• PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    Its not made clear in the article how this happened, so I’m guessing they used AI generated quotes? Aside from one quote attributed to a different movie, it seems everything was fabricated…

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOP
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      26 days ago

      I don’t think it was AI doing it, it was likely someone in the marketing department.

      It’s actually, as a concept, pretty brilliant. Undercut the complaints of the current movie by showing the complaints about the directors previous films.

      They should have just found real complaints.

      I also don’t think Dracula is on the same stage as the Godfather or Apocalypse Now.

      It isn’t hard to find real reviews:

      https://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews/the-worst-review-the-godfather-ever-received-by-michael-mckown

      “Overly long and boring.” - Rex Reed on the Godfather, 1972

      https://theweek.com/entertainment/5191/apocalypse-now-original-1979-reviews

      “The Vietnam War was a tragedy. Apocalypse Now is but this decade’s most extraordinary Hollywood folly.” - Frank Rich, Time Magazine on Apocalypse Now, 1979

      “profoundly anticlimactic intellectual muddle” - Vincent Canby, New York Times on Apocalypse Now, 1979

      Maybe they put in the fake quotes as placeholders meaning to run down the real quotes later and just never did? 🤔