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This film's marketing was a joke!

posted 12 years ago by hot_action_ninja
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The trailers and ads made this out to be some kind of quirky, funny little indie film. Something the whole family can enjoy. It was depressing as fvck!

Is it strange that I had an erection during that scene?

[–] Caffeine-Free 11 years ago

Word. I vaguely remember the trailer for it and I do remember it seeming more lighthearted but no, it is a very grim film. I don't even mind depressing movies ordinarily but this one is unpleasant.

[–] Prismark10 11 years ago

The film was marketed all wrong in the USA and elsewhere.

Its that man again!!

[–] nina-oh-nina 10 years ago

indeed. I have purposely overlooked it for months on Netflix because I thought it would be some annoying goofy mess. but I couldn't find a darn thing better to watch so I said "what the hey" by the end I was angry that it hadn't been in the tearjerker category and depressed about my own broken family :(

[–] orangeandyellow 10 years ago

wow, i was thinking about the same thing, nina-oh-nina. it has been in my netflix queue forever and i kept passing it up thinking it was some typical hollywood feel-good film. wow, was i wrong!

spoiler:

the scene where he goes into the gallery to get one of david's paintings and it ends up being the telephone poles: i lost it.

still, as sad as it was, i am just glad to see a movie that does not end up all coming together at the end. this is real life.

[–] Paisleyk 10 years ago

Ha, me too! The trailer made it seem like the typical annoying movie. Even the title is annoying. I was surprised when I finally did watch it. It was very touching and I loved it.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[–] cassandra_mortmain 10 years ago

@orangeandyellow

yeah, the look on de niro's face when he sees the telephone poles stabbed me in the heart. i thought the painting that he initially came in to buy but found out was sold was going the present the kids surprised him with at Christmas, but I was wrong. the telephone wire painting, though...man, pass the kleenex.

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[–] micirisi 9 years ago

Agree the trailer (currently on IMBD) is very misleading using most of the few semi-amusing scenes to pitch the film in this other wise depressing story. I admit however the film though sad was enjoyable. Just don't expect a comedy after watching the trailer.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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[–] DracTarashV 8 years ago

As fairly humorous and lighthearted as the film is at times (De Niro actually made me smile in many scenes), it's definitely nothing like the trailers made it out to be. But as someone else mentioned, it's not surprising they marketed the film this way since the general public would prefer something... not so serious.

You want something corny? You got it!