Comments on: Branding is a conspiracy!

By: Tony Fannin

Tony Fannin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:13:00 +0000

They loaded just fine on my Android.

By: Tony Fannin

Tony Fannin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:11:00 +0000

They appear to be fake commercials from the movie. One was pretty funny. An ad for a pocket machine to test if your beef was contaminated with mad cow disease.

By: Aaron Thomas Sherwin

Aaron Thomas Sherwin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:18:00 +0000

I like to think that this is the sound of a giant robot, rusting beneath the sea, awakening itself with apocalyptic flatulence. And then massive bubbles erupt on the surface, overturning boats.

Also I think this is called a bass drop.

By: Afonso Loureiro

Afonso Loureiro — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:44:00 +0000

My first thought was “hmm, the teal-and-orange version of They Live”.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:39:00 +0000

I saw about 5, two at a time the first two times

By: spejic

spejic — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Or the Futurama movie “The Beast with a Billion Backs”?

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:29:00 +0000

The “in a world…” guy died, so this is what they have now

By: taras

taras — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Looks like an interesting film! I don’t think it’ll come as any surprise to anyone that QR codes are evil, though. fnord

By: Vinnie Tesla

Vinnie Tesla — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:48:00 +0000

I dunno–the Lorax selling SUVs was some pretty goddamn stiff competition.

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Yes they did. Probably the moment I started to lose faith on Andrew Stanton.

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:14:00 +0000

Well I hang around circles where there are a lot of people who firmly believe the world is being secretly controlled by dark sinister forces feeding off human grief and negative emotions. So yeah, I’m hoping Branded can take the ball from where They Live left it ;)

By: Kevin Bosch

Kevin Bosch — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:13:00 +0000

“Buy-n-Large” was the mega-corp that ran the world in the future, that encouraged over-consumption, and led to the mess the world became (and the blobs humans became). Part of the viral marketing was a fake site for what would be present-day Buy-n-Large , which seems a lot like Wal-Mart. I’m pretty sure Wal-Mart carried Wall-E toys anyway.

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:11:00 +0000

A talking fox you say? reminds me a lot of Castañeda’s talking coyote ;)

By: nvlady

nvlady — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:05:00 +0000

Didn’t Supernatural do all last season on this?

By: malindrome

malindrome — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:56:00 +0000

More like, “How far would you go … to get the script in on time?” Probably just rip off some old catch phrases from last year’s summer blockbuster. That far.

By: malindrome

malindrome — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Michael Bay’s “My Dinner With Andre” (Andre is actually a transforming robot).

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:23:00 +0000

They “iPhone only” videos loaded for me in Firefox 14.0.1, Windows 7 (they launched inside of Media Player)

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:15:00 +0000

Bay did a pretty good job on “Last Year at Marienbad 2″

By: Cruftbox

Cruftbox — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Here are the QR codes I found and where they lead to:

http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code020 – http://www.brandedmovie.com/code020/ – for iPhone only, Beef Tester commercial in Russian (Branded_Commercial4.mp4)

http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code013 – http://brandedmovie.com/code013/ – for iPhone only, Extreme Cosmetika commercial in Russian (Branded_ExtremeMakeover.mp4)

http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code023 – http://www.brandedmovie.com/code023/ – Yepple Ads

http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code091 – http://brandedmovie.com/code091/
Which leads to http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code030 – http://brandedmovie.com/code030/ – for iPhone only Burger trailer (Branded_Commercial.mp4) , more QR codes

http://uqr.me/branded/qr/code002 – http://brandedmovie.com/ – main site

When I say iPhone only, it means the page does a Javascript query to see if you are coming from an iPhone, if yes, it plays a video, if no, it give you a black screen.

By: Box of Cotton Swabs

Box of Cotton Swabs — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:45:00 +0000

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:30:00 +0000

The Beef Tester advert is TERRIFYING!

By: xian

xian — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:10:00 +0000

I wonder if Rob got it mixed up with the marketing for The Lorax?

By: James Le Fever

James Le Fever — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:03:00 +0000

The aliens plugging into the back of peoples heads kind of reminded me of John Shirley’s novel “Wet Bones” – which I haven’t read in ages….

By: Patrick McGorrill

Patrick McGorrill — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:31:00 +0000

The corporations=space aliens analogy is also the premise of As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derick Jensen and Stephnie McMillan. I’d be more excited about this movie if I knew that it also had a talking fox character.

By: pjk

pjk — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Yeah, there was something going on there, but it would only have been ironic if the purpose of the film was to criticize consumption-driven capitalism in any real way, which was not the case.

By: microcars

microcars — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Is there a name for that “Transformers Sound” that I keep hearing in trailers like this? It was in BattleShip as well. Sounds like a giant motor with a bad bearing slowing down. Is it pre-programmed key on the sound effects board? Perhaps it is right next to the Wilhelm Scream.

By: Drabula

Drabula — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:48:00 +0000

Looks pretty good to me, but my expectations for mainstream film are ridiculously low these days. At least it looks dark and a bit nasty. There’s not nearly enough dark and nasty in film these days. Plenty of faux dark and this might end up there too but I’ll give it a shot. The trailer conveys a little bit of Cronenberg to me.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Me, I’m waiting for the Michael Bay remake of ‘Waking Ned Devine’.

By: Mitchell Powers

Mitchell Powers — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:44:00 +0000

I guess Adbusters and the BLF can close shop now. Good job, everybody!

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:34:00 +0000

If it’s Micheal Bay then the wrestler will be CG and he’s not a wrestler any more, he’s an alien… made of explosions.