The (Very Unofficial) Top 5 Most Misleading Trailers of All-Time
Terabithia definitely deserves the top spot. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't something I'd normally pay to see in the theater, either.
Misleading Trailers
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Misleading Trailers
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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Gotta agree with Terabithia. My son, who is just turning four, loves Harry Potter but me and the wife don't like him watching the violent parts. The other night my wife asks me to rent Terabithia as she says it looks like, and I quote, "Harry Potter for young kids"! Needless to say, that's not what the movie turned out to be. Thankfully my son fell asleep midway through but my wife got a nice cry at the end and then told me to bring it back the next day!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
I have to disagree with his Mean Girls assessment.
He says the trailer was:
He says the trailer was:
Which is pretty much what I thought the film was. The trailer didn't mislead me, my boredom on the night I was unfortunate enough to watch this drivel did that.Yet another asinine teen flick you couldn’t pay me to watch, where some bitchy girl steals the boy Lindsay Lohan likes.
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"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.