darthbadger72 t1_j6a9n22 wrote
I haven't personally but I have seen loads of older people (they must have been in their 60s at the time) who went to see Dusk til Dawn expecting a crime drama with George Clooney.
LegoMong OP t1_j6a9ti5 wrote
it's weird, when I was thinking about a movie I thought of dusk till dawn. didn't expect someone to actually have walked out of it.
darthbadger72 t1_j6aa3vl wrote
I think, being Clooney was busy being a dishy doctor in ER at the time, they went in with no idea of what to come. To be fair it was opening night and nothing much had been written about it so you only had the trailer to go by. Easy to understand why they had gone in expecting what they did. So when the movie flipped it certainly wasn't their cup of tea.
LegoMong OP t1_j6aa949 wrote
yeah in all honesty, I gave up after reading the synopsis about 20 minutes in. I'd love to give it another go though.
DickieGreenleaf84 t1_j6ai0kc wrote
I don't remember what the marketing for that was like...would that have even been a possibility?
darthbadger72 t1_j6ai6ox wrote
The marketing was cops chasing two brothers who were robbing gas stations. Nothing about the major twist that would happen half way through the film.
DickieGreenleaf84 t1_j6aiapa wrote
Oh cool. Yeah, and the film plays that for quite a way into the movie...something I liked but can appreciate the old couple walking out.
heyimrick t1_j6ca9za wrote
I could have sworn I remember vampires being in the trailer.
darthbadger72 t1_j6cqsmh wrote
Not the original ones. I think later ones may have.
scarecrow1973 t1_j6errpx wrote
That's not true. I remember TV Spots including vampires as well. Everyone knew the kind of movie it was at the time. It was heavily marketed in that direction. Same with Terminator 2. It's fun in the movie on it's own. People who were excited to see those movies knew what they were going into them. It was all over the posters, trailers, TV spots. Source: I was there.
I understand some people may have gone in blind at the time. But it was pretty difficult to avoid the advertising for it at the time if you were into that sort of thing.
Turbulent-Pea-8826 t1_j6jaunu wrote
I didn’t walk out but I remember my friends dragging me to see it - almost literally. We were hanging out with some friends in a different town, I didn’t drive and it was the late showing and they decided to go see the movie. I never heard of it, what they described sounded stupid and it was late and I just wanted to go home.
We roll up to this busted ass cinema, dirty and gross and people were literally smoking pot and drinking (loudly) in the theater. It was not a nice part of town. So the movie starts off like some normal movie. I was tired and half falling asleep and bored out of my mind until they get to the bar and the vampires. Before this I would have walked out, I just wanted to go home. However at this point I woke the fuck up and got into the movie. Biggest turn around of a movie I have ever experienced.
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