Friday, October 29, 2004
First Rule of Iron Giant…
You do not talk about Iron Giant.
That’s a Fight Club inspired joke one of my friends used to come out with regularly, when I would talk about how great Iron Giant was and how inexplicably absurd Warner Brothers was for their mismarketing, downright ugly stepchilding of it. What, you didn’t see it? Well of course not! Warner Brothers apparently didn’t want you to. The only question was whether they didn’t know what they had, hated Brad Bird that much, or wanted an excuse to get out of animation. If they weren’t exactly applying Tim’s rule of not talking about it at all, they at least avoided marketing it with any enthusiasm or understanding of what they had. Ho-hum, yup, we’re releas- yawn -ing this kid’s- yawn -movie and you should- yawn -go see it or- yawn -whatever, but only if you- yawn - want to and have noth- yawn -ing better to do like- yawwwwnnn - sleep. Yeah, sleep!
Anyway, via Dean comes the news that there is a special edition Iron Giant DVD being released in November. Cool. More opportunity not to miss this work of art.