Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Unexpectedly loving that movie
This is happening more and more often. I see a trailer for a movie and it looks really bad or stupid, but when I go see the movie when I either have a free ticket, someone else wants to see it, or there is nothing else to see, I end up loving the movie. It is very annoying because the trailer makes the film seem like a totally different kind of movie but I after I see it it turns out to be something I actually really like. I hope they stop making trailers that are made to appeal to a certain demographic when the movie is really not for that group. If the trailer would have just showed what the movie really was about then I probably would be able to better decide if I want to see the movie or not, but when they make this really bad trailers it becomes difficult. The most recent example I can think of is the movie Kick-Ass. When I first saw the trailer I thought it looked like a teenage PG-13 superhero spoof, but man was I wrong. After hearing all the controversy and complaints about one of the characters in the movie I decided I should go see if the movie is really worth fussing over. The big controversy was sparked by the character hit-girl who is a twelve year old girl who kills bad guys and swears a lot. When I first heard about the controversy I thought that that did sound horrible, but then I remembered how a lot of people, especially parents like to exaggerate things so they can try to get rid of it. So I went to see the movie. It was nothing like the trailer. The movie was a very hard R rated action movie with some comedic elements but mostly dark comedy. So I was mad because I would have seen the movie the weekend it came out if I knew it was like it was and not like the crappy trailer. On the controversial side it was as extreme as they complained about, the girl kills people, cusses a lot, and she is only a kid. There is one thing that the people complaining forgot to talk about and that was why the kid was this way. The people complaining gave the impression that the little girl did all this stuff because it would be "cool," but that is far from the truth. In the movie they give a very good and believable explanation for this girls behavior. Here father was put in jail for outing a crooked cop and while in jail his wife is murdered by the people the crooked cops worked for. So ever since he got out of jail he became hellbent of getting revenge and in the process he trains his daughter to help him. With a crazy parent like that it is more understandable why a little girl would be killing people because her father who she loves told her to because it was to kill the murderers who killed her mother. Well anyways back to the topic. I am glad I decided to see the movie Kick-Ass even thought the trailer made it out to be a bad movie. I am always glad when I unexpectedly stumble across something that I never thought I would like but end up loving it.
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