Windtalkers

[Superfluous_Nut]

So I'm watching TV and I notice another ad for John Woo's new flick, Windtalkers. It's the WW2 story of the Native American code-talkers that helped us win the intelligence war...

But anyway, I'm watching the ad thinking it's for the DVD cuz I swear to god this movie has already come out. Turns out, no it hasn't. It was SUPPOSED to come out back on Thanksgiving of 2001, but was put off till this summer.

Then the question in my mind is "why the fuck would you put out a WW2 Unsung Heros Historical Piece on June 14 instead of Memorial Day?" It'd be a lock. Especially in the ultra-patriotic mood we've got going right now.

Then it hit me like a bad case of starin' out the peephole -- they probably expect(ed) us to be at war by June 14 and not by Memorial Day. How else could you justify a war pic not opening on Memorial Day unless you figured there was a bigger payoff later. The decision to move the release date was back in late September. Did Washington tell the producers (and Hollywood in general) what was/is gonna happen? They have asked Hollywood to help the PR campaign...

Okay, I was probably stoned at the time...

 

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Superfluous_Nut
Then it hit me like a bad case of starin' out the peephole -- they probably expect(ed) us to be at war by June 14 and not by Memorial Day. How else could you justify a war pic not opening on Memorial Day unless you figured there was a bigger payoff later. The decision to move the release date was back in late September. Did Washington tell the producers (and Hollywood in general) what was/is gonna happen? They have asked Hollywood to help the PR campaign...

Okay, I was probably stoned at the time...

I don't know, Nut. Seems like a 2-3 week window isn't a lot of time. If it were like 6 months I could see it, maybe, but there isn't a lot of time between 5/27 and 6/14.

 

[Fro]

I think the reason they put it off until this summer is the movie actually sucks. They probably tried to do some editing to make it not suck, and that caused the delay in release dates (very common), and it will still suck.

Nicolas Cage + John Woo x Good Movie Idea = Major suckage to the Nth Degree.

 

[Superfluous_Nut]

If it sucks, that's even MORE reason to put it out on a themed holiday.

They could certainly have re-edited (and reshot) in the months since November when it was supposed to come out.

Nothing will probably happen before June 14... but if it does, it'll certainly make me wonder.

 

[gutter]

Originally posted by AfroSmurf
I think the reason they put it off until this summer is the movie actually sucks. They probably tried to do some editing to make it not suck, and that caused the delay in release dates (very common), and it will still suck.

Nicolas Cage + John Woo x Good Movie Idea = Major suckage to the Nth Degree.

Nicolage Cage^2 / Overdun Idea* John Woo + A ton of special effects = a lot of dumbass people going to watch it

 

[Fro]

Originally posted by gutter
...a lot of dumbass people going to watch it

How very true.

 

[reb]

Cage needs to do something he's good at like Raising Arizona 2 or those off the wall movies.