Misleading trailers

PurpleBerry

What is the most misleading trailer you ever saw for a movie? Maybe because the trailer was so amazing and the film a let-down, or the film turned out a lot better than you thought, or maybe because the trailer led you to believe you were seeing one type of movie, like a comedy, but it ended up being more of a drama.

The Freeman

hand-cock springs to mind!!

the tropic thunder trailer is class i hope the movie reflcets this.

faceman

The trailer for The Exorcism of Emily Rose was completely misleading. It painted a picture of a gripping horror film when the film was a drama. Good flick tho.

dr.bollocko

Be Kind Rewind was pitched more as a comedy than as a... well Im not sure what it was but I liked it.
Never mind.

Sabre0001

Wall-E

Really didn't enjoy it bar the trailer bits...Probably more but I often block them from memory...

tylerdurden94

I have to have a think but of the top of my noddle, Funny Games trailer made we really wanna go and see it turns out i HATED it.

Made it out to be this really intersting mind fcuk of a movie but turns out it was pretty boring!

Roar

the fight club pre=publicity was all messed up. it was billed as just an underground bare knuckle fighting movie.

turned out to be a masterpiece though..

missingtime

i always thought the red eye trailer looked class-the movie is poor though.
I just hate it when trailers show way too much.

MagicMarker

Borat, if you've seen the trailer, you don't need to see the movie.

Mehh

MagicMarker wrote: »

Borat, if you've seen the trailer, you don't need to see the movie.

Wanted, falls into that category too, just watch the trailer and save yourself a few quid

grames_bond

+1 for hancock! trailer made it look brilliant, was just a big load of meh!

Pigman II

"The story of a boy, a girl and a universe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKYwc8kn20

SoupyNorman

The Constant Gardener trailer at one point shows Ralph Hinnes Character holding a Gun. Not once in the movie does he have one. It has been some time since I seen it but I remember remarking on that particualr point on the post movie chat.

speedboatchase

Bridge to Terabithia is pretty famous in America for doing this. The film itself was a success, but only because the trailer turned what is a very modest story into a potential LOTR/Narnia beater, showing off every single special effect in the entire movie in about 2 mins!

rejkin

Reign of fire was a big one,the advert posters showed commanches over london makin ya think it would have the army fighting the dragons but no,there was none of that

CrazyTalk

The trailers for In Bruge make it look like an action comedy, kind of like Snatch, but the film itself, while still great, is actually quite slow moving until the third act.

AlonsoX

It was supposed to be a comedy, but was the worst load of sh*t ever.

Rew

The Breakup, thought it was going to be side splitting like the Wedding crashers instead its just not funny and ****e.

Linoge

Sweeny Todd - They make out like it is not a musical and in doing so show every single bit of dialogue in the whole film.

Gingervitis

The Shining.

What? Take a look at this trailer, very misleading...that was not a happy night:P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

PurpleBerry

The trailer for Stranger Than Fiction had me thinking I was going in to see a comedy! I thought the trailer was funny, but the movie turned out to be a really heavy drama. There were only about three funny scenes in the whole thing! I don't know why they decided to market it as a comedy. I did enjoy the movie though.

Parrish_Crooks

Into the Blue. Expected a mystery underwater discovery type movie with tension and twists, got a brainless actioner headlined by the one, the only, Paul Walker.

Still though, the price of entry alone was worth the underwater shots of Jessica Alba's crotch

L31mr0d

Pans Labyrinth jumped out at me when I seen that title.

First all the trailers I seen had no dialogue other than the english "One man.." voiceover. No where in the trailers did it indicate it was subtitled. This wasn't a bad thing as I don't mind subtitles but it was still misleading.

Secondly, it pushed it as a fantasy adventure like LoTR, Spiderwick Chronicles, Narnia or Labyrinth.

What I got was a subtitled period drama set in Spain in the mid 40's and this girl who blocks out the reality of her life by making up fantasies in her head. The trailers basically show all of the fantasy scenes from the movie, which make up probably 10% of the whole movie.

Don't get me wrong it's a good movie, but it was flagrantly misadvertised

ziedth

i'll neverforget I remember a few years ago and i'm sure noone will remmember this film but there was a film on sky with antino Banderas, now the adds on sky MADE THE FILM LOOK LIKE JESUS CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD AND STARTED ATTACKING PEOPLE WITH EXPLOSIONS AND STUFF

I said i'd have to watch to see how they could get away with it but actually the film was about AB as a priest who investigates the discovery of the bones of jesus and sky had edited in the couple of explosions and scene with jesus which was a dream sequence.

otnomart

Elizabeth: the Golden Age.
Great trailer, gasthly movie

ryoishin

I am legend had a scene where he s surrounded by the mutants and hes saying "I can help you" that was nt in the final cut.

Parrish_Crooks

ryoishin wrote: »

I am legend had a scene where he s surrounded by the mutants and hes saying "I can help you" that was nt in the final cut.

That really p1sses me off and it happens alot. When they show something in the trailer and it sticks in your mind, and when you go and see it, the scene is nowhere to be seen. :mad:

Galvasean

The King Kong (Jackson) trailer showed the monster fish which never made it to the cinema cut.

Check out this trailer for Jaws:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yHyxeju1U

Linoge

ryoishin wrote: »

I am legend had a scene where he s surrounded by the mutants and hes saying "I can help you" that was nt in the final cut.

In Mars attacks the there was a few of them IIRC. I think this was more promotional than changing scenes or cutting etc. One was when they had just arrived in their spaceship looking down on us saying "Earth.. we'll take it!"

homergriffin

Syriana as it was a slow burning political drama. My bro thought it was going to be an action movie.

shenanigans1982

ryoishin wrote: »

I am legend had a scene where he s surrounded by the mutants and hes saying "I can help you" that was nt in the final cut.

Wasn't that in the films climax?

DaveyGem

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Wasn't that in the films climax?

That is the alternate ending.....some people

Sabre0001

Heh! When I saw the thread title and scrolled straight back to post #1 I immediately thought of Wall-E...Then I read the thread a little and I already posted it

AlonsoX

I didnt get that

Shacklebolt

A little off topic but the Channel 4 ads for Dirty Sexy Money were completely misleading... I got the impression it was going to be a dark gripping drama but then I looked at it one day and it was a load of dull dry patethic ****e.

Fringe

Definitely Hancock. The trailers showed a brilliant potential for a comedy until you realise those were the only funny moments in the movie and you get this terrible dramatic superhero love story.

brennaldo

the mummy, tomb of the dragon empire. i taught the trailer made it look brilliant when in actuall fact, the trailer showed the only good moments of the film, (not a great film imo).

Naos

Terminator 3 - I thought there was going to be a massive battle.

norrie rugger

ryoishin wrote: »

I am legend had a scene where he s surrounded by the mutants and hes saying "I can help you" that was nt in the final cut.

Um yes it was

norrie rugger

DaveyGem wrote: »

That is the alternate ending.....some people

Then the cinema showed the alternate ending

lostexpectation

hancock yes, not sarky just soppy

Galvasean

brennaldo wrote: »

the mummy, tomb of the dragon empire. i taught the trailer made it look brilliant when in actuall fact, the trailer showed the only good moments of the film, (not a great film imo).

I taught the moments in the trailer looked crap. Blergh, can't imagine what the rest was like! :eek:

Soby

Which ever one of those epic movie /superhero movie sh!te that came out first..Think it was epic movie..Trailer looked good but i heard the reviews (thank god) before i even saw it so never went.

ive a feeling Ghost Town (Ricky Gervais) is gonna be sh!te too..Anyone notice the whole trailer is all from the same scene.Which seems to indicate thats the only funny part of the film??

johnny_ultimate

Night Watch was one that was very misleading indeed. Every trailer boasted of it being a Matrix beater of sorts, throwing every moment of high octane action (which there a very few moments of in the actual film) into a minute long montage of madness. The actual film turned out to be very different indeed. Was a far more 'talky' affair, and was hugely different (both in terms of culture and content) to the average Hollywood movie.

And I didn't really like Night Watch, mainly because the resulting film's tone was so different to what I expected that I was slightly confused by it. However, I really liked Day Watch as I was a bit more prepared for what it would be: not an action packed Matrix rip off, but a bizarre Russian comic sci-fi movie, and a pretty unique and entertaining one at that.

Shacklebolt

Soby wrote: »

Which ever one of those epic movie /superhero movie sh!te that came out first..Think it was epic movie..Trailer looked good but i heard the reviews (thank god) before i even saw it so never went.

ive a feeling Ghost Town (Ricky Gervais) is gonna be sh!te too..Anyone notice the whole trailer is all from the same scene.Which seems to indicate thats the only funny part of the film??

Apparently is absolutley dire... Which is to be expected with that spanner in it.

L31mr0d

more recently the red band trailer for "step brothers". Pretty much none of the clips shown in that trailer made it into the final cut. I'm sure they'll be in the outtakes, but it's just odd to release a trailer for a movie with scenes that aren't even in the movie.

AlonsoX

L31mr0d wrote: »

more recently the red band trailer for "step brothers". Pretty much none of the clips shown in that trailer made it into the final cut. I'm sure they'll be in the outtakes, but it's just odd to release a trailer for a movie with scenes that aren't even in the movie.

What is a red band trailer?

Eglinton

The Golden Compass trailer has the correct ending from the book but they cut the film short of this key point to the story. Very disappointing.

The Superman Returns trailer show a spaceship searching the remains of Krypton - Again, not in the film - A very boring, soppy, overlong film.

cooperguy

You know the Green screen before most trailers saying its suitable for all audiences? Well red band has a red screen saying its restricted. Basically the 18's version of the trailer