's already done the "dead-thinking-they're-alive" thing. I doubt he'd do it again.
ROTFLMBO. I never thought about that. :) My Dad was stumped about why aliens who die if they touch water would come to a planet that's 75% water.
Not only the raven flying out of the room was fake... the woman pretending to be Night's assistant - she was in one of Seinfeld's most popular episodes "The Contest". She got Elaine in John-John Kennedy's aerobics class - right behind him. I recognized her right away and knew it was a hoax. It was a fun hoax, though.
I agree. He's a better filmmaker than that.
...or why kill the alien with a baseball bat when there's hundreds of glasses of water surrounding it?
Well, of course not. You might just as well claim that the Iron Sheik wasn't really a wealthy Saudi prince or that the Undertaker never returned from the dead. Some things just can't be faked.
How could people not know the Macy's Day Parade has it's audio taped. You can see the performers messing up on their lip-syncing many times. Plus, considering how much they would have to sing, you would think they would have no voice by the time they got to the end of the parade route.
Do you wanna know the secret in 'The Village'?
Is it a "modern" secret? :o)
wink..wink..nod..nod..
Maybe now they'll fire Bonnie Hammer.
They should have fired that beeotch after she turned Galactica into that re-imagined sex adventure, or when she cancelled Farscape, or when she switched to the "all horror movies all the time".
Say no more! :o)
NO! Not until I see it :-)
IIRC, the alien ended up dying from having water thrown all over him.
Signs wasn't really about aliens- it was about a man's faith being tested by demons.
Damn you theophilusscribe, and damn you TomServo for calling me back to this thread ;-) I feel like I know too much already now!!
Doubtful. The key, I think, is the red paint. The red paint keeps "the beasties" away. The twist, I'd guess, is when the audience figures out why red does the trick. I don't think it's just something arbitrary. I've heard that it could be a colonial village of people in modern times who don't realize they are in modern times or a colonial village of people on another planet as a zoo exhibit for aliens-- both, I think, straight-up stolen plots from Twilight Zone eps. We'll see soon enough, I guess.
:o)
Stills? Where?
The red marking on the doors are interesting.
Night didn't do the Others, don't blame the fact that it ripped off Sixth Sense on him.
I like Signs because the aliens were evil. It was all setup for the aliens to deliver some "important" message to the humans, then it turned out they were just hungry, beauty.
I can't agree more, not to mention it was so bad that I could only watch about 10 minutes of it. I kept trying to come back to the program because there was nothing on but could never stay more than a minute on it.
It was bad!
Oh come on now, you're being a bit overly harsh on Signs :)
First, the doorknob complaint is bogus. The character responsible for Mel's wife's accident specifically says that he -locked him in-. Figuring out how to work a doorknob is not the same thing as figuring out how to get through a -locked- door. The human race has mastered lots of things, but that doesn't mean that -you- could get out of a locked room easily either (and you'll note, the same alien -did- eventually get itself out).
The water complaint is a more reasonable complaint. Now, I think claiming that "they die if they touch water" is a bit far. Water acts as an acid toward them, apparently, but it took quite a few broken glasses of water -and- being pummeled by a baseball bat to keep that one alien down for good. Secondly, why would they come to Earth? Well, let's put it this way. Let's assume that -we- go looking through the universe, and we find that 99.999% of the planets in the Universe are along the lines of Mars or Jupiter. Completely, totally useless. Then we find a planet where 25% of the surface is perfectly livable and in fact downright cozy most of the time. It may not be -ideal-, but it'd be a heck of a lot more usable than most of what they're finding, and most planets don't offer a slave race for the taking either. The question of "why did they come all this way for a planet with 75% water" relies on the assumption that they have lots of better alternatives. What would one base that assumption on?
Sorry, but if we're going to talk about willing suspension of disbelief, I found it a heck of a lot easier to maintain through Signs than I did through, say, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Yeaaaaah, that mine cart just jumped over a thirty-foot-wide chasm with three people inside it and landed -perfectly- on the other side of the tracks and kept going with barely a bump. THAT'S reasonable ;) And yet people loved that movie.
Qwinn
Too bad we don't celebrate Macy's Day here in California. I guess it hasn't caught on yet.
I was unfortunate enough to catch a couple of minutes of it also. You're right.
"I was also disappointed with Signs..."
I thought Shyamalan did a very nice opening and gradual buildup before we found out the cornfield ruckus was about crop circles. The rest of the film was muddled, especially after building up to a supposed showdown with a massive army of aliens and then fizzling out with a confrontation involving just one.
Twist endings are gimmicky, good films don't need them (I wish he'd ditch that trick).
Which would be a rip-off of "To Serve Man".
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