The weird thing is, I swear I had read this here before already, but it doesn't show up in search so now I'm really confused. Heh.

The One True b!X | December 29, 13:20 CET

Rotten Tomatoes have been running this banner ad on film websites across the internet - with Alan Tudyk's face from Serenity in it.

This is going to turn into not the best day ever, folks (foreshadowing! subtext! typing!)

gossi | December 29, 13:21 CET

What's even more puzzling is that the same week it decides to put Alan's face to represent a negative feature in which his movie isn't even included, they've listed it as their Certified Fresh DVD & Video Pick of the Week.

*further scratching of the head*

[ edited by UnpluggedCrazy on 2005-12-29 11:25 ]

UnpluggedCrazy | December 29, 13:24 CET

Weird indeed!! However, this is even less worrying than the EW ‘scare’ which did not feature on any of the places (apart from here) that I regularly visit or search for movie and TV or dvd news.

What conspiracy theories do we have this time? A disgruntled, bitter member of the spoilery ‘Save Wash’ mob? A seething Star Wars fan who thinks they're enjoying a moment of power? A cynical attempt to increase traffic?

Also, no offence mate (honest, at all) but gossi, I’m beginning to wonder if your username has been taken over by a very pessimistic scaremongering demon. It is weird, but, to channel Joyce, I’m with the "its not the end of the world" crowd, even if we are in denial.

To jump genres and be Pollyanna for a moment. If the picture causes doubters or resentful anti-Serenity, anti- Joss types to click on the picture with glee – I just wish I could see the disappointment on their faces when they find out that Serenity is not in the bomb category at all but front and centre as DVD pick of the week. Roll on the extra traffic.

purplehazel | December 29, 14:11 CET

purplehazel - no offense taken. There is some behind the scenes stuff going on which my last sentence was refering to which will become clear later. Obviously, it's not related to this topic though. All honesty, I don't much care what Rotten Tomatoes do, but the timing is funny (in a bad way).

gossi | December 29, 14:31 CET

They're probably using it for not only his "WTF?!?" face, but to bring attention to the article.

Serenity rocked.

powerof3 | December 29, 15:30 CET

Good God, gossi, I'm scared now.

Was it maybe nominated for Razzies or something...?

UnpluggedCrazy | December 29, 15:57 CET

gossi is scaring me, too...uh-oh...

Well, let's look at this Rotten Tomatoes thing this way. The only people who will recognize Alan and realize it is a picture of him from "Serenity" as opposed to his many other films (like being the dread pirate Steve in "Dodgeball, for example) will be us , and we won't think the worse of "Serenity" for this unfortunate association.

billz | December 29, 16:21 CET

Cough it up gossi? Why will be crying? OK, don't mention it publically, because obviously you can't.
But, you can email me! ; )

nixygirl | December 29, 16:43 CET

Good point billz - my first reaction was to go looking for I Robot.

So... let's just assume someone at Rotten Tomatoes is playing with us. I'll revise my reference to a "cynical attempt to increase traffic" to "a playful attempt to increase traffic". We do after all seem to be very wind-upable - by members of the board as well as other sites ;-)

purplehazel | December 29, 17:02 CET

Oh, it'll all be fine chappies, never fear. If Serenity gets nominated for a Razzie I'll chew my arm off and sell it on ebay.

gossi | December 29, 17:10 CET

Would that be under "Entertainment Memorabilia" or "Toys & Hobbies"? ;-)

Besides, looked at the Razzies website -- not even a mention in the semi-finalists list. My gloomy guess -- 'versal is thinking they don't need to keep the board going forever...?

billz | December 29, 17:28 CET

Heh, this is pretty weird. Has anyone tried e-mailing the people at rotten tomatoes to ask what's going on? On second thought: scratch that. E-mailing has not done us much good in the past. But it does make you wonder what was going on when the advert was made.

GVH | December 29, 18:07 CET

Not only this, but "Kong" only has 83% positive on the Tomatometer?! Something is rotten in the state of World.

BAFfler | December 29, 19:44 CET

I think they just liked Alan's face. And purplehazel, I saw a lot of fallout from the "Joss has thrown in the towel" article. Depends on where you looked, I guess.

Lioness | December 29, 20:05 CET

Oh come on. Gossi has been the voice of doom on and off for a really long time. We love him anyway.

Back on topic: This is annoying.

newcj | December 29, 21:31 CET

What???

Maybe they just used it to get the attention from rabid fans like us. It worked.

writerserenyty | December 29, 21:39 CET

Valiant's bird is in the picture as well, but not in the feature. I'm guessing that they just listed the worst of the worse and made an image with a few of the low-grossing films.

rabid | December 29, 21:47 CET

I don't buy it...why??? I do dig purplehazel's Pollyanna spin on it.

Gossi, got the email...I'm assuming this is what you are sad about. No more serenity board. We love you, gossi! Very cool that you are heading up serenitymovie.org. You're the best!

BAFfler, King Kong rocked indeed. I was a mess coming out of the theatre. My eyes were swollen from all the sobbing. I'm such a sucker for good love stories.

Harmalicious | December 30, 10:11 CET