This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Lale: Question. Is there a tv counterpart for this, since some trailers can also be deliberately misleading?
Andyroid: If there isn't, there should be. The trailers for "Bridge to Terabithia" annoy me, because I've heard from folks who've seen previews that the movie is faithful to the book, but the trailers depict it as some kind of Narnia knock-off.
Looney Toons: Not being familiar with the book, what is it really about? My wife and I watched the trailer on Apple's trailers site
and were intrigued, but it clearly didn't match the capsule description on that page:
So what gives?
Ununnilium: Basically, it's one of those "coming of age" books. The two mentioned become friends and, over the summer, create their own fantasy land, explicitly modeling it on Narnia. Note that they do not literally create it; it's all imagination.
Looney Toons: Well, geeze. I suspect there are going to be a lot of annoyed moviegoers then...
Wasn't there a YKTTW entry just recently about the rule that non-white characters are always drawn white on the cover? Did that get launched? —Document N
Etrangere: Not yet, but I still plan on doing it.
Taper W: Re this line:
Jakio: Actually, the tagline "One man saw it coming" do references one of the characters in the movie: the Doctor Alfred Lanning, who saw that VIKI (the main AI) was planning to took over the earth using the new robots, and to stop her, he killed himself, setting up the beginning of the movie.
Document N: Which, as stated, has nothing to do with any of the book's stories' plots, so it's still an example when the tagline appears on the book.
This forum thread
might produce some material for the page. —Document N
Madrugada I've rewritten the intro to make it less "Comic books do this — oh, and it happens in other things as well sometimes, too."
Madrugada: Black Lagoon example restored. If someone unfamiliar with the series would be fooled into thinking that it's something other than it is, it's deceptive. It doesn't matter whether people who are very familiar with the series would be fooled or not. That's not the criteria for this trope.
