My Lion King Forum

These are very interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wid-shRF1B8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7n6jWIzUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeIs_LVqUU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-IyynUcDY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XD4XevNbzA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl_ZT0b1JHw&feature=related

Firstly: wow, those commercials were bad. Lol.

Secondly: being bad doesn't make them false advertising. Neither does foregoing the more dramatic scenes of the movie.

Conclusion: whoever posted these videos is unaware of what "false advertising" means. :)

yes I agree. Lion King came out at a time when they didn't show the big dramatic scenes from the movie in the commercials for it, you look at movies now and they give away the entire movie in a three minute trailer. lol and ads in the 90's were horribly cheesy anyway.

Those are just TV Spots, which were very typical in the 90's. They're not supposed to be like commercials, they're supposed to be short, and include a scene or two of sorts that would draw people in to see it.

The only false advertising I saw was "It's your last chance to see your favorite movie one more time."

How dare Disney not be able to predict the theatrical re-release of their films more than a decade into the future!

BlitzRogue wrote:Conclusion: whoever posted these videos is unaware of what "false advertising" means.

The uploader of those videos stated in the description they call it "false advetising" because those TV spots make the movie look like it's a light-hearted comedy as opposed to be the dramatic movie with some comedic sequences that it really is.

I'm not sure whether it should be labeled as "false advetising" because those are just 30-second TV spots that won't give too much of the story away, but Disney made The Hunchback of Notre Dame look like a comedy in its official trailer, which I call "false advetisement".

Now, here's a TV spot for The Lion King 3D that shows what the movie really is:

TheLionPrince wrote:I'm not sure whether it should be labeled as "false advertising" because those are just 30-second TV spots that won't give too much of the story away, but Disney made The Hunchback of Notre Dame look like a comedy in its official trailer, which I call "false advertisement".

Calling such a thing "false advertising" insinuates that Disney made false statements in order to attract more people to the movie, which they didn't.

There was nothing false about it unless you assume that because only more lighthearted scenes were shown that there wouldn't be any more dramatic scenes in the film. False advertising would be like a movie trailer claiming a movie to be the "best family movie of the year", and in actuality be a movie full of gratuitous sex scenes, massive amounts of gore, and other very clearly -not- family friendly material.

BlitzRogue wrote:

TheLionPrince wrote:I'm not sure whether it should be labeled as "false advertising" because those are just 30-second TV spots that won't give too much of the story away, but Disney made The Hunchback of Notre Dame look like a comedy in its official trailer, which I call "false advertisement".

Calling such a thing "false advertising" insinuates that Disney made false statements in order to attract more people to the movie, which they didn't.

There was nothing false about it unless you assume that because only more lighthearted scenes were shown that there wouldn't be any more dramatic scenes in the film. False advertising would be like a movie trailer claiming a movie to be the "best family movie of the year", and in actuality be a movie full of gratuitous sex scenes, massive amounts of gore, and other very clearly -not- family friendly material.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up for me, Blitz.

Well not only did they show the lighthearted scenes but they also put lighthearted music in it and, by doing that, they kind of are insinuating that it does have a comedic tone throughout instead of a dramatic tone throughout (which we all know it really does).

And I think it counts as false advertising because they are still promoting and, therefore, advertising the movie by making it look like what it isn't really like.

I must first of all say, there commercials insult the movie... it's not false advertising, it's just horrible commercials.