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[apocalypsos]

This isn't a requested rant, but I have to get it out.

So the whole thing with Million Dollar Baby is that they don't show the whole story of what the movie is about in the trailer. And everybody's been making a big deal about the fact that while they tell you about Hilary Swank wanting to box, they don't mention that the rest of the plot is that she gets whacked upside the head, gets paralyzed, and begs Clint Eastwood to pull the plug on her.

Today on Don and Mike, Don spoiled the movie on the show so that he could bitch about it (although he gave the listening audience fair warning to turn their radios down -- even if euthanasia became a running joke for the rest of the show). And pretty much all of the guys on the show said that if they'd known about the euthanasia part of the movie, they wouldn't have wanted to go see it in the first place. In fact, I don't know too many people who've been spoiled for that aspect who do still want to see it aside from me.

Of course, the big complaint is that they show none of this in the trailer, and as much as I understand that they should at least hint at it, do you know what every single one of us would have said if they had put that storyline in the trailer? We would have said, "Would you look at that? Another movie that's completely spoiled by the trailer." For once, we have a trailer that doesn't spoil what the movie is really about, and everybody's complaining. Like I said, a hint would have been nice, but would anyone really have been happy if that plotline had been shown at the end of the trailer? Probably not. Seriously, there are so many stupid trailers that get put out that ruin the whole damn movie.


Don't mind me. I just had to get that off my chest. :)

Comments

[titti]

I must be strange because I didn't want to see it until I found out about the euthanasia angle. The female rocky movie didn't interest me in the least.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I second that. In fact I only read this post because I was thinking 'Eh, boxing movie, it's not like I'm going to see it.' And now, well, it still doesn't sound like something I'm dying to see but it does sound interesting.

[titti]

Yes, I'm not running to the theather myself, but it's a lot more interesting. *G*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm a spoiler whore, so I went ahead and read the full-length spoiler at themoviespoiler.com. I keep seeing people rant about how this is "just like Girlfight--what was the point of making it?," and I so want to bust in and be like, "Dude? You think you don't want to see it now? You have no idea."

This is also why I think The Aviator will win in the end--the Hughes story altogether is sad, but the movie itself isn't unrelentingly depressing, at least.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Totally no interest in seeing it in the first place, but after I spoiled myself and found out the second half of the movie, really didn't want to see it. But, yeah, thank God, a movie that wasn't completely spoiled by the trailer. Although Clint Eastwood does say "I just want to keep her with me," in the trailer, all bawling sad. But that's still not a really big hint.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

OHHHHHH. Yeah, that totally makes sense now...

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Just occured to me while I was typing it up. I mean, I've seen the trailer five times at the beginning of Phantom. Don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Haha. Ohhhhh. So THAT'S why it's getting all the Oscar noms! It's like 2 Oscar-whoring plots in 1! Three if you count Clint Eastwood as his own Oscar-whoring plot.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Hee! Here I was reading someone else's journal and I see an icon I made! What a weird experience.

*feels special*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's so much more inventive than the plot twist I expected it to be. And I'm not being sarcastic. I thought it was going to be that she turned out to be the [grand]daughter he hadn't seen in eons or something.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Haaaaaaaaaa. Um...haaaaaaa.

[virgulesmith.livejournal.com]

I liked the movie, but I will say I was so not thinking it would go there. Somehow I was expecting at least a hopeful ending. Someone had said something about a paternity twist, so that's what I was thinking. It was depressing as hell, but at the same time, it isn't something I'll forget anytime soon.

[lulybunny.livejournal.com]

I don't watch TV these days. And I've only heard commercials on the radio, so didn't even know it's about boxing...it's that vague. And it had all this crappy melodramatic music.

There's nothing wrong with a plot twist, people really are spoiled with long ass trailers. But um, I'm glad to know about this so I won't even let anyone talk me into it. LOL.

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

I had heard that the twist was dark, but damn. Still want to see it, though. The Swank love doesn't know any bounds.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Actually, thanks for the spoilers--I've been trying to figure out why Bill Simmons refused to rec (or even talk more in his column) the movie. Not trying too hard, but yeah, I can understand the WHY of it now.

Still not going to see it, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

Sorry, I can only stomach one boxing movie per lifetime, and I think I'm going to have to fill that slot with "Cinderella Man." :)

[filmbuff.livejournal.com]

I figured there had to be something more than the advertising was giving away, between the praise it was getting and the fact that Eastwood was just coming off Mystic River, but I was definitely surprised when it happened in the movie.

And really, really happy that I didn't know about it ahead of time.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I wasn't overwhelmingly interested in it to start with, but now? Bleah :P

Sounds like the worst kind of tear-jerker crap. Why doesn't Hollywood make the kind of movies I want to see? ::goes to rent Shaun of the Dead again::

As you just said . . .

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

I just got back from it-and the scene where the accident occurs literally takes your breath away. The film was amazing before, but it becomes an even more moving portrait of what devotion is. It wouldn't have been nearly as powerful if the accident was revealed.