Posts Tagged ‘Films’
Friday, October 31st, 2008
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Tags: Films, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
We are so flattered. This is so great. Thank you so much.
Tags: Films, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
I hope you all will watch the movie tonight on ESPN2 and let me know what you think of it.
Tags: ESPN2, Films, Kicking It, Soccer, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Don’t jump the shark. Don’t have a film made about you or your company. Don’t open yourself to ridicule. Your served audience will abandon you. They will think you have lost sight of your center. It is way too early in Facebook’s development to have a film made about the company or its founder or to use Facebook as an emotional device for a film.
I always thought that the film You’ve Got Mail starring Tom Hanks spelled the end of our “cool” phase at AOL. It propelled us into the mainstream and we morphed into an older demo service and lost a big, youthful constituency.
At the time it felt good and fed our ego. In hindsight, it was a bad move. Learn from our mistakes and don’t do it.
Tags: AOL, Facebook, Films, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Check out this one. If you loved the punk rock scene in NYC in the 70’s and 80’s, you will find this film of great interest. Any film with Patti Smith in it is a fun one to watch.
Tags: Black, Films, Patti Smith, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take, White and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert M
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Hooray - good news! Read it and reap.
Tags: Documentaries, Films, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Step away from the theater - careful - it is that bad. What a lazy way to make a film: say the F word a lot; act like a kid; and cry and fart. There are about ten minutes of good moviemaking and fun in this film. It would be better on “Funny or Die” for free and even then, I would have been disappointed. Bad film - bad filmmaking.
Tags: Films, Step Brothers, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
…What kind of films do I like? I replied, “Great nonfiction films or well-written dramas and big well produced action flicks or small indie films with a great directorial point of view. I also like heroic acting jobs by stars that play off character.”He then asked me what kinds of films I didn’t like and I told him I would get back to him. Here is what I wrote him. It is indeed a random list:
- I don’t like any film where amnesia plays a pivotal part of the plot.
- I don’t like any film where mistaken identity (or twins as part of the mistaken identity plot twist) lulls the hero into complacency.
- I don’t like any film where the director shows the passing of time by using newspaper headlines spinning across the screen.
- I don’t like any film that uses a character’s voiceover to move the plot along.
- I don’t like any film that shows rich, good-looking young people in California suffering angst with moody, undiscovered artist music in the background.
- I don’t like any film with a supermodel making her film debut as a leading lady.
- I don’t like any film where a director pays homage to another director who is a contemporary.
- I don’t like films based on TV shows.
- I don’t like any films with a member of the Friends TV show in it.
- I don’t like “dramadies.” You are either funny or you are serious. Make up your mind.
- I usually don’t like films starring Saturday Night Live comedians.
- I don’t like musicians who want to stretch and end up playing a role that they mime on stage in their musical act.
- I don’t like any film where the plot twist ends up using aliens or outer space creatures out of context.
- I don’t like any film where someone tries to be funny and mimics an Indian accent.
- I don’t like any film that I can’t remember or discuss one week later.
- I don’t like any film where the hero and heroine are lovers off-screen.
- I don’t like any film where the CGI is cheesy looking.
- I don’t like any films that are promoted as comeback films for a star who I didn’t even know had left.
- I don’t like films that are truly summed up by the trailer and all the best lines, jokes and scenes are in the trailer.
- I don’t like any film where the audience cheers and applauds as the opening credits roll.
Tags: Films, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I like that as an easy description. How about you?
Tags: Films, Hulu, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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