The Oscar, bait and switch is like the Fableman's Armageddon time. You get the distinct impression that every good joke in the movie is in the trailer. And then there's this third bucket where there are movies that are very, shall we say, odd? So there's this movie Bones and All starring Timothy Chalamet and Taylor Russell. It's a movie about two teenage cannibals living on the edge of society.
Movie trailers are misleading audiences. Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson says you should stop watching them.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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