Films that foolishly fooled you with their trailers

A Battered Mars Bar · 27-12-2016 12:25AM #1

Sum of all fears.

Nuclear warheads. Big convention. Dramatic silence. Phone rings. Tension. Another phone rings. OMG. All the phones ring!!!! Ahhhhhhh!

Borefest of a film.

TonyStark · 27-12-2016 12:26AM

The girl on the train... not the fast paced mystery the trailer touted.

The_Valeyard · 27-12-2016 12:27AM

Prometheus

Hande hoche! · 27-12-2016 12:30AM

Funny people, turned out to be the usual overly long Appatow ****.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Prometheus

That did have a fantastic trailer.

Barry Badrinath · 27-12-2016 12:31AM

Suicide Squad - shyte
Anchorman 2 - shyte
Zoolander 2 - shyte
Independance Day 2 - shyte
Sausage Party - shyyyyyte

Faith+1 · 27-12-2016 12:35AM

Frosty McGiggleShaft wrote: »

Suicide Squad - shyte
Anchorman 2 - shyte
Zoolander 2 - shyte
Independance Day 2 - shyte
Sausage Party - shyyyyyte

Complete and utter sh*te!

me_irl · 27-12-2016 12:37AM

Frosty McGiggleShaft wrote: »

Suicide Squad - shyte
Anchorman 2 - shyte
Zoolander 2 - shyte
Independance Day 2 - shyte
Sausage Party - shyyyyyte

Couldn't agree with you more on any of these.

I was talking about Sausage Party with a mate who had watched it (poor fella), and almost like The Ring, he wanted me to witness the 'orgy' scene.

I wish I could erase that from my memory. I'd worry about anyone who found any of it funny. In all fairness the trailer was sh*te for it, so I knew to completely avoid it.

Turtyturd · 27-12-2016 12:40AM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Funny people, turned out to be the usual overly long Appatow ****.

Came in to post this for the opposite reason. Trailer made it seem like the usual Appatow **** but it was actually ok and different from his usual comedy sh!te.

Still features his annoying f*ck of a wife though.

Cyrus is one for me. Trailer and cast made it seem like an outright comedy where as it was just weird.

Grayson · 27-12-2016 12:59AM

Coyote Ugly. Promised loads of girls dancing on bars and turns into a chick flick about a girl who wants to write songs.

Hande hoche! · 27-12-2016 01:19AM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Cyrus is one for me. Trailer and cast made it seem like an outright comedy where as it was just weird.

On that note, another is the weather man. Made it seem almost like a bog standard comedy when it was more unusual and dark in parts.

Alf Stewart. · 27-12-2016 01:22AM

Rogue one.

Trailer didn't impress me.

Movie was absolutely fantastic!

jacksie66 · 27-12-2016 01:22AM

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Crea · 27-12-2016 01:28AM

Rogue One - crap!

bazz26 · 27-12-2016 01:46AM

Batman v Superman - the trailers were better than the movie itself, though the extra 30 mins in the Ultimate Edition Blu Ray version went a little to improve it.

Others that come to mind:-

Battleship - more American patriotism nonsense and Rhiana ffs.
The Davinci Code, Angels and Demons, Inferno - all promised a lot but ultimately delivered poorly.
Spring Breakers - trailer looked good but meh.
Godzilla (the most recent one) - again promised to be great but wasn't.

B.A._Baracus · 27-12-2016 01:46AM

Hancock.

Daz24 · 27-12-2016 01:51AM

Predators with Adrian Brody. Trailer showed like 20 different predators targeting him with lasers. Never happened really disappointed by it.

jonon9 · 27-12-2016 01:51AM

The second Jack Reacher film, a complete bore fest just felt like Tom was doing it for the sake of doing it.

Alf Stewart. · 27-12-2016 01:56AM

Crea wrote: »

Rogue One - crap!

Try flushing it again.

Crea · 27-12-2016 02:04AM

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Try flushing it again.

No amount of flushing would get rid of that turd.

political analyst · 27-12-2016 02:13AM

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Sum of all fears.

Nuclear warheads. Big convention. Dramatic silence. Phone rings. Tension. Another phone rings. OMG. All the phones ring!!!! Ahhhhhhh!

Borefest of a film.

You think that a film involving a nuclear bomb as a prominent element of the plot is a borefest?!

JaMarcusHustle · 27-12-2016 02:18AM

Catfish.

Expected a found-footage horror that would disappoint me. Got a fake documentary that disappointed me instead.

PTH2009 · 27-12-2016 02:32AM

The flag

Tripe

Stonedpilot · 27-12-2016 03:57AM

Trailers condense the best parts of the movie into 3 minutes with emotional dramatic music with sharp key changes and seductive soundbites like "life affirming" "stunningly realized" "uplifting" etc used as the music reaches a creshendo. If its comedy "outrageously funny" horror "insanely scary" etc etc
Pure psychology. Most of the films with these trailers are pure garbage.

pappyodaniel · 27-12-2016 04:09AM

I remember years ago seeing the trailer for Fight Club and thinking "what a crock of sh1t"... months passing and a few mates recommending and me passing it up until finally I relented and completely loved it. if ever a movie undersold itself in a trailer it was Fight Club.