Please Bee My Friend
September 24th, 2007
Has anyone else gotten My Space friend requests from the characters from “Bee Movie”?
I’ve never seen an animated film marketed in such a way. I guess it’s a neat thing, but I’ve denied two of these so far (sorry Mooseblood). I already have enough fake friends.
Thoughts?
-Floyd Bishop
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On September 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am
sounds like a pretty cool way for marketing the film, it’s pretty similar to how they’re marketing the new untitled JJ Abrams Monster pic, 1-18-08, whereas instead of giving a lot of backstory on the characters, we, the fans, are meant to search out their profiles and get their backstory in a more “personal” social networkey sort of a way. It’s kinda neat.
-jx!
On September 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Meh…it kinda feels weird to me. It’s not an actual human being who’s trying to be your ‘friend,’ it’s some creepy marketing exec/minion/bot trying to trick you into being interested in their movie.
“1-18-08″ was an interesting puzzle (like the Lost Experience) and I’ll readily admit to being a sucker for that sort of thing. If the characters of Lost started trying to infiltrate my Myspace, though…I dunno.