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Has a movie poster ever given you an incorrect impression of the movie's content?

posted 7 years ago by Frogarama (12942)
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For me: I'm watching "Holes" right now due to hearing a lot about it lately, and it's okay, but I'm struggling a little bit with keeping interested.

Before I knew what it was about, I had only seen the poster thumbnail on IMDb, and (without looking closely) the image made me think it had something to do with golf, like the boys worked on a golf course or were young golf prodigies. They're all standing over and looking down into a perfectly round hole, as if someone just made a hole in one or something. Obviously, I was unfamiliar with the book. It's an interesting and unrelated coincidence that I'm watching this right after seeing Caddyshack for the first time.

I know this has to have happened to me before, so I'm trying to think of another example. How about you?

[–] Greyere (77) 7 years ago

Reign of Fire
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQzMTUxNTMxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODg2ODU3.jpg

You see dragons and attack helicopters over London, but not in the film! No attack helicopters or firestorms because the film is set years after all this cool stuff happened.

[–] TexasJack (12515) 7 years ago

That had to be a letdown. Was it worth watching anyway?

[–] TandyMan (10641) 7 years ago

Yeah, it's awesome. But not the film it could have been. You're aware of it the whole time you're watching.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

I agree with Tandy. Reign of Fire isn't necessarily a great movie, but it's a lot of fun and it's very worthwhile to see McConaughey and Bale hamming it up. Good dragons, too.

[–] Greyere (77) 7 years ago

It's OK for a DVD rental.

[–] TexasJack (12515) 7 years ago

Thanks. It's been on one of the cable channels pretty regularly but I keep missing it.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (73528) 7 years ago

Pretty fun silly movie...
I liked it

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

The Day The Earth Stood Still

https://moviechat.org/tt0043456/The-Day-the-Earth-Stood-Still

Very misleading poster right there.

[–] napsdufroid (2077) 7 years ago

Yeah, but all 50s sci-fi/horror flicks had exploitative posters that were huge exaggerations.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

I wonder if that was just the fad of the times, or if it was an intentional strategy to surprise viewers, to avoid "giving away too much." Or something else...?

[–] napsdufroid (2077) 7 years ago

More a fad, plus many used alluring depictions of females to attract teenagers

[–] TexasJack (12515) 7 years ago

Executive Decision

https://moviechat.org/tt0116253/Executive-Decision

I was all set for 2 hours of Steven Seagal killing and maiming terrorists in the most hideous manner possible but he had a fairly minor role. [spoiler]They dumped him out of a flying airplane about 1/3rd of the way through, before he got to beat up anyone. I spent the rest of the movie thinking "he had a parachute", "he's going to come back any minute", but nope.[/spoiler]

[–] TandyMan (10641) 7 years ago

This has never stopped making me upset.

[–] TexasJack (12515) 7 years ago

Seriously. I mean, he was completely "co-billed" on the poster but Halle Berry ended up with a bigger role than him. Very odd.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

I have too posters in my room for the final chapter,but as a fan...i was interested about this movie from the start of filming until the release.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

So was it misleading due to it not actually being the final chapter?

That reminds me, good thing I didn't ask this about video game covers, because back in the days of the NES, for example, it was WAY too common to have the covers give a different impression of the game's content.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Resident evil the final chapter,Frogarama...and about the video games covers...not always.

[–] missnat84 (212) 7 years ago

Mortuary aka Embalmed(1983),looks like a zombie movie,you see a hand coming out from grave but its not.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 7 years ago

That is so funny because it could be misconstrued as either a horror movie or an explicit porno.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Yes.

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