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I agree JLAW's status has more to do with the result than his hairline. REPOS's title is weak: clever, but only clever. As to genre...
... well that's "futuristic medical-technology-anxiety manhunt film," isn't it? I haven't seen it, but it looks like a little bit of "The Island" (organ and dismemberment topics), a little bit of "Blade Runner" (noirish atmosphere). In its trailers and TV spots it didn't seem to offer anything in the way of new visual values, which often (I feel) help to build an audience (by attracting neighbouring genre audiences). Having nothing new in visual effects certainly didn't help it to interest a wider audience.
If I had to try to make a serious argument about baldness as a problem in drawing an audience, I'd say it would have something to do with building a story around a non-ideal body, that is, that baldness (or dismemberment, for that matter) creates a vague anxiety which an audience finds off-putting. Think of "Vanilla Sky," and the talk at the time of TCRUI's "braveness" for allowing his looks to be disturbed for the film; or, for that matter, his shaved head at the end of "Minority Report." I think audiences take permanent physical damage to a protagonist seriously in an unconscious way. It's displeasure, and that doesn't sell tickets. "A.I.," "Minority Report" and "War of the Worlds" all interest me for how well they did in the face of this kind of displeasure.
Official Adjusts Mar 21, 11:43
1/2...got repo...missed wimpy {nm} Mar 21, 12:20
4/4 even though BOUNT and TGHST aren't really worth counting. {nm} Mar 21, 12:23
3/4, misled by WIMPY tracking. Mar 21, 12:28
Ditto {nm} Mar 21, 13:00
Well I was gonna flip it to a full long, but missed the halt... Thankfully not that big an adjust up. {nm} Mar 21, 15:34
3/4! Missed BOUNT. Not bad! {nm} Mar 21, 12:35
Thanks! 1/1, got REPOS. {nm} Mar 21, 13:16
When will I ever learn that "how bad can it possibly be?" is rarely a valid analysis :/ {nm} Mar 21, 13:20
Hmmm... you are not referring to TGHST, and not WIMPY, I'd guess. Since BOUNT was flat, my guess is that you longed REPOS. Mar 21, 13:40
I agree JLAW's status has more to do with the result than his hairline. REPOS's title is weak: clever, but only clever. As to genre... Mar 21, 17:21
Nice analysis, but.. What am I missing about War of the Worlds, there... ? Mar 21, 21:43
Well... Mar 21, 22:06
I haven't seen A.I., so I just browsed over that part - or my eyes bounced over it a little.. :-) {nm} Mar 22, 01:48
2/3...got TGHST and REPOS...missed WIMPY...didn't play BOUNT {nm} Mar 21, 14:57
0/2 this week {nm} Mar 21, 23:56