Trailers HAVE to be sanitized, that’s an MPAA requirement to get the “green band” (the name for that white text on a green background you see before the trailer) then the trailer must be G rated. They can also make “red band” trailers (guess what color is behind the text for these) that can be R rated but pretty much the only place to see those is youtube and most movie companies don’t even bother to make them. But you’re here attached to the internet, a VAST array of resources are available to you, with a couple of mouse clicks you could read 132 reviews of the movie, not to mention finding the book the movie is based on. Heck with a bit of digging you might even be able to find the script, interesting enough when I google “wolf of wall street script” the first link that comes up has this title: “Wolf of Wall Street movie review: An entertaining and vulgar 3 hours”, right there you would have had a clue.
Christmas Candle is the one I labeled as saccharine crap. The problem with Saving Mr Banks is it severely glosses over just how deeply Pamela Travers did not like Disney and did not want to sell the movie rights only doing so because she was severely impoverished at the time, but she hated the movie they made of Marry Poppins and fro mall accounts never spoke civilly to or about Walt again.
Don’t like tear jerkers so Philomena is out. And The Book Thief is generally disliked for sanitizing the situation.
There’s nothing deceptive in that synopsis at all. That IS the elevator pitch of the story. Had you just bothered to look up the MPAA rating (which started coming with a brief reasoning a couple decades ago) you’d have found out everything that made you walk out of the movie: “Rated R for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence”. But you didn’t bother. UNinformed.
My horizons are very broad. I watch many types of movies, read many types of books. Except for boring, I avoid that.
I was COOKING Christmas dinner when the decision was made to see this movie, FGS! I had time only to look up the synopsis and the time. You know, there were 3 other people involved in this decision. The synopsis was deceptive, as was the movie trailer I’d seen the previous week. The theatre certainly did not “sanitize” the trailer for “Bad Words” last night. People were booing because the language was so bad and directed at a child, no less! Yet, the same people sat through the main feature.
My computer refused to download the trailer for “Wolf” — probably because of the language, although at the time I just thought there was a glitch; and I went back to my cooking.
There is a difference, you know, between trailers shown when the main feature is PG, PG13, or when the main feature is R. They match the content to the content of the main feature.
I’ll add just one more thought: morality and culture is a lot like accounting, or computers. Garbage in = garbage out! I don’t need to corrupt my life with porn and trash. I hope you enjoy it, if that is your cup of tea.
Her hate for the film lasted her entire long life (she died in 1997). When the stage version was being planned in the 1990s, she stipulated that no one involved with the film have anything to do with it.