But it’s still scary for children. I saw it twice opening weekend and when the credits started to roll, I got up from my seat, and the audience in back of me was mostly children. They weren’t animated nor overly crying: they were staring in front of them totally silent. The weirdest mixture between boredom and and intenseness I’ve ever seen because I couldn’t tell which emotion they were experiencing (but I’d expect them to be louder if they were bored.)
So I think it’s exactly the right intensity for children. Which is not to say that they liked it: indeed I don’t think it was a very big hit with children. Just that it was pretty scary, but not too scary, for them.
I agree that I was probably more scared than some of the children, not because of some overarching theory, but because it was made more in the style of Christmas Specials than Burton movies, and I remember being scared of them, so I was sort of scared by memory.
May I ask, what were you expecting with Kick Ass? Unless I saw a different set of trailers (and I watched everyone I can find), they do a good job of telling you the type of movie your going to be seeing. Best movie of the year so far for me.
PS. Add another one to the list who never heard of Bridge to T. (can’t spell it) before it came out.
I ended up enjoying the movie (and I’m glad Hubby bought it so I can watch it again later), but Hubby really was disappointed. Right after we watched it I remarked that I was glad I wasn’t a parent who took my kid to see it. I wouldn’t want anyone under 15 or 16 years old to watch it. The trailers for it made it seem like a juvenile comedy. While it had some really hilarious moments, it was also extremely disturbing at times.
Oh yeah! I totally forgot about In Bruges. I rented it remembering that the trailers looked interesting… I turned it off somewhere when Colin Farrell is running around getting drunk/high with the dwarf and the prostitute (I think).
They seem to do that all the time: market a drama as a comedy, using the four amusing scenes set to bouncy music.
See, my thought when seeing this thread was Le Divorce. Watch that trailer. Now, my memory of the movie is it’s largely about an isolated, suicidal pregnant woman whose husband is cheating on her. Hahahaha - fun!
I totally agree re: In Bruges as well. The trailer makes it look violent, sure, but in a madcap way, like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. In reality it’s depressing as shit.
My wife and I haven’t read “Revolutionary Road,” and apparently heard nothing about the movie when it came out. But when she was at the library picking out a DVD a few nights ago, she saw the box coverfor this DiCapprio-Winslet movie and thought we were in for romantic love story.
I didn’t watch The Sopranos when its first season aired because all of HBO’s advertisements talked about how funny it was. They marketed it as a comedy so I thought it was basically a series version of Analyze This.
I’m sure it was an excellent movie, in your eyes. Heck, maybe even mine… if I had known what movie it was going to be.
However, I- and several others in this thread, you might’ve noticed- feel that the trailer was *completely *different from the actual movie. And that’s the problem- the trailer was completely misleading.
I agree! This was a total bait and switch in my opinion. It completely ruined the movie and there was no reason, plot-wise, that made sense for them to kill off the girl character. Horrible movie…errr half movie…whatever.
Same with “Happy Feet”. Typical Disney-ish/Pixar-ish fun type animated movie but halfway through the movie it turns into this dark, sordid, bizarre lecture on global warming. Love the scene that starts out the “beginning of the end” of the good part of the movie, with the lead penguin character cracking up a la “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” after he’s captured and placed into the sea world exhibit.
