ComplainerMan

The Constant Gardener DVD Cover Chumped Me

by on Sep.20, 2008, under DVD Movies

I lost 3 dollars and two hours of my life last night to cynical DVD marketing. Take a look at the cover:

The Constant Gardener DVD Cover

 

Item 1 – He looks like a spy. He never looked like that in the movie.
Item 2 – The one action scene in the movie is highlighted.
Item 3 - Critics Quote: “A First Rate Spy Game” – It’s not really a spy movie, so probably taken out of context.
Item 4 - Obligatory sex scene. That was the only time he got it during the entire movie.
Item 5 - Composited image from the same action scene noted in Item 2. The plane was actually dropping aid to African refugees, not bombing them as it appears in the picture. The plane never flew over the people, they just photoshopped it so it looks like it did.

So this movie isn’t a spy movie, but it also isn’t a good movie in my opinion. It’s about a career diplomat and his beautiful firecracker young wife who gets killed by the government for trying to stop a big drug company from testing a dangerous drug on unsuspecting poor people in Africa. I wouldn’t mind seeing a good movie with that plot, but this wasn’t good. And when you are expecting to see an exciting spy movie thriller, and you see this poorly done downer of a movie, you just might complain about it on your blog. I know I did.


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