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[Discussion] Someone should have gotten sued over Kangaroo Jack for deceiving trailer (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/movies@lemm.ee
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If you grew up in the early 2000s, you probably saw a trailer for Kangaroo Jack. The trailer gives the impression that the movie is a screwball road trip comedy about two friends and their wacky, talking Kangaroo sidekick. Except it’s not that. It’s an extremely unfunny movie about two idiots escaping the mob. There’s a random kangaroo in it for like 5 minutes and he only talks during a hallucination scene that lasts less than a minute. Turns out, the producers knew that they had a stinker on their hands so they cut the movie to be PG and focus the marketing on the one positive aspect that test audiences responded to, the talking kangaroo, tricking a bunch of families into buying tickets.

What other movies had similar, deceitfully malicious marketing campaigns?

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The trailer for District 9 had stuff in it that wasn't even in the movie and was all shot at normal camera angles instead of "I'm holding a camera and filming all this" style like the Blair Witch Project.

The trailer looked more like Independence Day, rather than a movie with cam footage showcasing aliens as poor immigrants.

[–] bane_killgrind 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's all B roll that the film crew following Wikus shot

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 weeks ago

Good for them? It was still a bullshit deception.