Prometheus teaser so much promise and not only was it a nonsensical movie with horribly written and acted characters, it didn’t even include scene from this trailer or anything close to it.
I remember I thought “man, this is going to scratch the sci-fi horror itch I have had for years”. Little did I know I was going to watch 2 hours of plot-driving goo and the stupidest group of scientists in history
Suicide Squad. Trailers were good, Purple Lamborghini was good track. Everything looked good in trailers. And I saw a movie. Jared Leto as Joker was stupid, film was boring with few good scenes you saw in trailer. Waste of money and time. I know that there are other Suicide Squad movies, Harley Quinn movie. I haven’t seen them and probably I won’t see them
Sigh.
I agree, what a huge disappointment that one was. Skip Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey for sure. I will say that The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker show are fantastic. Both are by James Gunn if you happen to like his Guardians of the Galaxy work.
I like Guardians of the Galaxy. Maybe one day I’ll give it a chance. Thanks
Star Wars the Force Awakens. I remember being super toked when the trailer came out. The movie it self was a B- at best.
Wonder Woman 1984 Top notch trailer and terrible movie, that I even not have watched to the end.
What is it with DC trailers misrpresenting their movies? Warner must be a money laundering scam or something LOL!!
This might be controversial, but for me it was Watchmen.
I was really into the graphic novel when the movie was announced. They dropped this trailer with Smashing Pumpkins “The beginning is the End is the Beginning” playing over it and it was so good. Perfectly captured what I felt the tone of the graphic novel was. Gritty, forlorn, dark, contemplative.
https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ?si=K6WoxVts0ZGzSb28
I must have watched that trailer 100 times before the movie came out. Then I saw the movie and it was weirdly campy and totally the opposite of the feel the trailer gave in a lot of places. Which in turn was very different from the feel I got from the graphic novel. I was so disappointed. I’ve never gone back to rewatch it, and I probably should because I think the consensus was that it’s a pretty good movie and being more than a decade removed from reading the book might help me appreciate the movie on its own merit a bit more.
Not controversial at all. That trailer was brilliant and it was also right before Dark Knight (or was it DKR) which got me even more excited after experiencing it.
Mind you I still enjoyed the movie (though way more after watching the directors cut).
Ah is the directors cut good? I think I own it someplace but have never watched it.
Director’s cut is definitely the best version overall, though there’s also an ultimate cut that features an animated Tales of the Black Freighter starring Gerard Butler cut into the movie throughout. Worth checking out at least once. The recent Watchmen show on HBO was also excellent. It serves as a sequel 30 years later.
The 2009 animated film 9.
Trailer was fucking epic. Movie was boring as hell.
Sucker punch.
Prequel trilogy. They get you excited.
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The trailer(s) had a lot of interesting twists and cool cutscenes, new characters, new “lore” elements … all the good stuff that makes the audience curious for more. Well, it turned out that the trailers spoiled ALL the important plot elements, so the actual movie had basically no extra content other than filler scenes. If you had seen the trailer, there was no need to see the movie.
For me it has to be all the trailers for the first Suicide Squad. So well executed and somehow stole the show away from the equally as promising Batman Vs Superman. That Comic Con was probably the most optimistic DC’s future looked in the past decade.
My fun little canon is that the actual movie doesn’t exist and the trailers are a very stylized prologue to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. It gives backstory to some of the main characters (Flagg, Harley, Waller) and their motivations while also teasing characters who may or may not show up in potential sequels
https://youtu.be/PLLQK9la6Go?si=V3HNYcOzET4uujVk
That Godzilla that made it seem like Brian Cranston was a main character and then he died like 10 minutes in.
C’mon - that was an excellent switcheroo, like killing off Janet Leigh ⅓ of the way through Psycho. That they’d kak a big star in the first 42 minutes (just checked) is a great way to throw an audience off-balance. Now we’re back in classic disaster-movie territory, and you’re not sure who’ll actually survive.
I mean, if it was called “Cranston” and not “Godzilla” and they did that, I’d feel bad.
Any movie by M. Night Shyamalan.
Surrogates, remember that one?
Tree of Life: very intriguing trailer with one of the most beautiful tunes ever (Bedrich Smetana’s Vltava). The movie turned out to be a slog. With dinosaurs.
A Cure For Wellness
