I think I have a Tagline for this movie.

No problem, I'll explain.

Years ago, Tom Hanks made a movie with Jackie Gleason called Nothing in Common. I'll reprint the summary from the IMDB page here:

David Basner is a successful advertising executive who has it all: Money, happiness, and women who want him. Then one day his world falls apart when his mother leaves his father. Now, he must balance his life between his mother, who is happy with her newfound independence, and his father, a recently laid off salesman who is hard-headed, stubborn, and hides a lot from David. Now David must cope with the downfall of his family and his life.

I don't actually know if Nothing in Common is any good; I've never seen it. But I remembered very clearly the tagline from the TV commercials:

It's a comedy. And a drama. Just like life.

I've always believed that this was one of the most pretentious, trying-too-hard taglines that I've ever heard, but I admit that it was effective.

Anyway, fast forward to 2014. I logged onto IMDB.com and saw the featured preview for Life After Beth. I was curious. The brief write-up seemed to indicate that it was a drama about a young man coping with the death of his lost love; hence, a drama.

But after watching the preview, I became confused. The scenes shown seemed to indicate that the movie was trying to be funny - as did the casting of Molly Shannon - and, even more confusingly, Beth self-identifies as a zombie that eats people.

And that's when I remembered the tagline from Nothing in Common:

It's a comedy. And a drama. And a zombie apocalypse. Just like life.

I intended that to be ironic, since of course zombie apocalypses don't happen in real life. Also, I'd hoped that it would sound equally pretentious, in an "...I'm clueless..." sort of way.

Hope that helps.

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Because "Some girls just want to watch the world burn" makes so much more sense.

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