Phishing for movie goers

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2008)

Not only do perspective consumers have to watch out for phishing schemes from Africa or former Eastern bloc countries; now the movie industry, Paramount specifically, has invested more in its advertising to the witless and trusting than the budget of the movie itself. What movie could get me so riled up? Why, Cloverfield, of course! Oh I know; the critics have been praising this film and kissing Paramount *$$. But who pays their salary? I hated this movie more than The Blair Witch Project. Which got high praise too, didn't it? I worked an equivalence of an hour and a half to pay for this movie which is barely longer than that and I'm outraged at the ridiculously lacking ads for Cloverfield! Pique your curiosity they do, but give an accurate gauge of the movie your about to see they don't. I mean, check it out; nearly half of the movie goers during the showing got up and left and the rest of us kind of sat there looking at each other wondering if we shouldn't do the same. When it was all over, those of us that were left had varying degrees of motion sickness or a sinking feeling that we had just been duped. On the way out, I immediately called all my friends and told them to save their money for a case of Ol' Mil or PBR!