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Recently I was trying to rent a gritty World War 2 tank action film starring Brad Pitt and by mistake I got some weird thing involving people who like to dress up in animal costumes and have sex or something...
WTF?
Anyone else had that kind of mistaken identity film choice and what was it?
Another time I was trying to get this classic film set in the Great Depression with Humphrey Bogart as a miner and instead I got some mad musical dance thing about these four young actresses?
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That was a long time ago but I went to see a horror movie (Tattoo, I think we thought it's be a bit like a german Seven) but before the movie they showed another movie instead of ads and trailers. It was a short horror film about a woman stranded in her car in a snowstorm (I think?) and thus we had the privilege of experiencing the real horror: Thinking that we accidentally went into the wrong hall and were right now watching the wrong movie. That were some very anxiety driven and confusing 20 to 30 minutes before the main movie started.
We still tease my sister about the time she was watching March of the Penguins, thinking it was Happy Feet and wondering why none of the birds had started singing.
"The 75mm gun is firing. The 37mm gun is firing, but is traversed round the wrong way. The Browning is jammed. I am saying "Driver, advance." and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve enemy tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich."
Kilkrazy wrote: Recently I was trying to rent a gritty World War 2 tank action film starring Brad Pitt and by mistake I got some weird thing involving people who like to dress up in animal costumes and have sex or something...
WTF?
Anyone else had that kind of mistaken identity film choice and what was it?
Mixup? Is that what you told the wife?
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I went to see Mother! because the trailer painted it as a Rosemary's Baby type of movie. I went to see it with a friend to see a bad horror movie. It was not a horror movie, I was annoyed that it wasn't what it was being billed as, and I figured out what was going on in the scene with naked Ed Harris puking in the toilet (pretty early on, if you haven't seen it). I know a lot of people did like it but, if you did, hopefully you can understand why I did not.
Once I got a DVD with a "Be Kind, Rewind" sticker on the inside of the box.....
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
Trying to watch "The Night Watch" a pretty cool Russian movie about good vs evil hiding in plain site. Ended up with Night Watch....some really crappy low rent movie with Cuba Gooding Jr in it.
And when I first saw Naked Lunch that was by accident. I rented some movie a teenaged ne would of liked....and that was what was inside the case. Yikes!
A few years back now I saw a movie called The Fountain. The trailer looked very exciting, like a conquistador who found the fountain of youth and lived forever, into modern times, and was really action packed.
When I saw the movie it was actually about a guy coming to grips with his girlfriends incurable cancer. All the other stuff was essentially metaphors.
The trailer was very deceptive.
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Ouze wrote: Well, I'm not 100% sure that this counts, but.
A few years back now I saw a movie called The Fountain. The trailer looked very exciting, like a conquistador who found the fountain of youth and lived forever, into modern times, and was really action packed.
When I saw the movie it was actually about a guy coming to grips with his girlfriends incurable cancer. All the other stuff was essentially metaphors.
The trailer was very deceptive.
You got bamboozled by that movie too? It was gorgeous, but definitely not what was advertised.
I'll go back to the eighties for these two. Both were advertised as action-adventure films. Both were more like live-action looney-toon cartoons than anything else.
Hudson Hawk and Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins.
Both were trashed by critics and the general public for being too silly for the action-adventure genre. I thought they were brilliant comedies myself, and had they been advertised as such I think they would have been received much better.
Ouze wrote: Well, I'm not 100% sure that this counts, but.
A few years back now I saw a movie called The Fountain. The trailer looked very exciting, like a conquistador who found the fountain of youth and lived forever, into modern times, and was really action packed.
When I saw the movie it was actually about a guy coming to grips with his girlfriends incurable cancer. All the other stuff was essentially metaphors.
The trailer was very deceptive.
You got bamboozled by that movie too? It was gorgeous, but definitely not what was advertised.
Glad to hear it wasn't just me!
Some dude literally turned to us afterward and goes "well, that was a pile of horse gak."
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I had almost an opposite experience. When I was a teenager, I would sometimes stay up late and watch movies hoping for some skin. I became confused one evening thinking I was about to re watch a glorious exploitation film about a serial killer who liked breasts or something (I don't even remember) , but the film I ended up seeing was an entirely different The Killer.
Sadly, the DVD copy I bought isn't the same translation as HBO and the VHS copy used. Does anyone know if the "Mickey Mouse and Dumbo" translation exists on DVD, and if so how to tell it apart from the Shrimp Head and ...some other stupid nickname version?
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I really like the fountain but i also remember seeing the trailer and thinking it was about conquistadors hunting for the fountain of youth in south america.
These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
Ouze wrote: Well, I'm not 100% sure that this counts, but.
A few years back now I saw a movie called The Fountain. The trailer looked very exciting, like a conquistador who found the fountain of youth and lived forever, into modern times, and was really action packed.
When I saw the movie it was actually about a guy coming to grips with his girlfriends incurable cancer. All the other stuff was essentially metaphors.
The trailer was very deceptive.
The worst thing was.... the moral was just rehashed "Circle of Life" Disney messaging treated like this was some amazing discovery.
Aronofsky man.... over-rated!
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Rented Argo hoping it would shed some light on the origins of the Tardis like high street retailer and the creation of the laminated book of dreams
Got some bobbins with Battfleck try to make a Stars Wars knock-off and rescue some embassy staff or something, not a pale guardian of the mythical treasure to be seen...
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
Ouze wrote: Well, I'm not 100% sure that this counts, but.
A few years back now I saw a movie called The Fountain. The trailer looked very exciting, like a conquistador who found the fountain of youth and lived forever, into modern times, and was really action packed.
When I saw the movie it was actually about a guy coming to grips with his girlfriends incurable cancer. All the other stuff was essentially metaphors.
The trailer was very deceptive.
The worst thing was.... the moral was just rehashed "Circle of Life" Disney messaging treated like this was some amazing discovery.
Aronofsky man.... over-rated!
But the soundtrack was absolutely stellar.
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Turnip Jedi wrote: Rented Argo hoping it would shed some light on the origins of the Tardis like high street retailer and the creation of the laminated book of dreams
Got some bobbins with Battfleck try to make a Stars Wars knock-off and rescue some embassy staff or something, not a pale guardian of the mythical treasure to be seen...
Someone is a fan of the Bill Bailey
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Anyone else had that kind of mistaken identity film choice and what was it?
Late one night having had more than a couple of drinks I decided I wanted to watch the late '80s Emilio Estevez films about Billy the Kidd, I turned to P2P, typed in "Young Guns" and just clicked the first dozen or so that came up. I downloaded a lot of gay adult movies that night and never managed to get the actual films, serves me right for pirating I guess...
Years back, I wanted to rent the Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman for a movie night with some friends.
Well, when I got home, it turned out it wasn't the Costner movie, but "Robin Hood - Men in Thighs".
Needless to say, me and my friends loved it. Probably since puberty was a thing for us back then, but still!
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