Elio Didn't Bomb Because of Poor Advertising, amirite?

This is the first time I've heard of that movie... o.0

by Relevant-Might 18 hours ago

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? The movie is targetted to (parents with) younger kids, 3 to 12 years or so. So maybe you didn't see any adds because you are not the target audience

by Unhappy_Energy 18 hours ago

Well, online ads aren't the only way the promote... TV, collabs with big brands (in this case McD, Phineas n Ferb, trailers in ciname, etc)

by Unhappy_Energy 18 hours ago

Do you have cable? They had commercials on a bunch of different channels.

by Eloisa62 17 hours ago

Most people don't have cable anymore. Streaming is the promised land, for better or worse.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

I do not. I haven't had access to cable in over twenty years. Admittedly, back in the middle aughts, that made keeping up with movie releases a bit more of a struggle, but that hasn't been the case for nearly a decade now.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Yes Elio's was the brand of frozen pizza we got in public school

by Dooleymariah 17 hours ago

Yeah, same.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

I saw plenty of ads. They didn't make me want to watch it; the movie just looks boring.

by Kovacekletha 16 hours ago

There is nothing that seem to be original about it. There is a feeling that you'd seen other movies like it with maybe some slight differences. Wreck-It Ralph you could see was innovative and Tintin was brilliant. Ratatouille had charm. The real cutting edge now is Japanese anime.

by Dooleymariah 15 hours ago

I completely agree. I've seen multiple ads and stuff couldn't tell you what it's about. But, K-Pop Demon Hunters? Immediate watch; didn't even watch the trailer lol

by Kovacekletha 15 hours ago

It was but I am not the target demographic. My 8 y/o liked it well enough.

by Anonymous 15 hours ago

I mean I'm sure it's not the only reason. I only found out about this movie after everyone said it failed lol. And based on reviews it didn't seem like it was liked enough to spread organically.

by Abject-Werewolf 15 hours ago

I think that's interesting, since the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB scores are rather good, particularly the former (with a 90% audience rating).

by Anonymous 14 hours ago

I do look more at IMDb reviews more and there are a lot of 7/10s. That 90% is very deceptive. Just means 90% that reviewed it reviewed it positively. Not that it's a 9/10 movie.

by Abject-Werewolf 14 hours ago

the animation is just ugly. y'all overthink these things lol

by kozeyhalie 13 hours ago

Right. I was probably never going to watch it, but the art style makes me want to avoid it at all costs.

by orrinbeier 13 hours ago

It was the same style as Luca and Turning Red.

by Anonymous 13 hours ago

I disagree, I liked Luca a lot, I didn't like Turning Red but it wasn't because of the animation style.

by Anonymous 12 hours ago

On the other hand I have never heard of this movie

by schmelerleila 12 hours ago

I saw one photo, figured it didn't have any character and not worth looking into. Why would I wanna watch a movie of a poorly animated kid with a spaghetti strainer on his head? What's the story that I'm supposed to be pulled into here?

by mohrjerel 12 hours ago

Then you are probably not the target audience...

by Unhappy_Energy 11 hours ago

No one ever wants to admit that simply being an original story doesn't get people into the theater. Everyone online complains about Hollywood making sequels and having no originality, but then movies like this come along and prove the Hollywood execs are right. But no one wants to say that they don't support originality at the box office, so they blame marketing. It was the marketings fault they didn't go. Even though I bet Disney marketed this as much as they do all their films. also it's still in theaters and people complaining about it having no marketing still aren't going to go see it.

by WeatherPhysical7299 11 hours ago

Well, movie theaters are declining anyway. If Elio wanted to be a box office success, they had an uphill battle.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

Exactly. You'd think that if it the marketing was the problem, then everyone talking about how bad it flopped would put the film in the public's eye and drive them to the theaters.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

Elio? Like the pizza? What?

by Brandyn25 11 hours ago

Pixar's latest movie XD

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

I'm from the UK and this is the first I've heard of it. We have Pokemon in our Happy Meals and think it was Minecraft before that

by Resident_Bad 10 hours ago

It was a badly written version of mars needs moms. Then badly acted, poorly animated, and just all around not very good. That is why it bombed.

by Weimannbuster 10 hours ago

I didn't really know about the movie - if it was supposed to be a big deal they marketing campaign certainly didn't make it memorable I know of a lot of movies I've never seen because the ad campaigns made them inevitably ubiquitous I didn't watch any negative videos either and thinking that is doing to make it break of kind of a terminally online take imo It wasn't SM "haters" that caused the feature to underperform

by Nelda94 10 hours ago

Watch the Possum's review. He explains in detail why it was bad.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

I liked the movie personally and no one is going to be able to convince me otherwise. I don't understand why so many people will just take whatever critic they watch dictate how they like a movie

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

I saw the trailer. It didn't look that entertaining to me. That's it.

by Used-Soup 9 hours ago

I hated the voice acting. I know they're little kids, but the voice didn't match the characters.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

I have no idea what that even is, so maybe it was the advertising

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

I'm 99% certain that everyone will be excited for Hoppers, only for it to bomb. They should have broadcast Elio earlier, I agree that the month was crowded. It should have stuck to an emptier month.

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

All of these "feel good" movies are so generic and forgettable tbh as they all have the same hideous art style.

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

They had a trailer!!! They obviously marketted!!!! Lol Kay.

by danielshemar 8 hours ago

Love their frozen pizza - still has brand name recognition

by Anonymous 7 hours ago