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What movies have you seen where the intended genre, story direction or feeling did not work for you?

My primary example:
I saw the movie Titantic & Saving Private Ryan in the same month.

Titanic was a love story built on top of a terrible human tragedy.
Saving Private Ryan was a gritty realistic war film about men giving their lives to save one.

This Titanic scene gave me nightmares for about a week.

Saving Private Ryan was about war and I expected it to be tough. Scenes stuck with me but not into nightmares.
There was tragedy in both, but to build a love story on top of one just broke my brain for a time.
And the following of millions of young girls to see a torrid 24 hour romp seeing it 20+ times ???
Today, Titanic would be like making a love story out of the victims of the twin towers.
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11:40a, 1/15/24
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Saving Private Ryan is one of my favorite movies of all time. It was released when I was 13 years old and I saw it in the theatre no less than 10 times.

I was really stoked to go see The Thin Red Line, just a few months later. It sucked.

The critics said it was good, though.
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American History X
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Million Dollar Baby
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
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The two Spider-Verse movies. Thought they would just be pretty decent animated films, but the powerfully expressed themes in those movies have hit hard. They're a lot bigger than just animated superhero movies for kids.
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2:21p, 1/15/24
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.
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2:27p, 1/15/24
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Pixar's Up.
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In reply to tk for tu juan • 2:39p, 1/15/24
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tk for tu juan said:
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.
This. That gave nightmares? I cracked up laughing and it completely took me out of the scene.
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In reply to Buck Compton • 3:08p, 1/15/24
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Buck Compton said:
tk for tu juan said:
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.
This. That gave nightmares? I cracked up laughing and it completely took me out of the scene.
I should have said that scene WAS my nightmare.
I was the one falling, hitting the prop only to splash into icy cold water with thousands of doomed others.
I promise you it is not nearly as funny when every time I hit the prop I woke up.
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3:15p, 1/15/24
Titanic and Saving Private Ryan haunted me for weeks. I can still picture the scenes that got me in my head.

Oppenheimer. I just didn't expect it to do such a good job showing the moral complexities of scientists (not just Oppenheimer, either). I felt it was a great tribute to a group of people who contributed immensely to the war and were probably as haunted by their decisions as the soldiers in battle were.
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Not sure if this fits, but the Matrix. Turned out to be a completely different movie than what I thought it would be. The trailers made it look like just a futuristic shoot 'em up, when it was really so much more
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In reply to LoudestWHOOP! • 3:40p, 1/15/24
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LoudestWHOOP! said:
Buck Compton said:
tk for tu juan said:
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.
This. That gave nightmares? I cracked up laughing and it completely took me out of the scene.
I should have said that scene WAS my nightmare.
I was the one falling, hitting the prop only to splash into icy cold water with thousands of doomed others.
I promise you it is not nearly as funny when every time I hit the prop I woke up.

How'd you know you hit the icy water if you woke up when you hit the prop?
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In reply to Head Ninja In Charge • 5:10p, 1/15/24
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Pixar's Up.
My wife and I rented it for a laugh less than a month after she had miscarried. It took us years to watch it again.
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In reply to The Marksman • 5:13p, 1/15/24
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The two Spider-Verse movies. Thought they would just be pretty decent animated films, but the powerfully expressed themes in those movies have hit hard. They're a lot bigger than just animated superhero movies for kids.


Yep. They're excellent movies and I had no expectations going in.
If you say you hate the state of politics in this nation and you don't get involved in it, you obviously don't hate the state of politics in this nation.
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5:18p, 1/15/24
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Pacific got to me. I anticipated it excitedly after having watched Band of Brothers multiple times, but it was darker and so gruesome it was just hard to watch at times. The island hopping and tunnel clearing was such a meat grinder. Even though we won the war, the ending was sad, especially when John Basilone was killed, and the aftermath.

After waiting a few years to watch it again, I appreciate it a lot more now and it has grown on me. It tells these mens' stories in a different way, but just as powerful as Band of Brothers.
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Prop dude in Titanic always made me laugh.

I think this one was already mentioned, but The Thin Red Line. Came out later in the same year as Saving Private Ryan. I went in expecting another great WWII movie. Instead, I got a National Geographic special with some weird psychiatry mixed in, oh, an occasionally a soldier would show up. WTF.
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Up is at the top of the list. The adult story is so poignant. Not just that long opening scene, but the entire movie.

This will date me a bit, but when I was a kid the dog we had had since before I was born was put down. My parents decided to take us out to a movie, and they thought a comedy would help. It ended up being "Under the Rainbow". Besides the fact that it wasn't a very good movie, one of the central "gags" was about how a dog kept dying and they kept replacing it so the owner wouldn't notice. So yeah, bad luck there.

One other that may have been bad but good at the same time. About 10 years ago I had a good friend pass away from cancer. I handled the funeral well, which I usually do, the emotions tend to come later for me. I decided to watch a movie, thought a sci fi flick might help. And I chose a monster calls. Which is basically about death and acceptance, though I didn't know that when I started watching, I think every ounce of emotion poured out of me when that movie finished,
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Not exactly on point, but I grew up listening to Broadway musical soundtracks. I liked the music a lot and watched many if the movie versions on TV. It was probably ten to fifteen years later before it dawned on me that both South Pacific and Cabaret were about racism and prejudice.
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In reply to tk for tu juan • 7:28p, 1/15/24
tk for tu juan said:
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.


"HA!….WHAM!!!!"

I'm pretty sure those were my exact words.
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In reply to LoudestWHOOP! • 12:33p, 1/16/24
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LoudestWHOOP! said:
Buck Compton said:
tk for tu juan said:
That Titanic fall into prop scene is high on the unintentional comedy scale. I had to hold back laughter in the theater. There is a nice homage to it in White Lotus season 2.
This. That gave nightmares? I cracked up laughing and it completely took me out of the scene.
I should have said that scene WAS my nightmare.
I was the one falling, hitting the prop only to splash into icy cold water with thousands of doomed others.
I promise you it is not nearly as funny when every time I hit the prop I woke up.
How old were you?
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I had just moved to Dallas from College Station not to long ago and decided to spend my Sunday at the movies.

First movie I saw was Somrthing About Mary. I loved it. It was so funny. The only problem was I was by myself and back then on a Sunday, movies got super-crowded. And they would ask everyone to squeeze into the middle. I have ADD and sitting through an entire movie was hard, and it's even harder sitting in-between two strangers. I was very uncomfortable.

My next movie was Saving Private Ryan. I made sure that I was the first one in the theatre and up in the corner, there were a few rows of 2 seats. Perfect. I can sit here and if someone wants to sit next to me, that's fine, but at least I am only sitting next to one stranger.

So, there's no Maria Menudos or commercials, and no cell phones, so my ADD ass sits there for 45 minutes for the previews to start. I watched the theatre fill up and make up stories about the people to forget how lonely I was going to the movies by myself.

3 minutes before the movie starts, some middle aged dude and his wife show up and there are no seats for them. This is literally when the THX Audience is listening commercial is on. He tells his wife to sit somewhere and he sits in a seat a few rows up from her.

He looks around and sees me and I can see the light bulb go off over his head. He comes over, and asks if I would trade seats with him so he can sit with his wife. I said, " I got here almost an hour ago to pick out this seat. I'm not moving. You're welcome to sit next to me."

He asked me if I were joking, and I said I wasn't. And perhaps that if he wanted to sit with his wife he wouldn't show up 3 minutes before the movie started.

So, yeah. Saving Private Ryan and Something about Mary.
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2:13p, 1/16/24
Reefer Madness.

Intended cautionary tale that pretty much everyone finds unintentional satire.
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Event Horizon was not exactly the star trek sci fi flick I was expecting it to be.
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The ending of "Onward" hit me like a ton of bricks. What I wouldn't give to just have one more conversation with my dad...

"Well, if you can’t have a great season, at least ruin somebody else’s." - Olin Buchanan
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Saw Traffic in theaters back in high school thinking it was a movie about cars or racing.

Left the theater secretly wanting to try free-basing crack.
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In reply to LoudestWHOOP! • 1:53p, 1/18/24
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LoudestWHOOP! said:
What movies have you seen where the intended genre, story direction or feeling did not work for you?

My primary example:
I saw the movie Titantic & Saving Private Ryan in the same month.

Titanic was a love story built on top of a terrible human tragedy.
Saving Private Ryan was a gritty realistic war film about men giving their lives to save one.

This Titanic scene gave me nightmares for about a week.

Saving Private Ryan was about war and I expected it to be tough. Scenes stuck with me but not into nightmares.
There was tragedy in both, but to build a love story on top of one just broke my brain for a time.
And the following of millions of young girls to see a torrid 24 hour romp seeing it 20+ times ???
Today, Titanic would be like making a love story out of the victims of the twin towers.
Random side bar: go read Erik Larson's Dead Wake which is about the Lusitania - Titanic's sister ship. Great book.

Survivors walked off the side of that ship into water essentially like this based on first-hand accounts:

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The Fast & Furious movies aren't about cars, they're about family.
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Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby for sure. I don't know what exactly I expected, but at a minimum I thought it was a boxing / sports movie...which turned out to be little more than a backdrop of the actual human story.
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Minor ahem - Lusitania was not a sister ship to Titanic. That was Britannic and Olympic
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Minor ahem - Lusitania was not a sister ship to Titanic. That was Britannic and Olympic


Whoops. You are correct.
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Lost In Translation
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Mr President Elect said:
My wife was saying this exact thing, like many other people.
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