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Jan. 27th, 2005 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosThis 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. :)
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. :)
