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Alfred Hitchcock would like you to shut off your Cell Phones during movies!
Hey folks, Harry here... Just saw this PSA from Alfred Hitchcock (as he's been brought to life by Sir Anthony Hopkins) which is of course a viral marketing piece for the upcoming film, HITCHCOCK - whose trailer looks tremendous. Now - share the hell out of this...
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You're killing me, Smalls.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 5:41 p.m. CST
I'll say it once again...Hopkins Node ruins everything
by Redhead_Redemption
They probably spent hundreds of thousands to give hopkins life like neck fat and they kept his pointy nose? Hitchcock had a wider rounder nose, Any Makeup artist could have fixed that with any number of appliances
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my perfect reputation is tarnished, I hope the internet will forgive me
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Dang Whippersnappers!
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It's still a protrusion!
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I'm not amused.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
They're not making an animatronic robot for Disney World's Hall of Directors.
by Mugato5150
he doesn't have to be Hitchcock's doppelganger. Better he not look exactly like him than get covered in a shitload of latex. That always looks terrible.
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I'd share this if it was a legit copy. The irony of sharing a mobile phone version is just too much for me to handle.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 6:21 p.m. CST
bad casting. doesn't look like him, doesn't sound like him.
by zom-bot.com
there has to be a ton of overweight balding actors...known, semi-known and unknown that would have been better for the role.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 6:22 p.m. CST
Gotta live a cell phone bootleg of an anti-cell phone ad.
by tomandshell
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I mean... I like Alfred Hitchcock. I like Anthony Hopkins. But why do we make movies where people impersonate dead celebrities? It becomes a game of "how good did the actor impersonate the dead celebrity" rather than the movie being judged on if it's actually any good or not. I would much prefer a REAL documentary on Alfred with REAL archival footage of him so I can know the REAL him if I want to and have Hopkins and the director of this film do something else. However, the movie does look interesting and I will be seeing it. Not much to choose from these days.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 6:49 p.m. CST
Thing is, I can't help but think, if Hopkins had tried to put on more of Hitchcock's true voice, we'd be saying "oh god, enough, just speak normally, Tony!"
by TheSeeker7
I say Tony cause, ya know, me and Hop are close like that. But seriously, you know it's totally true.
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movie itself doesn't really interest me though. As much as I like Hollywood history, I too would rather just watch a documentary. But just give Hopkins the Oscar nom now. The academy loves this kind of shit.
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Nixon. I bet after 5 mins you forget he's in makeup. If Sir Anthony brings his A game, this should be a treat.
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On a seperate note, stop cursing the lack of an editing feature. Pay attention to what you're doing the first time. Everyone understands your insightful, nuanced observations and rapier wit must be shared immediately.
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rather then Hopkins portraying Hitchcock
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Hopkins should have provided the performance and Weta the Hitchcok cgi skin.
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They bounce like my wife's boobs, but I wanna see what they look like.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:37 p.m. CST
cavejohnson, that's the worst idea I've read on this site
by Mugato5150
since Herc decided to make a James Bond thread about universal healthcare.
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The start of the very amusing TAMPOPO has a yakuza type mobster casually walk up to a guy munching snacks in the theatre and informs him that, if makes noise eating during the film, he'll kill him. I wish I could have the guy with me when I go to films. He'd have his work cut out dealing with idiots who don't know the difference between a cinema and a telephone booth.
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A tiny water gun. This only works in certain situations. The theater has to be empty enough so that you don't spray the wrong person, but have enough people so that when they look back, they won't know it's you. Also, they have to be people who can't outrun you and beat you up. You're welcome.
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Has anybody considered that those of us who are wealthy, need to check our stocks a few times a day whether we're in a theatre or not? You guys act so friggin' entitled to your movies, makes me sick; people's lives go on, no matter where they happen to be during the day. Lighten up.
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I've always thought a little film about what ILM was doing on a pic called "Star Wars" would be a fun film...on the cusp of churning out greatness...the supposed wild antics...building of new equipment...George...Dykstra... What say you, would this have any commercial appeal beyond Comic Con? From what I hear, things got pretty wild at that little shop in Van Nuys. You could make a "Hangover" type film mixed with nerdy geniuses and Hollywood, a real statement of time and place...
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I've considered investing in some sort of signal-blocking technology for my immediate proximity...ever researched it? That way the asshole couldn't complain about water...
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I've heard about it, but actually I usually can zone out the people texting without too much annoyance, but the people talking in movies really burn me. Happened while watching Argo this weekend. It was good that I didn't have my water gun with me because after the lights came up at the end, it turns out they were wheelchair bound and retarded.
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Retarded as in mentally-challenged? What the hell were they doing in a movie like that in the first place then? Txting/talking, it's all the same to me. I have a buddy who refuses to see movies anymore with me because I had the gall to tell him not to do it around me, ever. People amaze me with their entitled feelings.
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At least Toby Jones tried to get the voice right.
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Irony continues...?
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I'm cracking up as it says the message whilst someone with their cell phone records it LOL. Wel it didn't say no recording.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 6:31 a.m. CST
No one should be talking on a cell phone during a movie, but I really could care less about the texting.
by Wcwlkr
Especially if the phone is on silent. I never understood the complaint there.
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He's got Hitch and Churchill locked.
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Sorry.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 7:39 a.m. CST
I love how some talkbackers presume to give Sir Anthony Hopkins acting lessons.
by ray a
He has only been acting for more years you have been alive. Go get a job.
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Is there is supposed to be one light source: the screen. It's why they dim the lights in the theatre, to focus your attention on the screen. Every time one of your phones lights up my experience is broken as my attention is drawn to your lit up device.
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What don't you fools get about light emitting cell phones in a darkened theater? Texting may be quiet, but if you're sitting in front of me, your fucking cell phone's light is distracting. Why the hell should I have to look past a dozen or more flashlights shining back at me when I paid too much to watch the damn movie in the first place? GO TEXT OUTSIDE OR IN THE LOBBY, FOOLS. Why are you even there?
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Oct. 16, 2012, 10:12 a.m. CST
Just announced...Happy Madison to do an the animated Meme: The Movie!!!
by kindofabigdeal
Adam will be playing Scumbag Steve. Rob Schnieder is Bad Luck Brian. Steve Buscemi is Success Kid. Chris Rock is 3rd World Success Kid. Peter James is Forever Alone. Nick Swardson is Karate Kyle. Drew Barrymore is Overly Attatched Girlfriend. David Spade is Pedobear. Allen Covert is Good Guy Greg. Peter Dante is Bachelor Frog. David Hasselhoff is Insanity Wolf. with Keanu Reeves as Conspiracy Keanu and Sean Bean as One Doesn't Simply... Winter 2013
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I almost NEVER go to the movies anymore because I know I'll be bathed in the bright blue glow of some self absorbed dumb fuck. It happens EVERY FUCKING TIME! I HATE FUCKING CELL PHONES!
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When dude said "Never understood the complaint there," I wanted to scream and put a bullet in someone's head. That's the entire problem with society. Not only that you don't understand the complaint once it has been made, but that you have no forethought, empathy, and simply can't comprehend in the first place a person existing who isn't you with thoughts that aren't your own that might want different things and who might be worthy as a fellow human of subtly adjusting your public behavior for.
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Some people should really never, ever, ever try and be funny. Ever. For the betterment of society. None of what you have to say is either clever, entertaining, funny, or relevant. Scroll up a couple posts for evidence.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 11:28 a.m. CST
I went to the local "art" house a few weeks back to see The Master
by Samuel Fulmer
And let me tell you, the over 60 crowd is ten times worse then the kids when it comes to talking during movies and playing with their cell phones.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 11:29 a.m. CST
For some asinine reason, it's illegal for movie theaters to install phone jammers
by Nasty In The Pasty
Plus, even if theaters DID install them, people would still open their phones constantly, and be saying out loud, "Dude, my phone doesn't work...!", which would be even more distracting.
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Anyone who refuses to comply with simple phone restrictions in public places where they create a problem (driving, watching a movie, etc) should be subject to having their phone shoved up their ass. Literally any person who is so inclined should have society's permission to sexually assault the offender with his or her own phone. Then they should be charged an exorbinant fee by an emergency room to remove the phone.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 1:30 p.m. CST
of course it's illegal to jam the signal what if you need help (not forgotten batman have you)
by kingoflight
Yet it's a problem i understand it just like everyone here who probably loves movies and obeys the unwritten rules of phone off, shut the fuck up and no pee breaks. Yet some are wankers and talk, text and make calls. Personally i feel they should be instantly ejected from the movie and it should be routinely done to discourage these activities. recently i had a dreadful time of seeing a movie where the staff actually brought 3 drunk women in their 40's to their seats where they actually talked throughout the movie and people complained but nothing was done. I don't understand how staff would not eject them instantly instead of making probably 100+ people resent going to this cinema due to their attitude towards talking and drinking.
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....and yet people have been going to movies for 3/4 century before cell phones were even invented and society somehow survived. And please don't cite the Batman shooting every time an issue about theaters comes up. It was much more dangerous to go to a theater in the early 90s with all the =urban= films. I must be lucky though, I rarely have problems with people and their phones in my theater and when it does happen, it's usually and old person. Although problems with people bumping into me because they have their heads buried in their phones are still all teenagers.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 4:07 p.m. CST
I forgot how many lives were save in Colorado because they had cell phones.
by kindofabigdeal
I hope his insanity plea includes a total hatred of patrons on their cell phones. Then the blame can be put on those people.
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Sorry if you didn't find my Meme movie humorous or amusing. I wasn't trying to make you laugh as much as I was pointing out the trend of retarded movies aimed at retards that Hollywood has been cranking out in full speed. Part of it was in response to people who either dislike this movie or dislike the actors take on the character. They are granted their own opinions but sometimes I just feel like they hate just to hate. I like the idea of the process of film making being dramatized for the big screen. First we had Orson Welles and now Hitchcock. I'm hoping maybe we get Kubrick next and get some behind the scenes of Eyes Wide Shut where he took Cruise and Kidman to a hotel to "work out some scenes". In any case I'm sorry if my post was lame and I will refrain from ever attempting humor, sarcasm, or general jackassery.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 5:33 p.m. CST
Another makeup miss for Hopkins - Should've hired Timothy Spall
by tangcameo
Now HE would look like Hitchcock! Hopkins' Nixon looked more like Ed Sullivan which made me wish he HAD made an Ed Sullivan movie.
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Hitchcock was way ahead his time indeed!
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I sincerely apologize. I was being the asshole on the internet and forgetting myself a human exists on the other end of the post.
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You may not be a master satirist yet (lame texty smiley face), but Jesus Christ son, neither am I, so if you enjoy writing I encourage you and wish you the best in the future.
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Is that he looks and sounds a lot like Hitchcock some of the time and then does or says something that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shoves your nose in your own suspended disbelief before shoving it down your throat screaming IT'S HOPKINS YOU BLOODY IDIOT CAN'T YOU SEE AND HEAR HIM LOOOOK !!! LIIIIISTEN !!!! After that it takes a while to buy back in to the impersonation, and just when you do you get yelled at all over again. Shame, cos Johannsson is SMOKING as Leigh, but I can't sit through 2 hours of Hopkinscock just for that.
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with the Finding Nemo cast, where Bruce the Shark eats the asshole that's talking on the phone!!! Now, if only, Life would imitate Art!
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