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Too bad they are not showing the movie at the Laemmle in NoHo as there are a lot of Armenians there and nearby communities of Burbank and Glendale.
Sounds fine, but what’s up with the erotic poster? I hope we won’t see Raffi Hovhannisyan in any such “scene” (even after all his weight loss. No thanks).
Vahagn, didn’t you know you can’t make a Armenian Genocide movie without eroticism? I am still trying to understand what the step-sister sexual relationship has to do with the Armenian Genocide in the 2002 Ararat movie. Like Ararat, this new movie seems to focus on the art of production (film-making in Ararat, theater in this new movie).
Reading the synopsis, I think the “ghosts” are upset with the fact that they could have spent the money to produce a decent and educational Armenian Genocide movie instead of a “psychological thriller” rubbish. I would haunt them too.
100 years and we could not produce a Schindler’s List level movie to be shown in theaters nationwide? What a shame. :(
I agree, brother. Yet another Genocide movie that is not about the Genocide.
BTW, your last name is not, by any chance, Nalbandian, is it?
I agree that the still frame used for this poster is absolutely irrelevant to the genocide theme and the title of the film, even if it shows a husband and wife in 2015. To express concern and to request changing the poster, please write to Mr. Sevan Hovannisian at Bloodvine Media at bloodvinemedia@gmail.com with cc: info@mtuckmanmedia.com
Did some people just criticize the film without having seen it? What the heck? I applaud this effort. I am excited about this film. And, I hope my high expectations are met.
If my expectations are met, great. If not, I look forward to all of the critics of this movie and Ararat to go out and make their own movie…and win an Oscar. Because your expertise is beyond reproach.
I’ve never understood this line of thinking. A person who puts a creative work out into the public is exposing it to praise or criticism from everyone–not just from people who make their own movies. Free speech is not limited to people who make movies.
Not to say, Peter, that you completely miss the point. The criticism here is not about the film which is yet to come out, but about the irrelevance of the heroine’s drawn down shoulder-straps with the title “1915”, the catchword “Remember”, and the official description of the film: “In 2015, exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a mysterious director (Simon) is staging a play at the Los Angeles Theatre to honor the victims of that tragedy — a horrifying crime forgotten and denied for an entire century.”
This poster looks more like a 2015 version of “Gone With the Wind” than with anything related to AG.
Did someone just defend the ridiculous and shameful movie ‘Ararat’?
Sorry Peter, an Armenian shouldn’t be making a movie if they don’t have the talent to make one, and ‘Ararat’ is a prime example. And if none of us have the talent, none of us should be making movies for the sake of making one. My opinion, ‘Ararat’ caused more damage than good.
‘Ararat’ the movie should be shown to all cinematography students… as an example of how NOT to make a movie for the sake of egoistic self-gratification using the plight of an entire group of people to dupe them into watching the movie.
As for this film, besides that ridiculous poster, already the choice of ‘actress’ to me is questionable, considering the kind of movies she has engaged in. Might as well bring the Kardashians into the mix, it would have a better impact while we are bottom fishing for “talent”.
That being said, it would be premature to claim the new movie is another bad movie, it may end up being a good movie in fact, but I would say, it certainly is not off to a good start from what we have to see already.
I hope to hell it is a worthy movie I really do. This is the 100th anniversary and all the genious and talent out there should have prepared in every venue the best of their creative efforts
I just paid, downloaded but i dont see full download of movie its only the thriller.. Do i have to wait for April 17Th?