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I watched Man of the Year last week, and I meant to talk about it sooner, but I have no sense of time. Whatever. Anyway, it was entirely diferent from what I expected. I assumed it would be a fairly light Robin-Williams-acting-wacky comedy. And those elements were there, of course, but at the same time, the film skewed dark pretty quickly. Kinda like Death to Smoochy. And, of course, Christopher Walken is creepy, even when he isn't supposed to be. There were moments when I'm fully convinced he was just making stuff up as he went along. "Elephant beards"? Seriously?

It seems like there are a lot of movies that are completely different than you might expect based on the advertising. Like Bridge to Terebithia. If you watch the commercials, you'd think it was a Harry Potter/Narnia/epic fantasy sort of thing, with crazy CGI monsters and what-not. If you've read the book, however, you'd know that it's nothing at all like that. I've heard that the movie (for the most part) does follow the book, with the CGI stuff happening only at the very end. But if you watched the commercials, you'd expect the whole thing to be full of giants and trolls and things. All you see are the CGI scenes. So people who have read the book don't want to see the movie because it looks entirely wrong, and people who see the movie for the fantasy elements are going to be woefully disappointed. It just doesn't make sense to me.

And Christopher Walken is seriously creepy.