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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

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Acoustic Virgin said:
I think it's an aspirational thing. Advertisers love the 18-35 demographic (for reasons I don't understand -- these young adults have the least disposable income out of anyone).
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Ok next time you're in a store, go like the detergent aisle. (or really any aisle, the exactly product is not important)

Now, would you be able to perform a proper scientific analysis to figure out which item on the shelves is truly and absolutely the best of them? No. Even the simplest of them, laundry detergent would take you years to test each one on as near identical loads of clothes unless you're so OCD you bought every product you could and then spent every day staining an item and washing it while taking proper notes on each result.

Ain't nobody got time for that. So what are you going to do? You're at most going to buy one or two of them until you find one that works for your needs and then you're going to stick with that detergent until the day you die.

THAT is why advertisers target 18-35 year olds. Because that is the age range people move out from their parents, start getting their own places, are most amicable to experimentation. Once they get out of those age ranges and have settled down, they will "stick" with whatever they have bought in the past and like. It's not about targeting the group with the most disposable income, it's about roping in the group that is most open to giving your product a try and then spending decades after that continuing to feed the company money.
 
Just stopping into say

Crank, Crank 2 and the First Transporter are amazing movies and if you don't like them you are a no-fun having asshole.

Star Wars should have just straight up plagiarized Crank 2 for a Darth Maul movie where Darth Plaguis revives maul with an ancient Sith Artifact to get revenge on Palpatine but he has to keep murdering people to keep it powered so he has to go on an absolute insane Sith Murder spree on his way to try to assassinate Palpy.
 
Andy Soying Out said:
Jason Statham was already a star by 2006, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 ) and Snatch (2000) were his breakout roles, then The Transporter came out in 2002, was a big action hit at the time and got two sequels.
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He was "that bald guy who screams a lot and punches people" back then.
He became a star after they put him in Fast & Furious with all the other bald dudes.
 
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Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
He was "that bald guy who screams a lot and punches people" back then.
He became a star after they put him in Fast & Furious with all the other bald dudes.
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wtf are you talking about? Most of the better known shit in his career was from before that.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
The One
The Transporter
The Italian Job
Cellular
Transporter 2
Crank
Dungeon siege(lol, it's a shit movie but not because of him)
Death Race
Transporter 3
Crank 2

If anything he went to shit after Fast & Furious 6 since it's not like anyone actually talks about crap from his career after that point.
 
p1138 said:
wtf are you talking about? Most of the better known shit in his career was from before that.
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Yes, the movies were better known but people didn't know him by name.
And honestly, I didn't remember that he was in Italian Job and The One until I rewatched those movies many years later.
p1138 said:
If anything he went to shit after Fast & Furious 6 since it's not like anyone actually talks about crap from his career after that point.
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But we're talking about popularity, not quality.

Also, I had a look at Statham's IMDB page and.... what the fuck is this?
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I am mildly excited for this... whatever this is going to be.
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
Yes, the movies were better known but people didn't know him by name.
And honestly, I didn't remember that he was in Italian Job and The One until I rewatched those movies many years later.
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People absolutely knew him by name before the fast & furious movies. Hell, he's practically the only other actor in The One besides Jet Li and the black guy who's in it for maybe 5 minutes.
 
p1138 said:
People absolutely knew him by name before the fast & furious movies. Hell, he's practically the only other actor in The One besides Jet Li and the black guy who's in it for maybe 5 minutes.
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I still remember those days before the 2010's and whenever you mentioned him it was like this:

Me: "You know Jason Statham?"
Some Fuck: "Who?"
Me: "The bald guy from Transporter."
Some Fuck: "Oh yeah, that guy, I know him, sure."

You always had to clarify but after F&F6, you didn't have to clarify anymore.
That's how I determine whether someone is actually a star.
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
I still remember those days before the 2010's and whenever you mentioned him it was like this:

Me: "You know Jason Statham?"
Some Fuck: "Who?"
Me: "The bald guy from Transporter."
Some Fuck: "Oh yeah, that guy, I know him, sure."

You always had to clarify but after F&F6, you didn't have to clarify anymore.
That's how I determine whether someone is actually a star.
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I'm sure that's how it was on the playground with all the other kids back in the early 2000's, but adults who could actually watch action movies knew who he was.
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
Yes, the movies were better known but people didn't know him by name.
And honestly, I didn't remember that he was in Italian Job and The One until I rewatched those movies many years later.

But we're talking about popularity, not quality.

Also, I had a look at Statham's IMDB page and.... what the fuck is this?
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I am mildly excited for this... whatever this is going to be.
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I kind of want to see that too.

Also I'm pretty sure you're known if the anime name drops you.

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ddlloo said:
I'm watching that this cour ( it's by the lady who did Full Metal Alchemist so I have high expectations) and her crush was such a random one I did a double take and had to rewind.
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I just stumbled on the random screenshot. Source?
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
Yes, the movies were better known but people didn't know him by name.
And honestly, I didn't remember that he was in Italian Job and The One until I rewatched those movies many years later.

But we're talking about popularity, not quality.

Also, I had a look at Statham's IMDB page and.... what the fuck is this?
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I am mildly excited for this... whatever this is going to be.
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Statham got his start as a "street hustler" (his words) in London. This could just be a biopic.
 
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