What's the most mis-advertised thing you've ever seen?
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Considering I work at McDonalds, I don't understand why people buy those. You are paying $2 for a piece of bread, lettuce, and mac sauce instead of ketchup/mustard...ShaggyEdiddy214 said:
I think it's because the cover artists don't really read the book, so they're just drawing/painting/whatever a cool, sexy or bad-ass (possibly all three) person for the cover art.Saluki_princess said:
Or it could be that the publisher specifically wants a sexy image on the cover to try and help sell the book.
Totally, the ads made it look fun, thrilling and engaging. The game failed to live up to the trailer on all counts. It was boring, had frustrating controls and was criminally short. I beat it in probably underTheEndlessSleep said:Homefront...
those adverts made it look fun!
five hours of gameplay, nearly half an hour of which was eaten up by load times after I was killed due to frustrating controls, getting caught on in-game objects and AI teammates getting in my way.
Thank god GameStop has a seven day no questions asked return policy and I was able to get my money back (and buy a couple of new-to-me games that I might like).
Mentos. Breath mints do not give you the power of having your wishes come true. Blatantly idiotic, yet the ads ran for years. For all I know they're still on (I don't have TV).
Axe body wash/spray/sniffle/what-the-F-ever, for the same reasons. If you look like the guys in those commercials you do not need to use product, women will like you. If you don't look like those guys, no amount of product can save you.
The Big Kahuna. That movie where Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito are businessmen? Advertised as a bucket of laughs. Really a dark comedrama. Not a bad movie, just utterly misrepresented.
Sideways, the movie where Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden-Church take off for a week of fun up the coast. Advertised as a "critically acclaimed romantic comedy." Want to know how romantic it is? Giamatti's character is at an all-time wine-soaked misanthropic low over a failed relationship and couldn't enjoy himself with a woman to save his life. Haden-Church's guy is getting married the day after they get back, so his goal for the week is to cheat on his fiancee as many times as possible. I don't know about you but adultery and drunken self-pity are certainly the ways *I* spell romance. As for comedy? Same deal. My mouth didn't twitch once. I don't know what critic signed off on this stinker but it's one of the few things I've ever seen where I wanted my 90 minutes back. The one thing I can say in its favor is it doesn't involve any of the usual rom-com formula bullshit.
I was very angry seeing the PlayStation marketed to jocks and knuckleheads. I'm plagiarizing somebody here -- Tycho, maybe? I can't remember -- but games belonged to the outcasts. The popular good-looking soccer player types already had friends, and sports, and girls. Why did they need games? It was a great blow to nerd exclusivity.
Axe body wash/spray/sniffle/what-the-F-ever, for the same reasons. If you look like the guys in those commercials you do not need to use product, women will like you. If you don't look like those guys, no amount of product can save you.
The Big Kahuna. That movie where Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito are businessmen? Advertised as a bucket of laughs. Really a dark comedrama. Not a bad movie, just utterly misrepresented.
Sideways, the movie where Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden-Church take off for a week of fun up the coast. Advertised as a "critically acclaimed romantic comedy." Want to know how romantic it is? Giamatti's character is at an all-time wine-soaked misanthropic low over a failed relationship and couldn't enjoy himself with a woman to save his life. Haden-Church's guy is getting married the day after they get back, so his goal for the week is to cheat on his fiancee as many times as possible. I don't know about you but adultery and drunken self-pity are certainly the ways *I* spell romance. As for comedy? Same deal. My mouth didn't twitch once. I don't know what critic signed off on this stinker but it's one of the few things I've ever seen where I wanted my 90 minutes back. The one thing I can say in its favor is it doesn't involve any of the usual rom-com formula bullshit.
I was very angry seeing the PlayStation marketed to jocks and knuckleheads. I'm plagiarizing somebody here -- Tycho, maybe? I can't remember -- but games belonged to the outcasts. The popular good-looking soccer player types already had friends, and sports, and girls. Why did they need games? It was a great blow to nerd exclusivity.
Anything marketed as "Chemical Free". Given that even water is a chemical, given that all things in known existence are made from the CHEMICAL ELEMENTS (carbon, iron, lithium, Rubidium, etc), there is nothing that is "Chemical Free".
Also, Homeopathic "medicine". It's just water, that's all it is.
Also, Homeopathic "medicine". It's just water, that's all it is.
peter jacksons lord of the rings
1st off. the advertisments protrayed it as a action packed epic adventure instead it was 3 hours of walking and talking. very misleading
2nd. i lived very sheltred and google was barely known when it came out so i didnt know what it was about.
which is why i agree on what randall said about it in clerks 2. and before you tell me i have no taste in movies. i enjoy classics like the maltese falcon one flew over the cuckoos nest and the green mile
*runs into bomb shelter to hide from incoming flames*
1st off. the advertisments protrayed it as a action packed epic adventure instead it was 3 hours of walking and talking. very misleading
2nd. i lived very sheltred and google was barely known when it came out so i didnt know what it was about.
which is why i agree on what randall said about it in clerks 2. and before you tell me i have no taste in movies. i enjoy classics like the maltese falcon one flew over the cuckoos nest and the green mile
*runs into bomb shelter to hide from incoming flames*
Anyone remember Legend of Dragoon from back in the PS1 days? It was marketed by Sony as an FF-killer. It was actually a pretty decent game, fun combat system, okay story, hilariously horrible translation. It was my first real RPG so I'll always see it through rose-colored glasses. The commercial though...oh that was a stroke of genius for making your game look stupid.
Somebody just watched The Big PictureWarCorrespondent said:
Scott Pilgrim actually had a huge advertising budget and was advertised extensively, at least in California. It made less money mostly because people thought it looked silly.
OT: did anyone ever see that Bridge to Terabithia trailer? Made the movie look like a light-hearted fantasy action adventure.
Rawr. Okay covered all the hate spewing you need. Until Randall declared war I didn't even know Star Wars vs Lord of the Rings was a thing, I was too busy explaining that both Picard and Kirk are both wankers and Han Solo is banging a princess.RaikuFA said:
I think the single most misadvertised thing recently was Sucker Punch. What's more is they gave up a lot of money misadvertising it, they sold me on hot girls, short skirts action. You know Sailor Moon meets Naruto on the big screen. Lets have fun. Instead it's this whole metaphor for femimine strength and overcoming adversity and. . .if girls watched this instead of Twilight maybe the world would be a better place.
I notice a lot of people mentioning comics and anime and a few on games. That's a problem not with the advertisers so much as with (US) Society. Cartoons are for kids and when they aren't their about dirty jokes. Same goes for comics. It's an attitude that needs to be changed across the board. But they aren't misadvertising, they don't have a lot of option. As good and deep as Death Note is nobody tried to run it along as competition to CSI or even Supernatural. The same for Outlaw Star and a lot of the other stuff that's mentioned. It sucks but there it is.
Fable 3! pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffr
Dunno if anyone mentioned this already or not, I can't even remember the title of this but...
Does anyone remember there used to be a browser based game that advertised everywhere, and the ads were all about stuff like "You could be King" and the ads just showed...well...boobs, and lots of them.
But the game had no boobs of any kind, it was actually pretty boring.
I think now that's happening again with World of Lordcraft, but it's not the same game that I'm thinking of.
Does anyone remember there used to be a browser based game that advertised everywhere, and the ads were all about stuff like "You could be King" and the ads just showed...well...boobs, and lots of them.
But the game had no boobs of any kind, it was actually pretty boring.
I think now that's happening again with World of Lordcraft, but it's not the same game that I'm thinking of.