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| boydegg |
Posted - 01/15/2009 : 16:00:01
This is another rejection reason which bewilders me.
My review for The Chocolate Wars is:
"War of the Roses" ... and it's been rejected.
Why?
Because Cadbury's Roses are made in Britain and this is an American film, which makes my pun non-applicable.
If it was a British film the review would be accepted ... (or if Cadbury's Roses were made in America)
Does anyone else find this bizarre?
Boydegg
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| LadyMeerkat |
Posted - 01/22/2009 : 11:50:18
Cadbury also makes Roses in Australia but because I haven't seen this film I didn't get it :P |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/17/2009 : 03:37:11
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Originally posted by Randall
The Mars, Inc. that makes candy bars has operations all over the world, but it's an American company.
According to Wikipedia, it's more complicated than that. (By strange coincidence I had already read this article, because of a quiz book I was working on.) It states that the American one was a different chocolate bar to the British one, and that it stopped in 2002. That doesn't affect Tequila Mockingbird's review, of course. However, I think it's really a big stretch to apply the review to the film. When I voted for reviews for it, including that one, I just trusted the impression they gave me that it was a war between chocolate companies. Reviews like this can just about apply to the actual story (i.e. the boy receives attacks as a result of chocolate), but it's really pushing it.
The above is just my opinion by definition, which should thus go without saying, but for the sake of people who like to call others nazi's [sic], I'll explicitly state that here. |
| demonic |
Posted - 01/17/2009 : 01:12:04
Is there life on Mars? Probably not. But is there chocolate. Oh yes. |
| randall |
Posted - 01/17/2009 : 00:54:54
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
What? Mars Bars don't come from Mars? 
Well, yes they do. They come from the pioneering work of Mister Mars, as Rocky has shown. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 13:42:33
What? Mars Bars don't come from Mars?
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| RockGolf |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 13:04:22
Mars bars were invented in the States. The same family of the inventor, Frederick Mars, still runs the company, Effem Foods. I applied to work there about 15-20 years ago. I was told in the interview that it was not unusual for the children of the founders to fly in unannounced, walk into a plant and start working on the line. They'd probably be retired by now. |
| Josh the cat |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 12:55:06
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
I've had more than one Mars bar in the US. And on other things, I am never sure what programs from US television are shown internationally. I used to correspond with a guy in England who watched The X-Files, but he was about six months behind. Someone I wrote to in Australia was further behind than that.
We in Britain are behind in most/all American programmes, but it depends on the contract that each british tv company has as to how delayed the transmission is over here.
With the growing use of torrents the tv companies are having to reduce the delay, lost used to be months behind and the next season will only be days or upto a week behind as I understand.
Josh the cat |
| randall |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 12:02:05
The Mars, Inc. that makes candy bars has operations all over the world, but it's an American company. |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 11:13:16
I've had more than one Mars bar in the US. And on other things, I am never sure what programs from US television are shown internationally. I used to correspond with a guy in England who watched The X-Files, but he was about six months behind. Someone I wrote to in Australia was further behind than that. |
| boydegg |
Posted - 01/16/2009 : 05:09:48
Whippersnapper - with zis pun you are really spoiling us.
I notice the top review for this film is 'Mars Attacks'
I thought Mars was made by Rowntree ... which I also thought was British. Am I wrong?
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| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 01/15/2009 : 18:06:01
Perhaps the rejection was a truffle harsh...
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| BiggerBoat |
Posted - 01/15/2009 : 17:29:35
It's unfortunate but of course, were the review passed, you would have only gotten votes from the British members (or those members who were aware of Roses chocolates) at best. To our multitude of international members your review would have been 'unpunny'.
Not to say that you can't garner enough votes this way. thefoxboy's top rated 'The Truman Show' review, The Screw Carrey Show, passed me by for ages because I didn't know what it referred to, as we didn't get the Drew Carey Show over here (or if we did I never saw it). Ninety votes would suggest that enough members had though, so my advice could be regarded as utterly disposable.
BB
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2009 : 17:24:12
I'd just say that reviews should either be restricted to any brand(s) sold in the film or be allowed to contain puns on any make of chocolate. I'd personally more think the former since it is a 'proper' film the content of which can be verified, but the main thing is that the approvals should be consistent one way or the other. The only basis for allowing any American brand but no others would be if the pupils clearly sell a large range of miscellaneous chocolates, which doesn't seem especially likely although I'm only guessing. |
