r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 3d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) False advertising

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  1. The marketing makes it seem like the movie is about Austin (the unbreakable boy) who is autistic, but rather it's about his prick of a father who caused a drunk driving accident
  2. The talking kangaroo was included in all of the trailers and the main poster but was only a hallucination and was seen for like 30 seconds (Kangaroo Jack)
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u/CaptainMatticus 3d ago

Naked Lunch. I can think of at least 2 things wrong with that title!

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u/RoadsidePicnik 3d ago

Mooooooon River 🎶

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u/jbwarner86 3d ago

Bam! Second encore!

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u/lamest-liz 3d ago

ANDY WILLIAMS 🥹

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u/PenguinDeluxe 3d ago

This never would have happened if we had gone to Macon, GA

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u/campex 3d ago

I remember 10ish years ago picking up a book by the same author, and it was utterly incomprehensible

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u/immaownyou 3d ago

Iirc the author killed his wife in a drunken shoot an apple of your head accident. Dude had problems with problems

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u/UnquestionabIe 3d ago

Was going to say I remember reading the book in the early 2000s, when I was an unemployed college drop out with nothing but free time and no money, and it was a trip. Parts of it are coherent while others are clearly the writer being absolutely trashed and playing around with language/writing. Would say that Gravity's Rainbow reminds me of it but it's absurd difficulty comes from the sheer density of the writing than anything (the Crying of Lot 49 being like a little preview, far shorter and a touch easier to wrap your brain around).

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u/non-canon-username 3d ago

On the plus side, I knocked over the Sun Sphere.

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u/Ekwinoksxxx 3d ago

That book was one of the biggest literary mindfucks I’ve ever experienced.