Prometheus teaser so much promise and not only was it a nonsensical movie with horribly written and acted characters, it didn’t even include scene from this trailer or anything close to it.
I remember I thought “man, this is going to scratch the sci-fi horror itch I have had for years”. Little did I know I was going to watch 2 hours of plot-driving goo and the stupidest group of scientists in history
Dark Knight Rises was when I decided to start avoiding trailers as best as I can. They showed the best part of the opening scene, with the plane dragging the hull of the other plane through the air…
I remember sitting in the theater that whole scene pretty much knowing what was gonna happen. And when it did, instead of being blown away like anybody should be, I had basically no reaction.
You’re spot on. It was around this time where I stopped watching trailers/reading reviews.
I now come into a movie with just a rough 1-2 sentence outline and if it’s worth my time or not. Been a huge game changer.
I just look at posters now and see if lots people rave about it.
I remember feeling the exact same way for Fast 5.
They had released a sneak peak in IMAX of the entire opening scene a few months before release. Nolan does it for all of his movies. That scene was super well known way before the movie came out and was used to build hype.
Every Zach Snyder movie.
Oh man this is definitely high up on the list and that’s from someone who does still enjoy his movies.
His watchmen trailer is still one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ?si=CKcY4fqFnDLGuHzO
Also loved his man of steel trailers
I like his movies, too. But compare Army of the Dead to the actual film, it’s not even close to as good. He can nail trailers and opening scenes, but they always seem to underwhelm by midway through.
Was gonna say Batman vs Superman. Even the title is made for trailer hype. Can still remember the hypetrain at the line “tell me, do you bleed?”
Maybe a hot take but I’d say this is true about most Neil Blomkamp movies too
He got his start directing music videos, so it makes sense.
Star Wars the Force Awakens. I remember being super toked when the trailer came out. The movie it self was a B- at best.
Pretty much every trailer in the entire trilogy was just nostalgia bait honestly.
When that cross guard for the lightsaber appeared in the trailer that was a true Star Wars moment hype
Kylo carried that movie
I fucking hate star wars
I fucking hate Disney Star Wars.
Nah I fucking hated the prequels too.
Suicide Squad. Trailers were good, Purple Lamborghini was good track. Everything looked good in trailers. And I saw a movie. Jared Leto as Joker was stupid, film was boring with few good scenes you saw in trailer. Waste of money and time. I know that there are other Suicide Squad movies, Harley Quinn movie. I haven’t seen them and probably I won’t see them
Sigh.
I agree, what a huge disappointment that one was. Skip Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey for sure. I will say that The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker show are fantastic. Both are by James Gunn if you happen to like his Guardians of the Galaxy work.
I like Guardians of the Galaxy. Maybe one day I’ll give it a chance. Thanks
I remember enjoying Birds of Prey personally
M Night Shyamalans The Village
Wonder Woman 1984 Top notch trailer and terrible movie, that I even not have watched to the end.
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This might be controversial, but for me it was Watchmen.
I was really into the graphic novel when the movie was announced. They dropped this trailer with Smashing Pumpkins “The beginning is the End is the Beginning” playing over it and it was so good. Perfectly captured what I felt the tone of the graphic novel was. Gritty, forlorn, dark, contemplative.
https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ?si=K6WoxVts0ZGzSb28
I must have watched that trailer 100 times before the movie came out. Then I saw the movie and it was weirdly campy and totally the opposite of the feel the trailer gave in a lot of places. Which in turn was very different from the feel I got from the graphic novel. I was so disappointed. I’ve never gone back to rewatch it, and I probably should because I think the consensus was that it’s a pretty good movie and being more than a decade removed from reading the book might help me appreciate the movie on its own merit a bit more.
Not controversial at all. That trailer was brilliant and it was also right before Dark Knight (or was it DKR) which got me even more excited after experiencing it.
Mind you I still enjoyed the movie (though way more after watching the directors cut).
Ah is the directors cut good? I think I own it someplace but have never watched it.
Director’s cut is definitely the best version overall, though there’s also an ultimate cut that features an animated Tales of the Black Freighter starring Gerard Butler cut into the movie throughout. Worth checking out at least once. The recent Watchmen show on HBO was also excellent. It serves as a sequel 30 years later.
Sucker punch.
Prequel trilogy. They get you excited.
I was like a little kid rushing to the theater to see The Phantom Menace. I was so soul-crushingly disappointed after that to this day I’ve never seen the other two prequels. I know they’re supposed to be better than PM, but I don’t care, I’m not watching them.
They are better in the sense that it’s to better to be stuck in shit up to your neck than being stuck in it up to your chin.
Scorcher VI - Global Meltdown. All I remember is the trailer, can’t even remember the movie.
Speedman was soooooo good in that though
“Who left the fridge open?”
For me it was Wonder Woman 1984. I thought the first one was pretty good and the trailer for the second looked like it was something I was going to enjoy… I was wrong
No question. Man of Steel. The trailers with each dad is something I go back to and watch TO THIS DAY. It screams of a movie that I wish I could see. So much more with inner turmoil of who The Man of Steel was. I wanted to see the Kansas boy’s roots. sigh …
/edit just got downvoted, but I’ll add more anyways. The movie we got seemed a bit confused. It felt like a lot of style and little substance. I love Cavill though. I also enjoyed the Krypton portion even though a lot of people didn’t.
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I mean I overall enjoyed Man of Steel, I saw it like three times. The trailer just showed a promise of a different movie. Even with the title Man of Steel, you know?
Oh yeah, I’m a big Smallville fan! Some episodes to me were better than some movies and others were like X-Files junior. Brightburn looked amazing in the trailers but I heard the reviews were not great so I didn’t bother. Maybe I’ll keep an eye out and check it out now.
If you liked Smallville, Superman and Lois is pretty good. There’s a lot less of that X-files junior stuff.
I think Superman and Lois’s biggest problem is their lengthy mid season hiatuses. The show airs weekly. After the first 5 episodes there was a huge pause before they released more episodes. I assume it was because they had to spend a lot of time doing vfx for episodes in the pipeline.
All that being said, this doesn’t affect you because you can see the first 3 seasons online now.
Brightburn is really bad, unfortunately.
How to train your Dragon 3
The trailer(s) had a lot of interesting twists and cool cutscenes, new characters, new “lore” elements … all the good stuff that makes the audience curious for more. Well, it turned out that the trailers spoiled ALL the important plot elements, so the actual movie had basically no extra content other than filler scenes. If you had seen the trailer, there was no need to see the movie.
I tend to go into movies without watching the trailers so the only media I saw of HTTYD 3 was the promo image of Hiccup as an adult with a beard. Needless to say I was… Very… Disappointed…
Sucker Punch.
Maybe it’s just me, but after watching 300 and the trailer I thought it was going to be some full on adventure story with badass women (which I get in some ways it is).
Just to be the only person sitting in the middle of the cinema (me a fat dude) watching women being subjected to abusive or sexual content for like 2 hours :/
Just didn’t expect it all.
