Speaking of Fox dropping the ball Admiral. There is this BAnd of Brothers Jump out of an Airplane thing going on where the actors are doing a parachute jump to raise money for A Winters memorial and BOB statue or something. Fassbender wants to do it, just a matter of schedule. I don't think McCovy is.
However, since both their leads were involved, you think someone at Fox or the X-Men producers or something would be actively supporting and donating to this. While I don't think they really want these contracted for the sequels guys to jump out of a plane, man, can you have a better promo op?
I think a lot of the fanmade retro material is cool, and in this tech age, it is in its way, its own word of mouth. Instead of telling folks about something we make graphics and videos nowadays. However, there is a difference between letting viral and popular anticipation do your work for you in a smart manner- and face it it can't be a controlled manner. We forget viral originally had a negative connotation in its meaning.
Unfortunately, sometimes I think Fox or its marketeers just look damn lazy. Even if they didn't announce merchandising and material to come in the next few months, there are ways to find out if things are in the pipeline. Business trades and stuff you know. 'Burger King, not McD's get's X-Men deal' type public information. 'Target exclusive XMFC deal, not Walmart'. These things generally get heard- sometimes with something big like Star Trek you know way ahead which places they've worked with before and will again. But less than 2 months away and nothing? What the hell?
I remember when Mazda was showing commericals when they had that cool refit RX8 for the first films. There's been no retro car deals? No news of car collectors loaning automobiles to the shoot or stuff like that? Did Rolex make old style watches especially for the film? Where is all this stuff?
I'm telling you, sometimes I think this is like that Sequel to Gore Vidal's Caligula trailer, or the talking M&M's and Santa Claus:
He does Exist!
They do Exist!
That's how I'm going to feel on June 3.
