@pir8matt: If you watch the red band trailer (technically explicit) you can see the reference. Even after watching it though it's kindof a stretch.

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Veeber

oh.
i am so surprised.
who would have seen that coming
wow
what a shocker
shew, they really had me there
pulled a fast one
yep, i was fool.

.

.

NOT

AhnyerKeester

When I first saw this something about it seemed kinda fake, but I dismissed it. I guess I should stop doing that.

videoCWK

@tucker: I also saw that on madtv. It was pretty funny.

Evangelion

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: dude, you're like that saturday night live sketch where the girl gets so excited she throws herself out a window.

tucker

How did that promote the movie exactly?

pir8matt

Well duh....

Question everything.

tamoko

A lot of people called it, since the monitors acted like they weren't even attached to any PC's and the most shoddily put together office ever seen with walls falling apart so easily.

A lot of people had really strange arguments about why it could be real, including that people who put cubes together are lazy and do not connect the walls properly.

smcallah

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Simpsons-Movie-ruled

I KNEW IT!!!!!
I HAD CALLED IT!!!

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

How is that movie similar to this video in any way? What a lame viral marketing strategy.

kylo4

Damn. I already look at stuff carefully, but I guess not carefully enough. (is that grammatically correct?)

pliSkiNAKE

well now I don't want to see that movie. mission accomplished.

turi319

dude, it's angelina, not angeline. come on.

kibogoyo

You mean it wasn't an actual video? It looked so... real.

No way, I still don't believe it was staged.

ttech10

alright, I watched the trailer. It makes a bit more sense, but still...
anyway, that looks like an absolutely ridiculous movie.

kzooguy

Well duh. The monitor on his desk (that he threw at the girl next to him) wasn't even plugged into anything. That pretty much had FAKE written all over it from then on. And everyone was just standing around looking at him freak out, while not one person tried to grab a hold of him. It reeked of viral advertising if you ask me.

dead_red_eyes

My mom will forward the video to me in like a year. Just like the shark jumping up at the helicopter picture. and the....

scaught

@scaught: ... monkey peeing in his own mouth?!?!?!?! lolcats, zomg! purple.

moms are great.

Paradise

If I see another movie with Morgan Freeman playing the same fucking part I'm going to scream. Aaaa. There. I was sick of him playing that part years ago. Stop hiring him. Plus, he's looking goofier every year.

SpudMills

...still can't make the connection between that and Wanted though...

Chromeo

And we're all talking about it. I'd say that's pretty good marketing.

LJN

Isn't one of the main points of marketing something to actually know the "thing" that is being marketed? How could this possibly be considered successful? If that was Angelina getting nailed by the monitor I sure couldn't tell.

maven2k

@LJN: We may be talking about it, but I for one don't want to see the movie just because the "viral ad" was lame. There's no reference to the movie in that video, so ef them.

photophile

You know what? I'm not watching that movie. Ok, maybe I will because I watch a lot of movies, but if so, it'll be pirated.

Because I f*cking hate viral marketers. They should all die in a pit of molten lava.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

So it's wasn't for hair care products after all?

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halfshafter

I call fake on the fakeness.
Could be a cover up...

Question everything and then question again.

girraffesack

ill give them credit, the movie website is actually pretty cool, especially in fullscreen

elislider

If the part where he half-assed swung the ax/lamp whatever he was swinging at the dude that was trying to stop him, didn't convince you it was fake, you need to re-examine your fact checkers!

dangj307

bending bullets like beckham? C'mon Angelina, I hold you to higher movie standards than that!

discounteggroll

Lost on everyone, unless you count the midframe subliminal messaging and hypnotic speech patterns.

Monsterdog

So what about the second video that popped up on the camera phone with the obvious Russian in the background?

AskTheAdmin

Oh gosh, I thought that was a guy at Microsoft after Apple announced the iPhone 3G.

dallasmay2

@girraffesack: Haha exactly!

txpunk

@AskTheAdmin: I'm with you, that's the first thing I said. Fake or not, the fact that it's apparently somewhere in Eastern Europe really, really (really) convinces me there is absolutely no connection to "Wanted".

bahalana

Wow. Fooled me. On the other hand, how did this promote the movie? I saw no correlation whatsoever. FAIL.

N@tedog

hmm explains why the guy was so weak with the fire axe he gave it up way to easy now if I went berserker.....:).

monkeemike

the red band trailer is hot

Nemesisesq

@maven2k: "Isn't one of the main points of marketing something to actually know the "thing" that is being marketed? How could this possibly be considered successful? "

Well, we're talking about it now, right?

@girraffesack: "Question everything and then question again."

Nicely planted, ANGELINA. That's right, I know you're part of this. C'mon, fess up.

frigg

Am I the only one still wondering why this video is even on a gadget blog? I see enough stuff like this from Digg gizmoders.

YouandWhoseArmy

Doh!
@txpunk: I mean exactly!

txpunk

Wanted will be a huge disappointment to anyone who read the comics.

That's all.

logruszed

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi:...you do recognize that this (and probably most of the online material you read) is a form of viral marketing, right? Or did you really think that you're getting stuff for free?

Goodnightbabytron

It was more fun to believe it were real. sigh...

El_Diablo0517

That just made me rethink seeing that movie, I dont think i want to anymore.

vinnyr

Forget the fact that the monitors were not attached- they were CRT monitors for goodness sakes!!!
Who the hell still uses those???

stenro

I didn't really think it was real, but I didn't see any indication of it being advertising for anything. I understand the viral part, but they seem to have forgotten the advertising part.

smartboydan

Looked good until he threw the monitor. Didn't everyone try and move a monitor with the cable attached?

Amdy

I really wanted it to be real, just this once.

feederbird

No kidding! That's a marketing stunt? I actually related to the guy in the video. I've wanted to throw computers around and go off on people. But, I think they deserved it. They definitely had it coming. Going off like that would feel so good. But, I'd be the kind of guy who picks up the monitor and then thinks about it. I'd put it back down and look for something else. By then, I'd forget I'm mad.

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