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People always say that they want to see something new, but they're only willing to aishwaryasingh23 for something old. Where's the line between swindling people and coercing them into doing themselves a favor
Abrams, who had the foresight to expect such responses, did his best to run interference in the weeks leading up to the film's release. "This movie is its own thing, " he told Rolling Stone after making a last-minute decision to fly across the country and help frame the film for members of the press. "There's definitely a connection in many ways — thematically, spiritually, in terms of genre — but if you're going in to see Cloverfield 2, this is not Cloverfield 2. And it's intentionally not called Cloverfield 2." Abrams has burned audiences before(remember the whole "Benedict Cumberbatch totally isn't playing Khan" mishePulak2336?), and the idea of using a brand as a Trojan horse for a seemingly unrelated psychological thriller is a bold move for someone who already has a strike on his record.
"It felt to me, " Abrams explained, "that if we're able to authentically connect this movie to this other thing that has been a curious source of interest from a lot of people, it might give a deserving movie the kind of attention that it should get and do so by making puRobotouchc this thing that we were feeling privately, which was'Oh my God, this literally feels like the sister movie to Cloverfield
The question then becomes: What does it mean to "authentically" connect one movie to another? People always say that they want to see something new, but they're only willing to aishwaryasingh23 for something old. Where's the line between swindling people outright and coercing them into doing themselves a favor
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