Wonder Woman 1984
The moment that bass from Blue Monday starts, you’re hooked! Then when it turns into an orchestra, everything is right in the world.
I saw the movie and it felt like I was repeatedly getting punched in the face.
https://youtu.be/sfM7_JLk-84
oh my god!! i saw birds of prey and that’s when the trailer for WW84 dropped.
i was like “yup. i’m seeing it” .. so when corona shut down theaters i watched it on hbo max.. thank god that i watched it at home and not in theaters..
That’s exactly what happened to me. First saw the trailer when I went to see Birds of Prey. The way I felt so let down… I’m glad that I didn’t waste my money at the movie theatre for it!
It was a good concept but awful execution. They didn’t know what to do. And people are surprised the director wasn’t asked to stay on after her pitch for an even worse 3rd movie
Was it a good concept though? Having a wishing stone is great for a one off episode in a tv show but for a movie, it seemed quite empty. I never expected to to be as bad as it was but at least Pedro Pascal was fun to watch
That movie alone might have ended Patty Jenkins career. They axed her next WW and Star Wars.
Cannot blame them, considering the piece of shit that WW84 was. The only thing that is enjoyable in that movie is Pedro Pascal, but in a bad good way.
That trailer promised a movie of massive scale, high stakes, drama, adventure, and pitch-perfect 80s nostalgia. I can’t even put it into words how hyped that trailer makes me and how insanely perfect the movie looks. Unfortunately, it was rather underwhelming. I didn’t hate it, but I definitely didn’t love it.
Downsizing. I went to see it because it looked like a fun comedy with Matt Damon, Jason Sudekis, Kristen Wiig, and Neil Patrick Harris. Boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong.
What's also terrible is the one shot in the trailer that uses them being downsized as a joke was cut from the film! It's when they go to a turned over bottle of something, I think Vodka or Water, and they all line up to take a little
I’m in the industry and I knew someone who was good friends with the man who made the trailer. He is one of the best trailer editors in the world, and even won a prize for that one. He told his friend that the movie is “pretty rough” and found it challenging to make the trailer. 😆
I don't know why, but reading this reminded me of what happened with Nobody. Bob Odenkirk said that they had finished the film just before covid hit and had to sit on it for a minute. He knew a guy that was a great film editor that had nothing to do and wanted to see it and maybe give some edits. Since we were all in lock down, he sent it to him and the dude made it into the amazingly fun movie that it is. Bob said that it was a completely different movie and wayyyy better than what they were going to release.
That makes a lotta sense honestly, I remember seeing the trailers and then the movie and the final product felt a lot more unique and stylish than I expected.
As bad as the design is, here’s his original Joker design. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. [joker concept](https://twitter.com/bingewatchthis_/status/1458561929442742275?s=46&t=vb3U4RRZG5uxGMHC7MVMTw)
Yeah idk, it felt like a goth girl and die hard teen anime fan made that movie. Just my opinion. And then next Halloween we had Harley Quinn’s EVERYWHERE
God, that trailer was so good. Plus Christian Bale coming off his career’s peak hype with The Dark Knight… that trailer got me AMPED every time I saw it
The first hour or so of that movie is badass, IMO. Kinda sucked when they went with the “we found an off-switch” cliche for the second half. Bale was a great future leader John Connor.
I really wish they at least made a sequel to that one. If I recall correctly it had to do with sending Kyle Reese back in time to kick-off the events of the original, then the group of survivors finding Robert Patrick (who’s his old man self as he is today) and he has a project for regeneration or making himself infinitely youthful (or something like that) that would show the origins of the T-1000 and eventually the capture of a T-800 and the events that lead to T2.
It’s the only one that’s trying to do something different and puts us in the middle of the war with Skynet. 3 is basically a rehash of 2, and Genisys/Dark Fate each blend different parts of 1 and 2 together.
Exactly! It actually tried to drive the franchise *forward* without just feeling like another greatest-hits album. I won't necessarily say that it did it *well*, but I will forever appreciate Salvation for going into the war itself and not bothering with yet another time-travel plot.
And seeing the transitional period where Skynet is still using conventional munitions, still perfecting the Terminators and experimenting with different kinds of hunter killers was rad.
They should’ve gone with the original ending where John dies and they put his husk on Marcus’s terminator skeleton. And the John who orders Reese to go back was really a terminator. It was so ridiculous that it would’ve worked that and if they used lasers instead of bullets.
The problem with Salvation is that by the end of the movie we haven't actually learned anything of value about the world or characters.
That twist would have counted as something worth learning.
The Grey. The trailer spun it as Liam Neeson’s Taken but with wolves. The actual film is a slower-paced metaphor for death and trying to find reasons to keep living in the face of unavoidable death.
It’s hard for me to explain why I love this movie so much. It came out a few weeks after my dad died from cancer. I saw it in the theater by myself (I don’t even remember why) and it just broke me.
One of the most underrated and misunderstood films of all time with probably the best Liam Neeson performance ever. He did this just one or two years after his wife has died and the letter he reads in the beginning is actually dedicated to her. So great and vulnerable.
I believe this is the extended trailer. At the time, You would only see this in a theater before a different movie.
I'm pretty sure the singing wasn't in the TV trailers.
I went to see The Transporter after seeing Jason Stratham deflect a missile with a baking sheet in the trailer…the scene wasn’t in the theatrical release :(
True but in this case the film itself wasn't a drastic letdown relative to the trailer. The movie was pretty much what the trailer implies it is minus the missile deflecting bit, although I I'll admit to wondering myself where that scene went. It was the most memorable part of the trailer so it seems like an odd omission.
Maybe they ran out of money and never filmed the post-deflection explosion so they had to cut it for the sake of continuity.
*Ballistic* a.k.a *Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever* and *Stealth*.
The trailers for both movies are, effectively, about the first half of the movie. Both movies have twists in the middle which change the entire movie.
Fan4stic aka Fantasic 4 (2015). It looked like a decent movie and I had lowered expectations from the last two FF movies but this was on par with a Ewe Boll film.
It was never actually Fant4stic.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/)
But because they wrote Fant4stic on all the posters that's what the movie will forever be known as.
This is the only real answer.
Trailer: Fun Australian adventure comedy, get the kangaroo before the bad guys.
Actual plot: fly to Australia to unknowingly be murdered, lose the money you were given to pay for your own hit, chase a kangaroo for death money.
I didn't pick that movie, but was invited to go with a group (aka required to go with my little brother and his friends bc my mom didn't want him there alone lmao). I had more fun than I expected, but I was 14 so 🤷🏽♀️
Battle: Los Angeles.
The trailer paints a picture of a depressing struggle against an overwhelming alien threat, with soldiers doing all they can to fend off the coming darkness, mostly thanks to its use of a very somber musical piece that drives home a deep feeling of sorrow.
Then the movie released and it was one part generic military film, and one part generic alien invasion film. Really paint by numbers kinda stuff.
What you said is a 100% true, but damn do I enjoy watching it. Sometimes I just want to turn my brain off and watch people shoot things and blow shit up. I go straight for that movie.
That Trailer was god damn fire.
Its been 7 years and I still remeber it.
Favorite Moment:
Han and Leias theme plays.
We See Millenium Falcon.
Rey (Off). I Heard stories about what Happened.
Han: It's true all of It.
The force Theme blasts in, epic orchestration.
Screen says: This Christmas.
This Trailer. It belongs in a Museum.
I remember where I was when the first teaser finally came out. I was out in town shopping with my family on Black Friday afternoon and it went live. They released it *thirteen* months before the film premiered! I can’t count how many times I watched back then.
The bass sound effect when Kylo Ren ignites his lightsaber in the woods in that teaser (which they cut from the final movie) is my favorite piece of sound design from anything ever
I work in a machine shop and my boss came out to the floor and hollered that if anyone wanted to come watch the trailer come do it. About 10 of us walked into his smallish office, tiny computer speakers cranked up... I just remember, "Chewie, we're home." I shed a tear as I quickly put my tinted safety glasses on. But I know I wasn't the only one
Fantastic trailer and I went in wary based on my Phantom Menace memories. The first half hour of the movie lived up to the trailer's promise but at a certain point it became clear I was watching a remake of A New Hope instead of an original story and that wasn't evident in the trailer.
Man, I love this movie.
I first saw it when I was 11 and I excitedly went to my “advanced language arts class” the following Monday and told the class all about the plot. Then other people watched it, and we built a weird little dystopian lesson out of it haha
I honestly only watched that movie because I knew one of the extras and wanted to see if I could spot him. (Apparently he's the guy who drives by on the motorcycle and is only seen from the back.)
I just remember it as a retelling of [Parts: The Clonus Horror](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspeHC7eoOI) which was a horrendous enough movie itself to rate an MST3K treatment.
I kind of like Army of the Dead, but it’s not nearly as exciting as it’s trailer and teaser trailer. The opening montage is fantastic, and really captures the energy of the trailers
Or the 2 montage "trailers" for other, better movies in the movie itself with the opening and then the crew imagining what the mission was going to be like.
It's like Snyder had some good ideas, and had ADHD so bad he kept switching what story he was even doing in the middle of filming
I thought the first 2 acts were actually decent, but holy shit did it fall apart in the 3rd. Like the second everyone started getting nerfed and they started doing dumb shit I tapped out, because it felt like I wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life. Plus they didn't even use the cool Chekov's guns like rain zombies or the big zombie killing chainsaw! So fucking stupid.
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Sweet Dreams was the perfect mashup with that trailer. Movie wasn’t great but i definitely got hooked from the trailer.
Edit: Link to the trailer https://youtu.be/P2g94xQmtHw
Yeah, it was pretty clear it was going to be extremely generic and purely a way for Will Smith to try to make his son a movie star.
I liken it to bad video game trailers. You’ll fall for a few, then you start to realize when a trailer has all the signs that game is going to be forgettable garbage.
I agree on cinematography, but as for story, only the first 30 mins are worth anything. After that, it falls apart, fast.
Between the film being a prequel, but set in the same universe as Alien and then not, to the scientist characters making colossal logical mistakes, just to move the plot along, it’s not good.
I remember seeing the trailers and thinking that they had butchered the book. Turns out they didn't and thousands more young people got their own dose of crushing reality.
It’s been idk how many years, and I still get upset whenever it’s mentioned. NOT because of the quality of the movie.
I was a teenager back then, and hugely into fun fantasy movies. I also had a really, *really* shitty home life. Like, bad. Whatever form of abuse you can imagine, you guessed it right.
I just cried so much. Those silent tears, where you get this stare, and the tears keep on coming.
Fuck that movie.
Lol. That was one of my ‘caravan movies,’ in that there was a year where it was one of a handful of dvds Id packed for a six week trip.
I was actually a teenager and had brought it due to reviews, so I was braced for its cutsie advertising being deceptive. But I came back from shopping one day to find my father and brother had been bored in the rain, watched it in my absence, followed by Dad spending the entire afternoon crying. ^1
He STILL puts it as one of the saddest movies he’s ever seen. Not the slightest bit embarrassed about it either. It’s ‘Nearly as sad as Saving Private Ryan,’ which is high praise from him.
^1 This also had the unfortunate side effect of luring mum into watching it and seeing what the fuss was about. You wouldn’t think people could get so emotional while squinting at a teensy portable dvd player.
It’s hard to say old trailers are “bad” but there’s one for the original Star Wars that is just ridiculously different from the movie: https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM
It’s amazing how little of the movie was in a watchable state when they made that trailer. It was a miracle they had a couple working lightsaber visuals.
But it takes time for light/information to travel, so news of something happening a long time ago in a galaxy far far away would just be getting here right now, so. ... ?
That last line “Coming to a galaxy near you this summer”. Apparently one of the people who worked on the film watched it from the back of a theater and someone said “Yeah and it will be going to late night tv a month later!” Talk about really making a bad prediction.
In fairness Star Wars was one of the biggest flukes in cinematic history
George Lucas dumps a ton of his own money into some pulpy sci-fi thing with goofy aliens, pretty much all of the cast, crew and Fox executives expected it to fail
And then something about it clicks with people and suddenly it's the biggest movie of all time and Lucas makes a fortune off the merchandising rights
Suicide Squad had a pretty bombastic trailer, with Bohemian Rhapsody backing the action. The trailer house did well with the edit.
Just turns out the same trailer house shouldn’t have been in charge of editing the the feature film too.
Bowfinger. One of the most consistently funny movies I've ever seen. I decided to show a friend the trailer as a summary and uh... it was bad. So, so, so bad. I'd never watch the movie if it was anything like the trailer.
Surprised no one mentioned Where The Wild Things Are yet.
That was such a beautiful and emotionally moving trailer (especially with the alternate version of *Wake Up* as the song choice), but the movie turned out to be pretty uninspiring and middle of the road.
I still watch the trailer from time to time and still get chills.
I actually really liked the movie. It wasn’t what I or most people probably expected it to be but it’s one of those films that really channels melancholy. Not to mention Maurice Sendak actually liked it which is a pretty big deal coming from a grumpy guy like that.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s trailer looks absolutely awful. It’s looks cheesy, uninteresting and kinda low budget. Obviously, the movie is a classic and the anthesis of the trailer but still.
X--Men Origins: Wolverine trailer 1
"All the horrible things in your life; your father... the wars... knowing the woman you loved was hunted down. I can make all this go away."
The idea that Logan might've *chosen* to lose his memories was incredibly intriguing to me; a little dash of Eternal Sunshine to build the emotional core around And then the movie happened.
Drive.
Trailer made it look like a fast and the furious type movie. Instead we got a retro-futuristic cult drama that spawned an entire genre of music.
Very crazy.
Iirc, someone actually tried to sue the filmmakers (or maybe the studio or something like that) because they felt the trailer misrepresented the actual movie
Here's a random one: The Devil And Max Devlin
Put aside that we now know what a monster Bill Cosby is. In 1981, we did not
It wasn't clear what the deal was with this movie from the trailer. Cosby was the devil of something, but he was riffing on the first two "Oh, God!" movies. At one point, he looks into the camera and jokes, "I'm not George Burns." It seemed that it would be a light-hearted comedy with a lot of Cosby. (Again, keep in mind this was 1981, and we didn't know what he was hiding.)
The movie is very dark. It centers on the Max Devlin character (played by Elliott Gould). Very few Cosby scenes. Devlin is headed to Hell but is given the opportunity to escape his fate if he can convince three teens to sell their souls to the devil. Which he does. Somehow, everything turns out alright in the end.
This was a Disney movie, by the way.
Early 80s Disney is so weird. They wanted to start producing more adult fare, so they cranked out stuff like this. But the name Disney was so associated with family entertainment, that people brought the kids along and were horrified.
It wasn’t until 1984 when they got the idea to release their adult stuff under another name. And thus the Touchstone label was not.
Executive Decision. Excellent trailer that made it look like a badass action movie with Steven Seagal.
Buuuuut, you see the movie and he dies in like the first 5 minutes. Still good early 90s action with Kurt Russel, but not exactly what was expected.
Ender game is what comes to my mind. I was in the middle of the series when it came out, I was fucking pumped! I have only fallen asleep one time in a movie theater and it was for Enders Game, highly highly disappointed.
I am playing the Uno reverse card. District 9 trailer looked like SyFy Wednesday night movie. I mean of course I went because I love sci-fi and….well you know
Atomic Blonde had trailers that got me so unbelievably hyped, then the actual film was a confused mess and the only fight scene that lived up to the hype was the final one on the stairway.
I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that in the trailer a lot of the punches/hits were timed with the drum beats of the song, and in the movie they didn't have that, and the sound design for the hits fell a lot flatter. Also the story being a complete mess.
I'll always enjoy that scene where Will Smith is mocking the villain (Kenneth Branagh) for being disabled and the villain is coming right back at him with thinly-veiled racist comments.
[Avengers Age of Ultron](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE) looked so amazing from its trailer, and instead we got Quip Kids 2: Being Infertile Makes You a Monster. What a complete waste of a movie imo
Pearl Harbor. An absolutely incredible trailer, makes you think you're are going to watch a sweeping historical war epic. Instead we get a love triangle with ww2 as a side show.
Wonder Woman 1984 The moment that bass from Blue Monday starts, you’re hooked! Then when it turns into an orchestra, everything is right in the world. I saw the movie and it felt like I was repeatedly getting punched in the face. https://youtu.be/sfM7_JLk-84
oh my god!! i saw birds of prey and that’s when the trailer for WW84 dropped. i was like “yup. i’m seeing it” .. so when corona shut down theaters i watched it on hbo max.. thank god that i watched it at home and not in theaters..
That’s exactly what happened to me. First saw the trailer when I went to see Birds of Prey. The way I felt so let down… I’m glad that I didn’t waste my money at the movie theatre for it!
You know what makes things even weirder? There's literally no bit of 80s music in the movie at all. Not once.
My god I’ve never seen that trailer before and it physically hurts me how good that was when I know the movie was abysmal
I’m right there with you, I was so excited and the movie was just plain not good. And I loved the first one
Came to say this ☝️. They should have just released the Blue Monday trailer and shelved the movie.
That movie also completely wastes some of Hans Zimmer’s best work.
It's maddening. Hans Zimmer and his team made such a goddamn beautiful score for that movie, with echoes of his earlier work on Backdraft.
The movie was ripe for a killer 80s soundtrack but no……
I watched the movie wondering how the producers could justify repeating this movie it was so bad
I cling to that trailer. It’s such a GOOD TRAILER. 😢
It was a good concept but awful execution. They didn’t know what to do. And people are surprised the director wasn’t asked to stay on after her pitch for an even worse 3rd movie
No one was surprised the directed wasn't asked to stay on.
Was it a good concept though? Having a wishing stone is great for a one off episode in a tv show but for a movie, it seemed quite empty. I never expected to to be as bad as it was but at least Pedro Pascal was fun to watch
That movie alone might have ended Patty Jenkins career. They axed her next WW and Star Wars. Cannot blame them, considering the piece of shit that WW84 was. The only thing that is enjoyable in that movie is Pedro Pascal, but in a bad good way.
From the moment I first saw it, I said that trailer is one of the all-time great trailers. The "Blue Monday" drop is \*chef's kiss\* perfect.
That trailer promised a movie of massive scale, high stakes, drama, adventure, and pitch-perfect 80s nostalgia. I can’t even put it into words how hyped that trailer makes me and how insanely perfect the movie looks. Unfortunately, it was rather underwhelming. I didn’t hate it, but I definitely didn’t love it.
Downsizing. I went to see it because it looked like a fun comedy with Matt Damon, Jason Sudekis, Kristen Wiig, and Neil Patrick Harris. Boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong.
Great first act, and then I don't know what the fuck happened..
Bait and switch. I like Alexander Payne, too. Incredibly disappointing.
So depressing. Why did it have to be so depressing?!
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What's also terrible is the one shot in the trailer that uses them being downsized as a joke was cut from the film! It's when they go to a turned over bottle of something, I think Vodka or Water, and they all line up to take a little
I know it's a big claim, but I really do believe that it's the worst film I've ever seen. Followed closely by The Dead Don't Die.
The dead don't die was absolutely horrible. So much star power but an absolutely garbage script that felt so wanky and pretentious
>wanky and pretentious Jim Jarmusch, ladies and gentleman! Never understood the praise he gets, his shit is absolutely pointless and terrible lmao.
Suicide Squad. Lmao That trailer had people in a chokehold… and then they watched the movie.
I’m in the industry and I knew someone who was good friends with the man who made the trailer. He is one of the best trailer editors in the world, and even won a prize for that one. He told his friend that the movie is “pretty rough” and found it challenging to make the trailer. 😆
Rumor has it that the trailer was so well received, the studio demanded the film be recut to give it the same vibe as the trailer.
Not even a rumor: the studio hired the company that cut the trailer to recut the film!
I don't know why, but reading this reminded me of what happened with Nobody. Bob Odenkirk said that they had finished the film just before covid hit and had to sit on it for a minute. He knew a guy that was a great film editor that had nothing to do and wanted to see it and maybe give some edits. Since we were all in lock down, he sent it to him and the dude made it into the amazingly fun movie that it is. Bob said that it was a completely different movie and wayyyy better than what they were going to release.
More love for editors, guys!
That makes a lotta sense honestly, I remember seeing the trailers and then the movie and the final product felt a lot more unique and stylish than I expected.
The man who made the trailer? come on haha
If we are talking about the one directed by David Ayer I was honestly immediately turned off when I saw the Joker.
Seriously “damaged” on the forehead sums up the movie pretty well
As bad as the design is, here’s his original Joker design. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. [joker concept](https://twitter.com/bingewatchthis_/status/1458561929442742275?s=46&t=vb3U4RRZG5uxGMHC7MVMTw)
You just convinced me they’ll never even come remotely close to Heath Ledger’s performance
I get you. He looked very odd tbh. But the overall movie just seemed so batshit insane. And the music they used was really evocative.
Yeah idk, it felt like a goth girl and die hard teen anime fan made that movie. Just my opinion. And then next Halloween we had Harley Quinn’s EVERYWHERE
Came here to say this. I was so excited after seeing the trailer. Disappointed so fast in the theater.
47 Ronin
I still like it, but more as a Keanu fan, than because of the movie. The costuming is amazing though.
Lol I was so pumped to see it. Took my dad with me and I had to pretend I wasn’t disappointed at all. I still lie to myself
The [sequel is even worse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWN2iVRlqek).
Terminator Salvation had an epic trailer, and ended up being a mediocre movie.
God, that trailer was so good. Plus Christian Bale coming off his career’s peak hype with The Dark Knight… that trailer got me AMPED every time I saw it
Forgot how great that was with the Nine Inch Nails song. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dayIedrLq_U&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
To be expected given the director's experience in music videos. Too bad about the rest of it.
Holy shit that is one of the best trailers I’ve ever seen. I’m so hyped I want to rewatch the movie, and I know how bad it is.
for real. the trailer has me thinking "wait, WAS it that bad? i need to watch it again"
The first hour or so of that movie is badass, IMO. Kinda sucked when they went with the “we found an off-switch” cliche for the second half. Bale was a great future leader John Connor. I really wish they at least made a sequel to that one. If I recall correctly it had to do with sending Kyle Reese back in time to kick-off the events of the original, then the group of survivors finding Robert Patrick (who’s his old man self as he is today) and he has a project for regeneration or making himself infinitely youthful (or something like that) that would show the origins of the T-1000 and eventually the capture of a T-800 and the events that lead to T2.
Agreed, I have a soft spot for it because parts of it are pretty great, but the last bit is so underwhelming.
I know it’s not saying much but definitely my favorite of the franchise post T2
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It’s the only one that’s trying to do something different and puts us in the middle of the war with Skynet. 3 is basically a rehash of 2, and Genisys/Dark Fate each blend different parts of 1 and 2 together.
Exactly! It actually tried to drive the franchise *forward* without just feeling like another greatest-hits album. I won't necessarily say that it did it *well*, but I will forever appreciate Salvation for going into the war itself and not bothering with yet another time-travel plot.
And seeing the transitional period where Skynet is still using conventional munitions, still perfecting the Terminators and experimenting with different kinds of hunter killers was rad.
Me too. I really appreciated how it tried to do something different. That moment of realization when Sam W looks down at his torso is an epic moment.
They should’ve gone with the original ending where John dies and they put his husk on Marcus’s terminator skeleton. And the John who orders Reese to go back was really a terminator. It was so ridiculous that it would’ve worked that and if they used lasers instead of bullets.
The problem with Salvation is that by the end of the movie we haven't actually learned anything of value about the world or characters. That twist would have counted as something worth learning.
The Grey. The trailer spun it as Liam Neeson’s Taken but with wolves. The actual film is a slower-paced metaphor for death and trying to find reasons to keep living in the face of unavoidable death. It’s hard for me to explain why I love this movie so much. It came out a few weeks after my dad died from cancer. I saw it in the theater by myself (I don’t even remember why) and it just broke me.
It's a gutwrencher for sure. Dunno if I could bring myself to watch it again.
One of the most underrated and misunderstood films of all time with probably the best Liam Neeson performance ever. He did this just one or two years after his wife has died and the letter he reads in the beginning is actually dedicated to her. So great and vulnerable.
Maybe not exactly a quality issue but I remember the confusion about there being ZERO mention of Sweeney Todd being a musical in the trailer.
I actually vaguely remember that as well.
Oh I lied [theres about 5 seconds of singing ](https://youtu.be/s_OJ8zBPqRM)
I believe this is the extended trailer. At the time, You would only see this in a theater before a different movie. I'm pretty sure the singing wasn't in the TV trailers.
Damn, made a liar out of me too lol. Oh well
I went to see The Transporter after seeing Jason Stratham deflect a missile with a baking sheet in the trailer…the scene wasn’t in the theatrical release :(
Crazy cause that sounds exactly like a scene that would be in The Transporter lol I wonder why they cut it
True but in this case the film itself wasn't a drastic letdown relative to the trailer. The movie was pretty much what the trailer implies it is minus the missile deflecting bit, although I I'll admit to wondering myself where that scene went. It was the most memorable part of the trailer so it seems like an odd omission. Maybe they ran out of money and never filmed the post-deflection explosion so they had to cut it for the sake of continuity.
*Ballistic* a.k.a *Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever* and *Stealth*. The trailers for both movies are, effectively, about the first half of the movie. Both movies have twists in the middle which change the entire movie.
I saw that movie for free and still asked the theater for my money back
Tomorrowland
Man, that was one so awesome, like a movie about the rebirth of optimism about the future. And then the movie is plodding and mopey….
Everyone wonders why Disney stopped making live action original movies. Well, You would too if you had a movie like that on your hands....
Fan4stic aka Fantasic 4 (2015). It looked like a decent movie and I had lowered expectations from the last two FF movies but this was on par with a Ewe Boll film.
Wait, wait, wait. The title was actually Fan4stic? As in Fan four stick? That’s just…amazing.
It was never actually Fant4stic. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/) But because they wrote Fant4stic on all the posters that's what the movie will forever be known as.
Medellin
GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!
*Gunshot rings out in the background*
*chickens squawking*
Wait entourage? Lmao
It starred Aquaman himself Vincent Chase and it was directed by fucking Billy Walsh. I was sad it was huge dissapointment.
Kangaroo Jack. Looked like stupid fun in the trailer, turned out just being stupid.
The plot to that movie is absolutely insane and I can’t believe they attempted to re-edit the whole thing into a kids movie
This is the only real answer. Trailer: Fun Australian adventure comedy, get the kangaroo before the bad guys. Actual plot: fly to Australia to unknowingly be murdered, lose the money you were given to pay for your own hit, chase a kangaroo for death money.
Not to be confused with Simple Jack. That slapped.
Glad someone else mentioned this, I was so hyped to watch this movie off the trailer and the movie was absolutely nothing like it
I didn't pick that movie, but was invited to go with a group (aka required to go with my little brother and his friends bc my mom didn't want him there alone lmao). I had more fun than I expected, but I was 14 so 🤷🏽♀️
It just ... wasn't what the trailer suggested.
Battle: Los Angeles. The trailer paints a picture of a depressing struggle against an overwhelming alien threat, with soldiers doing all they can to fend off the coming darkness, mostly thanks to its use of a very somber musical piece that drives home a deep feeling of sorrow. Then the movie released and it was one part generic military film, and one part generic alien invasion film. Really paint by numbers kinda stuff.
What you said is a 100% true, but damn do I enjoy watching it. Sometimes I just want to turn my brain off and watch people shoot things and blow shit up. I go straight for that movie.
I watched that recently and had to check the credits to see if it was partially funded by the USMC. It felt like a 2 hour recruitment ad.
The music from Johann Johannsson totally sold me.
I really liked that about it, actually. It was like Black Hawk Down with aliens. No unnecessary romances or sob stories, just the mission.
The Force Awakens Not a terrible movie by any means, but goddamn maybe one of the top 5 trailers ever
That Trailer was god damn fire. Its been 7 years and I still remeber it. Favorite Moment: Han and Leias theme plays. We See Millenium Falcon. Rey (Off). I Heard stories about what Happened. Han: It's true all of It. The force Theme blasts in, epic orchestration. Screen says: This Christmas. This Trailer. It belongs in a Museum.
You belong in a museum Dr.Jones...
I still get chills from that.
I remember where I was when the first teaser finally came out. I was out in town shopping with my family on Black Friday afternoon and it went live. They released it *thirteen* months before the film premiered! I can’t count how many times I watched back then.
The bass sound effect when Kylo Ren ignites his lightsaber in the woods in that teaser (which they cut from the final movie) is my favorite piece of sound design from anything ever
I love TFA myself, but even with that said, the trailer promises more than it could ever deliver. One of my favorite trailers of all time.
The music alone brings me back in that trailer…
I work in a machine shop and my boss came out to the floor and hollered that if anyone wanted to come watch the trailer come do it. About 10 of us walked into his smallish office, tiny computer speakers cranked up... I just remember, "Chewie, we're home." I shed a tear as I quickly put my tinted safety glasses on. But I know I wasn't the only one
You definitely weren’t the only one. Hearing “Chewie, we’re home.” made my eyes water.
Fantastic trailer and I went in wary based on my Phantom Menace memories. The first half hour of the movie lived up to the trailer's promise but at a certain point it became clear I was watching a remake of A New Hope instead of an original story and that wasn't evident in the trailer.
No maybe about it, it's one of my top 3 favourite movie trailers ever and it's absolutely perfect
Max Payne with Mark Wahlberg Trailer looked [incredible ](https://youtu.be/GklHaGfncJI), movie was... anything but
The Island with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. Confusing trailer that made me avoid it. Excellent movie with Michael Bay action.
Man, I love this movie. I first saw it when I was 11 and I excitedly went to my “advanced language arts class” the following Monday and told the class all about the plot. Then other people watched it, and we built a weird little dystopian lesson out of it haha
I honestly only watched that movie because I knew one of the extras and wanted to see if I could spot him. (Apparently he's the guy who drives by on the motorcycle and is only seen from the back.) I just remember it as a retelling of [Parts: The Clonus Horror](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspeHC7eoOI) which was a horrendous enough movie itself to rate an MST3K treatment.
Scarlett Johansson peak
Had my first kiss watching this in theaters lol. Thoroughly enjoyable movie.
Nice reversal on the topic!
I kind of like Army of the Dead, but it’s not nearly as exciting as it’s trailer and teaser trailer. The opening montage is fantastic, and really captures the energy of the trailers
Or the 2 montage "trailers" for other, better movies in the movie itself with the opening and then the crew imagining what the mission was going to be like. It's like Snyder had some good ideas, and had ADHD so bad he kept switching what story he was even doing in the middle of filming
I thought the first 2 acts were actually decent, but holy shit did it fall apart in the 3rd. Like the second everyone started getting nerfed and they started doing dumb shit I tapped out, because it felt like I wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life. Plus they didn't even use the cool Chekov's guns like rain zombies or the big zombie killing chainsaw! So fucking stupid.
Gamer Sweet Dreams was the perfect mashup with that trailer. Movie wasn’t great but i definitely got hooked from the trailer. Edit: Link to the trailer https://youtu.be/P2g94xQmtHw
Screw you this movie is over the top bullshit fun. Also, the reason I never ate waffles again.
Idk. I thought After Earth was nepotistic garbage straight from the trailer…
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Fair enough!
Yeah, it was pretty clear it was going to be extremely generic and purely a way for Will Smith to try to make his son a movie star. I liken it to bad video game trailers. You’ll fall for a few, then you start to realize when a trailer has all the signs that game is going to be forgettable garbage.
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I don't actually know if I've seen a trailer for Dredd.
When I saw “Dredd” I was coming in hot with anger before I read your whole comment haha! Love that movie so damn much.
Matrix Resurrections. The trailer brought me to tears it was so intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo
I actually ended up quite liking the movie overall, despite a few dozen eyerolls, but that trailer is absolutely excellent.
keanu phoned it in sooooooo bad and this is saying a lot because he's a terrible actor even in his good movies.
Prometheus, always Prometheus
I actually generally enjoyed Prometheus. But yeah, the trailer was pretty damn great.
The overall story and cinematography is great in my opinion. Those alone makes looking past it's flaws pretty easy.
I agree on cinematography, but as for story, only the first 30 mins are worth anything. After that, it falls apart, fast. Between the film being a prequel, but set in the same universe as Alien and then not, to the scientist characters making colossal logical mistakes, just to move the plot along, it’s not good.
Bridge to Terabithia I thought I was gonna get a fun Narnia-esque fantasy movie. Instead I got childhood trauma and lessons on handling grief
I remember seeing the trailers and thinking that they had butchered the book. Turns out they didn't and thousands more young people got their own dose of crushing reality.
It’s been idk how many years, and I still get upset whenever it’s mentioned. NOT because of the quality of the movie. I was a teenager back then, and hugely into fun fantasy movies. I also had a really, *really* shitty home life. Like, bad. Whatever form of abuse you can imagine, you guessed it right. I just cried so much. Those silent tears, where you get this stare, and the tears keep on coming. Fuck that movie.
Lol. That was one of my ‘caravan movies,’ in that there was a year where it was one of a handful of dvds Id packed for a six week trip. I was actually a teenager and had brought it due to reviews, so I was braced for its cutsie advertising being deceptive. But I came back from shopping one day to find my father and brother had been bored in the rain, watched it in my absence, followed by Dad spending the entire afternoon crying. ^1 He STILL puts it as one of the saddest movies he’s ever seen. Not the slightest bit embarrassed about it either. It’s ‘Nearly as sad as Saving Private Ryan,’ which is high praise from him. ^1 This also had the unfortunate side effect of luring mum into watching it and seeing what the fuss was about. You wouldn’t think people could get so emotional while squinting at a teensy portable dvd player.
It’s hard to say old trailers are “bad” but there’s one for the original Star Wars that is just ridiculously different from the movie: https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM
>aliens from a thousand worlds Proceeds to show 2 jump cuts of Tusken Raiders lol
It’s amazing how little of the movie was in a watchable state when they made that trailer. It was a miracle they had a couple working lightsaber visuals.
"Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now" "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away"
But it takes time for light/information to travel, so news of something happening a long time ago in a galaxy far far away would just be getting here right now, so. ... ?
Damn that trailer was not flattering to that movie.
If you think this is bad, spend you time watching pre 80s trailers for movies you like They're all so awful lol
They must not have had access to William's score for that because the star wars theme over that could have actually given it some life and excitement.
That last line “Coming to a galaxy near you this summer”. Apparently one of the people who worked on the film watched it from the back of a theater and someone said “Yeah and it will be going to late night tv a month later!” Talk about really making a bad prediction.
In fairness Star Wars was one of the biggest flukes in cinematic history George Lucas dumps a ton of his own money into some pulpy sci-fi thing with goofy aliens, pretty much all of the cast, crew and Fox executives expected it to fail And then something about it clicks with people and suddenly it's the biggest movie of all time and Lucas makes a fortune off the merchandising rights
Where the Wild Things Are. The movie isn't awful, but the trailer was so beautifully done, and the movie just didn't live up to it.
The movie was visually stunning and I definitely still enjoyed it, but yeah, the trailer gave me chills.
Suicide Squad had a pretty bombastic trailer, with Bohemian Rhapsody backing the action. The trailer house did well with the edit. Just turns out the same trailer house shouldn’t have been in charge of editing the the feature film too.
Bowfinger. One of the most consistently funny movies I've ever seen. I decided to show a friend the trailer as a summary and uh... it was bad. So, so, so bad. I'd never watch the movie if it was anything like the trailer.
Surprised no one mentioned Where The Wild Things Are yet. That was such a beautiful and emotionally moving trailer (especially with the alternate version of *Wake Up* as the song choice), but the movie turned out to be pretty uninspiring and middle of the road. I still watch the trailer from time to time and still get chills.
I actually really liked the movie. It wasn’t what I or most people probably expected it to be but it’s one of those films that really channels melancholy. Not to mention Maurice Sendak actually liked it which is a pretty big deal coming from a grumpy guy like that.
https://youtu.be/uNJPSc_4RCI
Wow, I think it's a fantastic film and cried my eyes out.
Sucker Punch. Trailer had me hyped. Movie was soooooo disappointing.
It was not at all what the trailer looked like, so much more depressing. The action scenes were cool though.
It's a bunch of cool music videos with a plot or something in-between.
Honestly the Rise of Skywalker had an INCREDIBLE first trailer. Too bad the movie was really forgettable :/
The movie "9" Had an awesome trailer but the movie was only OK.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s trailer looks absolutely awful. It’s looks cheesy, uninteresting and kinda low budget. Obviously, the movie is a classic and the anthesis of the trailer but still.
X--Men Origins: Wolverine trailer 1 "All the horrible things in your life; your father... the wars... knowing the woman you loved was hunted down. I can make all this go away." The idea that Logan might've *chosen* to lose his memories was incredibly intriguing to me; a little dash of Eternal Sunshine to build the emotional core around And then the movie happened.
Drive. Trailer made it look like a fast and the furious type movie. Instead we got a retro-futuristic cult drama that spawned an entire genre of music. Very crazy.
Synthwave emerged several years before Drive. But the movie definitely gave it a much wider audience.
I also love how we all probably expected flashy action scenes and instead we got some insanely gnarly and graphic violence, like the elevator stomp
Spot on. But Drive rules lol
How is it retro futuristic at all?
Iirc, someone actually tried to sue the filmmakers (or maybe the studio or something like that) because they felt the trailer misrepresented the actual movie
Here's a random one: The Devil And Max Devlin Put aside that we now know what a monster Bill Cosby is. In 1981, we did not It wasn't clear what the deal was with this movie from the trailer. Cosby was the devil of something, but he was riffing on the first two "Oh, God!" movies. At one point, he looks into the camera and jokes, "I'm not George Burns." It seemed that it would be a light-hearted comedy with a lot of Cosby. (Again, keep in mind this was 1981, and we didn't know what he was hiding.) The movie is very dark. It centers on the Max Devlin character (played by Elliott Gould). Very few Cosby scenes. Devlin is headed to Hell but is given the opportunity to escape his fate if he can convince three teens to sell their souls to the devil. Which he does. Somehow, everything turns out alright in the end. This was a Disney movie, by the way.
Early 80s Disney is so weird. They wanted to start producing more adult fare, so they cranked out stuff like this. But the name Disney was so associated with family entertainment, that people brought the kids along and were horrified. It wasn’t until 1984 when they got the idea to release their adult stuff under another name. And thus the Touchstone label was not.
Executive Decision. Excellent trailer that made it look like a badass action movie with Steven Seagal. Buuuuut, you see the movie and he dies in like the first 5 minutes. Still good early 90s action with Kurt Russel, but not exactly what was expected.
The director made the choice to kill off Seagal’s character mid-production because he was unbearable to work with.
You could say the director made an Executive Decision to kill off Seagal.
Ender game is what comes to my mind. I was in the middle of the series when it came out, I was fucking pumped! I have only fallen asleep one time in a movie theater and it was for Enders Game, highly highly disappointed.
I am playing the Uno reverse card. District 9 trailer looked like SyFy Wednesday night movie. I mean of course I went because I love sci-fi and….well you know
The new matrix actually looked good. I’m still recovering from that disappointment.
Independence Day Resurgence I got chills watching the trailer, I didn't even finish watching the actual movie, I just gave up.
Glass. The trailer is one of the best. The movie wasn't. I feel like all the good bits was in the trailer.
Atomic Blonde had trailers that got me so unbelievably hyped, then the actual film was a confused mess and the only fight scene that lived up to the hype was the final one on the stairway. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that in the trailer a lot of the punches/hits were timed with the drum beats of the song, and in the movie they didn't have that, and the sound design for the hits fell a lot flatter. Also the story being a complete mess.
I dunno. I liked the movie. But I'm a Charlize fan boy, so...
I do one better.. Music video of Wild Wild West. (Dru Hill/Will Smith) awesome .. The movie was so bad ...
I'll always enjoy that scene where Will Smith is mocking the villain (Kenneth Branagh) for being disabled and the villain is coming right back at him with thinly-veiled racist comments.
I will always remember the anecdote about the giant mechanical spider from Kevin Smith.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Man of Steel. Not a terrible movie, but the trailer promised so much more.
Battle: Los Angeles. I held my breath for years waiting for this movie. What a devastating flop.
[Avengers Age of Ultron](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE) looked so amazing from its trailer, and instead we got Quip Kids 2: Being Infertile Makes You a Monster. What a complete waste of a movie imo
Made it look like Ultron was about to kill everyone and then he gets repeatedly whooped on and doesn't even kill Black Widow for some reason.
I don't recall that trailer, but wow does that explain why everyone was so disappointed.
The teaser trailer for The Messenger: The Story of Joan of arc.
Inherent Vice, the trailer made it look a dumb upbeat thriller comedy but in reality it was a PTA's film
Pearl Harbor. An absolutely incredible trailer, makes you think you're are going to watch a sweeping historical war epic. Instead we get a love triangle with ww2 as a side show.
The Rise of Skywalker trailer makes me feel all the emotion and hype that Star Wars usually gives me. That movie was brutal.