Good Work, Ad Men (March 29, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

What follows is the advertising slick FOX sent out to theaters in early 1999 offering suggestions as to how to promote the Wing Commander movie. The list on the back is truly amazing, culminating in this: "Use old computer equipment and other high tech items to simulate a spaceship command center. Have theatre staff dress up in WING COMMANDER type uniforms complete with space helmets." In a word, wow.

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Original update published on March 29, 2008

 

[Jacob]

As terrible as that would look, lord knows you'd want some photos of a theater that actually took that suggestion.

Edit: Now that I think about you, you know it would be nothing more than a mess of TVs, computer monitors and keyboards, cardboard and tin foil. Thanks to these movie theaters, movie-goers now have a chance to see into the future. It is a future filled with flammable and shiny objects, barely held together by scotch tape...