A few people have been lobbying for some upcoming films to receive the SoaP treatment. Bojac Redleif suggests

I was looking at next year’s films and the next film we all should over hype should be “The Astronaut Farmer“. Look up a few of the pictures from it and you’d agree.

Oh and you suck for not selecting my entry.

Yours Truly
The Honorable Bojac Redleif

And, in a similar vein, Matt Barr pointed out that:

Does everyone know about SOAP’s influence on the Transformers movie? If you go to transformersmovie.com/ you can type a quote for Optimus Prime to say in the movie. Then everyone will vote and…….well we know the rest!

Sadly Armitage112 sort of kicked the legs out from under Matt, though:

**doesn’t know how to break it to Matt that not only is the contest for the Transformers movie over, the 10 finalists were chosen and recorded already. The winners can be found at here**

BTW–as part of the voting audience, I can tell you that someone DID submit something along the line of “Enough is enough! I have had it with these M-F’ing Decepticons on this M-F’ing planet!” Sadly, it didn’t make it to the finals. :-(

Tough luck for all of us, I suppose.

It’s actually rather interesting that Paramount is apparently attempting to learn from its mistakes this summer.  They proved themselves to be decidedly unhip when dealing with the internet fan community… instead of embracing the interactivity that the web allows, they attempted to shut down sites catering to people’s excitement about their film.  They’ve apparently taken a step back and realize that encouraging fan enthusiasm will indeed help them in the long run. Did they take a look at the attention Snakes on a Plane garnered? Or did they simply look at the bad PR they received for going in the opposite direction?

But, then again, this level of interactivity is being controlled entirely by Paramount with no honest/open level of control by the fans.  Perhaps Paramount didn’t learn, perhaps they still feel that they need to control the online community and make sure that the ‘fun’ only takes place in a walled garden, with guards at the gates.

Well, either way, it may be a somewhat cheesy contest, but HOPEFULLY it shows the right attitude.