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SPY KIDS site goes Live
Hey kids, Harry here. I had heard that the SPY KIDS website was going live tonight, so I went and checked out SpyKids.Com. First surprise is that it is only accessible via FLASH.. this automatically limits your audience a bit... specially since friggin FLASH never seems to install correctly with my Internet Explorer.
Now SPY KIDS doesn't open till March of 2001, but they already have their website started... and right now... it doesn't do too much. Hopefully though, they can have some fun with this.
Right now, the site has a total of about 2 minutes of material to go through. Sure... round the end of the month, there'll be the first trailer... the one that'll be attached to 102 DALMATIONS or whatever... but really... if I were trying to sell the whole SPY KIDS concept... I'd be issuing missions... really simple ones to begin with... a series of questions... short answer... What is the capital of Russia? Who is President of the United States? How many moons does Earth have? Simple ones... but with each series of questions and answers... the kid would advance from basic wimp spy to super cool spy. But literally... it'd take weeks to acheive uber status... and those questions would be... How many moons around Jupiter? Who invented the theory of relativity? How fast is the speed of light? That sort of thing... and then when you got to the hardest questions... this would be 100s suddenly you would gain access to an area with behind the scenes footage... how to plant bugs in your sister's or brother's rooms... simple lessons on being a spy... what materials you need... how to use them...
Each time the kid signed on the site, it would remember where the kid was... how many questions answered... and his/her ranking in the world's league of Spy Kids.
You see... I'm tired of lazy website mastering for kids films where it's just a bunch of razzle dazzle marketing... and doesn't help a kid... or inspire him/her to learn.... to strive to be better.... to teach him/her to use the computer for good research... perhaps do the game in conjunction with Britanica Online or something.... This would open a child's eyes... as well as serve as a useful marketing effort for what I hope turns out as a good wholesome adventurous and fanciful kids film.
Why do I care? Because... Shouldn't we all? Locally I host a Children's Film Series called THE SATURDAY MORNING FILM CLUB... and with Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Alamo Drafthouse, The Chronicle and The Austin Film Soceity... I get to see a bunch of kids get access to materials and films like they've never seen... I tend to try to introduce the films in such a way that the kids might decide they want to make movies, do make up, write, special effects... etc etc etc...
SPY KIDS could be another one of those types of things... where DIMENSION could say... Yeah, we put out SCREAM and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN... but look what we did here.... and actually have a quality and good experience for kids from marketing, website and the film's release. Instead of making it just about marketing and toys... give something back upfront... Something that parents can see as a positive.... Well, that's my brain fart for the day!
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Carla Gugino again, at last. But it has to be akids film. Shame. But Rob, I trust ya.
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I've seen a lot worse. My niece will love this movie. Some of the images are pretty freaky.
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Seriously Harry, you could earn a fortune. Your ideas for marketing the Exorcist reissue and Way of the Gun were on the money too. I work in marketing, and it's a bullshit sector - people trying to make a science out of things that are instinctive and then overcharging people for their advice. Your enthusiasm for movies and your understanding of audience demographics (kids, geeks, etc.) gives you an edge over some dickhead marketer at a major studio who did a marketing degree and learnt dick from it. Okay, I'm done sucking Harry's cock now - I'd insult him as well just to be balanced, but I can't think of a good enough insult, and I'm in a rare peace and love mood.
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I totally agree with Harry. I am a teenager so I think I sort of get the best of both worlds on this flick. I think that Harry's ideas would be cool, and that we could all learn something.
I went to the site....that memory thing is just fucking annoying. Is there a reward after playing for ages and ages?
I played for a while and got bored and frustrated.
Robert please....you can help change this, I'm a big fan of yours and wouldn't wanna see this film fuck up! DO SOMETHING!:) -
Ok so the site is a piece of piss to get into, if u don't get in first time, it pities you and lets you in. More impressive than I expected but still the same as every other fuckin' movie website out there...bar blair witch.
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You ARE trying to sell this film Harry! don't deny it! and i'd have to disagree with whoever it was who said that rodriguez is a visual master. Stylish, sure, but a master? I hope this film doesn't end up like Inspector Gadget...
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Everytime I go to a movie site, I KNOW that there will be Flash everywhere. And that pisses me off. For slower comps such as mine, going through this menus and slow speech because of Flash just kills the speed. For cartoons (Newgrounds.com, Icebox.com) it seems to work fine, or even when it is just to play music. But when the entire navigation on the site DEPENDS on Flash menus, forget it. Oh and this movie never had a chance of making $$$ from the start, as much I actually hate to say that.
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If it's HUDSON HAWK bad, I'm going to love it. I like Rodriguez. He knows how to edit an action sequence, and has a good sense of humor. We could get a lot worse. We *do* get a lot worse. GET CARTER, CHILL FACTOR, THE ART OF WAR..... I really hope this works.
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It really does have that "Hudson Hawk" vibe to it..its like the movie thinks its more fun then it really is. But, who know, maybe this Alzheimers ridden former president might be wrong on this one. We'll just have to wait 'n' see, won't we?
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Ain't nobody inventing no such thing. Always been there, figured out by The big Al E. Man, if he invented it, he would be the creater, or something...
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Can you, or can you not "invent" a theory. To invent means to devise, discover, think up, fabricate in the mind. So yes, it is correct to say that Einstein invented the Theory of Relativity. It's not like Harry's saying Einstein invented the laws of Physics. Bad verbiage, though, on Harry's part. The Theory of Relativity did not exist until Einstein came up with it. Relativity existed, but it was Einstein's theory. Do I make myself clear? Good. I thought so.
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