You know, I was just asking myself that eternal question: how do the people who make movie trailers have a better idea of the kind of movies people want to see, than the people who make the movies the trailers are from?
I mean, the trailer for "Madame Web" was so good I almost watched the movie, but luckily I was warned against it.
Nobody warned me about this "Mean Girls" remake though. And it's a classic example of a movie with a lying trailer. I mean, did you know this remake is a musical? I didn't. None of the previews showed a second of that.
I see you, trailer-making people. You know what we want to see. You know most of us wouldn't have wasted our time if we knew we were going to have to sit through a movie in which at any moment the characters threaten to break into song.
And of course, the songs all suck and are completely forgettable.
Take away the songs, and what we're left with is a bloodless copy of the original movie, with actors left looking like they're holding the ball when the time to pass was five seconds ago. They look startled, like they don't know what they're doing there. At times, they intone classic lines from the original movie, but without any of the panache, and the words fall as flat as the song lyrics do.
I feel bad for the actors. They were never going to be anything better than impostors. The movie seems to be doing well at the box office, so here's hoping it doesn't tank their careers, particularly Angourie Rice and Avantika.
Tina Fey, on the other hand, should have known better.
I mean, the trailer for "Madame Web" was so good I almost watched the movie, but luckily I was warned against it.
Nobody warned me about this "Mean Girls" remake though. And it's a classic example of a movie with a lying trailer. I mean, did you know this remake is a musical? I didn't. None of the previews showed a second of that.
I see you, trailer-making people. You know what we want to see. You know most of us wouldn't have wasted our time if we knew we were going to have to sit through a movie in which at any moment the characters threaten to break into song.
And of course, the songs all suck and are completely forgettable.
Take away the songs, and what we're left with is a bloodless copy of the original movie, with actors left looking like they're holding the ball when the time to pass was five seconds ago. They look startled, like they don't know what they're doing there. At times, they intone classic lines from the original movie, but without any of the panache, and the words fall as flat as the song lyrics do.
I feel bad for the actors. They were never going to be anything better than impostors. The movie seems to be doing well at the box office, so here's hoping it doesn't tank their careers, particularly Angourie Rice and Avantika.
Tina Fey, on the other hand, should have known better.