Useless Movie Trailers

[Andara Bledin]

What is it with movie trailers that don't actually tell you what kind of movie they're advertising? There have been quite a number of movies I've watched because they came on and then wondered what the hell movie the trailers were advertising because it sure as hell wasn't the movie I just watched.

I remember thinking that Fight Club was going to be some testosterone flick with no brains, and the one trailer I recall from The Frighteners made it seem like a typical horror flick.

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[Ginger Tea]

There was a yahoo article last week about trailers that all but spoil the movie's ending, most notably free willy with the poster
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/arti...il-movies.html

[firecat88]

What is it with movie trailers that don't actually tell you what kind of movie they're advertising? There have been quite a number of movies I've watched because they came on and then wondered what the hell movie the trailers were advertising because it sure as hell wasn't the movie I just watched.

I remember thinking that Fight Club was going to be some testosterone flick with no brains, and the one trailer I recall from The Frighteners made it seem like a typical horror flick.

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They did this with the movie Bridge to Terabithia. Now, having not read the book, I hadn't known what to expect. The trailer made it look like a typical kids-have-an-adventure-in-a-fantasy-world flick. The actual movie, I thought, was far more interesting. I cried, of course, but I did like the movie.

[HYHYBT]

Arachnophobia's original advertising painted it as primarily a comedy, if I remember rightly. I still didn't see it because, regardless of other content, watching a movie full of spiders is not my idea of fun.

[Hyena Dandy]

I hate it more when the movie ads tell you the whole damn story.

Like in "The Town."

Despite being set in Charlestown (in Boston) where I spent the first 10 years of my life, I did not want to see the movie. Because I already saw it in the ads.

[insertNameHere]

By the same token, I hate movies that use the BEST scenes for the trailer so when your sitting there, your like, this is alright but I mean I have already seen it.

But, it is also very annoying to see a movie and not be able to catalog it into a basic genre or desire to watch. I think movie trailers are becoming a lost art, I have seen trailers from movies in like 60s to 80s that let you get interested without giving away to much. OR better yet, tossed the events around and made you have a misconception that really didn't disappoint you when you saw the movie because it goes in a different but acceptable direction

[Ginger Tea]

The trailer to speed seemed to plot it out nicely, I was watching it for the first time (iir I got bored and did something else) and during the buddy chat about shooting the hostage and seeing the bus hit the airplaine in the trailer, I just said something like
"gonna end up shooting Sandra Bullock."
"Thank's for spoiling the ending for me." my brother comlained, I just put that line with the trailer and decided it was a probable outcome, I dont think I've ever seen the movie all the way through, even though I have both on DVD and saw the 2nd on TV.

[Giggle Goose]

I hate it more when the movie ads tell you the whole damn story.

I feel like that's MOST movies these days! That's why it takes a lot for me to go see one.

[Andara Bledin]

I've noticed that with the slapstick comedies that are a single gag stretched to fill 90 minutes, you're more likely to have the movie spoiled. But for action flicks, you get blipverts of action sequences and almost no plot, which isn't as bad, but it's still annoying.

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[Ginger Tea]

You couldn't play deadpool with the cast of AvP as the trailer damn near showed who was gonna die due to face huggers, what the trailer didn't tell you was how much of the alien reproductive cycle was abbridged to about half an hour instead of days and would shaft the two franchises royaly.

[gremcint]

How about ones that are really misleading, look at the trailers for highlander endgame.

Or how about the trailers for Star Trek Nemesis, I thought it was going to be an alternate dimension story.

[Ginger Tea]

I wanted to watch the weatherman story that seemed to be showing in the trailer, showing his (ex) wife tatar sauce scene made it out like he was still with his family, instead it's just a flashback. I didn't mind it in the end, but I did leave feeling like there was a better story to be told if they were still together, even if the relationship was showing signs of falling apart.

[Greenday]

I just learned the other day, while reading trivia on Kill Bill, that movies can no longer have trailers that involve blood in color. What gives?

[Racket_Man]

I just learned the other day, while reading trivia on Kill Bill, that movies can no longer have trailers that involve blood in color. What gives?

not sure on that one. though for the trailers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P1 there were multipule still shots released and the trailer that in some showed Hermionie with blood on her hands (after Ron got Spiltched after they escaped from the Ministry) and some that showed no blood on her hands

[Greenday]

Was the blood red though?