Movie Trailers that Were Better than the Movie

[That-Guy]

The Strangers. The movie was okay, but I was hoping for something a little bit more innovative because the trailer was so creepy. But as it usually with horror movies, everything has been done before, so why even bother trying hard?

 

[JRPJCDJC]

Terminator:Salvation

It's a damn shame that's it's not even close. No if's, and's, or buts, this film did not live up to it's trailers. Considering John Connor(Christian Bale) wasn't in the damn movie enough for anyone to care about him and he was the one they kept pushing as the main character I'd say this film had a serious flaw if you saw the trailers before hand.

Goddamn marketing execs.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Goblet of Fire trailer.

Not that I didn't love the movie but the trailer had me thinking I was gonna see the greatest thing ever. Honestly I think awesome trailers are hurting peoples enjoyment of movies because they do get your expectations too high.

 

[Eggyman]

Spider-Man 3.

Easily the most misleading bunch of trailers ever.

 

[Sawyer]

Not out yet, but I'm pretty confident...

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:facepalm

Seeing as how that trailer just reeks of ****tiness, I'm sure the movie will be at least 10x worse.

 

[Bnightwing]

Spider-Man 3.

Easily the most misleading bunch of trailers ever.

Sadly this is true.

 

[Nathan]

AvP. Thought the trailers looked great, the final movie was such a letdown.

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[Bnightwing]

Sadly, I just saw that for the first time the other day and have you ever went back and saw the trailers and thought how much of the movie they showed?

 

[DW4]

There are plenty of trailers but Spider-Man 3 and X3 top the list. Both trailers were so beautifully done and sent chills down my spine.

....than I saw the movies...what a letdown.

 

[-Arya-]

AvP. Thought the trailers looked great, the final movie was such a letdown.

This was perhaps the most dissapointing movie of the decade for me. I thought for sure it was going to be excellent. The trailers defintately made it seem that way but then I saw it and.......it was horrible.

 

[That-Guy]

Speaking of Alien movies... it's been a while, but I remember seeing the trailer for Alien:Resurrection and thinking it was going to be awesome. Then it turned out to be crap.

 

[Doctor Jones]

It looked liek crap in the trailers. Hell, when I heard the premise I knew it was gonna suck.

In a small town? Are you ****ing kidding me? I liked the arctic location in the first film but this just stunk of ****. Put in space for God's sake.

 

[Kaiser]

Best trailer ever. Better than the movie itself too!

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB_Gtq79q4[/YT]

NOTHING!!!! NOTHING beats that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB_Gtq79q4

 

[redfirebird2008]

Spider-Man 3 is being thrown around quite a bit in this thread and I agree that SM3 had awesome yet misleading marketing. Looked like a dark, serious movie...turned out to be pure camp.

A couple others: The Dark Knight and Watchmen. Now, I happen to love both of these movies. But the December 2007 trailer for TDK was off the hook, possibly the best movie trailer ever. The July 2008 trailer for Watchmen with the Smashing Pumpkins song was also incredible, yet another of the all-time great movie trailers. The movies themselves are great, but it's tough to top those two trailers.

 

[enterthemadness]

AvP. Thought the trailers looked great, the final movie was such a letdown.

Ah...makes me hate FOX even more. I would never work with that studio as long as Roth**** is there. You could make a good movie, but then it gets....fixed in editing.

the AVP tie in novel was almost great...but in order for that to happen, the movie would be 2 to 2 and half hours long. The movie was barely 90 minutes. so-so movie, but nice trailers and a great novel.

 

[Dark Phantom]

I don't mean to be in the minority here, but I never though AVP was that bad as others thought. I didn't think it was great, but it kept me entertained.

 

[That-Guy]

Spider-Man 3 is being thrown around quite a bit in this thread and I agree that SM3 had awesome yet misleading marketing. Looked like a dark, serious movie...turned out to be pure camp.

A couple others: The Dark Knight and Watchmen. Now, I happen to love both of these movies. But the December 2007 trailer for TDK was off the hook, possibly the best movie trailer ever. The July 2008 trailer for Watchmen with the Smashing Pumpkins song was also incredible, yet another of the all-time great movie trailers. The movies themselves are great, but it's tough to top those two trailers.

Adding The Smashing Pumpkins to anything gives it 1,000 extra awesome points. t:

Unless it's Batman & Robin. Not even Billy Corgan could save that crap.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Adding The Smashing Pumpkins to anything gives it 1,000 extra awesome points. t:

Unless it's Batman & Robin. Not even Billy Corgan could save that crap.

There's always exceptions to the rule. t:

 

[That-Guy]

Yeah. But the most ironic thing is that the song used in the Watchmen trailer was FROM the Batman & Robin soundtrack.

Thus The Smashing Pumpkins (my all-time favorite band) have been a part of one of the best and one of the worst comic book superhero films of all time, IMO.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Yeah. But the most ironic thing is that the song used in the Watchmen trailer was FROM the Batman & Robin soundtrack.

Thus The Smashing Pumpkins (my all-time favorite band) have been a part of one of the best and one of the worst comic book superhero films of all time, IMO.

Yes, but isn't the one in the Watchmen trailer actually a B-side/alternate take of the officially released one from back in '97 with Batman & Robin?

 

[redfirebird2008]

Yeah, I just checked my iTunes library -- I bought the song after the Watchmen trailer came out. It's part of their "Rarities and B-Sides" album. Here's a link:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=51157541&id=51157575&s=143441

 

[That-Guy]

Yes, you are correct... the Pumpkins did 2 songs for B&R... the fast and loud "The End is the Beginning is the End," which was the first single from the soundtrack and also the slower paced "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning," which is what was used for the Watchmen trailer. Awesome songs, both. The video for TEITBITE was pretty cool too, but SP didn't include it on their music video collection DVD, I think, because it unfortunately had clips from B&R in it.

 

[Etienne]

Reign of Fire - Don't make a dragon movie unless your budget permits you to actually SHOW the dragons for more than a couple scenes. Though I though Bale and McConaughey were really good in it.

The CGI for the dragons looked so good though. No Joke.

I get the feeling that the Where The Wild Things Are trailer will be better than the movie.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well, the SM films were always known for great first trailers. I remember first seeing the teasder for SM2. It was in my study hall in fifth grade. The room next to ours were empty so me and another dude went over there and searched the net. I caught it and we watched it. I still remember watching it on that screen and being ****ing blown away by Doc Ock.

 

[L.A.]

I thought the black dahalia trailer was awesome unfortuntely the movie was not!!!