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Post by The Ichi on Jul 13, 2013 15:34:13 GMT -5
Slumdog Millionaire was marketed as a feel-good summer movie. It's actually pretty bleak. Million Dollar Baby marketed as a female boxing movie. It's about euthanasia Brokeback Mountain marketed as a movie about the finer points of sheep herding. Turns out, it's about gays! Yes Slumdog was bleak, but it was also very much about overcoming a veritable sewage of shit, and coming out in the best of all possible ways. I definitely count it as a feel good movie. Not when 95% of the movie was miserable. Even the ending is bitter sweet.
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Post by ookkie on Jul 13, 2013 17:30:06 GMT -5
Although they eventually saved it, the original advertising campaign for "The Shining" was a bit misleading...
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Post by agent817 on Jul 13, 2013 17:39:42 GMT -5
Spring Breakers was marketed as a party comedy movie when it was really a social commentary and a lot darker and grittier than how it was advertised.
Kick-Ass was marketed as a teen comedy but it was really an action flick with really dark comedic elements.
Haywire (Though I still have yet to see it a second time and I wasn't exactly too crazy about it) was marketed as a slam-bang action movie when it was really more of an espionage thriller.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 13, 2013 17:49:50 GMT -5
SP is a pretty niche franchise in general, but it also had to contend with Julia Rbberts's Eat Pray Love on top of the Expendables that weekend, so it did get drowned out pretty badly. That would assume that people were choosing between Scott Pilgrim and Eat, Pray, Love. I get that marketing can't occupy two places at the same time, but they are completely different audiences. An almost unknown comic series catering to old school video game players, it's just way too niche to be a huge success. Granted I didn't like the movie, but I didn't like Avatar either and that made all the money. I thought the SP comics were pretty popular? At least one of the more successful indie comic series, or rather successful enough to get 6 full volumes.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 13, 2013 18:36:03 GMT -5
Hancock was marketed as a typical wacky Will Smith film where he plays a superhero. Not even close.
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Post by Red Impact on Jul 13, 2013 18:39:38 GMT -5
That would assume that people were choosing between Scott Pilgrim and Eat, Pray, Love. I get that marketing can't occupy two places at the same time, but they are completely different audiences. An almost unknown comic series catering to old school video game players, it's just way too niche to be a huge success. Granted I didn't like the movie, but I didn't like Avatar either and that made all the money. I thought the SP comics were pretty popular? At least one of the more successful indie comic series, or rather successful enough to get 6 full volumes. I'm only talking in terms of translating the property to movies. It's popular for an indie series, no doubt but when it comes to movie properties? If it's not a major Marvel or DC character, it is pretty much unknown.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jul 13, 2013 21:21:42 GMT -5
Spring Breakers was marketed as a party comedy movie when it was really a social commentary and a lot darker and grittier than how it was advertised. "written and directed by Harmony Korine" should've been a big glowing yellow sign.
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Post by agent817 on Jul 13, 2013 21:45:08 GMT -5
Spring Breakers was marketed as a party comedy movie when it was really a social commentary and a lot darker and grittier than how it was advertised. "written and directed by Harmony Korine" should've been a big glowing yellow sign. Well, good thing that I knew what kind of movie to expect when I saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 1:26:18 GMT -5
Miracle on 34th Street was released in May, promoted as a comedic love story, and marketing attempted to suppress the idea that it had anything to do with Santa Claus.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 14, 2013 2:09:32 GMT -5
Observe and Report sucked.
I will say Seven Psychopaths, for what lil ads I saw was marketed as a completely different flick than what it was, for good or ill.
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Post by Glitch on Jul 14, 2013 2:17:59 GMT -5
The Girl Next Door was advertised as a comedic teen sex romp. It was more of a dreary film that couldn't tell if it wanted to be a comedy or drama.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 14, 2013 2:25:21 GMT -5
The Girl Next Door was advertised as a comedic teen sex romp. It was more of a dreary film that couldn't tell if it wanted to be a comedy or drama. The biggest crime that it has Elisha Cuthbert playing a porn star who does not get naked on screen
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jul 14, 2013 2:55:57 GMT -5
Spring Breakers was marketed as a party comedy movie when it was really a social commentary and a lot darker and grittier than how it was advertised. "written and directed by Harmony Korine" should've been a big glowing yellow sign. The thing is, I feel the creator of such classic of cinema as Ken Park or Trash Humpers may be a teensy bit obscure.
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Post by Hurbster on Jul 14, 2013 5:45:36 GMT -5
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. could've done great but they released it the same weekend as Expendables. I still don't see how that is still used as an excuse for Scott Pilgrim not doing very well. Your average Expendables fan is not really going to be interested in some indie drummer with girlfriend problems. For the record I saw them both and it was Expendables that I enjoyed way more.
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Post by Hurbster on Jul 14, 2013 5:48:37 GMT -5
oopsie ! Double post
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Post by Grennel on Jul 14, 2013 6:51:59 GMT -5
Philadelphia was marketed as a Tom Hanks romantic comedy.
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Post by TMK on Jul 14, 2013 7:43:16 GMT -5
The UK trailers for The Road made it look like a fast-paced action thriller of some kind. The actual film is a lot more subdued.
Also any horror film trailer these days, especially ones for remakes, tend to give away the beginning, middle AND end of the film (Last House on the Left).
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jul 14, 2013 7:56:10 GMT -5
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jul 14, 2013 11:44:11 GMT -5
Not really what you're talking about but still... Very strange indeed.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jul 14, 2013 14:09:13 GMT -5
Office Space's trailers played up the MTV studios connection and played down the hole point of the movie. The trailers just made Peter look like the biggest unlikable dick in the world without any of the parts that set up his actions later in the film up. Had it not be suggested by someone at the video store I probably never would have watched it.
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