Why movie previews are evil
Jan. 13th, 2004 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, we're walking to Elayna's karate class tonight.
Elayna: Can we see that Polly Prince movie soon?
Me: What movie?
Elayna: The one we saw the preview for this weekend.
Me (brain furiously attemtping to sort through the seventeen awful-looking trailers we saw. It's not Garfield. Maybe that piece of shit Freaky-Friday/Big rip-off?): Is it 13 Going on 30?
Elayna: No. The one with something about a girl named Polly. Along Came Polly!
Me: Oy.
I explained that it was a PG-13 movie whose preview really didn't belong before Cheaper By the Dozen. She understood, but said she couldn't wait until she was thirteen, because that scene with the basketball game (and anyone who has suffered through the trailer knows which one) was so funny.
Sigh.
Elayna: Can we see that Polly Prince movie soon?
Me: What movie?
Elayna: The one we saw the preview for this weekend.
Me (brain furiously attemtping to sort through the seventeen awful-looking trailers we saw. It's not Garfield. Maybe that piece of shit Freaky-Friday/Big rip-off?): Is it 13 Going on 30?
Elayna: No. The one with something about a girl named Polly. Along Came Polly!
Me: Oy.
I explained that it was a PG-13 movie whose preview really didn't belong before Cheaper By the Dozen. She understood, but said she couldn't wait until she was thirteen, because that scene with the basketball game (and anyone who has suffered through the trailer knows which one) was so funny.
Sigh.
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Date: 2004-01-13 04:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-13 05:00 pm (UTC)(While I'm thinking about it, what woman is ever totally out of TP in her apartment? This simply does not happen, ever.)
And Phillip Seymour Hoffman, although he's done some pretty good things, isn't he really just a cheap replacement for Jack Black?
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Date: 2004-01-13 07:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-13 08:27 pm (UTC)Okay, wait, Zero Effect was bearable. But he wasn't the star and he wasn't a complete loser. He needs to get off that track. It's just not entertaining.
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Date: 2004-01-14 11:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-14 11:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-14 12:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-19 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-13 05:40 pm (UTC)Heh...
Date: 2004-01-13 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: Heh...
Date: 2004-01-13 08:26 pm (UTC)THAT scene
Date: 2004-01-13 08:39 pm (UTC)THAT scene is hillarious... and unless you were ever an avid basketball player and played street ball *hint,, I was*, you may not quite get or fully understand the context of that scene...
It's not that it's funny, its that it has probably happened to ANYONE playing ANY sport streetwise or even on a team at some point...
Other than that... the movie looked like it was going to be a bomb....
When she IS thirteen, she probably wouldn't want to see the movie. My kid saw the trailer and asked "why do they bother?".... I lost it...
Teens gotta love em
Re: THAT scene
Date: 2004-01-14 06:42 am (UTC)Yeah really - I was watching TV with a 13-yo stepdaughter one evening a while back, and a car commercial came on, and at the end they flashed up the disclaimers as they always do, and she said simply, "I can read that." The delivery was perfect, I totally cracked up to the point oxygen was an issue.
Re: THAT scene
Date: 2004-01-14 06:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-19 12:54 am (UTC)Honestly I saw it *because* of the preview. yes, I'd already seen the funniest parts, but I needed a couple guarenteed easy laughs. I'm pretty easy in general that way.
But mostly, I wanted to comment on this post, becuase you are such a cute dad, and I thought that was sweet. *hugs*