Movies that did not live up to their great trailers

[TLH]

Ever see a preview/trailer for a movie and imagine it as being the best thing you've seen in a long while? You hype it. Watch the trailer a million times. Can't wait for the film to come out. When it does, you're there at the theater eagerly awaiting for the film to start. You walk out crushed; the film disappointed you...and it didn't help that the trailer made it look much better than it actually was.

Here are a few of mine...

Spider-Man 3
Quantum of Solace
The Strangers

What about you?

 

[Morg]

Jumper, Hancock to name a few and X3

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Great thread... I too have noticed the rather worrying increase in great trailers for terrible movies... I think it may have began with the Matrix Reloaded trailer... I musta watched that trailer 5000 times... Drooling.
We all know how that one turned out... "Systemic anomaly"? euucchhh.

 

[The Navigator]

Any of the SW prequels.

 

[Kable24]

X3 was a huge let down compared to the trailer.
I like the Star Wars prequels. When I saw the trailer for The Phantom Menace way back in 1998, I was so pumped. It definitely did not live up to the hype.

the teaser for Superman Returns was amazing. The movie, even though I liked it was weak compared to it.

 

[Symbiotic]

Superman Returns

 

[Sam Fisher]

Quantum Of Solace.

 

[The_Vision]

X-Men 3

 

[Nirvana]

Spider-Man 3, easily.

 

[The Sarge]

Yeah Spider-man 3 is a big one.

I'll add Sin City.
I like the movie, I still own it. . . but the trailer itself was just sooo much better than the film.

 

[Symbiotic]

I forgot all about this one: Speed Racer.

 

[Captain Planet!]

Even though I don't consider SM3 a bad movie (a disappointment, but not a terrible movie), it did not live up to the trailers at all.

 

[Sawyer]

Superman Returns. I straight up almost popped a ***** when I watched that trailer, which was eventually destroyed by the actual film. I havent been the same since.

Thanks alot, Bryan Singer.

 

[Soapy]

Superman Returns, for sure. Brando's voice over Williams' score with Superman floating out in space was ****ing epic.

Just one more thing that made me want to like Superman.

 

[Gilpesh]

 

[Dr Strange]

Spider-man 3

 

[The Chairman]

The Black Dahlia had an awesome, truly awesome, sweat inducing, threat tightening trailer. And the film was a putrid pile of cow ****.

 

[Sam Fisher]

That's hilarious.

 

[Honey Vibe]

Hocus Pocus.
Wild Wild West.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
...I mean, damn

 

[Honey Vibe]

I forgot all about this one: Speed Racer.

How did Speed not live up to the trailer? The movie was basically the trailer x 9,000

 

[SPIDER-MAN-ROX]

The Hulk & The Incredible Hulk, I liked both movies but there not as good as the trailers made them look.

I Am Legend
War Of The Worlds
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

 

[Ziggyman]

Definitely Spidey 3!

 

[Octoberist]

HERE'S A GOOD ONE:

Smokin' Aces

 

[Gilpesh]

HERE'S A GOOD ONE:

Smokin' Aces

I like how that movie was so good/bad, that someone had to write an entire essay on how just it set a new bar for bad moves.

 

[Octoberist]

the sad thing was, the first teaser was so damn good with that track from DJ Shadow.

And honestly, Ryan Reynolds has been suffering ever since then, which is a shame. (though I've heard that the Nines was good)