Why movie previews are evil

[yendi]

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.

Comments

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Bruce and I occasionally make ourselves deeply unpopular with our fellow moviegoers by making disparaging noises during bad trailers. (Yes, I do hate it when people talk during movies, and I am very good during the feature, but trailers are different. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.) The trouble is, once you've seen the same crappy trailer fourteen times, you can't help it.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Word. I was wondering if anybody else was getting tired of "Ben Stiller is a neurotic loser who has to suffer extraordinarily horrific situations for two hours and ten minutes" movies. I'm so totally sick and fricking tired of the diarrhea-out of paper-overflowing toilet joke. Can we please have a worldwide moratorium on that for say, the next 100 years?

(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?

[hockeyrules88.livejournal.com]

I'm just tired of Ben Stiller in general. I have yet to find any of his movies entertaining.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Y'know what, I think you're right. I can't think of one I liked at all.

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.

[yendi]

I've actually enjoyed a lot of his stuff. Zoolander was a blast, and Reality Bites, Mystery Men, and Flirting With Disaster were fun. And I still love THere's Something About Mary, in spite of my hatred for that genre (and the Farrelly Brothers) in general.

[yendi]

? Maybe it's because the only PSH role I can remember is State and Main, but I find him nothing like Jack Black.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Well, he looks kinda Blackish in these Polly previews, and he was much the same in Punch Drunk Love. But perhaps you're right.

[ginger]

He was also in The 25th Hour, as a not-very-Blackish creepy schoolteacher guy.

[demetria23.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I saw Love, Actually in Buford, and they accidentally showed the trailer twice at the beginning. I nearly shot myself.

Heh...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

You are so doomed when she actually does hit 13...

Re: Heh...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

She already acts like a teenager.

THAT scene

[gythiawulfie.livejournal.com]

from having to sit through the trailer several times just to see the movie I was actually there to see...

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

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Teens gotta love em

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

[gythiawulfie.livejournal.com]

Yeah... that sounds about right....

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Well, the movie DID suck, but that wasn't surprising. I DO like Ben Stiller. I loved him most in Meet the Parents, though Mystery Men was good too.

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*