Every public relation firm on earth tries to rid off this movie. So we have a lot of brought into line forces doing nothing more than making public relation for the big companies. How do we call such a behavior? Yes, think back to 1933...
sharei agree.. this imdb rating only shows how hopelessly people are enslaved to the idea they are free and live a healthy wonderful life )
Ads are nothing but a waste of time and space, they literally take space in billboards and also in mental space in the heads of people that you look at them as you pass.. whether one wants to look or not its unavoidable to notice them and as you do, a part of your brain is filled with poison, scum, .. disease that with stupid people starts metathesizing as a cancer into a deadly condition..
its alarming so many people are blind.. this movie wasn't the greatest of them all, but far from the score it received ..
it would seem people rather hear lies of how heroic and strong they are then the truth of how obese and slow in their mind they really are.. i wouldn't discount the chance there was an effort made by certain powers to dumb down the score to make this movie a low-profile one.. as not to get too many people attention..
Today's world is truly a sick place where products aren't made for the people who will use them, products are made FIRST, then the desire is manufactured and sold to the public so they NEED the product in the first place.. its all fake.. most of the things(over 80%) people don't need and even WANT.. but they shove stuff down our throats that makes the humanity dangerously enslaved and ignorant of this is even more alarming..
i feel like this main character, aware of the problem, but also feel very very out-gunned and surrounded by morons ..
all i can do is meditate, avoid crap, or loose my mind and move to sibiria to herd goats)) ..
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I agree. We rented the movie and watched it yesterday and I was wondering if I had gotten something else with the same title. Finally about an hour into the movie, I started to see things that looked like the trailer I remembered seeing. We are considering looking for the movie when it is for sale cheap to have for my wife to use in her Family education class to use to show how pervasive advertising is in our culture.
shareI think you meditate too much and are out of touch with reality if you can write off the majority of us as slaves and buying sh't we don't want based on an anonymous internet movie rating. I give a billboard 1 second max of my time per just like most people do. I don't wreck my car in the process let alone get duped into some unhealthy cycle of financial and spiritual slavery. If someone's advertising something I can't afford, or don't need, I don't think about it much until my financial situation changes(which is pretty much never) or I just lose interest. Never does it enter my mind that I can't live without a luxury.
The people you are describing are a very small minority of the population, they have way too much money or no common sense, or both. Paranoia is poison too, it blinds and can completely run your life. Stop being so judgemental based on fiction vaguely confirming your half-baked theories.
In your car?
Cars were invented first then an artificial need was created for them (and currently for the oil that is used to fuel them). When cars became popular, it was after motor and gas companies snatched up all the electric rail companies that provided much of the transportation for everyday folk then dismantled them, creating a false need to be dependent on the, until that time, gimmicky 'horseless carriage'. So in essence, claiming you are not part of that culture while being a part of the culture kinda proves the point of the post you were thinking you were being clever towards.
Now here's the REAL kicker...think about the things you have a fondness for...hobbies, items, etc. Now how many of them are manufactured goods and how many aren't? Take me, for instance. I grew up on playing the NES and had the magazines and such. To this day, I still get games for this system. So what's my point with this? If I had never been exposed to advertisement of it or experienced it in a corporate spoon-fed manner as I was, would I have even given it a second look? That's really what the premise of the movie is saying. It's not saying that advertisements are controlling us, it's saying advertisements have created people in their current form.
When you get hungry, what are you hungry for? A home cooked meal made up of vegetables and meats from your local market or a quick fix meal from a corporate restaurant? When you go to the market, what do you buy there? Do you buy the boxed cereal or the bag cereal? Does your taste represent you or addiction to a specific brand? Do you only buy Fiji bottled water or do you drink any and all water?
These are the questions the movie wants you to ask of yourself. The brands, the corporations, etc. are out of control and forming how we behave as a people. And at least in the United States, it's actually more literal with large corporations steadily putting money into places where they can further their agenda both in education of the population and the laws that are passed by local and federal governments.
So yeah, I think overall, the majority of the population is asleep. I mean, look at how big the Tea Party got and it was literally the creation of a corporation and used stealth advertisement to gain a following, branding over 1 million people to believe that they marched, protested and preached for something that would actually benefit them when they were just pawns in a scheme to get corporations even more power than they already have...
Cars were invented as a mode of transportation, retard. Not so Ford could start a global war on the need for oil. Lord you're dumb. Please, get rid of your car, walk barefoot to work [by the way you have your job probably thanks to advertising and the "consumers need" for something] eat cows you raised, eat veggies you grew on land you bought... then tell me you aren't a sheeple too.
:snort: cars were made for the consumption of oil. No, cars were made because it was faster to get 100 miles in a car rather than on foot or on horse.
I don't upgrade my TV/computer/car/phone/gaming system/life every time a new one comes out. Jesus, until this year my iPod was still the first generation iPod touch! It's six years old! I have a almost 20 year old car. A 6 year old laptop, a 8 year old or older TV and I still use a Motorola Rizr which went off the market years ago. I still have the first xBox 360 and frankly it's twice reused from other people. If I hadn't wanted the Res Evil 5 game I'd still only be using the Game Cube. Please, you're just as much of a consumer-sucked a$$monkey as the rest of people. Adds help, but consumerism has always been an issue, even 100s of years ago.
And frankly there are numerous cities where there were never electric rail companies. Kansas City. St. Louis. Most midwestern states. The only two I can think of that WERE electric rail were New Orleans and San Francisco. There are no subways in most midwestern cities. Man you suck from some weird conspiracy tits if you think the car is only around to be used as oil. Or maybe you read WAY too much into Atlas Shrugged [btw, Rand was a socialist, so congrats there]. I mean, if there were no cars, what am I gonna do, walk 10 miles to work? Kansas City doesn't have a rail system, it does but it only runs out of the city. It's not like I can jump on the commuter train to work, I'd still have to walk. Not all of us have the luxury of working in cities like the NYC area with hundreds of train rails. :smh:
shareNeeds always hinge on wants.
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The "PREMISS" as shown in the trailer was Great. The movie itself, although meaning well, and shot with quality movie style, well... the actual movie itself does not deliver what the trailer promised. Not even that close, really. And although the MESSAGE of what the movie says is worthy and interesting, some of the choices made for delivering it were not too good, thus, ending up with a failure.
"MOIVES" are designed to entertain and make money.
"Documentaries" are designed to present and inform (sometimes, even thruthfully)
This one doesn't do either. It is WELL LIT AND SHOT AND ACTED but the content doesn't quite work.
I wanted to love it - I'm behind the concept all the way - but the final package failed. ... as seen in the recipts no matter what country you are in.
I still loved it. I'll rather be suprised by something flawed than bored with something predictable. It's more like an allegorical fairy tale. But then again I didn't watch the trailer until I saw the movie, and the trailer is quite misleading.
Anyone thinks that a better editing / score / post production could make this movie better? It's the first movie I've ever seen that includes the idea of "banning advertisement". For that alone I love it because advertising is attempted mind control or brain washing. It distracts our attention, subverts our true desires and consumes our planet.
It all depends on what you expect "better" to be. If you love it, it doesn't have to be better as it is in its best form TO YOU. Now, if you want it to be discovered and loved by the masses, then it must conform to certain plot structure guidelines which it does not. Many others here, besides me, have noted that the film is sort of "all over the place"... instead of sticking with a direction and goal, it meanders to fit it all in, some of which should be rewritten or dropped. The final edit seems like a script from someone that is too new and green to be writing solid, sellable scripts.
I can relate it to: if you want to make the WORLD'S GREATEST CUP OF COFFEE, you must have a mug, water, and some coffee beans... you don't change that and start with a straw, a plate and a grapefruit. CERTAIN boxes must be utilized if you want something to be something specific. Like a GREAT movie, over a lost one.
If one wants "Art House", then fine, anything goes. If you want to appeal to a mass audience (to make great money, since no film is made WITHOUT the idea of making great money), then you gotta fit it in the attractive box.
Seems like the TRAILER tried very hard to show that it fit in that attractive box, but the films execution did not. Show us the film from the trailer, and it would have done much better... and could STILL have been about the exact same topic it was.
I think the editing, score, and post production was great. It was the SCRIPT that had the issues to begin with.
the actual movie itself does not deliver what the trailer promised
Can't help but see the irony that the film company doesn't know how to advertise their film about the evils of advertisements. The trailer made it look like a lighter version of Dark City, but instead we got... I don't even know how to describe the film. It's a hard pill to swallow- a bit too "on the nose" and many people don't want to see themselves this clearly.
sharethe film company doesn't know how to advertise their film about the evils of advertisements
examples please.
shareHere's a real-life example of this movie's events, although focused on a more predictable goal than "making fat beautiful". Just substitute Russia for Venezuela:
http://www.upworthy.com/within-5-seconds-you-wont-like-him-by-the-time -he-laughs-youll-hate-him?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&am p;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+upworthy+%28Upworthy%29
I meant examples where PR firms are trying to suppress almost insignificant movies like this.
shareThe past few years has brought sharply into focus how people have been living beyond their means for a long time, however, you insult most of us who have common sense and are able to make our own decisions, regardless of what advertisers throw at us. An advertising makes us aware of a product. For intelligent people, it does not makes us rabidly want to go out and buy the product.
People are not fat because they have been advertised to. They are fat because they lack willpower and fattening food is readily available with little to no effort needed to procure it.
Instead of bemoaning the advertising behemoth, the one kernel of truth gleaned from this film is that advertising can be used against itself. It can be used to inform for good or for bad.
Bam said the lady.
Two words prove that there's no corporate conspiracy, and that this movie simply sucks:
Food, Inc.
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