I saw Nope (2022) and now have a rational fear of bad movies.

It's not like Christmas as we know it was original either. Almost like it was appropriated

...I think it's time for me to unsubscribe from this sub.

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That’s not false advertising. The trailer depicted characters in the town of Bruges where the film took place, it showed the marketed actors who were in the film, and gave the name of the film. Trailers are allowed to be creatively misleading for marketing purposes, that doesn’t reach the threshold for false advertising.

I can barely remember the details of that movie but God damn that music was great

😂

I mean...it is like whoever was in charge of marketing realized that the real movie would appeal to very few people and instead presented it as a Guy Richie-type comedy that many people would have been glad to watch.

I have made this post mostly because I was furious at getting tricked into wasting 2 hours watching something totally different from what I was promised. For over an hour, I watched the movie waiting for the depressing bit to end and for the fun comedy action to finally start, and never got it.

It’s character based humour so once you know the characters, it’s a lot funnier. I’ve seen it 4 times. First time I just thought it was dark and didn’t laugh much but really liked it. Saw it last year for the 4th time (just before going to Bruges on holiday) and pretty much laughed from beginning to end.

Give it another chance some time. Once you know their predicament it substantially changes your attitude to the tourism

Kinda surprising, since the release date of the original kept getting pushed back and pushed back until COVID hit and then it was lazily thrown on Amazon Prime.

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

Aerosmith: I don't wanna miss a thing -Armageddon soundtrack

Yes.

This seems fair, Jack liked the looks of Christmas but had no idea of any of the meaning behind it.

The tones are mismatched. That is probably the greatest problem. I imagine that most people when viewing the trailer are looking at the tone and judging if it would match what they want to watch. In "The Bruges" the tone is completely off. So much so that I would go on to call it false advertising. Whoever are the audience for the film as it is presented in the trailer (like myself), are unlikely to be the audience for the movie as it really is.

Movie trailers are designed to get butts in seats. They are made by a different company all together usually. The director rarely has any input.

Only if they don't move all day, right?

No but a new profound respect for wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men

Shlock for dough, art for show.

this is not gonna go over well on this subreddit lmao but that’s a cool observation! I like that take

The Village

He was a keen gardener.

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Charlie Brown had hoes

Definitely misleading but I feel like a lot of dark comedies have or used to have those kind of trailers to get butts in seats. The Lobster immediately comes to mind. While it’s a very good dark comedy, the trailer feels really whimsical and silly compared to the true tone of the film.

That being said, I found In Bruges to also be absolutely hilarious despite how dark it was. Definitely not the action comedy in the trailer but a very well done flick