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/Wrong-Mouse-6499 3d ago

FUN FACT: Kangaroo Jack used to be a 18+ film called Down and Under, and test audiences HATED it. So they had to scramble to attract audiences, and they realized they had wacky kangaroos in that dream sequence, so after a lot of editing and false advertising we got Kangaroo Jack

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u/aNascentOptimist 3d ago

I hated that movie as a kid. It made me realize trailers are a good way to lie and not for the audience to understand the movie, but to just sell tickets no matter what.

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u/spunk_wizard 3d ago

Snow dogs....