We are talking about the Pixar animated movie about superheroes, right?
Funny Bones, marketed as a comedy but seemingly a dark drama about disturbed family and working relationships. IIRC it started with someone getting their feet sliced off by a boat’s propellor, and went downhill from there. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad film, but it certainly wasn’t what my friends and I were looking for when we went to see it.
Yes, the movie I did not find very funny. That is correct.
Muriel’s Wedding. It’s in the comedy section at Blockbuster, but both my wife and I agreed that it was one of the most depressing movies we’d ever seen.
Blair Witch Project? ISTR that the movie was marketed as real footage and, IIRC, plenty of people at the time believed it.
By “the first trailer,” I’m guessing you mean the teaser trailer in which Mr. Incredible is struggling to fasten the belt on his suit after being called back into action. This wasn’t even meant to give viewers the feel of the film- since computer animation takes a long time to do, every Pixar film since A Bug’s Life has been introduced with a teaser trailer to announce when the film is coming and introduce the characters, followed later by real trailers featuring clips from the film. In this case, the teaser trailer does its job: it tells the audience that The Incredibles will be a story about a superhero who comes out of retirement- but it’s gonna take a while for him to get back into the swing of it. However, I do see how one might be misled to believe the film to be a wacky comedy based on the teaser trailer alone. (The teaser also makes no sense chronologically based on the final film- Mr. Incredible had a different costume than the red one in the past.)
Even the producer of the film (the author’s son) and director Gabor Csupo have gone on record saying they are appaled by the film’s ad campaign.
Then the trailer is, by definition, misleading.
Lost In Translation was marketed as a comedy. I like the movie, but a comedy? Not so much.
Since it was a teaser trailer, and not a full trailer, not so: Defineth Wikipedia:
I’d say it does just that.
Huh.
Well, I felt mislead, and thus I found it to be misleading. Your Wikipedia cite doesn’t contradict my claim. Juse because something is a “teaser trailer” doesn’t mean it can’t be misleading.
What?
You aren’t alone. The Incredibles is one of the few Pixar movies I didn’t bother to buy on DVD. Edited to add: I not only didn’t find it funny, I didn’t find it that interesting. I think you said you liked it but didn’t find it funny.
Pleasantville was marketed as a wacky, high concept comedy about hip modern kids shaking up a staid 1950’s town. While they didn’t misrepresent the actual premise, the movie, while it had comic overtones, was a good deal darker and more thoughtful - being about tolerance, repression, and the dangers of groupthink - than the teen hijinks that were promised: it’s one of my favourite movies, but I almost missed it because of the stupid trailer.
Bicentennial Man was marketed as a wacky comedy for kids. It’s actually a long look at what it means to be human. Rather than “Let’s get loco, robo!” and upbeat music, the ads should have included the title character watching a loved one die and saying “It’s not fair that you can cry and I can’t.”
Yeah, the DVD box even has a quote from Peter Travers that says the movie is “Flat out hilarious!” WTF?
The misleading trailer that I’ve noticed this year is “Pan’s Labyrinth”. I knew going in what to expect and loved it, but obviously a lot of other people didn’t. Spanish subtitled, mostly takes place in the real world, rated R for brutal violence …
Oi. It’s somewhat heavy-handed in its symbolism, but despite that (or perhaps this was the intent) it doesn’t deliver a simple moral message in the end. Great film.
My vote is going to go for Footloose, which I was recently [del]forced to watch[/del]reintroduced to at a coworker’s movie night. The film is presented as a teen drama-type film–think Big City Kid goes to Oppressive Small Town and Teaches Acceptance by breaking out the Big Dance Moves–but in reality it’s a combination of barely latent repressed homosexual tension and a retooling of Don Quixote de la Mancha in a Midwestern rural high school setting. The "Farm Tractor Chicken Race sequence was particularly uproarious.
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I didn’t go to see Fight Club when it was in theaters because the trailers on TV made it appear to be just a dumb macho fisticuffs movie. A year later, when the movie came to HBO, I was stunned to find that it was a highly intelligent and surreal macho fisticuffs movie. I bet there were lots of pissed off people in the theaters who wanted their money back because there was too much weird stuff and not enough beat-em-up action.
The original trailer (before it was released) marketed it as a thriller.
Misled. Which you weren’t.
I didn’t go see Die Hard in the theatres because of the poster. It was correctly marketed as a big action movie, but the slogan they used was off-putting: “The odds are 12 to 1 – and that’s just the way he likes it!” Sounded pretty dumb. When I saw it, I found that the great thing about the character was that he hates the situation, would love it if the cops could swoop in and take care of things, but is forced into heroics that he finds one giant pain in the ass.