Not A Big Selling Point
I saw a poster for Poseidon* on the side of a bus the other day. Im not moaning about remakes as I've done that before, what I want to moan about is one specific of the poster. It quite clearly said 'From the makers of 'The Perfect Storm and Troy', and I couldn't help but think 'Who give a shit?'.Now I've not seen Troy but people have told me it's average at best and I've seen The Perfect Storm and while it's not bad it didn't rock my world (that might be partially due to the fact the pinnacle moment of the film was on the front of the DVD box).
Now im put off Poseidon to start with but that 'From the makers of...' just puts me off even more. I'd be more interested if it said 'Made by a bunch of unknown film makers who show a lot of promise', at least you wouldn't know what to expect.
That 'From the makers...' doesn't really mean anything, all it's saying is that the movie was made by people who've made Hollywood films before, errr, okay, I figured some of the people making this would have done so anyway. I dunno, not a major annoyance but something that struck me as dodgy, kinda suggests the film is shit.
* I do like that the word Poseidon is upside down, I saw a chav nearly break his neck trying to read it the other day.
