Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
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Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.
Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn't know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said "Are they going to sing the whole time?!". More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.
I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.
If I had gone and seen it in theatres I would not have known that it was a musical based on the advertisements.
The same thing happened with me and my mate when we went to see Chicago. I guess we didn't catch any of the trailers that showed it was a musical, so we went in thinking it was going to be a gangster film akin to Goodfellas. We stayed for the whole viewing though.
I remember hearing the same thing about Les Miserables, but I don't remember if it was advertised as a musical or people are just blind and dumb.
Just... In general musicals never seem to advertise as musicals. I had no idea the new Mean Girls was a musical after watching the trailer, and only found out through word of mouth. The new Wonka was also a musical, I thought it would be cause the previous two were, but you never know. Trailer didn't seem to indicate. I just saw one the other day that looked like it was a musical cause it showed a lot of dance ensemble, which these trailers really should do. EDIT: IF. Thr new Ryan Reynolds movie about imaginary friends... is it a musical? A lot of ensemble dancing in the trailer but I don't see anything indicating it's a musical. Why can't musicals just be up front with this?
Thank you for this. I've been walking around saying "Why did they remake mean girls?!"
Guess I'm the jerk on this one ...