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mikeyfreshh t1_j21svgx wrote

I don't think it was marketed wrong. It just wasn't marketed at all. Its a really weird movie and I think Disney realized they didn't have a winner on their hands so they just tried to let it slide under the radar. This kind of feels like this generation's version of Atlantis or Treasure Planet

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ronronAD023 t1_j23uc1a wrote

I really don't understand why people keep saying this. I drove through Dallas around Thanksgiving and it was on all the billboards along the main highway. I constantly saw ads for it on Hulu and regular TV. If you didn't see any ads, it's because there weren't any where you were looking. That's not "not marketing at all", it means you weren't the target audience. Which for your case I guess means the movie was marketed wrong.

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Fortherebellion72 OP t1_j24628h wrote

Weird. Around here here there was like 2 pictures and I saw like 1 ad on YouTube.

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tacoman333 t1_j25vsyk wrote

I've been to the theater many times this year and I saw a trailer for Strange World exactly twice. Other than a poster in front of the theater, I didn't see any other marketing for the film online or in the real world.

Funny enough, after seeing Strange World on Disney plus I started getting advertisements on YouTube and other websites. It's only anecdotal evidence of course, but considering I was shown the trailers for Minions and Puss in Boots countless times and saw posters for those films on billboards and in outdoor shopping malls, the lack of marketing for Strange World in my area was a bit... strange...

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notkevinc t1_j22sgko wrote

I took my kids and realized AS THE MOVIE STARTED that it was a Disney film. I don't follow entertainment news that closely, but my head isn't under the sand either. It was not marketed to me at all, and I'm not sure why. It was good to fine.

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Fortherebellion72 OP t1_j21u46x wrote

Yeah I saw like one ad for it like the week before it came out and it was like nerdy mad finds wacky dad in weird place, look at all this weird stuff!!! And that was it. It honestly didn’t look appealing. The movie was a lot deeper than that.

I love both of those too! Atlantis is hilarious.

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