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Half-Assed Internet Research

The original Warner Bros. promotional website remains online, and period criticism focused partly on product placement.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:29:49Read transcript
  • The 1998 Warner Brothers promotional website still existed at review time and opened with an AOL intro into the movie's original marketing.
  • The panel wonders how audiences found a film URL before modern search and notes that building such a site would have been a substantial period marketing project.
  • Contemporary critics were described as harsh on the movie, with some objecting to its AOL and Starbucks product placement.