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Should the name of this corrections thread be 'corrected'?
You had me, and possibly my money, at Kim Basinger
Well, that'll never work. Everybody knows that drinkers buy beer based on flavour and value for money, and aren't interested in bouncy ladies at all.
But if you're an audience member who knows who Ben Kingsley is, you'll know that his name on a movie poster today is as much a guarantee of movie quality as Michael Caine's name was back in the 1980s, Oscar or no Oscar.
Moreover, Ford's near-Oscar was almost thirty years ago, with no further Academy recognition since. It might as well say "nearly award-winning star of 1985's blockbuster 'Witness', Harrison Ford" for all the value that adds, at least for me.
Piling all that variously dated Academy recognition up in the trailer actually puts me off a bit, because it's like the trailer makers are grasping at straws by boasting about their actors' resumés to convince me of their movie's worth, rather than using the movie itself to do that.
I still think it's a weird sales pitch: spaceships, 'splosions and serious actors, together at last!
Arguably, the BBC did the same thing with the relaunch of 'Doctor Who' when they cast Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, and had Russell T Davies as head writer. In Hollywood terms, that was like casting Kevin Spacey and having Aaron Sorkin in charge. But although that helped to sell the idea that the show was being taken seriously as a drama to snooty reviewers and jaded forty-somethings, I'll wager it meant nothing at all to the vast majority of the target audience.
Likewise, I suspect that this movie's ideal demographic isn't that interested in serious actors seriously acting up the joint, even though the movie will probably be better for it.
The following is a ridiculous suggestion, which I therefore feel compelled to make: given that you guys sometimes have rows about films, how about "The Row Row". Sounds like Scooby Doo saying "The Now Show" (which is already a thing, but that's not important right now).
More/less ridiculous suggestions:
Flicksonomy
Hollywood Hubbub
Cutting Remarks
Four on the Floor
The Cutting Room
Outside Insight
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