Most stupid line in a movie trailer?

OneOfThem Stumbled

I thought I had seen it in the recent film Mortal Engines
"We have to stop London before it destroys us"
(Cue image of London zooming around on wheels)

But the most recent trailer for IO manages to outdo even this for ridiculousness

"IN THE NEAR FUTURE EARTH WILL BECOME TOXIC
HUMANITY WILL FLEE"

Where will they flee? To this delightful place:



If it looks unhealthy that's because that moon is constantly regurgitating itself - it is the most volcanic body that we know of in the universe. That's not the least of it though - Io receives about 3,600 rem (36 Sv) of ionizing radiation per day.

For context:
At a dose of about 10 Sv (1000 rem) a person has a 100% chance of death
After this dose, the time to death drops as the dose increases; in all cases, the time until death depends on the health of the person exposed and individual variability
For doses in excess of about 25 Sv (2500 rem) death usually occurs in days.

I think that they just picked "IO" because they think it sounds more cool than Ganymede or Callisto (and I'm not sure that it does)
Who gets paid to write this stuff?

razorblunt

Any movie trailer that uses radio spots, usually has to pick the "let's do this" / "i'm ready" line to convey action etc.
Sounds so shíte.

FortuneChip

"Forget everything you think you know" or any variation of that basically trying to suggest "Things are going to be so much different now"

Doctor Strange
X-Men Apocalypse
Hunger Games 2

Mr E

Arguably the most stupid line in a trailer is the most stupid line in a movie too.

Do you play roulette?
On occasion.
Let me give you a bit of advice. Always bet on black.

90s cheese. Only surpassed by 80s cheese.

pixelburp

"These bats are bred for one purpose... for waaaarrrrrrrr."

Dunno why, but that line from noted insomnia cure, The Hobbit: Battle of the 5 Armies, always made me roll me eyes, chuckle and vomit at the same time. Think at that point my patience for Middle Earth was truly spent.

[Don LaFontaine voice]: In a world where …

Sabre0001

Venom:

"We will eat both your arms, and then both of your legs, and then we will eat your face right off your head. You will be this armless, legless, faceless thing, won’t you? Rolling down the street, like a turd in the wind."

Taken from comics...but still ridiculous

paulbok

Anything that has "this year" in the trailer.

valoren

"From...."

An example would be the trailer from The Rock.
Voice over man tells us it's "From Michael Bay, the director of Bad Boys..."

This translates as "Bad Boys, remember that? That was good wasn't it? Come and see The Rock, it's good as well".

Just the trope of using previous well received works which are completely unrelated to the film in order to sell it is lazy and annoying.

mikhail

valoren wrote: »

"From...."

An example would be the trailer from The Rock.
Voice over man tells us it's "From Michael Bay, the director of Bad Boys..."

This translates as "Bad Boys, remember that? That was good wasn't it? Come and see The Rock, it's good as well".

Just the trope of using previous well received works which are completely unrelated to the film in order to sell it is lazy and annoying.

Seriously? You've never been remotely interested who the director of a movie was? Never cared about his track record? I don't think your position on this is normal.

Ciaran_B

That's a megaledon.

Basq

mikhail wrote: »

Seriously? You've never been remotely interested who the director of a movie was? Never cared about his track record? I don't think your position on this is normal.

Movie fans would be.. the casual movie-going public, not so much..

oLoonatic

Blackjack - Dolph lundren fighting in a dairy factory, seemingly getting weary and exclaims hes "lactose intolerant".

There was a reason it was a TV movie. It wasnt so much stupid, than it was the most ridiculous things i've ever heard dolph say in a movie.

RayCun

Calling out the director makes sense. Whether its Michael Bay or Scorsese, directors have their own style.

"From the producers of ..." makes much less sense.

Basq

RayCun wrote: »

"From the producers of ..." makes much less sense.

I absolutely despise this too..

Blumhouse productions are particular bad for it..