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The Dudette knows all about DICK!!!
Hey there folks... Harry here in Minneapolis and ya know... There is something fishy about this review. My Spidey sense is telling me it might very well be a plant. There was an unnatural consistency to the hairs being raised on the back of my neck while I read it... But then, that could just be my liberal belief in Republican Dirty Tricks and my natural suspicion of all things Nixon-y. So... see if you feel a load of BS about this review... and if not... hell accept it. I do know this. At least so far, this has been a very very unusually strong season for comedies... and maybe... just maybe this DICK ain't flacid...
Hola Harry, "The Dudette" here with a little review of a movie opening in
August called DICK. Now I know you're busy and all but this is a movie I
really think you should check out. It's the story of Watergate if it
happened in some sort of freaky alternate universe.
here's a barebones
breakdown of the story: Betsy Jobs(Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene
Lorenzo(Dawson's Creeks Michelle Williams) are in the Watergate hotel, where
Arlene lives, the night of that infamous break-in, they are discovered and
this information is brought to the attention of the President(played
wonderfully by Clueless's Dan Hedaya) President Nixon soon makes friends with
these two teenaged girls making them even the Presidental "dog walkers".
Both girls develop crushes on the President and although both girls are ditzy
blondes (think of it as romy and Michelle's high School reunion if they
were teens in the 70's living in Washingtion and discovered the break-in
which I'm sure is probably how it was pitched) they soon discover what
happened at Watergate and what Nixon is doing to cover-up the scandel and
they become "Deep Throat" to Woodward(SNL's Will Ferral, much better here
then he was with Chris Kattan in Night at the Rockbury) and Bernstien(Bruce
McCulloch, of Kids in the Hall and SNL) this movie also features Newsradio
and Kids in the Hall vet Dave Foley as one of the President's advisors, and
Harry Shearer as G Gordon Liddy.
After watching this movie I went home and
put in my copies of Redford's "All The President's Men" and Stone's "Nixon"
This movie shouldn't be compared to those two movies as they took a "real
life" look at Nixon and Watergate, this is more of what-if comedy with
elements of social satire and romantic comedy even. "DICK" was written and
directed by Andrew Fleming, whose previous credits indclude, and I would
have never guessed it coming out of this movie, Threesome and The Craft,
but in retrospect I can see it, with it's dark comedy/misfits in love/ones
actions led to their consequences POV that his movies have. It really is a
gem and could probably get overlooked in the shuffle and bustle of late
summer unless Sony Pictures does some major marketing. It's is being
distrubed though Sony and Trimark and is produced by Pheonix pictures which
has produced some wonderful films including Apt Pupil, The People vs. Larry
Flynnt, U-Turn, and one of my personal Favs of 98 The Thin Red Line.
Dick is the name of the movie it's released in Augest, Check it out
till then "The Dudette" is going to go listen to some Creedance,
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Watergate in an alternate universe? Er... I don't know. Seems pretty funky. I think... yeah sure why not. Count me in. This should actually be some pretty fun viewing. As for it being a plant, I'm not sure but it kinda seems like it. Anyways, who cares.
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I don't have to see a meaningless post with someone bragging about being first. Instead, I wrote my own post that had something to do with the movie, yet still remained pretty meaningless. And if it wasn't, this one is.
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Well, the movie does sound rather interesting. But I think you're right, its probably a plant. I don't know many folks who would repeat the name of a movie in every freakin' sentence. *shrugs* I dunno, let's keep an eye out and see what happens.
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All I can offer is that, speaking as an English teacher, those proofreading errors look kind of deliberate, maybe.
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{drool} I'd definately planned on seeing this movie anyhoo, ever since way back when I first heard about it. BUT I definately think this review is a "plant"-
C'mon naming every actor & their past/current work? I think this was somebody's idea of: 'How to be a movie geek.' A faux-geek, if you will... but I don't care, I'm stll going to see the movie.
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This is sooo propaganda. Why on Earth would she mention all of the studio information, etc. if she were a normal human? I also agree that she mentioned the movie's title a might too often.
Oh well. Doesn't change the film...
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Suspiciously worded, this "dudette" scoop. I always get suspicious with phrases like "previous credits include." This thing smells like a press release.
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This person seems pretty commited to explaining the cast, crew, and production of the movie rather thansharing any detail. Seems like we have a genuine hollywood fluke on our hand.
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Looks pretty fucking funny to me. It was attached to Election when I saw it. I don't particularly care if this person is a plant, but I have the feeling a plant wouldn't take the female namesake of a pot smoking anti-hero from a rival studio's film, and that Harry's comment has left you all grasping. Anyway, Will Ferrel and Bruce McCulloch as Woodward and Bernstein is priceless. Dan Hedaya as Nixon, Dave Foley as Haldeman, and Harry Shearer as G. Gordon Liddy. This could very well turn out to be a classic.
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Without a doubt this is a plant of some sort. Anyone who calls U-Turn a "wonderful film" is either a mindless studio schlub or an idiot treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality. I saw the trailer myself and it SUCKED. The description here is the equivalent of shitting in my mouth and calling it a sundae. DICK BITES!
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I almost forgot. This is unnaturally similar to the 7UP commercials with the syndicate trying to trick kids into drinking (seeing) their soda (movie). All that info and absolutely no mention of where or how she got in to see the screening? That's usually the first thing that these people brag about. And although I love McCullough and Ferrell, I still had no desire to see the movie after the trailer.
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Buenas Noches Harold, "The Plantette" here with a review of a movie opening in August called DICK. Check this one out! It's the kooky kind of freaky alternate univers Watergate movie I know you will dig the most!
If this were an authentic review, I wouldn't have all the actors names and credits phrased in a media-kit fashion, but I do!
I can drop in the fact that the guy who plays the President was in Clueless! The way I pitch this movie to you is "probably" the way it was pitched to the studio! The girls are, to use a standard trade description, ditzy blondes! Let me also point out, since Will Ferrell's "Rockbury" movie was a failure, that he is much better in this one, and curiously omit his most recent appearance in Austin Powers II. Cleverly misspelling Bernstein, yet accurately listing his television credits, I will then move on to mentioning that I happen to have copies of "All The President's Men" and "Nixon" at home, in one of the most bizarre coincidences in history, which I then proceed to watch over the next five hours before posting my review of the movie that I supposedly saw, somewhere, sometime. However, this convenient conceit allows me to reiterate the goofy, oddball, flat out zany differences of this quirky, skewed view of the Watergate scandal from those purportedly realistic takes on it.
Dick is the name of the movie, once again. Did I mention the movie is DICK? Anyway, DICK is it's name, and it's released in August. Once again I exhort you to "Check it out."
Until then, I feel it incumbent upon the "Dudette" to announce some intention designed to create the illusion that I am an actual reviewer rather than a plant, such as listening to some music which was contemporary to the Nixon presidency, such as CCR (which I call "Creedance"), after my exhausting alternate universe day in which I have taken in seven hours of Nixon related movies.
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Well, OK, I do. Anyone who knows the film catalogue of a PRODUCTION COMPANY works in Hollywood somewhere, since they'd be the only ones who'd think that was somehow relevant to... oh, what was it called again? But that doesn't necessarily mean they're a plant. They could be auditioning for a job as a plant. Ah, who am I kidding- with that SNL/Kids collision cast, plus Dan Hedeya and a couple of teeny actresses who don't give me hives, I'll see it anyway. But they should have called it Dick: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
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What's up, Gale, baby? Three dogs in a row and you're out! First, "Dead Man On Campus", second, $80 million barker, "Soldier" and third "Dick" where the audience I saw it with("Austin Powers 2") booed it off the screen! GALE, SCRIPT DOES MATTER! Besides the actor doing the Nixon impersonation was REALLY BAD! Like a REALLY, REALLY BAD stand up comedy act. Plus, the guy looks nothing like him. I know, cause I met him in person at the Richard M. Nixon library in Yorba Linda, California.
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Dear studio execs: that was a pretty sorry-ass job of planting a story. I mean, come ON. They know every production credit of the cast (and spell them correctly) ("Dan Hedaya of Clueless"?) but they can't catch a run on sentence? It's just sad, particularly the faux-personality put into it ("gonna go listen to some creedence"). Previous posters have pointed out additional faults (affection for production companies, for instance). I also noticed that this person didn't say HOW they got to see it... for the amount of sway the industry has convinced itself this site has, you folks really ought to put more effort into your pathetic lies.
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Last year on the Jim Breuer show he would not shut up about how he just finished doing a movie called "DICK". This was in the summer, which begs the question did he have a really small part or has the film just been in constant reshoots? I doubt that they would hold that movie for a whole other year until summer rolled around. But I have to admit, the trailer is awesome!
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You silly people..of course it was a freakin plant. But you dont have to break it down for these studio people about whats wrong with it. You have to know that next time theyll take all theyve learnt from your user talkback about how they screwed the pooch this time like: "first thing they would have done was brag about how they got to see it", then use it for pure evil..get my point.
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Come on...Dudette is just some poor production company flunkie trying to get a promotion (for him/herself and the film). Too bad they failed miserably. That wasn't a "review" - it's the same summary I could have lifted off of Studio System a year ago. (Oh, by the way, I am a production company flunkie. TV, but that raises an entirely different discussion...) Anyway, Dudette deserves a few tips for her effort:
1) No one ever remembers the last names of the characters.
2) Film buffs already know the actors - there's no need to list their credits.
3) You will never be able to plant a positive review on this site and get away with it because, generally speaking, readers here will always sniff out a fake. -
I've seen this movie. I can't say how but I can tell you it is worth seeing if for nothing else than the petty rivalry between Woodward and Bernstein, the smug, slow-mo walk through the Washington Post's office after the Watergate story breaks is especially funny. The two leads are appealing dimwits and their costumes are great. As for Nixon, he may not look especially like the real thing but he does manage to bring some real emotion to the character - you actually end up feeling bad for the guy when he boards the helicopter and looks back at the white house for the last time.
I'd hate to see a planted story keep anyone from seeing this very worthy film.
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Oh, yeah, this one was a planted load o' dung. I could smell it coming out as I started to scroll. It just screams of marketing ploys. I can just hear 'em talking now: "Okay, throw something on that Cool News kid's site. It's frequented by just the demographics were looking to snare. Let's make sure we mention each star and their credits. Our two lead babes will pull in all the 20-something guys, the comedians will pull in the 20-something gals so they can bring their guys along (make sure you mention they were on SNL too - but wait! - make sure they understand this movie is NOTHING like the bombs these actors have been in before!) Oh yeah, and be sure to mention that the director did 'The Craft' to pull in all the goths out there. Gotta have Goth. What else? Definitely make sure they know when it's coming out, who's doing it, and thew title - god forbid, don't forget the title..."
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Harry, how can you waste your precious bandwidth with such studio-produced hype? Dudette is just trying way too hard to sound flippant, but her journalism or PR training won't let her go from casual to conversational.
I wasn't sure until the end, when she mentioned the studio name and repeated the opening month and title. I work in PR and that's what we do: put the important info in the beginning and end. Just what she did. -
... and it sucks. Every joke falls flat. The girls look good and that's about it.
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From reading this site quite often, I've noticed that 99.9% of the posted screening reviews, always come with a story of ones journey to said screening. How they got there, whom they met/sat next to. etc. Plant or not, there was absolutely nothing in this "review" I could not have lifted from the trailor, or the snipped interviews/clips on movie news tv shows. In fact, it sounded more like the pre-written plot summary studios force the actors to commit to memory while going on the talk show curcuit to plug the film. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear Kirsten Dunst, or Michelle Williams spew this description alomst verbatim on their promotional tour.
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I cannot figure for the life of me why those seeking to promote films with fake reviews are so routinely *bad* at it. Given the cast, I had thought this film had sounded reasonably funny (the guy who played goatboy on Saturday night live was talking a touch about it on the Tom Leykis radio show a couple days back). But now, I think the tide has turned. Like any film, you know it has to be in trouble if somebody has to create fake reviews for it.
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Dammit, I remember seeing this somewhere! I think it was a teaser trailer or a "Short Preivew of Three Films" or something, but I can't remember where. But this one's legit, i'm sure of it!
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Well, of course it's a plant
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Hey, Harry, here's a hint: next time you sense that you've received a suspicious message, DON'T POST THE DAMN THING! There wasn't even any rumor value to this sucker. No true opinions about whether the movie works or doesn't and why, just a lot of credits (including those of "Pheonix" Pictures, for god's sake) which could have been gathered by anyone with a smidgen of ambition, whether or not they'd even seen the movie. (I also love that the way to make a phony post seem authentic is to make it appear to be written by a borderline illiterate. Not a very flattering comment on the geeks of the world.)
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Jul 02, 1999 2:16:19 PM CDT
"DICK-BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT!" OR "GALE ANNE HURD-DOG CATCHER
by uncapie
Ha, ha! Good one, Anton Sirus! Bark, Bark!
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Go back and look at lydia's post. See? Now THAT'S how you plant a positive review. Glad to see someone's getting the hang of it.
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Yummy.
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Maybe, or maybe it's someone who actually took time to check out IMdB for someinformation, hell I didn't know WHO Dan hedya or Bruce mcCollum was till I looked up their information on IMdB(for confirmation)I also agree why the hell would someone use the name of the anti-hero from a Coen brother's movie from another Studio, as for U-Turn hell I kind of enjoyed tha tmovie, it's deragned and freaky the sort of movie I liked...Hell I don't work for a studio(I live in Kansas for chrissakes) but I own Nixon(because it's Stone) and All The President's men(becasue it's a wonderful film) some people do have large video collections, who knows maybe she is a plant or maybe she's a plant who does like the moive, or maybe hell who cares, ease up a little though it does sound like a good movie
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it's 3 I counted if anyone cares
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Whenever the prose sounds too conspicuously glue-sniffing surfer-ish, and yet the dude is somehow able to give each actor or actress their previous credits, then you know there's something up. Following this same train of thought: if the studio is so zealous to plant positive hype, then conversely the movie must suck (A+B=C). Remember LETHAL WEAPON 4? Speedy Gonzalez with that big 'great' review, Harry? Same situation here.
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I own 50,000 shares of this on HSX, and it's so bad they have to go plant reviews! I'd better go sell real quick. Will I see it? Yea, on the dorm's movie channel once it comes out on video... That is, unless there's some bitchin' REAL word of mouth... (Oh yea, one positive thing about Harry posting this message, look at the talkbacks and you can start to see who's probably talkback plants. I count three, how about you?)
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Some one get me a watering can, cause this is a plant. Alright, no real movie geek would ever mention Dan Heydaya being in Clueless. That happens to be his most popular movie. A true AICN reader would mention Alien: Ressurrection or Ransom. Also, everything everyone else has said about the deliberate errors, the constant mentioning of their past films, etc. is completely true. No true AICN contributor would ever talk like that without first bragging about how they came to see the movie. I must politely ask Harry, for he has helped us so much throughout our lives, the either not print plants, or print them as a joke with many humorous out-downs. Also, wouldn't the "Dudette" have responded to some of these talkbacks by now if she were real? C'mon, give us some credit. I was just going to see this because I worship Bruce, Dave, and Dan and because I want to screw the brains out of Dunst and Williams, but now, forget it! I won't touch it. They really blew it. I was even willing to overlook the fact the Ferrel, whom I despise, was in it. Don't respond to this in talkbacks, because I won't read them. Email me instead.
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Ransom!?! What kind of real geek would remember Dan in Ransom? No, a REAL AICN geek would've mentioned Freeway, or Blood Simple, or Buckaroo Banzai, or even Cheers. But Ransom?
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... even HARRY can sniff it out. I mean c'mon, Harry gets taken by this shit all the time. He's so damn gullible. If even HE can see through this, you know it must be a plant. Anyhow, as for Dante bein a plant, well I thought the idea was to try and get people to SEE the film, not stay away from it. On the other hand, maybe the studio's are trying a new tactic now by using reverse psychology.
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Alright, I couldn't resist reading the talkbacks to my little shpiel. How odd that you would think me a plant. So why, oh why did I mention Ransom in Dan Heydaya's credits? Maybe it was because I was trying not to mention A Night at the Roxbury which pretty much ruined him for me. I hope he can redeem himself somehow.
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Jul 03, 1999 6:46:35 PM CDT
Yes, but a REAL geek would know the name of the character Dan He
by w. leach
Jackie Brown!!
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I think your spidey senses are correct here. This is written too much like an ad for the movie and not some average person's review. I think your suspicions are correct.
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This is not a plant. I just completed a Nielson survey based on the trailer. Here is the Sony URL: http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/dick/index.html. Check it out for yourselves.
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I just thought I'd add that the suspected plant showed up the same day I received the invitation to view the trailer and answer some q's about it. It COULD be a plant, I just thought it was pretty coincidental.
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