The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
I expected a comedy…with humor and jokes.
Even the funny line from the trailer was excised in the final cut.
Yep, that’s it. Thanks for correcting me.
Was the name “Harlan Ellison” on the box? That should have been a dead giveaway right there! :smack:
From the trailers for The Savages I had thought that there would be a lot more of a comedic take on caring for an elder parent. Not so much, it was just grim and depressing and I gave up on it about 45 minutes in.
‘Watership Down’. In a good way, which is to say, it was much better than I expected it to be.
Contrary to most I guess, I saw the movie before I read the book.
I saw no ads but I assumed it was a comedy because Williams was the star.
Robin Williams, the star of The World According to Garp, or Robin Williams, the star of Moscow on the Hudson? My point is, *Dead Poets’s Society *was hardly Williams’ first prominent dramatic role.
And even though Nicolas Cage plays the male lead in both films, Leaving Las Vegas is not a sequel to Honeymoon in Vegas.
Early Man: The trailers made it look like it was a comedy about cavemen (which it was) while trying to minimize the fact that it was also a sports movie. I think the issue was that the sport was soccer and the marketing people were afraid that this would turn away American viewers.
Why? I have never seen Robin Williams be funny in a movie. Not really anywhere else either because I was an adult by the time he showed up on Happy Days.
Quentin Tarrantino’s* Inglorious Basterds*. Based on its advertising, I assumed it was an action movie about Jewish soldiers fighting Nazis. In fact, the movie had virtually no action, and the soldiers in question were almost incidental to the plot, constantly being sidelined in favor of non-Jewish characters.
Shoshana was Jewish and the story was centered around her.
i watched the movie version of less than zero…expecting a watered down version of the book…not even close…
Her part I was fine with. Unfortunately, the film wasn’t named Shoshana.
My point is, I was expecting a* Dirty Dozen/Guns of Navarone/Where Eagles Dare* men-on-a-mission film and instead I got… I’m not sure what.
A horrifying film with a large serving of sadism. Story and plot entirely optional.
Not in Good morning Vietnam? Thenm I am sorry, you are just plain wrong. Other, like Mrs Doubtfire or Aladdin I guess are maybes, but portions of Robins on air schtick in Good Morning are pee your pants funny.
and a lot of the radio broadcasts Williams did in the movie were improvs by him, not based on the script.
I’ll give him some credit for that. But it was an exception in his movie career.
yes but he came to fame mostly based on his standup work and Mork and Mindy. And the only movie I saw him in prior to Dead Poets Society was Good Morning Vietnam. One of the funniest movies I have ever seen even now 32 years later.