Movies that turned out to be way different than you thought?
10-29-06 | 09:19 PM
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Movies that turned out to be way different than you thought?
Two that come to mind for me, right now, are: The Wizard (1989) and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
When I first watched the Wizard, I thought it was going to be all video game playing, all the time, but it actually had a family storyline. With DTMTBD, I thought it was going to be a fun, mindless, goofy farce, not a coming of age movie, about a girl getting a job, to support her brothers and sisters.
When I first watched the Wizard, I thought it was going to be all video game playing, all the time, but it actually had a family storyline. With DTMTBD, I thought it was going to be a fun, mindless, goofy farce, not a coming of age movie, about a girl getting a job, to support her brothers and sisters.
10-30-06 | 01:09 AM
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Dead Presidents.
All the advertising for the movie made it look like it was a heist movie (Take a look at the DVD for an example), when the actual event only took up around 15% of the movie, while the rest of the flick was various other events, including the Vietnam War.
All the advertising for the movie made it look like it was a heist movie (Take a look at the DVD for an example), when the actual event only took up around 15% of the movie, while the rest of the flick was various other events, including the Vietnam War.
10-30-06 | 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by DthRdrX
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Stayed up all night once as a kid for that ....
Stayed up all night once as a kid for that ....
10-30-06 | 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Dean Kousoulas
Dead Presidents.
All the advertising for the movie made it look like it was a heist movie (Take a look at the DVD for an example), when the actual event only took up around 15% of the movie, while the rest of the flick was various other events, including the Vietnam War.
All the advertising for the movie made it look like it was a heist movie (Take a look at the DVD for an example), when the actual event only took up around 15% of the movie, while the rest of the flick was various other events, including the Vietnam War.
10-30-06 | 02:01 AM
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Cold Creek Manor.....The trailer sold it as a ghost story. The movie was not. In the trailer, Sharon Stone's bed sheets move around, and I feel that we were meant to believe that it was spiritual in origin, but it turns out there was a snake in her bed, heh.
10-30-06 | 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by DthRdrX
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Stayed up all night once as a kid for that ....
Stayed up all night once as a kid for that ....
I remember leaving the movie "Cool World" being bummed that the movie didnt turn out like i thought it was going to. I thought the story was going to be about Brad Pitt's character running the place or something and Gabriel Byrne was helping Kim Basinger's character escape.
Looking back, I wonder what people were smoking when they put ads for this movie on the back of science magazines when i was in 6th grade. "Wayne's World" made sense, but "Cool World"?
10-30-06 | 11:42 AM
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"Edward Scissorhands" -- the ads/trailers I saw made it out to be a wacky comedy in the vein of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice".
"Donnie Darko" -- not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got (and that was a good thing).
"Donnie Darko" -- not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got (and that was a good thing).
10-30-06 | 04:39 PM
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Recently, I saw a trailer online for the The Shining and it looked like a really warm hearted comedy about Jack Nicholson falling in love with a single mother and her kid. I rented it and it was like a completely different film -- very dark and more like a horror movie.
10-30-06 | 05:14 PM
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10-30-06 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Perkinsun Dzees
Recently, I saw a trailer online for the The Shining and it looked like a really warm hearted comedy about Jack Nicholson falling in love with a single mother and her kid. I rented it and it was like a completely different film -- very dark and more like a horror movie.
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10-30-06 | 05:59 PM
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Chuck and Buck. When I saw a trailer for the movie it seemed like an independent comedy about child hood friends. It turned out to be a movie about a homosexual with a boyhood crush on an old friend.
Super Troopers. I thought it would be a dumb comedy, somewhat worse than the latest offerings of Police Academy movies. It was actually much better than the trailers let on.
Super Troopers. I thought it would be a dumb comedy, somewhat worse than the latest offerings of Police Academy movies. It was actually much better than the trailers let on.
10-30-06 | 09:32 PM
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The one that springs to mind is The Thin Red Line. It came out the same year as Saving Private Ryan and I expected a similar type war movie. I came out of the theatre wondering what the hell I had just seen. It was only until it came out on DVD that I appreciated the movie for what it was - a narrative on the nature of man shot against the backdrop of WWII.