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« on: March 14, 2003, 02:03:28 PM »

I'd like to hear everyone's opinion of the movie that had the most misleading ad campaign. I'm talking about a movie that was advertised in a certain way, but when you saw it, it was NOTHING like what you expected (and this REALLY p**sed you off).

My nominees are:

* THE ATTIC - A movie from the 1970s starring Ray Milland. The TV spot showed one of those wind-up mechanical monkeys banging a pair of cymbals together. At the end of the ad, blood trickled out of the monkey's mouth. In reality, the movie was about Ray Milland and his daughter (I think she was played by Carrie Snodgress), living in a house and getting on each other's nerves. I think something weird happened with the monkey at the end, but it was all in the daughter's imagination or something (and you had to wait 90 minutes for anything to happen). Anyway, the movie was a boring piece of crap.

* ANY MOVIE FROM "SUNN CLASSICS PICTURES" - This is the company that cranked out all those terrible documentaries like SASQUATCH, and IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK back in the 1970s. In many cases, the trailers contained numerous scenes that were not even in the movies.

* THE GODSEND - I remember the ads that absolutely SATURATED the airwaves when this movie was released. The tag line was "For God's sake, take it back." The movie was sort of a cross between THE OMEN and THE BAD SEED. It was one of those movies where you keep waiting and waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever does. It was rated "R," but I seem to remember that there was no blood or nudity or anything - certainly not enough for it to have been rated "R."

What are some others?

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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2003, 02:12:19 PM »

I remember the movie Screamers which promised "Men turned inside out!" but was, in reality, a cheesy children's fantays movie from Italy.  This was back in 1980 or so, around the time Corman also shoved Humanoids from the Deep in our faces.  New World released both.

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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2003, 03:06:41 PM »

For me, it's VENOM. The ad campaign was extraordinaraly deceptive. It was something like "The danger of PSYCHO, the mystery of THE BIRDS, the evil of The OMEN, the terror of JAWS..." And when I saw the movie in theatres, VENOM was nothing more than a boring hostage drama with a snake running around the house. IMO, it's not even a horror film. What hyperbole!!!

Here's a link with the poster.

http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=7308&movie_nss=
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2003, 04:13:45 PM »

How about 1998's Godzilla?  Remember when it said it would have...well...Godzilla in it?

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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2003, 05:16:13 PM »

Wasn't "Signs" fairly off-target in that the movie was not really the 'alien-horror-thriller' the ads made it out to be?

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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2003, 06:58:11 PM »

Fearless Freep wrote:
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> Wasn't "Signs" fairly off-target in that the movie was not
> really the 'alien-horror-thriller' the ads made it out to be?
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But . . . Signs was an alien-horror-thriller.


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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2003, 07:30:21 PM »

SIGNS: alien-horror-thriller, well, one out of three ain't bad. There were aliens.

It was more of a "coincidences ain't coincidences, they happen for a reason, however hoaky" gimmick flick.
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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2003, 07:44:57 PM »

heheh THE ATTIC was filmed here in Wichita Kansas, I live a bliock away from the house LOL
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« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2003, 07:46:26 PM »

Friggin' Hart's War! The ads made it seem like a Great Escape type flick, with bombs, and shootings, and blood and snot and all the things people like me go to movies for. In reality it was....I still don't know what it was! It didn't know what it wanted to be. War flick? For about 15 minutes. Court Room drama....yeah let's toss that in there too. Social commentary...why not?

Unlike Windtalkers, which was entirely composed of war movie cliches, Hart's War was a hodge podge of many, many, different cliched genres. The title should have been... " A Few Good Men, who In The Heat of the Night plan The Great Escape, from Stalag 17 on Von Ryan's Express, and ultimately become Hogan's Heroes".

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« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2003, 11:57:40 PM »

Fight Club was grossly screwed in the ad department. When I saw the previews for it, all they made the movie out to be was one with guys fighting in a basement, and people who made soap. No mention whatsoever of anything to do with Project Mayhem, the duality of the Narrator, or escape from consumerism; just fighting. Man were they ever wrong. ::sigh::

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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2003, 01:25:36 PM »

I actually like ads that only display a portion of the storyline. I'd rather go into a movie thinking the entire thing would be about Story A, but then Story A ends halfway through, and is merely a disguise/leads into Story B.

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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2003, 01:29:01 PM »

>>But . . . Signs was an alien-horror-thriller.
 But.....NO!!! It wasn't It was EXTREAMLY boring!!! I would rather drink the rancid milk from a cancerous bag-lady's swollen infected breasts than to watch that "thing" again.
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« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2003, 09:01:16 PM »

While I enjoyed the film, even if I had hated it, it doesn't change its genre. All of M. Night's films are slow. Signs had parts intended to be horror, thriller, and it definitely had aliens. Even if it was crap, it still falls into that category.
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2003, 01:40:07 PM »

No, I gotta agree, SIGNS was more of a family drama that seemed to have aliens included as an afterthought.  Definitely misleading, and also the worst movie I saw in the theater last year [mainly due to the many scenes of comedy included at inappropriate moments, keeping the film from building up any kind of tension.]

FIGHT CLUB's ad campaign was terrible.  When I saw it I thought, "This movie is gonna suck..." just because that's usually the case when you can't tell what a movie is about from its advertising.  Thankfully, I was wrong this time.

I first saw THE ATTIC on disc fairly recently--I was definitely surprised by the film being nothing like its ads, which used to scare me when the movie was first released.   .
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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2003, 03:11:03 PM »

No. it most certainly falls in the lame/crap/sensless/not-worth-watching catagory
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