• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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    3 months ago

    I used to live in L.A.

    The way they do a lot of test screenings is having people standing in shopping malls (usually ones with movie theaters) offering free tickets to any takers.

    Stupidest possible way to test your movie with an audience. Get the bored people with nothing better to do than accept a free ticket to a random movie.

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      3 months ago

      That’s how I saw The Rock’s “Gridiron Gang”, meandering a mall. It was a bloated mess and I hear the finished product, while trimmed, still wasn’t worth it.