Why is Warner brothers doing such a $hitty job of promoting "The Departed" ?

[BT18]

This is clearly the kind of movie that deserved a trailer in front of Superman Returns, but no announcement of when a trailer is going to be has materialized, despite the fact that they've got a release date of October 6th.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

This movie is Scorsese, film-buff America's favorite director, doing what everyone loves to see him do the most, a big organized-crime themed drama.

Yet it isn't on very many peoples radar. Nobody who doesn't frequent film websites or perhaps people in the northeast who've read about the production in their paper.

 

[DOG LIPS]

Wow.. I've never even heard of it until now. Great cast, too! Thanks for the info.

 

[PoppaRotzi]

Relax---movies this big usually get huge press the month before there release dates. Wait till September.

 

[PoppaRotzi]

Relax---movies this big usually get huge press the month before thier release dates. Wait till September.

 

[ProductionMusic]

America's favorite director

Are you sure ? If this guy was America's favorite diorector people would know about this Movie

 

[logansoldcigar]

Maybe the tag line of "the Departed: Not as good as Infernal Affairs" isnt quite what they were looking for?

 

[BT18]

Are you sure ? If this guy was America's favorite diorector people would know about this Movie

when you cut off the quote it changes the meaning. Maybe I should have joined the words with hyphens. I said "film-buff America's favorite director". As in, the segment of America who could be considered film buffs. It's doubtful another director would make more of their top 3 or top 5 directors.

You refer to him as "this guy", are you that immature of film-goer that you aren't aware of his contribution to the medium?

 

[BT18]

Maybe the tag line of "the Departed: Not as good as Infernal Affairs" isnt quite what they were looking for?

As usual, I don't give a crap about the opinions of people who would bash a Scorsese movie before even seeing it. That's only an ok practice for Nick Cannon or Paul Walker vehicles. Hong Kong movie enthusiasts in general are a pretty annoying lot as well.

 

[ProductionMusic]

As usual, I don't give a crap about the opinions of people who would bash a Scorsese movie before even seeing it

Maybe not everyone will like the same directors as you

 

[logansoldcigar]

Im fascinated to see where i bashed it, personally.

 

[BT18]

Im fascinated to see where i bashed it, personally.

If we're going to be semanticists... whatever. You said it wasn't as good as another movie. You haven't seen it. Again, I think Martin Scorsese at minimum has earned enough trust to withhold quality judgements about how much better or worse a film of his is until after one has seen it.

 

[The Chairman]

As usual, I don't give a crap about the opinions of people who would bash a Scorsese movie before even seeing it.

Agreed, it's an incredibly mentally obscene thing to do. Goodfellas scored rediculously low test ratings when it was first screened, and now IGN is voting it "The Greatest Movie Of All Time". Considering it's one of my top two favorite movies, I like to think that test screenings mean **** when it comes to his films.

Anyway, I'm so pumped for The Departed. Admittedly, I'm not the biggest Damon fan, but DiCaprio is great, the supporting cast is great, the plot sounds interesting, it's a Scorcese flick, and it's got this guy:

Scorcese working with Jack is enough to make me go see this.

(OFF TOPIC: BTW, BT18, you do knnow Jack might actually be doing a movie with your favorite director, Richard Linklater? Just thought you'd be interested.)

 

[BT18]

Scorcese working with Jack is enough to make me go see this.

(OFF TOPIC: BTW, BT18, you do knnow Jack might actually be doing a movie with your favorite director, Richard Linklater? Just thought you'd be interested.)

yeah, Last Flag Flying

it's a sequel to a movie I haven't seen and need to Netflix, The Last Detail

 

[The Chairman]

I haven't seen The Last Detail, either, but I've been meaning to seek it out.

Anyway, Warner Brothers should really be working their asses off to promote this thhing. With the substantial amount of talent they have attached to this, you'd think WB could smell a hit as well as a potential Oscar hit (even if those awards are often a crock of ****). But they aren't, which is wrong with Hollywood. This is why most kids today only want to see mindless action flicks or lame brain comedies, because that's what the studio promotes. This is why no talent schlocks like Vin Diesel and Ashton Kutcher are making the money they're making.

 

[Cinemaman]

I am looking forward to it

But when will trailer be released?

 

[Movies205]

Um... Ask any Italian, espeically Italian Grandmothers in America, I guarantee you they'll know who he is, he's like what Sinatra is to Music for Italians...(All right maybe not that huge) but none the less he's well known in those circles.

The movie not coming out till October and it's not a tent-pole picture where you build that kind of antcipation, this is the kind of movie that builds through word of mouth and has great legs. I saw Internal Affairs, good movie and if they don't take it in a different direction I don't know how they'll top it

 

[Ben Urich]

My cousin worked on this movie
It's gonna kick ass.

 

[BT18]

Um... Ask any Italian, espeically Italian Grandmothers in America, I guarantee you they'll know who he is, he's like what Sinatra is to Music for Italians...(All right maybe not that huge) but none the less he's well known in those circles.

The movie not coming out till October and it's not a tent-pole picture where you build that kind of antcipation, this is the kind of movie that builds through word of mouth and has great legs. I saw Internal Affairs, good movie and if they don't take it in a different direction I don't know how they'll top it

I don't really see how you can say it is ipso-facto, not a tentpole, unless you don't think those can exist in the fall outside of sword-and-sandal/fairy type movies. Numerous A-listers in the cast, over a hundred million spent when you factor in the marketing budget ($90 mill production budget), and again: Score-frickin-sese doing mob stuff.

I don't know what the budgets of "We Are Marshall" or "The Good German" are, but The Departed would seem to be more high profile than either of them, and it's got a higher budget than any other Warners movie in September, October, or November. I've come to think of "tentpole release" as identifying the movie a studio puts more into in terms of investment than any other movie in a particular season, and it would be sad if it was a McG movie or some more George Clooney oscar bait instead of Scorsese tackling the Boston mob.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Wow, they are doing a bad job. I've never heard of it and I'm a Scorsese fan and I read about upcoming movies, like, all day long.

 

[The Storm]

Pretty suprising that not many people have heard of it. Its Scorcese, we should be reading 'will he get the Oscar this time'. There is Oscar buzz already over 'Flags Of Our Father', the Clint Eastwood film. Surely near the end of the year the media will have them head to head.

 

[JackBauer]

The Departed doesn't need marketing. this baby's gonna sell itself!

then again, maybe not.

 

[The Chairman]

The Departed doesn't need marketing. this baby's gonna sell itself!

then again, maybe not.

Chances are it probably will, but it could use the extra push from the studio. I've been pumped for the film since last year when I first heard about it.

 

[jaguarr]

I swear I saw something about this film on a little blip about upcoming movies on HBO or some other cable channel. It looked VERY promising, so I'm a little confused over why the studio has been so mum over it as well.

jag

 

[Mentok]

Maybe the tag line of "the Departed: Not as good as Infernal Affairs" isnt quite what they were looking for?

Im sure it would be accurate though

 

[BT18]

Scorsese isn't even setting out to "remake" the original. He first read the script and decided he wanted to make it before he was enlightened to the fact it was even based on Infernal Affairs. There's plenty of other real life stuff they're being inspired by here and anyone from the Boston area who heard the sypnosis would instantly recognize that. Namely the Bulger brothers and the Winter Hill Gang.