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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 10-26-2001, 04:32 PM:
Any fellow Film-Techers seen the new MovieFone snipe? It starts out with that old Filmack favorite and uses the characters from it. Gives a "good ol' days" kind of feel to it.At least 1 participating MovieFone theater, Reading Cinemas in Manville NJ, began running this nifty snipe this month. UA hasn't used it yet in Union Square AFAIK.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-26-2001, 04:36 PM:
Yes, I've seen it and it is incredibly stupid. They are trying to mix 1950's drive-in snipes with current Hong Kong/"The Matrix" action. It's just stupid and only warrants a groan.
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 10-27-2001, 02:35 AM:
Are you talking about the one where the concession items are not on time for the movie because they didn't check moviefone???
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 10-28-2001, 12:02 AM:
(Not related, but) We were running the earlier MovieFone ad that was an animated, "Cinderella" style ad. At the end of the ad, the Cinderella charactor says something like, "I got away from my ulgy, skanky sisters ..." while one rabbit in the background grabbed the butt of another. I thought it was funny, but we had several complaints, so we had to pull it.
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 10-28-2001, 09:16 AM:
Lets not all go to the lobby...Thats one of the reasons I weigh in at nearly 190 lbs!!! Its not all from eating fried chicken out of the lamphouse ya know......
Mark @ GTS