Recently, we were respecting the entertainment industry’s copyrights in a $14 Cinerama Dome seat when Hollywood stunt coordinator Manny Perry began his impassioned plea for us to further respect copyrights by visiting the MPAA’s scary website after leaving the theater. A chorus of groans rose up from the audience as the dreaded words faded into view: “Manny Perry Makes Movies.” We don’t personally blame Manny Perry for his misguided participation in the MPAA propaganda, as we assume that Jack Valenti was holding his wife hostage at gunpoint while threatening to feed his infant daughter to a poorly-bred pit bull in Manny Perry’s ranch-style home in Chatsworth, but that doesn’t mean that others are so understanding. Here’s a representative sample of our readers’ frustration…
Link to complete Defamer post, and a subsequent update about Manny Parry, the star of one spot. Link to Low Culture’s post on the “incredibly annoying respectcopyrights.org ads that run before the trailers at movies lately.” Link to the MPAA’s respectcopyrights.org, which boasts what may be the ass-suckiest, most uberbloated Flash interface on the entire intarweb. The campaign’s happy happy joy joy slogan? “YOU CAN CLICK — BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE.” Link to poster bearing said slogan (PDF). Link to IMDB entry for Manny Perry, arguably the most copyright-respectingest man in Hollywood. Astute BoingBoing readers will note that the very first line of this IMDB listing reads “Trivia: Appeared in a commercial to battle the internet movie pirates.” Aye, with his bare hands he did, matey! Arrrrrrrrrr!!!
Links to *.mov video files of the latest trailer:
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