Hairspray boycott
Hairspray boycott
#1Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:04pm
with the movie set for release soon, who's in?
trapped in the closet.
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#2re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:28pmSounds like Scientologist are worste than the Mormons!!!
#2re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:31pm
i'm just having nightmares seeing pictures of john travolta in character, i cannot imagine what will happen if i sit through a two hour movie. plus, the high school musical kid as link larkin? he has less sex appeal than clay aiken!
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Updated On: 6/28/07 at 03:31 PM
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#3re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:34pmoh...I thought this had to do with aquanet...you want me to boycott?! IN THIS HUMIDITY?!
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#5re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:16pmI like boycotts. Any form of protest that revolves around me not having to do anything is A-OK.
#6re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:17pmwell, you won't have to sit the 2 hour train wreck that will be Hairspray.
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#7re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:18pmIs it really a boycott if I wasn't planning on seeing it anyway? I actually don't mind John T, but his expression does not change from one promo shot to the next.
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#8re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:19pmAnd here I thought we actually had to watch something before we passed judgment on it! This is going to save me A LOT of time!
#9re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:20pm
Can I still watch it as an inflight movie? That's how I see most films nowadays, anyway.
I'm still using the same headset I bought to watch "Elf" two or three years ago, so it's not like I'd be giving any more money to that dirty Scienceamatology thing.
#10re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:21pmEver heard of focus groups?
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#11re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:22pmWEll Taz since you said "Will be Hairspray" I assumed you hadn't seen it yet-- have you?
#12re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:23pmI never said I'd seen it. I asked if you'd ever heard of focus groups.
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#13re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:38pmForget all of youz guyz! I am going to see it and there's nothing you can do about it. **Sticks tongue out**
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#14re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:40pmWell of course I've heard of Focus Groups, in fact I've participated in them. Why do you ask?
#15re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:41pmNo reason, just curious.
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#16re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:44pm
I did one!
They had me look at photos of impulse lines from grocery stores, and then I had to list all the products I remembered seeing.
Another time, the company sent me a video of a sitcom pilot -- something awful called "Dads" co-starring Rue McClanahan as a nanny with a German accent -- and wanted me to write out my opinion of the show. When they called to ask me my opinion, they spent the entire time asking me about the Shaquille O'Neill Nestle's Crunch commercial that was stuck in the middle of the show.
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#17re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:00pm
Yes Calvin-- it's because the focus group was REALLY about that commercial. If they told you "watch this commercial and tell us what you think" you'd look at it far too closely than you normally do. So they SAY it's a new Sitcom and make you watch the whole thing. They really just want to talk about the ads.
And why do they ask you about the sitcom at all? Because they KNOW it's a crummy piece of pooh and they discard the opinions of anyone who liked that stinky thing.
#18re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:20pm
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#19re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:22pm
Well, I really realized that a few years later, when my mother was contacted by the same people and got the exact same sitcom -- only with a different commercial.
But, I didn't realize my opinion of the sitcom was a test as well. Good to know my taste is intact.
#20re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:27pm
my title is better, pab. and more accurate.
so, calvin, rue was a rouse?
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#21re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:29pmI rue the day I ever agreed to participate in that. But I did have a lovely roue for dinner that night.
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#22re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 5:59pmSo anyway Taz-- why do you (or will you) hate the Hairspray movie?
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#23re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 6:12pmI'm in DayDreamer's camp. I had absolutely no intention of seeing this film, so is that's not really a boycott. But, you can count me in, anyway.
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#24re: Hairspray boycott
Posted: 6/27/07 at 7:51pmTravolta..judged and found guilty..NEXT
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