Paramount refunds moviegoer who felt Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher was too short (on exploding cliffs)
In the most blatant case of false advertising since The Neverending Story, Paramount has refunded a New Zealand man’s movie ticket over what he says was a misleading trailer for Jack Reacher. That man, J. Congdon, wrote to his country’s Advertising Standards Authority to say he’d been excited to see Tom Cruise play the hulking drifter who intimidates everyone, only to feel deceived because the movie didn’t include a scene of a cliff exploding he’d seen in the preview. “The explosion where the whole cliff comes down [was] the defining part of the ad that made me really want to go see the movie… aside from having Tom Cruise in it,” discerning film buff J. Congdon said, lamenting that he’d spent over two hours watching Tom Cruise crush people from very low angles, only to leave feeling like he’d been lied to because there was no exploding cliff.