About to head to the zoo for the day, let me think on this. My first instinct is that you should market it as "the worst movie ever," and use it's unsalvageable horridness as a virtue. "It makes Ishtar look like the Godfather, Waterworld look like a Coen brothers film."
There are two issues with this approach, the first of which is brought up prophylactically whenever the movie is discussed: it's not a "so bad it's good" movie, it's a "this is as terrible as Jerry Lewis clowning around in a gas chamber with doomed children" movie. The second issue is that the goal, above and beyond making money, is to launch April as a movie star. "so bad it's good" does not do this, particularly when her performance is not standout in any way. This does not mean that I didn't pitch "Why don't we just strip out all the audio and edit it like a Frontline Assembly video? Score it with some Merzbow or Chu Ishihara or some shit? Then ADR nothing but like Nietsche quotes and shit on top of it?" ...but it does mean that we didn't pitch the idea to June.
I say you run the video and the audio backwards and throw in a dancing dwarf. I have no advice for you worth mentioning. Good luck kb, it's a bummer of a situation.The second issue is that the goal, above and beyond making money, is to launch April as a movie star
-that's not going to happen. Really, was it ever going to happen?
I think the market is getting played out for so bad they are good movies.
I'm sure you are right, it's a market I don't know much about. That said, you would be the authority on watching bad movies. -You guys still doing that for fun? Eating Chinese? - EDIT:oops, forget that link, for some reason I thought I was replying to speeding_snail. Sorry about that!
Nope, you were not replying to me. But yeah, we are still doing that :P The next viewing is planned next week.