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⌈ Secret Post #3228 ⌋

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Comments

"I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever thought something was in a completely different genre (or about a completely different subject) than it really was? Did you figure it out before you read/saw/listened to it, or after?

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Not genre per se, but before I saw it I always thought Buffy was some Sweet Valley High-esque show, that Buffy was basically a bimbo, and... yeah. I was not expecting the strong characters and emotional depth at all.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

That's actually a reasonable assumption, considering what the original movie was like.

Not saying the movie is bad, mind you; just that it's very different from the show in terms of style and tone and... everything.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[ibbity]

Sweet Valley High was a show? I only knew of it through the dozens of terrible, child-level-trashy novels I found at the library in the late 90s and early 00s. When was this?

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Someone described Being Human to me as "A ghost, a werewolf and a vampire share a flat".

I thought it'd be a wacky sitcom, sort of a mix of 'Friends' and 'Big Wolf on Campus'.

It was not a wacky sitcom.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Me too! And yeah, it... really isn't. I pretty much stopped watching about five episodes in. Way too dark for me.

Although I actually heard it initially was supposed to be a sitcom.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

BBC? Cause that shit got serious real quick.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

This was mostly because of the trailer, but I thought The Family Stone was going to be a Christmas comedy. Oops.

Also, I assumed that Sleepless in Seattle was a cheesy horror flick based on the title. The assumption didn't last long though, I was at the video store when I saw it and my friend was like "huh? What? No." :P

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I watched a Cary Grant movie that Netflix deemed "comedy." The synopsis said Cary Grant and his Air Force friends have fun while they have a week of leave and get involved with women and crazy capers. And while there were women and capers, there were a lot of really sad references to PTSD, deceased friends, dying/ill friends, and the possibility that Grant and his friends would never make it home once their leave was over and they went back to fight. The movie was called Kiss Them for Me.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like it would've been better described as "dark comedy" as best. Maybe. I really hate that. Two funny moments /=/ a comedy.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I watched The Pyramid a few days ago.

It was so hilaribad that I thought surely one of the genres was comedy... but alas, no. Just a promising horror movie that goes down the toilet quickly. I probably laughed far, far more than I should have.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Crazy Rich Asians was going to be more comedy of manners than bad romantic comedy (and yes, you could argue that's a thin line between genres, but I wasn't expecting romcom tropes like "Rachel has apparently never asked about Nick's family or thought it was weird he didn't bring them up, even as they are literally on a plane to Singapore")

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the movie 50/50 was supposed to be a comedy. Actually, I think it was marketed that way - the preview gave me a very dark humor, let's-get-cancer-pity-sex-haha impression. Actually, the whole thing is pretty sad, and at best, occasionally a little uplifting.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Before I read Watchmen I assumed it would be boring, pretentious, and insufferably preachy, like an Ayn Rand novel with superheroes.

Boy was I wrong!

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Desperate Houswewives

I thought it was a sorta dark mystery, hearing it was comedy at one awards ceremony was like "wait, what"

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

The first time I saw Monty Python was "The Holy Grail", and I was basically given it with the expectation of a serious King Arthur movie. Same with "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" and Dracula.

Yeeeeah...figured out mighty quick there they weren't even going to try and approach serious.

I regret nothing.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I had a friend who saw Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula", and thought is was "Dracula: Dead and Loving It". He didn't realize his mistake until the scene with Lucy and the Werewolf. I still make fun of him for that.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a secret coming up about a romance game called Nameless. It's still romance, but it's got a lot more horror elements than I expected. (The second bad ending I got involved a mysterious figure selling his soul for a chance to kill the main character.)

On the reverse side...

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea Brooklyn Nine-Nine was a comedy until a f!s post. I thought it was another cop show.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Lost was a celebrity reality TV show like Survivor.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[ginainthekingsroad]

I gotta admit, I didn't know Lost was science fiction for years. It wasn't until I heard something about the smoke monster that I started to get suspicious. Somehow I missed its first Hugo award nomination (2005, for the pilot) despite attending that awards ceremony.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[allisontooey.livejournal.com]

I have this happen a lot. Some choice examples;

*"The Postman Always Rings Twice" is a Film Noir, and not, in fact, a melodrama, which I didn't realize until it popped up in a Film Noir collection.

*I thought Marilyn Monroe's "Bus Stop" would be a comedy, since that's generally what she acted in. I was so convinced of this that I watched it on VALENTINE'S DAY. Yeah, I didn't expect the creepy stalking at all.

*Just by title alone, "Reform School Girls" sounds like a cheesy, campy movie that MST3K would love. Instead, it's depressing and bleak.

*"The Man Who Would Be King" sounded like some sort of bombastic drama. It turned out to be a fun comedy instead. Not that I was complaining...

It's always strange when you get a "bait-and-switch" (not quite the right term, but the best I can think of), but it can be fun, too.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

Princess Tutu. I want to watch more anime that surprise me like this. :D

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I had absolutely no idea what Fight Club was about until I watched the movie. I think I thought it was a boxing movie? Yeah, my mind was pretty much blown, in a good way.

Re: "I thought this was a comedy?"

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Alfie, with Jude Law was a comedy. Nope. Not really.