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/RoadsidePicnik 3d ago edited 3d ago

The stuff they left in while maintaining a PG rating is kind of fucked up. Binge drinking, boobie-grabbing, jokes about epilepsy and getting whacked, Michael Shannon growling "You pansy-ass (r-slur)s are dead!"

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u/Distantstallion 3d ago

Epilepsy jokes had me shaking

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u/SpermBankVCR 3d ago

I once heard an epileptic refer to her seizers as “exclusive dance parties”

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u/Inevitable_Salad933 3d ago

The really squeezed an entirely different, much more unhinged movie into a kids’ comedy ❤️🥲😂

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