Perhaps not the most blatant, but a pretty recent one I remember is the trailer for "Inglourious Basterds". It looked like it was going to have a decent amount of nazi-killing action. Instead it was all talk. Or M. Night Shyamalans "The Village", which looked like a horror movie in the trailers...
@LucasW180 I mean something else which for me was a bit upsetting when I saw it. Most people in the cinema was below the age of 11 and they were leaving the cinema Sad and A few where hoping to to of been the nest narnia. But its a OK film for me. Thanks for the comment. I have not had a nice comment for a long time.
@etocadet The Scottish animation team did get an award for that absolutely stunning trailer and the game was interesting but I didn't care about any of the characters....
Bridge to Terabithia has to be the worst example of false advertising. The movie itself is essentially "My Girl" but the trailer makes it look like some kind of Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/Narnia adventure film about a couple of kids being whisked off to a magical far away land where they have adventures. The trailer's lying to kids and when you take into account the tragic death of one of the kids near the end it makes it even worse.
Well, Mark has recently butchered Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, and rightfully so, but when the first trailer appeared about one year ago I remember I thought it looked absolutely spectacular. What they did with that trailer was to show all the good parts from the movie, whilst keeping us in the shadows about it's total lack of narrative.
Very interesting topic. Trailers do this very often.
Arachnophobia was made to look like a comedy with John Goodman.
127 hours was NOT made to look like it was that true story we all heard about years before. It looked like a feel-good movie about who the hell knows what.
@TheDensley7 I just looked at the trailer on YouTube just to refresh on it and the first comment I saw said "This trailer makes it look like a comedy..." I don't agree with the idea that the movie was a "thrillomedy." The trailer says that and you have basically said it. But nope, don't agree. Even the music tries to make you think it is like Gremlins or something. But it just isn't. For me it was about three or four laughs shy.
An old crime family film with Sean Connery and maybe Patrick Swayze - another case of exciting trailer, depressing film. Can't remember the name. It was a pun like "Keep It In The Family" or something.
@ogfunk187 i've heard many times people saying "they should have showed the monster more" as a reason why it bombed because it raised the expectations too big. But I think they did the trailer the right way, the best way to entice people to watch something. I wish more movies were done this way. You can't fault those that did it to do a good job. It's just the fault of the filmakers that they did not deliver when people were in the theatre.
Robert Zemecics great film castaway had a mammoth of a spoiler where it reveals that Tom hanks gets off the island. Terrible terrible terrible. I could not watch the movie for the first time without wondering when he was gonna get off the island
Primeval. Come on. Advertised as a serial killer movie. Pandering to the Saw crowd. It's about a giant crocodile. Rogue, in addition to be a way better movie than anyone could have predicted, didn't act embarrassed about what it actually was. The Primeval of the trailer is without a doubt, the biggest LIE in trailer history.
Case 39. Done and done. Missing footage by the boat load, the trailer suggests that both the little girl and the adopting social worker are being threatened by some un-holy force. The poster! no less even sounds the social worker holding the little girl so safely from some unknown attacker. When the movie is actually about a demon girl which is none other then the little girl on the poster and who is she tormenting? The mother, that's right. Way to trick us like that. It was cheap.
best example was the trailer for spies like us, where all the gags that were even half way funny were crammed into five minutes. when i went to see the film i found out that there weren't any more
Monster A-Go-Go. Amazing trailer, actual movie was so bad it passed over "so-bad-it's-good" and ended up at bad again. And that's not good. Drove me to drink, that movie did.
"Franklyn." The trailer basically screamed "Rorschach: The Movie", being about a badass masked vigilante fighting in a futuristic and steam-punkish theocracy.
Turns out all of this is merely a delusion from a character in the film and takes little more than 20 minutes of screentime. The movie is actually a small, quiet, subtle drama about human relationships with an essemble cast featuring good thespians like Sam Riley and Eva Green.
In this case they decided to focus entirely on one thing :|
The trailer made it look like an epic love story spanning two millennia whereas what we got was an author and a scientist in present day America having pretentious fantasy sequences. Thematically similar, yes, but the film was nothing whatsoever like the trailer promised and as a result, I hated it.
Cable Guy. "Come see Ace Ventura in a jumpsuit with a funny lisp and a karaoke single... not a depressing, allegorical, sociopathic stalker, we promise." Underrated movie, trailer's fault for calling the wrong audience.
Be Kind Rewind: It was advertised as two hapless dudes making home video versions of famous movies. Turns out it was mostly about an old jazz musician dying. WHAT?
Transformers 2: The trailer made it look fun, cohearent and exciting. Turns out...it was not.
Inglorious Basterds: Advertised as mostly an action picture with the Bastered raining havoc on Germany. They were in 40% of the movie. The rest Shossana crying.
@QuatermassMan Transformers movies both should have had less humans and more robots, that what i want in a movie called transformers, not annoying humans and annoying desert scenes and same old war sequences and flag waving bullshit
The trailer for the Damned United made it look like it was going to be a comedy-drama and it want. It was much more serious than serious than. I think its a great film but it was grossly misrepresented.
Terminator Salvation - actually looked like it could be a good film, especially in those trailers that came out over the first few months of 2009, but turned out to be terrible.
@chuckyboy12001 That means it was a pretty good trailer. That's what they're meant to do, show the movie in as best a light as possible. A trailer wouldn't try to show how bad a film is.
probably The Twilight Saga: New Moon. the trailer made it look like the film went on at a quick pace and had loads more action than the first one but the film turned out to be almost actionless and a very slow paced! Such a disappointment!
@MbFilmReviews when I rented that and expected dakota to be vamping it up and i was actually excited , but after i watched it. i was so annoying at how lame the film was. and gave up on the series. too.. BS franchise
The trailer from Titanic made it look like it would be quite good, as did the one for Pearl Harbour. Both should be prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act!
Many Michael Mann films - Miami Vice, Public Enemies for example - are shown to be full on action flicks whereas when it comes down to it, the gun fights, explosions, etc. are confined to a small part of the film.
HAS to be Highlander Endgame. There were sequences shot especially for the trailer and no t even intended in the film! Worse, these sequences were far more exciting and with better effects than the ho-hum why-am-I-watching-this? abuse the actual moive hits you with
Reign of Fire - they adverted it as "Dragons vs. Civilisation" and the movie that everyone expected was a montage of thirty seconds after the first ten minutes of the movie.
Thing is, i liked the movie, but i was truly disappointed the first time i saw it just because it was not the movie that trailer and ads suggested.
I remember the Indiana Jones line "part time" was changed for the release version of the Crimson skull from the one in the trailer.
From a dryly delivered sarcastic tone, to a slightly suprised higher pitch tone. I think somebody told George that their test audience didn't recieve that line very well. When I think of trailers, that comes to mind quite alot.
Back on topic, M. Night Shyamalans 'the Village' trailer was scarier than the actual film, and was a bit misleading.
They tried to advertise Bridge to Terabithia as "from the creators of Narnia" and make it look to be a kiddy adventure film, when it wasn't. That was I think why so many were disappointed with what was a very good film.
I found the trailer for the Art House film Peur du Noir to be tremendously misleading in terms of pacing. The trailer was quick, exciting and dramatic. Having a limited release in Ireland, I waited impatiently for the DVD release. Cracking it out one night I couldnt have been more disappointed. It was long and trawled through its 85 minute run time. Practically every terrifying jump moment was revealed through the trailer and the wonderful score heard was the only score recorded for the film.
Adventureland is probably the most awful instance that comes to mind. I went in expecting a laughable, if quirky, "growing up" teen comedy, and instead received an entirely droll awkward teen comedy in which the love interest was actually more stoic than her prototypical shy, nerdy counterpart.
Possibly the worst result from otherwise enjoyable expectations in recent years.
Zach Snyder movies, particularly 300 and Watchmen. I knew about Watchmen before going in, having read the book, and so was not suprised when it didn't turn out to be an action/adventure superhero movie, but with 300, which I hadn't read, I was completely duped. Play that trailer, it looks like an action/adventure graphic novel. Instead we get 1 1/2 hours of slow-paced, slow-motion, homoerotic, visual poetry, the core themes of which are nonsense and the culture contained therein grotesque.
@FormerHuman it wasn't bad at all it was good. maybe i didn't see the trailers for it. but i still liked it for its ordasity of you know what happening..during the film (cough, cough).
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless mind,one of my favs of all time,its surreal,dark,a pure heart break of a movie...not according to the trailer that sold it as a wacky,zany,fun fil,when i saw it in the cinema,30 people walked after 10 minutes as it wasn't the silly romantic romp they were told it was
Wall.e's trailer was bad because it advertised the film as a comedy when it was obviously more of a serious film but still they decided to show the only funny bits in the trailer.
The trailer for Sweeney Todd completely left out any hint of it being a musical, they made sure there was no singing (or hint of singing) in the trailer, and subsequently people went to it and were horrified to hear people singing!
Another that springs to mind is the recent District 9 trailer, which made the film look like a big budget stupid alien film, when it was actually really clever and very allegorical, something that was lost on the folks who wanted to sell it to the general public.
Mel Gibson's Apolcalypto. The original trailer came across as one for for a horror film. Plus it it contained footage not actually in the film, most obviously it had an entirely different cast.
Let's not forget though, the Superman Returns trailer had almost every scene of that film in it!
I think for me it would be The Watchmen. i just thought it was all surface and no content and the movie trailer tried to make it sound all interesting but in the end it was just a bunch of CGI and a guy whose mask was changing because of no reason whatsoever. I thought it might be more intellectual like the Dark Knight but I have to say I was fairly disappointed because this was not what the author of the graphic novel intended obviously.
The 'Redbelt' trailer... well, both of them actually! There were two trailers which portrayed, seemingly two different films. Worse still, when the film came out, a) it was an awful, mess of a film and b) it was nothing like either of the trailers we had seen! Maybe they should've gone for 3rd time lucky?! ^Dan
The "fight club" trailer made it look like a "never back down" type film. but actually it's one of the greatest and most intelligent films of all time.
There was a film a while back, 'Disclosure' with Michael Douglas. It wasn't particularly good anyway, BUT from the trailers one would have thought it was almost soft porn. It was actually sort of a mystery thriller with a lot less sex than was hinted at. I put off seeing it for years because I thought it was just sex sex sex, when in fact it was a relatively dull 2 hours of office espionage stuff. The studio probably thought they could market a Douglas sex fest better than tedious office drama.
District 9 - Official Trailer gives the impression of an alien invasion thriller where in fact the real film portrayed the aliens as helpless sufferers.
I was also expecting Sci-Fi but I got gore and action.
Glad Mark brought this up. The Godfather Part III, hands down, has got to be the best trailer for a disappointing movie.
The trailer draws strong parallels between the first two Godfather films, implying that the drugs business Vito warned about in the original had contributed to the decay of organised crime, such as when Michael (Al Pacino) says
"If every drug pusher in this room were to drop dead, I would be the only one alive" (a line nowhere to be found in the actual film!).
I'm sick and tired of trailers showing parts of the film that are supposed to be a surprise in the story. You end up watching a film and able to see exactly whats coming next.
I don't read book reviews that tell me a twist of the story so i don't expect to watch a trailer and have the entire film spoiled for me.
Charlie Bartlett - the trailer made it look like some knock about, high school gag fest and it was in fact a rather sombre film about the pressure to conform and working out who you are.
Thought it was kak, but it is worth checking out as Robert Downey Jr is brilliant in it.
I don't usually care greatly for Emmerich's work but I loved the trailer for 2012 and am honestly looking forward to seeing it. Then again, I had read up on 2012 with conviction some years ago and it intruiges me quite a bit. I was somewhat certain critics would hate it, but it's still a shame that they look down their noses at so easily at such things. It looked like the best stuff Emmerich has done, and to be fair... he isn't Michael Bay.
X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins Wolverine. Both made the movies look good, while they were awful! Too bad they weren't directed by the same guy that made the two first ones :( Bryan Singer.
maybe not a trailer, but the poster for 'Reign of Fire' had dragons setting aflame to London whilst battling helicopter gunships - never happened in the film. Also i'm pretty sure the trailer for 'Mirrors' (2008) showed the final scene explosion of the film, thus negating the point of watching such cack.
The Golden Compass comes to mind as they took the ending out of the film (along with religion etc) yet the trailer shows clips from the end of the film. They sis this because they didn't want to end on a dark note but the book was never really a childrens book.
a 3 minute and 5 second trailer which gave away the ENTIRE plot/story everything...it was basically like watching condensed into 3 minutes, it contained scenes that werent in the film and guess what...actually had me thinking it was going to reasonably funny...oh how wrong i was
i found the lucky number slevin trailer very misleading
built up as a comedy of misidentity, the film really is much darker than that, perhaps thats what they wanted though for a more effective and disarming film, who knows?
the one that immediately springs to mind is, the trailer for "in bruges" it's awfull, the music they use for it is very misrepresentitive, as the film is slow and good and not like the guy ritchie/jason statham film it portrays in the trailer.
cant think off the top of my head but i will say a lot of trailers show way to much, i think district 9 had the perfect trailer for me, but i think i'd like to see maybe more trailers like scarface which had a couple were the story was told simply with great still images from the film put over an enticing piece of music which pulls you in. I'd like to see more trailers like that.
As for misleading trailers, I'd go for matrix reloaded. The trailer was amazing but the film was shite. Now can you reccommend something good to us please and go in depth about why its worth watching?
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All this guy ever does is moan now!! All his beloved 70s cult stuff has misldeaing trailers, they've always been that way! Ever seen the grindhouse trailer classics dvd? The trailers were ace but the films were shit! Shut the fuck up Kermode and reccomend some obscure little seen arthouse film.
The Hulk for me, went in expecting a film full of Hulkified Carnage, instead it's mostly Eric Bana sitting shakily on a stool for 90 minutes asking everyone to be nice to him. Also the Village, painted as a horror film but really isn't at all (well maybe a little)
@Kevmiester The Village is a horrible example, sorry. As even in the movie they make you believe it's about monsters, that is the point. That's the con.
I watched the Angels and Demons trailer with my sister. She had read the book yet i hadn't, and after watching it I said (spoiler, if you havent seen the trailer that is) "So Ewan McGregor is the villain?" She looked at me puzzled and said "what, how did you know??"
And also, even though i havent seen it, the Shutter Island trailer appears to give away alot.
The one that spoiled too much, for me on a trailer was "Angels adn Demons". I did not even read the book and it did not take me long too see who was the vilian.
Other trailer for a movie would be "The Island", what was told in the trailer was exactly as much as what the movie told us.
Paranormal activity 2
TankMacnamara81 3 months ago
Perhaps not the most blatant, but a pretty recent one I remember is the trailer for "Inglourious Basterds". It looked like it was going to have a decent amount of nazi-killing action. Instead it was all talk. Or M. Night Shyamalans "The Village", which looked like a horror movie in the trailers...
Baktor 3 months ago
The Bridge to Terabithia trailer (well the one I saw) made it look like another Narnia film but it turned out to be something else.
GCmediacourse 3 months ago
@GCmediacourse yeah, something better :L
LucasW180 2 months ago
@LucasW180 I mean something else which for me was a bit upsetting when I saw it. Most people in the cinema was below the age of 11 and they were leaving the cinema Sad and A few where hoping to to of been the nest narnia. But its a OK film for me. Thanks for the comment. I have not had a nice comment for a long time.
GCmediacourse 2 months ago
@GCmediacourse yhh i did enjoy it alot more because of its mature nature.
LucasW180 2 months ago
video game trailers are much worse, sometimes the finished product is much worse,
watch this trailer even if ur a film fan but not a game fan,
Dead Island: Official Announcement Trailer
the trailer itself deserves an award for being brilliant
etocadet 4 months ago
@etocadet The Scottish animation team did get an award for that absolutely stunning trailer and the game was interesting but I didn't care about any of the characters....
imaedacomment 2 months ago
Pearl Harbor - Looks like a action/war film, turns out to be a drippy drama film for teenage girls.
NEDM77 4 months ago
verticle limit
thajaleel 6 months ago
Bridge to Terabithia has to be the worst example of false advertising. The movie itself is essentially "My Girl" but the trailer makes it look like some kind of Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/Narnia adventure film about a couple of kids being whisked off to a magical far away land where they have adventures. The trailer's lying to kids and when you take into account the tragic death of one of the kids near the end it makes it even worse.
McSuperfly101 9 months ago
Well, Mark has recently butchered Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, and rightfully so, but when the first trailer appeared about one year ago I remember I thought it looked absolutely spectacular. What they did with that trailer was to show all the good parts from the movie, whilst keeping us in the shadows about it's total lack of narrative.
TheHitherto 10 months ago
Adventureland. "From the makers of SUPERBAD!" it included every joke in film to makle it look like a comedy. But it was really a coming of age drama.
paintballing489 10 months ago
happiness......enough said.
nevskireviews 10 months ago
Very interesting topic. Trailers do this very often.
Arachnophobia was made to look like a comedy with John Goodman.
127 hours was NOT made to look like it was that true story we all heard about years before. It looked like a feel-good movie about who the hell knows what.
SandBarAndYou 10 months ago
@SandBarAndYou To be fair, Arachnophobia was a kind of comedy, albeit one that scares the shit out of me.
TheDensley7 7 months ago
@TheDensley7 I just looked at the trailer on YouTube just to refresh on it and the first comment I saw said "This trailer makes it look like a comedy..." I don't agree with the idea that the movie was a "thrillomedy." The trailer says that and you have basically said it. But nope, don't agree. Even the music tries to make you think it is like Gremlins or something. But it just isn't. For me it was about three or four laughs shy.
SandBarAndYou 7 months ago
I loved The Road but I'm so glad I didn't see the trailer beforehand.
ciaracustard 11 months ago
An old crime family film with Sean Connery and maybe Patrick Swayze - another case of exciting trailer, depressing film. Can't remember the name. It was a pun like "Keep It In The Family" or something.
brokenstyx 1 year ago
@brokenstyx Family Business?
SethHesio 11 months ago
@SethHesio
that was it!
brokenstyx 11 months ago
@brokenstyx Ha! Glad I could help! Also Who'd have thought Sean Connery would outlive Patrick Swayze?!
SethHesio 11 months ago
@SethHesio
Maybe he'll never die!
brokenstyx 11 months ago
Godzilla was a fantastic trailer...teasing you about what was to be on offer...but a stinker of a movie.
ogfunk187 1 year ago
@ogfunk187 i've heard many times people saying "they should have showed the monster more" as a reason why it bombed because it raised the expectations too big. But I think they did the trailer the right way, the best way to entice people to watch something. I wish more movies were done this way. You can't fault those that did it to do a good job. It's just the fault of the filmakers that they did not deliver when people were in the theatre.
skinwalkerxxx 1 year ago
How about reveiwing SILENT RUNNING and ALIEN trailers. I think that they both were quite good.
On the net they have a funny trailer about THE SHINING that makes it look like a funny feel good comedy.
ghostmanlostsoul 1 year ago
@ghostmanlostsoul That Shining re edit was the first thing I thought of.
SethHesio 11 months ago
Robert Zemecics great film castaway had a mammoth of a spoiler where it reveals that Tom hanks gets off the island. Terrible terrible terrible. I could not watch the movie for the first time without wondering when he was gonna get off the island
Gandalfgrey93 1 year ago
Primeval. Come on. Advertised as a serial killer movie. Pandering to the Saw crowd. It's about a giant crocodile. Rogue, in addition to be a way better movie than anyone could have predicted, didn't act embarrassed about what it actually was. The Primeval of the trailer is without a doubt, the biggest LIE in trailer history.
moviedoors 1 year ago
2012 was awfull
(act 1)
not much happens, guy has arguement with children.
(act 2)
world leaders start argueing and one guy proclaims ''i gotta bad feeling about this''.
(act 3)
all hell breaks loose and most of the cast die by various special effects apart from the main charactor.
(end)
guy makes up with his kids and they all begin a journey of hope and redemption in a post apocolyptic world.
(utterly terrable and predictable.)
ec123456789able 1 year ago
Case 39. Done and done. Missing footage by the boat load, the trailer suggests that both the little girl and the adopting social worker are being threatened by some un-holy force. The poster! no less even sounds the social worker holding the little girl so safely from some unknown attacker. When the movie is actually about a demon girl which is none other then the little girl on the poster and who is she tormenting? The mother, that's right. Way to trick us like that. It was cheap.
ScarPred 1 year ago
I thought Cyrus was a gross out Seth Rogen type film but it was basically a Wes Anderson movie. Still, i love John C reilly.
Filmzie 1 year ago
almost all movies or studios misrepresent a movie in the trailer.
BRm2008 1 year ago
yeah The Road wa a depressing snoozefest.
BRm2008 1 year ago
Kick Ass.Thought it was going to be a comedy, turned out to be a revenge story
Salmon1BWFC 1 year ago
@Salmon1BWFC its more than that u twat
BRm2008 1 year ago
@BRm2008 Calm down. Just voicing my opinion and reasons.
Salmon1BWFC 1 year ago
@Salmon1BWFC yeah the Kickass trailer didnt do the film justice.
ogfunk187 1 year ago
Clash of the titans
nolderine 1 year ago
best example was the trailer for spies like us, where all the gags that were even half way funny were crammed into five minutes. when i went to see the film i found out that there weren't any more
scudder91 1 year ago
Monster A-Go-Go. Amazing trailer, actual movie was so bad it passed over "so-bad-it's-good" and ended up at bad again. And that's not good. Drove me to drink, that movie did.
Lilja124 1 year ago
@Lilja124 Ghost World reference?
MatthewLedZepfan 1 year ago
@MatthewLedZepfan
It's been said outside of Ghost World, but sure. :)
Lilja124 1 year ago
"Franklyn." The trailer basically screamed "Rorschach: The Movie", being about a badass masked vigilante fighting in a futuristic and steam-punkish theocracy.
Turns out all of this is merely a delusion from a character in the film and takes little more than 20 minutes of screentime. The movie is actually a small, quiet, subtle drama about human relationships with an essemble cast featuring good thespians like Sam Riley and Eva Green.
In this case they decided to focus entirely on one thing :|
ramonoski 1 year ago
The Fountain.
The trailer made it look like an epic love story spanning two millennia whereas what we got was an author and a scientist in present day America having pretentious fantasy sequences. Thematically similar, yes, but the film was nothing whatsoever like the trailer promised and as a result, I hated it.
disposable157 1 year ago
@disposable157 that rachel chick is a ugly dog. i wouldnt have seen it anyway. she's annoying
BRm2008 1 year ago
king kong's trailer had sooo many scenes that were cut away in the final product :P
CreatureDrumNBass 1 year ago
Alice in Wonderland (2010).
I though that film was going to be a masterpiece from the trailer, I was disappointed...
theburlystrapper 1 year ago
Cable Guy. "Come see Ace Ventura in a jumpsuit with a funny lisp and a karaoke single... not a depressing, allegorical, sociopathic stalker, we promise." Underrated movie, trailer's fault for calling the wrong audience.
phuctifyno 1 year ago 8
Be Kind Rewind: It was advertised as two hapless dudes making home video versions of famous movies. Turns out it was mostly about an old jazz musician dying. WHAT?
Transformers 2: The trailer made it look fun, cohearent and exciting. Turns out...it was not.
Inglorious Basterds: Advertised as mostly an action picture with the Bastered raining havoc on Germany. They were in 40% of the movie. The rest Shossana crying.
QuatermassMan 1 year ago 2
@QuatermassMan Transformers movies both should have had less humans and more robots, that what i want in a movie called transformers, not annoying humans and annoying desert scenes and same old war sequences and flag waving bullshit
BRm2008 1 year ago
Apocalypto for sure Mark,
Apart from the trailer being intriguing grainy & handheld, the story alleged to be about civilisation....cue craptacular gory chase-mess... :-(
I want my Mayan movie gaddamn it!!!
sc00ny 2 years ago
The trailer for the Damned United made it look like it was going to be a comedy-drama and it want. It was much more serious than serious than. I think its a great film but it was grossly misrepresented.
livedinbars 2 years ago
Terminator Salvation - actually looked like it could be a good film, especially in those trailers that came out over the first few months of 2009, but turned out to be terrible.
chuckyboy12001 2 years ago 5
@chuckyboy12001 ya right., it wasn't as good as it was should have been
BRm2008 1 year ago
@chuckyboy12001 That means it was a pretty good trailer. That's what they're meant to do, show the movie in as best a light as possible. A trailer wouldn't try to show how bad a film is.
Neonman78 4 months ago
probably The Twilight Saga: New Moon. the trailer made it look like the film went on at a quick pace and had loads more action than the first one but the film turned out to be almost actionless and a very slow paced! Such a disappointment!
MbFilmReviews 2 years ago
@MbFilmReviews when I rented that and expected dakota to be vamping it up and i was actually excited , but after i watched it. i was so annoying at how lame the film was. and gave up on the series. too.. BS franchise
BRm2008 1 year ago
Syriana.
M. Night Shyamalan is quite good at making trailers, but the movies stumble quite a bit.
Lightsofnero 2 years ago
i think inglorious bastersd pulled this trick off.
belito311 2 years ago
The trailer from Titanic made it look like it would be quite good, as did the one for Pearl Harbour. Both should be prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act!
MartinandFreddie 2 years ago
Spiderman 3 . By the trailer they made it look so introspective and grim while once you'd come down to it it was pointless garbage.
Anatolij86 2 years ago 2
Many Michael Mann films - Miami Vice, Public Enemies for example - are shown to be full on action flicks whereas when it comes down to it, the gun fights, explosions, etc. are confined to a small part of the film.
TheJLC 2 years ago
@TheJLC both of those sucked so much.
BRm2008 1 year ago
Ultraviolet
dude3453 2 years ago
Slumdog I guess
I adore it, but it wasn't wuite the feel good mamma mia-esque film they were making it out tobe
6Jill9 2 years ago
For me it has to be Eyes Wide Shut and Lost in Translation
GSmyth85 2 years ago
HAS to be Highlander Endgame. There were sequences shot especially for the trailer and no t even intended in the film! Worse, these sequences were far more exciting and with better effects than the ho-hum why-am-I-watching-this? abuse the actual moive hits you with
DarthVanDyke 2 years ago
Reign of Fire - they adverted it as "Dragons vs. Civilisation" and the movie that everyone expected was a montage of thirty seconds after the first ten minutes of the movie.
Thing is, i liked the movie, but i was truly disappointed the first time i saw it just because it was not the movie that trailer and ads suggested.
jensscholz 2 years ago
I remember the Indiana Jones line "part time" was changed for the release version of the Crimson skull from the one in the trailer.
From a dryly delivered sarcastic tone, to a slightly suprised higher pitch tone. I think somebody told George that their test audience didn't recieve that line very well. When I think of trailers, that comes to mind quite alot.
Back on topic, M. Night Shyamalans 'the Village' trailer was scarier than the actual film, and was a bit misleading.
toonuraccoon 2 years ago
The trailer from paranormal activity shows the end scene for some reason.
alabam5 2 years ago
They tried to advertise Bridge to Terabithia as "from the creators of Narnia" and make it look to be a kiddy adventure film, when it wasn't. That was I think why so many were disappointed with what was a very good film.
pipkin3 2 years ago
I found the trailer for the Art House film Peur du Noir to be tremendously misleading in terms of pacing. The trailer was quick, exciting and dramatic. Having a limited release in Ireland, I waited impatiently for the DVD release. Cracking it out one night I couldnt have been more disappointed. It was long and trawled through its 85 minute run time. Practically every terrifying jump moment was revealed through the trailer and the wonderful score heard was the only score recorded for the film.
MorganStack 2 years ago
DOGVILLE trailer- makes it look like a horrible cliched melo-drama, when it's actually an original masterpiece!!!
JAMFREAK06 2 years ago
Adventureland is probably the most awful instance that comes to mind. I went in expecting a laughable, if quirky, "growing up" teen comedy, and instead received an entirely droll awkward teen comedy in which the love interest was actually more stoic than her prototypical shy, nerdy counterpart.
Possibly the worst result from otherwise enjoyable expectations in recent years.
ThupinTheLird 2 years ago 2
Zach Snyder movies, particularly 300 and Watchmen. I knew about Watchmen before going in, having read the book, and so was not suprised when it didn't turn out to be an action/adventure superhero movie, but with 300, which I hadn't read, I was completely duped. Play that trailer, it looks like an action/adventure graphic novel. Instead we get 1 1/2 hours of slow-paced, slow-motion, homoerotic, visual poetry, the core themes of which are nonsense and the culture contained therein grotesque.
sameel3 2 years ago
Dreamcatcher - looked like The Evil Dead, turned out to be absolutely horrible awful alien invasion (through your anus) bollocks.
FormerHuman 2 years ago
@FormerHuman it wasn't bad at all it was good. maybe i didn't see the trailers for it. but i still liked it for its ordasity of you know what happening..during the film (cough, cough).
BRm2008 1 year ago
IN BRUGES 100%
JAMFREAK06 2 years ago
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless mind,one of my favs of all time,its surreal,dark,a pure heart break of a movie...not according to the trailer that sold it as a wacky,zany,fun fil,when i saw it in the cinema,30 people walked after 10 minutes as it wasn't the silly romantic romp they were told it was
ScareMeSexy71 2 years ago
Wall.e's trailer was bad because it advertised the film as a comedy when it was obviously more of a serious film but still they decided to show the only funny bits in the trailer.
SpectacularHarryXD 2 years ago
The trailer for Sweeney Todd completely left out any hint of it being a musical, they made sure there was no singing (or hint of singing) in the trailer, and subsequently people went to it and were horrified to hear people singing!
Another that springs to mind is the recent District 9 trailer, which made the film look like a big budget stupid alien film, when it was actually really clever and very allegorical, something that was lost on the folks who wanted to sell it to the general public.
martynm 2 years ago
Mel Gibson's Apolcalypto. The original trailer came across as one for for a horror film. Plus it it contained footage not actually in the film, most obviously it had an entirely different cast.
Let's not forget though, the Superman Returns trailer had almost every scene of that film in it!
robertoxmaynard 2 years ago
I think for me it would be The Watchmen. i just thought it was all surface and no content and the movie trailer tried to make it sound all interesting but in the end it was just a bunch of CGI and a guy whose mask was changing because of no reason whatsoever. I thought it might be more intellectual like the Dark Knight but I have to say I was fairly disappointed because this was not what the author of the graphic novel intended obviously.
Regenmacher175 2 years ago 2
@Regenmacher175 the dark knight was such a good movie
welovetofu 1 year ago
The Black Dahlia- the trailer made out that the film was actually good.
...I've never been so disappointed.
evesapple 2 years ago
The 'Redbelt' trailer... well, both of them actually! There were two trailers which portrayed, seemingly two different films. Worse still, when the film came out, a) it was an awful, mess of a film and b) it was nothing like either of the trailers we had seen! Maybe they should've gone for 3rd time lucky?! ^Dan
danlimb 2 years ago
The "fight club" trailer made it look like a "never back down" type film. but actually it's one of the greatest and most intelligent films of all time.
xboyo 2 years ago
Eyes wide shut...but in a really good way.
It convinced people who like shit movies to go and watch a good movie
kevycanavan 2 years ago
vry vry true
wonderful marketing. you wana have tom cruise having sex? ur not gona get it in a stanley kubrick film
it was two fingers up 2 the people who want easy porn. but actually turned out to be one of kubricks best.
when the sex scene finally comes (the orgy) its - purposefully - laughable, ugly and repulsive.
xboyo 2 years ago
Watchmen's trailer made it look much more accurate to the book.
wdm2112 2 years ago
There was a film a while back, 'Disclosure' with Michael Douglas. It wasn't particularly good anyway, BUT from the trailers one would have thought it was almost soft porn. It was actually sort of a mystery thriller with a lot less sex than was hinted at. I put off seeing it for years because I thought it was just sex sex sex, when in fact it was a relatively dull 2 hours of office espionage stuff. The studio probably thought they could market a Douglas sex fest better than tedious office drama.
Aoibheann07 2 years ago
Kangaroo Jack.
It was so not about a hip, rapping kangaroo named Jack as the trailer lead me to believe. Not that this would have made the movie any better.
Oh Jerry O'Connell...whatever happened to the days of Vern Tessio?
DropEleven 2 years ago
District 9 - Official Trailer gives the impression of an alien invasion thriller where in fact the real film portrayed the aliens as helpless sufferers.
I was also expecting Sci-Fi but I got gore and action.
ylaviv 2 years ago
Yet it's still movie of the year
Yannak 2 years ago
Most porn trailers? ha ha ;-)
ylaviv 2 years ago
Glad Mark brought this up. The Godfather Part III, hands down, has got to be the best trailer for a disappointing movie.
The trailer draws strong parallels between the first two Godfather films, implying that the drugs business Vito warned about in the original had contributed to the decay of organised crime, such as when Michael (Al Pacino) says
"If every drug pusher in this room were to drop dead, I would be the only one alive" (a line nowhere to be found in the actual film!).
padraic2001eire 2 years ago
I read The Road last year. I'm anxious cus I know its a grim grey tale, very un-Hollywood
madammao 2 years ago
I'm sick and tired of trailers showing parts of the film that are supposed to be a surprise in the story. You end up watching a film and able to see exactly whats coming next.
I don't read book reviews that tell me a twist of the story so i don't expect to watch a trailer and have the entire film spoiled for me.
Hedonophobia 2 years ago
My pet hate is the inclusion of scenes or clips that don't appear in the actual movie.
kalsolarUK 2 years ago
In Bruge, I avoided it in the cinema as it was advertised as a Guy Ritchie copycat film.
aRTyfatone 2 years ago
alien versus predator 2 , trailer was action packed, but the movie panned out like an episode of hollyoaks
thegoatchild 2 years ago 2
Charlie Bartlett - the trailer made it look like some knock about, high school gag fest and it was in fact a rather sombre film about the pressure to conform and working out who you are.
Thought it was kak, but it is worth checking out as Robert Downey Jr is brilliant in it.
And Reign of Fire, the poster especially.
Fairfax29 2 years ago
vantage point
great trailer, piece of crap movie
11825code6 2 years ago 2
I don't usually care greatly for Emmerich's work but I loved the trailer for 2012 and am honestly looking forward to seeing it. Then again, I had read up on 2012 with conviction some years ago and it intruiges me quite a bit. I was somewhat certain critics would hate it, but it's still a shame that they look down their noses at so easily at such things. It looked like the best stuff Emmerich has done, and to be fair... he isn't Michael Bay.
DannyBoy777 2 years ago
X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins Wolverine. Both made the movies look good, while they were awful! Too bad they weren't directed by the same guy that made the two first ones :( Bryan Singer.
SpeedFreakNO 2 years ago 2
maybe not a trailer, but the poster for 'Reign of Fire' had dragons setting aflame to London whilst battling helicopter gunships - never happened in the film. Also i'm pretty sure the trailer for 'Mirrors' (2008) showed the final scene explosion of the film, thus negating the point of watching such cack.
normalvibes 2 years ago
Spider-man 3.
It made it look good.
I was expecting him to think he was still in the red and blue suit. That was just trailer bull-shit.
jackh1992 2 years ago
The Golden Compass comes to mind as they took the ending out of the film (along with religion etc) yet the trailer shows clips from the end of the film. They sis this because they didn't want to end on a dark note but the book was never really a childrens book.
Ricorodrigeuz 2 years ago
the eternal sunshine of the spotless trailer!
vereszsolt 2 years ago
1:34
Omar Little!
YouKnowWhereThisEnds 2 years ago
Trust him to survive the apocalypse. nice spot! I wasn't paying attention.
titaniumslug 2 years ago
End of the World Camera Filter going on here
ndgreenaway 2 years ago
the trailer for funny people
a 3 minute and 5 second trailer which gave away the ENTIRE plot/story everything...it was basically like watching condensed into 3 minutes, it contained scenes that werent in the film and guess what...actually had me thinking it was going to reasonably funny...oh how wrong i was
SuperSpursFan17 2 years ago
i found the lucky number slevin trailer very misleading
built up as a comedy of misidentity, the film really is much darker than that, perhaps thats what they wanted though for a more effective and disarming film, who knows?
SeanSTG369 2 years ago 2
the one that immediately springs to mind is, the trailer for "in bruges" it's awfull, the music they use for it is very misrepresentitive, as the film is slow and good and not like the guy ritchie/jason statham film it portrays in the trailer.
Warnerchild 2 years ago 8
cant think off the top of my head but i will say a lot of trailers show way to much, i think district 9 had the perfect trailer for me, but i think i'd like to see maybe more trailers like scarface which had a couple were the story was told simply with great still images from the film put over an enticing piece of music which pulls you in. I'd like to see more trailers like that.
partycats 2 years ago
As for misleading trailers, I'd go for matrix reloaded. The trailer was amazing but the film was shite. Now can you reccommend something good to us please and go in depth about why its worth watching?
Muskateering 2 years ago
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All this guy ever does is moan now!! All his beloved 70s cult stuff has misldeaing trailers, they've always been that way! Ever seen the grindhouse trailer classics dvd? The trailers were ace but the films were shit! Shut the fuck up Kermode and reccomend some obscure little seen arthouse film.
Muskateering 2 years ago
The Hulk for me, went in expecting a film full of Hulkified Carnage, instead it's mostly Eric Bana sitting shakily on a stool for 90 minutes asking everyone to be nice to him. Also the Village, painted as a horror film but really isn't at all (well maybe a little)
Kevmiester 2 years ago 6
@Kevmiester The Village is a horrible example, sorry. As even in the movie they make you believe it's about monsters, that is the point. That's the con.
skinwalkerxxx 1 year ago
I watched the Angels and Demons trailer with my sister. She had read the book yet i hadn't, and after watching it I said (spoiler, if you havent seen the trailer that is) "So Ewan McGregor is the villain?" She looked at me puzzled and said "what, how did you know??"
And also, even though i havent seen it, the Shutter Island trailer appears to give away alot.
lukevalmurray 2 years ago
I'd say Be Kind Rewind, the trailer had some funny moments, but they were the only funny moments and the rest just dragged on with no laughs.
Same with Observe and Report, which was worse.
ultimatekeez 2 years ago
Sweeney Todd had the most fantastically misleading trailer of all time imo because not a single trailer I saw had any singing in it lol
Jellyform 2 years ago
The one that spoiled too much, for me on a trailer was "Angels adn Demons". I did not even read the book and it did not take me long too see who was the vilian.
Other trailer for a movie would be "The Island", what was told in the trailer was exactly as much as what the movie told us.
danxtur 2 years ago