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⌈ Secret Post #3614 ⌋

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08. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

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What movies ended up being completely different than what you expected. Either because of the plot or tone or whatever.

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Movies are always turning out less weird than I expect from their reputation. I've seen three David Lynch movies and none of them seemed as weird as his reputation would suggest? I need to get around to Eraserhead. Hopefully that one will be more like what I expect.

Tree of Life wasn't anywhere near as experimental as I had been led to believe from all the complaints either. Aside from a few interludes of pretty images, it was a pretty standard family drama.

Edited 2016-11-26 00:28 (UTC)

Eraserhead is one of the few movies I've ever straight-up turned off because I couldn't hack it. Admittedly, I'd had no preparation on David Lynch at all beforehand. I don't know what I thought I'd be watching, but whatever it was it wasn't that. I have no idea how weird it would seem to someone with some preparation or even just a different frame of mind to what I had that night. I suspect it's a movie you have to be in the right headspace to be affected by.

It freaked me the fuck out, mind you. Not so much for shock value but for the sheer reasonless, nightmarish aura of misery. It's like one of those dreams you have where you know that everything is wrong but you can't tell why. It's miserable. And freaky. I did not like it at all.

That sounds like about what I've been expecting, which is why I haven't seen it yet. I figured it was the kind of thing I'd need to be in the right headspace for. But it still sounds like something I would appreciate, at least once.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-11-26 01:05 (UTC) - Expand

Eraserhead is the student film to end all student films. I very much recommend Lost Highway, that's him at his very best.

Magic Mike. It was actually like Saturday Night Fever. I thought I was going to be watching a goofy movie about male strippers. And the third act was filled with drug overdoses and such. That is not what I signed up for!

This. If you tell me I'm going to be getting a movie about male strippers, I expect the focus to be on stripping. I need to watch the second one, I heard it was better.

Battle of the Five Armies. Wasn't expecting complete book following after the first two, but I was expecting something of the quality of the first two. It was not good (other than a few choice bits).

The Family Stone. I was expecting a family comedy set at Christmas.

I was not expecting a movie about someone freaking dying.

/Still hasn't forgiven it

(To be fair, cancer's a touchy subject so it's not entirely their fault. Still, it was in no way, shape or form a comedy.)

I had no idea what to expect with Seven Pounds but it was an incredibly depressing movie. Not something I wanted to see during Christmas Break.

Prime with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg looked like a happy rom com. It was not a typical rom com ending.

Man, "Prime" was weird, and just - I was so pissed off by the end, because if I'd been Uma's character, I would have left the moment I knew that my therapist was my boyfriend's mum, told my boyfriend, and said, "Would it destroy our relationship if I sued your mum? Because what she did was completely morally unacceptable."

It was just so... ugh! The movie didn't seem to have any awareness that using your familiarity with someone (gained through being their THERAPIST) to manipulate them into breaking up with their boyfriend is just a terrible thing to do! Even if the boyfriend is your son!
Especially if the boyfriend is your son!

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shortysc22 - 2016-11-26 02:10 (UTC) - Expand

Star Trek Beyond was very different from what I thought it would be. It didn't suck. It wasn't great, but just being a bit dumb and vaguely irritating with only mildly unlikable leads was a massive quantum leap in quality from the first two

I did not expect the amount of (intended) heart in Interstellar. Nice, but unexpected.

Creed. Went into it expecting a fun boxing movie. Halfway through, started wondering why they were hitting the Rocky references so hard. Googled after credits rolled and realized it was just literally Rocky VII.

Still a great movie though. I have nothing against Rocky movies and it was a great movie.

Into the Woods. I had never heard of the musical so when I was invited to the movies I expected a cheesy-action fairy-tale remake like Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters.

I listened to the (movie) soundtrack before I saw it and was still kind of thrown off tbh.

I was fundamentally unprepared for the mumblecore genre. The first such movie I watched was about an accusation of child molestation at a family gathering. I knew the genre favored naturalistic acting and lack of music, but I didn't realize just how vividly uncomfortable it would be to watch a fight over parental abuse without the conceits of fiction to distance me from it.

I was expecting "We Are Still Here" to be good. It wasn't.

Hope Springs with Merle Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. I went in thinking it was some sort of romantic comedy with an older couple. Casting Steve Carrell really didn't help that impression. The trailers made it seem like it was going to be funny too.

It was incredibly depressing. Just, ugh. Yeah, no. Not what I expected or wanted out of those 3 actors with that concept.

In Bruges
The trailer I saw in my country made it look like a fairly quirky comedy with a bit of a crime story element. Turned out to be a very black humour dramedy with a lot more gore than I was expecting. I think it's still a good movie, but the trailer was very misleading.

Le Week-End. I expected it to be funny. As it turned out, it was two hours of watching a couple of unbearably obnoxious and selfish old Brits faff around Paris and fuck up other people's lives.

Jaws. (The first one.)

I'd thought it was a gimmicky monster movie and instead there's, like, acting and plot and interesting speeches.

(The sequels, not so much.)

"Pan's Labyrinth". A friend convinced me to go, saying that it had gotten good reviews. I was in grad school at the time, so I hadn't been watching a lot of TV or reading much news - I had no idea that some theaters had to warn parents that it was *not* a family movie. So my preparation for the movie was the poster in the lobby, which looked all fairytale-like.

The first torture/murder scene took me a bit by surprise.

Oh my god, yes. I was watching it at a friend's behest and I was thinking supernatural fairytale esque type film and then that scene.

I was IMing my friend all, "NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THEY JUST BASHED HIS FACE IN WITH A BOTTLE. A BOTTLE! AND THEY SHOWED IT!!!"

It was DEFINITELY nowhere near what I had expected it to be.

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replicantangel - 2016-11-26 15:13 (UTC) - Expand

Everybody's Fine (2009) with Robert De Niro. I thought it was going to be a comedy about a man reconnecting with his adult children.

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