This Depresses Me

"When Reckitt Benckiser Group brought its Veet hair-removal cream to China in 2005, sales were sluggish. Its prices were considered too high and its product sizes too large. But the biggest problem: Most Chinese women don’t have much body hair, and those who do didn’t worry about it. So the company embraced a new marketing plan. Reckitt Benckiser rolled out ads equating hair-free skin with health, confidence, and “shining glory.” In the process, the company has helped make many Chinese women more conscious of every stray follicle. “It’s not how much hair you have, it’s how much you think you have,” says Aditya Sehgal, the company’s China chief. “If your concern level is high enough, even one hair is too much."

Part of me gets depressed at how damn sneaky and low marketing is, but then I get equally depressed at how much like sheep we all are. 

LEGO Prometheus

Evil Dead. Again

To me, this looks like what everyone thought The Cabin in the Woods would be, i.e. teens, lots of blood, and a lot of seen-it-all-before stuff (even though Raimi did the screenplay). What a shame. I'll make my kids watch the original(s). You know, when they're old enough and all that. 

Update: After some discussion over on Facebook, it has been established that this is a reboot, and not a remake. Reboots being a film made on the same idea, but having nothing else in common with the original. Remakes are just that - a copy of the original film).