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** The other thing that alienated the film was that they couldn't use the title of the book they were adapting, ''A Princess of Mars'', due to the association of "Princess" with "girly film", and the full title of the book series, "[[John Carter of Mars]]" was deemed as too pulpy. So they had to use as a title which name of the main character, which when added to the "generic" feel of the story in trailers didn't inspire interest in the wider public. |
** The other thing that alienated the film was that they couldn't use the title of the book they were adapting, ''A Princess of Mars'', due to the association of "Princess" with "girly film", and the full title of the book series, "[[John Carter of Mars]]" was deemed as too pulpy. So they had to use as a title which name of the main character, which when added to the "generic" feel of the story in trailers didn't inspire interest in the wider public. |
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* ''[[Dick]]'', a comedy set in the 1970s about two teenage girls who develop a crush on [[Richard Nixon]] and end up becoming one of the major figures in the Watergate scandal. Teens weren't interested in a comedy based around 1970s nostalgia while adults weren't interested in the revisionist history concept (the film also depicts Woodward and Bernstein as a pair of morons) so the film died a quick death at the box office. However, it has become a cult film over the years. |
* ''[[Dick]]'', a comedy set in the 1970s about two teenage girls who develop a crush on [[Richard Nixon]] and end up becoming one of the major figures in the Watergate scandal. Teens weren't interested in a comedy based around 1970s nostalgia while adults weren't interested in the revisionist history concept (the film also depicts Woodward and Bernstein as a pair of morons) so the film died a quick death at the box office. However, it has become a cult film over the years. |
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* Martin Scorsese's ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]'', the adaptation of the YA novel ''The Invention of Hugo Cabret''. It's a loving homage to the early era of cinema, but the main character and its intended public are children. No wonder a comedy site [http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2012s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php made a doctored poster or it], retitling it "Marketing Nightmare". |
* Martin Scorsese's ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]'', the adaptation of the YA novel ''The Invention of Hugo Cabret''. It's a loving homage to the early era of cinema, but the main character and its intended public are children. No wonder a comedy site [https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052553/http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2012s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php made a doctored poster or it], retitling it "Marketing Nightmare". |
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* ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'', made by absurdist comedian Tom Green, it's about the misadventures of an apparently retarded man and its intentionally offensive and extremely gross antics, that at some point tries to retaliate against his father by accusing him of sexually abusing his younger brother. All of those were obfuscated by [[Never Trust a Trailer|innocent enough trailers]] that toned down the film to mere [[Gross-Out Show]]. The only person that paid something approaching a compliment to this film was [[Roger Ebert]] (yes, the same who said that this film [[Insult to Rocks|shouldn't be mentioned in any phrase related with barrels]]), who compared it to the [[Surrealism|surrealist]] masterpiece ''[[Un Chien Andalou ]]''... a film that drove people out of theaters at the time and even today is extremely upsetting to watch. |
* ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'', made by absurdist comedian Tom Green, it's about the misadventures of an apparently retarded man and its intentionally offensive and extremely gross antics, that at some point tries to retaliate against his father by accusing him of sexually abusing his younger brother. All of those were obfuscated by [[Never Trust a Trailer|innocent enough trailers]] that toned down the film to mere [[Gross-Out Show]]. The only person that paid something approaching a compliment to this film was [[Roger Ebert]] (yes, the same who said that this film [[Insult to Rocks|shouldn't be mentioned in any phrase related with barrels]]), who compared it to the [[Surrealism|surrealist]] masterpiece ''[[Un Chien Andalou ]]''... a film that drove people out of theaters at the time and even today is extremely upsetting to watch. |
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* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' title counts for a male audience. The fact is that's a very accessible and funny adventure film that actually isn't that much focused in romance or targeted towards women isn't enough for certain people to overcame its [[Romance Novel]]-sounding title. |
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' title counts for a male audience. The fact is that's a very accessible and funny adventure film that actually isn't that much focused in romance or targeted towards women isn't enough for certain people to overcame its [[Romance Novel]]-sounding title. |
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