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[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.

Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn't know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said "Are they going to sing the whole time?!". More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.

I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.

[–] Trae@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If I had gone and seen it in theatres I would not have known that it was a musical based on the advertisements.

The same thing happened with me and my mate when we went to see Chicago. I guess we didn't catch any of the trailers that showed it was a musical, so we went in thinking it was going to be a gangster film akin to Goodfellas. We stayed for the whole viewing though.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

I remember hearing the same thing about Les Miserables, but I don't remember if it was advertised as a musical or people are just blind and dumb.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Just... In general musicals never seem to advertise as musicals. I had no idea the new Mean Girls was a musical after watching the trailer, and only found out through word of mouth. The new Wonka was also a musical, I thought it would be cause the previous two were, but you never know. Trailer didn't seem to indicate. I just saw one the other day that looked like it was a musical cause it showed a lot of dance ensemble, which these trailers really should do. EDIT: IF. Thr new Ryan Reynolds movie about imaginary friends... is it a musical? A lot of ensemble dancing in the trailer but I don't see anything indicating it's a musical. Why can't musicals just be up front with this?

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for this. I've been walking around saying "Why did they remake mean girls?!"

Guess I'm the jerk on this one ...