A discussion at lunch sparked my ranting to my friends about the movie 'Million Dollar Baby' which I heard was a good film. I probably would've seen it, not opening weekend but seen it eventually in the theatres. It was just this simple fact alone that pissed me off more than anything which prompted me not to go see the film. The trailers for this movie was ridiculous! I watch a lot of TV so I see hundreds of trailers for movies, but this movie just pissed me off. I didn't see any other trailers for 'Million Dollar Baby' other than the one goes:
In white letters across the screen
"Academy Award winner Hilary Swank"
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"Academy Award nominee Morgan Freeman"
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"Two-time Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood"
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"Million Dollar Baby, now in theatres."
WHAT? What kind of trailer for a movie is that? Sure there's a few black/white screen shots of the movie cut into the trailer but it doesn't help me figure out what the hell the movie is about. Like I'm just going to go see a movie based solely on the strength of the cast. So apparently there's so sort of boxing or something, and I haven't figured out who the million dollar baby is. Is it an actual baby? Like waa-waa? Or a metaphorical baby? What? Is it a million dollars after taxes? Is it too much to ask for a little plot?
I guess I took the whole thing too personally, I mean I didn't watch late night shows featuring the cast or paid attention to any of the other shows about the movie. Still, it just rubbed me the wrong way.
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