Aren't movie trailers supposed to whet one's appetite for a good time out at the theater without making the story out to be something it definitely is not? Aren't trailers supposed to be brief yet precise representation of the plot and not completely done over to look like a certain type of movie just to get people in the seat? The trailer is to the film what the resume is to the unemployed and like a padded resume from an under-qualified candidate the trailer totally had me fooled. Lets flash back to last weekend. I thought I was doing a good job when watched the trailer for a movie called Watchmen. I knew it was based on a graphic novel I had never heard of but that was about it. I watched the trailer and I got a comic book super-hero gone bad vibe. Eh.. whatever. I figured it was no different from all of the other super-hero movies I'd seen in life. I gave it a try on Saturday night thinking I knew everything I needed to in order to get this film. I realized about 20 minutes into the movie that the reason why I didn't hear that alarm in my head screaming, "Oh girl, this is not it!" was because they probably couldn't put all the unessecary nudity, pointless plot and violence into a 60 second trailer meant for a PG-13 audience.
Never before had I been so blindsinded by a movie in my life. Yeah, I could've done my research but looking back I would've had to read the whole novel to know what I know now. That's what trailers are for, or so I thought. If I had taken my younger, mature for his age sibling he would have been exposed to all kinds of things none of them positive. Instead I took mom and we spent a good chunk of time watching awkwardly inappropriate movie footage together. Everything from guts hanging off the ceiling to softcore porn got its screen time. Even if you had seen it all before it would have still bored you out of the theater. The plot spread itself out all over only it never put itself together agian.
The moral of the movie was that there is no moral, humanity is hopeless and people are savage. We're all going to destroy ourselves anyway so lets just have a good time. Uh, okay what's the point? Does the director want us all to just lay down and die? All I really want to do is destroy any evidence that this movie ever existed. It only satifies those who knew about the novel and even then it's not a comic book I'd want to be a "fan" of. I've learned my lesson; do your homework especially before you drag your mom out to the movies.
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