The cover for the danish VHS-cover made it look like a slasher-movie and even the the plot outline on the back descriped it as one.
The Boogeyman is real... and you've found him!
So what are you saying?
I was like an egg rolling through time until I was 21. Then the egg cracked and I popped out.
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I wasn't going to assume that this person is an idiot.
I was like an egg rolling through time until I was 21. Then the egg cracked and I popped out.
You don't have to crack on the guy because he thought it was going to be something else. Everyone has rented or bought something that they thought was something else at one point or another.
It is sometimes better to live in Hell then it is to live in Heaven.
-PCyst
I said that I WAS NOT going to assume that this person is an idiot.
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I was like an egg rolling through time until I was 21. Then the egg cracked and I popped out.
The film was not an out-and-out comedy at all. It was very humorous at times, as was the book. Both versions were too good to be pigeon-holed into one category of "comedy" or "drama", etc. I think it was adapted perfectly to the screen. Both were tragically funny (full of the joy and pain of life, so to speak.)
I don't want to attack your opinion, as I understand how everyone has different perceptions, especially when reading a book. I just think that the film was really along the lines of what McCabe intended when he was writing.
In my opinion, it was the films light tone that made it all the more brutal.
shareYea, I'd agree with Mark.
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It wasn't filmed like a comedy, but it had a sense of humor about it because we were seeing everything through Francie's eyes. Everytime someone spoke to him about something serious, his inner monologue would take over and we as the audience would miss all these depressing pieces of dialogue. And when he does crazy things, he sort of has a smile on his face, but that's the only "funny" part of it. I would have rathered have the scenes that don't have Francie in them (when the boys find the body, blah blah blah) be a little more grim to outline this, but overall this was a good movie.
And for the person who made fun of the Original Poster, they never said they didn't understand the movie, so give them some slack. I thought it was a dark, disturbing horror too. The VHS cover I saw had a sinister looking kid with a butcher's knife and a pig's mask on. The back of the movie definitely described it as a dark, disturbing thriller. I personally expecteda really f-ed up horror, and got what we all know The Butcher Boy is. That doesn't mean I didn't understand it or was disappointed. It was just mismarketed originally. The DVD cover with the stick figure with a bomb for a head is much more telling.
That's a lie though, I was slightly disappointed when he didn't cut off a pig's face and put it over his own when he killed Mrs. Nugent. That would have been kinda cool, and it would have fit in the movie.
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The VHS cover looks like an image from "Motel Hell", so it's hardly strange to assume it's a slasher picture. I thought so, and was really into them at the time, which is why I bought it. After I watched it, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't, and turned out to be so unique.
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