Quick Takes: 2/26/07

Posted by Chris

February 26, 2007

Social media and its allures are tempting people away from movies, movies that are increasingly losing their ability to speak to where the culture and society are at the moment. Robert Young at GigaOm and Steve Bryant at ReelPop each have their own thoughts on this as well.
Steve also says that the behind-the-scenes footage on Oscar.com would have been more useful to the Academy if they had been embeddable, allowing bloggers to pass along their favorite moments and getting free impressions for the Oscars.
Video game playing is becoming a mass social experience, taking place in movie theater type palaces. Imagine if movies were this good at attracting people.
Tim Nudd makes a good point about the opening of last night’s Oscar ceremony, a broadcast I did not watch due to extreme lack of caring.
Mario comments on the Apple iPhone ad that debuted during the telecast and the references to social media tools that were littered throughout the ceremony.
While it’s great that so many theaters across the country ran marathons of the five Best Picture nominees, it should be noted that in many instances this was as close as many audience members got to the flicks, some of which had distribution that limited who could see them and when.
Angela at AdRants covers the really, really wrong-headed Number 23 “would-be viral.”
The iMediaConnection panel reviews the online efforts for Black Snake Moan.