This is a response to the attack on Sony Pictures Classics' web ads for Thumbsucker. First of all, what is this person talking about?? The movie is about the awkwardness of coming of age, and this picture seems to depict secual ambiguity and prepubescent awkwardness. Secondly, this is a tiny fragment of the marketing material for the film. Why not look at other images before placing blame and making judgement? If you look at the other images used by SPC you might find that it's actually an unusual marketing campaign, and these web ads are a mere shard of the rest of the publicity for Thumbsucker.

Gimme a break, Isabel Mack. This is one of the most transparently desperate marketing campaigns shifts since GRIZZLY MAN ads began featuring a smiling, goofy, Yogi-esque bear a couple weeks ago to lure in the Penguin spillover crowd. Reeler is 100 percent right, especially having seen the film. The scantily clad girls in the photos there are barely in the film...to make THUMBSUCKER into another Larry Clark jailbait movie is misleading and also courting the lowest common denominator. But whatever, it's so obvious that to even have to defend it is pathetic. By the way, I've seen the movie, and who cares because it fucking sucks anyway.