Monday Rantday: Misleading Movie Trailers.

*Warning, post contains spoilers*

There is nothing quite the same as that feeling you get when you see an awesome movie trailer. I'm not sure what it is about movies, but they are a special kind of magic. So, when you see an inspiring trailer and you get super excited and you call your friends, and you make your plans and then you go see it. There is nothing quite as irritating as the movie being nothing at all like it was portrayed.

Serioulsy, last night, I sat down to watch Bridge to Terabithia, the movie about two kids with crappy home lives, that get bullied at school and find a way to escape by going into a magical world where they are supreme rulers and everything is awesome. Oh wait, no it's not. Yeah there are two kids with crappy home lives that get bullied at school. Yeah they become friends and go to Terabithia, which is, in fact a run down tree house in the forest that is terrorized by birds and squirels. Oh yeah, and the girl dies. Like three quarters in, the girl dies. WTF? I thought this was supposed to be a happy kids movie? I didn't realize that I would be explaining death to my kids when it was over, or hugging them tightly while they cry their little eyes out. Yeah.

Then there is Adventureland. This movie had trailers that led you to believe there was another amazing Zombieland style comedy in the works. There would be tons of laugh lines and culture references and awkward moments. But the only thing it delivers, is awkward moments. It is not, in fact, a comedy, but a horribly poignant drama film about the complex nature of relationships and one guy who takes advantage of every damn girl he can, another guy with no idea how to get a girl, and kirsten stuart, looking like she always does. Oh, yeah and all those laughs you thought you had? They were stolen by the kid who always punches the other kid in the balls.

You also get movies like Coraline. The trailer promises a nightmare before christmas style childrens film, with a good lesson and some lovably creepy characters. But what you actually get is a strange otherworld with an evil "mom", a less than adventurous adventure, old woman in revealing clothes and a bunch of mice. Oh yeah, there is also a cat, but the cat has no interest in the mice, and a little boy, that if you read the book, does not even exist. This was such a disappointing film.

Another way that trailers can be misleading is by have stuff in them, that is in fact, NOT in the film. This makes me want to scream. There are so many examples of this that the ones that just flashed through your head are doing a much better job of showing themselves than I could.

Of course, this can also keep you from seeing a movie that is in fact, really good. Movies like The Fifth Element, which would have been awesome in theaters, looked pretty cheaply made and extremely cheesy, so I skipped it.  The Road, staring Viggo, looked an action flick, which if you've read the book you know, it isn't. But I didn't go see it because according to the trailer they effed up the story.

Stupid Bad Movie Trailers.