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So yesterday, as Zoso and I were walking out of the movie theater after seeing "Beowulf," we were approached by a girl asking if we wanted to watch some ads for movies and tell her what we thought of them. She was wearing a Neilsen Media Research shirt.
If you have any familiarity with Neilsen, you'll know that they are the ones who indicate to companies and networks what should be cut from the market, what shows should be canceled and they pretty much hold many of the cards when it comes to what people see or get to buy as they gauge what people are doing. I jumped at this opportunity to be a small part in this deciding what the public might be seeing (for the record, Neilsen LOVES getting their hands on people in their late-teens to mid-20s since they consider our age range to have dispensable income that we spend on entertainment as opposed to bills and such). True to Neilsen's nature, along with the questions about what we thought of the trailers, they asked us what shows we like watching that are currently on (generally whenever they ask someone these things or whenever a Neilsen family reports watching certain shows, they claim every 1 person who reports watching it represents 40,000 people. Enough people reporting in can save a show. Both Zoso and I claimed Heroes, My Name as Earl, Mythbusters, and Family Guy as shows we watch seeing as The Simpsons is probably safe ratings-wise). They showed us two different ads for the next big spoof movie entitled "Meet the Spartans" which looks like there really isn't any discernible pattern of which they're making fun, it's just making fun of anything and everything that's pop culture. Near as I can tell what the story is, it's the Spartans of "300" pretty much reenacting the movie, but with Deal or No Deal, The Apprentice, Spider-Man 3, Happy Feet, Paris Hilton, and other pop culture references thrown in as gags. I flat out said that the only reason I would watch it is because of the whole 300 thing (and because Kevin Sorbo's in it somewhere) and said that the whole spoof movie thing is completely overdone these days especially since they've reached the point of where there isn't any coherent pattern other than poking fun at what was popular this year. The girl interviewing me didn't write down most of what I said.  |
