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Focus Group
posted by sukhisooSTAFFMOD on January 19, 2022 at 8:38 AM
So I'm imagining the movie producer in 1980 getting a group of 14 year old boys together and asking them what they want to see in a movie.
"Spaceships"
"Robots."
"Swordplay."
"Zombies."
"Flying cars."
"Spaceships that turn into flying cars."
The producer calmly writes this all down.
One kid decides to snark a little. "Drugs."
The producer is unperturbed and writes that down, too. So the others get bold.
"Boobies."
"Naked boobies! Yeah!"
"Naked women. All the way naked."
The entire group cheers in delight.
The producer calmly writes this down.
Reply by sukhisoo
on January 19, 2022 at 7:39 PM
Mine was a theoretical focus group that probably didn't happen.
It's just that the movie seemed to be targeted toward 12-16 year old males. (And the juvenile adolescent within all of us.)
Reply by rooprect
on August 4, 2022 at 8:48 AM
Holy shizz you nailed it.
I would add...
After the focus group ends, the producer hands his notes to an unemployed softcore porn writer and slips him a fiver.
"You saved my life! I have no reward to give you, but if any part of me pleases your senses I would give it willingly..."
[cue funky 70s music, extra heavy on the wah]
All that was missing was a Dominos pizza guy