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Have you ever made up a movie after only seeing the trailer? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 days ago by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]

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As in, you see a movie trailer, and based only on that trailer you make up the whole movie in your mind, and it ends up being different than the actual movie. Was your version better or worse?

I'll go first: Men In Black 1 had a somewhat misleading trailer, where they're about to shoot down the flying saucer at the end, and they say to each other "Do you have any idea what you're doing?" "Not a clue." And they shoot. So in my mind it was two guys from the FBI who had to suddenly deal with the existence of aliens and learn to fight them on the fly, learning and making it up as they went along all the while learning to work with each other.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I wouldn't say I've made up an entire movie because of it, but I have very widely missed what a movie was from its trailer.

Kung Pow! Enter the Fist had such a shit trailer, I had no interest at all in seeing it. The only reason I did, was because my siblings wanted to go and my mom didn't wanna drive so she paid me to take them. Had I known it was a comedy and how they made it, I would have actually been hyped. That shit was the funniest movie I ever saw up to that point.

From the trailers I remember seeing at the time, I just thought they had simply brought an old kung fu movie that was only in Chinese or something to the US for the first time with English dubbing. And it didn't look like a particularly good kung fu movie. They did absolutely nothing to make it look like a comedy, with the gag being that they were just riffing on an old kung fu movie.

[–] captain_aggravated 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kung Pow is a hard movie to make a trailer for. It's a movie that is best marketed by having a friend explain it to you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I remember the trailer I saw showing him dodging milk shot from a cow’s udder Matrix style. That did the trick for my 11y/o brain.

[–] Iamsqueegee 5 points 3 days ago

You might appreciate “What’s Up, Tiger Lily”. It’s a comedic re-dub of a Japanese spy flick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How did they make it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If I recall correctly they took an existing kung fu movie and edited the main character in. Well, the cow scene was new, too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It’s also deliberately poorly dubbed, which adds to the fun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know that, I may check it out then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It’s remarkably well done considering the overall low budget feel. Corridor Crew did a breakdown.

https://youtu.be/ADr3r_mM5h4?si=oiArHj19_tsldWot @3:45

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I don't like what feels like people shouting at me in a video. Do people watch that stuff?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

https://youtu.be/ADr3r_mM5h4

Fixed the link

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I saw the trailer to Shutter Island, a film about a detective trying to solve a murder at a mysterious and secluded mental institution, I immediately guessed that the twist was going to be that the detective was actually a patient the whole time. This made me decide that I didn't need to watch it and I never looked up a plot summary so I've no idea if I'm right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Spoiler warning

You’re right

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Not made up a movie, but I have seen trailers that made a movie look like it sucks when it was actually pretty decent

Speed comes to mind:

https://youtu.be/8piqd2BWeG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Musicals tend to have misleading trailers, IMO. Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp comes to mind. I knew it was a musical because I was already familiar with the stage musical, but would not have guessed based on the trailer alone. I had friends similarly surprised that the 2024 Mean Girls is also a musical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

TIL the Mean Girls remake is a musical.

[–] can 4 points 3 days ago

Studios do this on purpose because they know audiences don't like musicals as much as they used to. They also will hide that its part 1 of 2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yep. Legit didn’t know it was a musical. Walked out 10 minutes in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Nobody mention the Joker sequel...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like this idea and more wish I was creative enough for this.

In short: no, I have never done this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The Megalopolis in my head was one hundred billion times better than what FFC made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Based on the trailer for Stealth, I thought the whole movie was going to be about them chasing down a rogue jet.

I'm glad they did the trailer this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2PW7a9ViDc

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 3 days ago

ALL I saw of that movie during its promotional campaign was several scenes of really stupid transformer jet fighters and a bikini scene at a lake in a jungle?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I often get dreams about watching the movie and being disappointed.