Can you imagine if they had done that fot the PT movies? the geeks would riot. The OT movies do have pretty lousy trailers.

Doesn't count. Trailers are a tease to sell the movies to those who haven't seen them. That special was celebrating the most memorable scenes for those who have already seen the films. It would be pointless to have a show about scariest scenes and not show them.

On the upcoming movies front, the trailer for Little Man is so bad I still can't believe it's an actual movie. It's almost as if the Wayans family made this movie just to make all their previous films look like masterpieces in comparison.

I didn't mind the storyboards used in the ESB teaser so badly, as they "teased" the action and got me (at least) really excited about how those scenes were really going to play out.

But WTF was up with the narrator for that teaser, fresh back from the enunciation seminar? "And introducing...LANDAU Calrissian!"?

(I still do get a kick out of Harrison Ford's obviously overeager narration of the full ESB trailer, though. You can't imagine him doing anything but trying not to crack up during the whole thing. )

I couldn't think of a really terrible trailer until I saw one today before Poseidon. "The Devil Wears Preda". 100% the worst trailer I have ever seen.

Heck, to me the trailer for Poseidon is one of the worst ones that I've seen in years.

Hoot.

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WTF how can people even think of making tripe like that? let alone watch it? It's just one big cluster-F of irrelevant relationships and lack of imagination plotline. It's the kind of plotline you can put together effortlessly by just turning to someone sitting next to you on the bus and saying "tell me your life story..and say it into this microphone"

The fact is that in reality you don't have finely sculptured characters who act as if they have a career riding on their performace. Most real people, myself included, are boring. Either have a movie with boring people, or realise it isn't anything like reallife.

The movie will only be enjoyed by arrogant people who think they are some sort of social elite with their inclosed popular-magasine social-relationships mindsets. I suspect these sort of movies unfortunately influence them, they use them as a standards in how to act in real life. They will imagine themselves and thier peers as the only ones who can understand the movie, while people like me who avoid it like the plague it is are simply too immature to understand the complexities of reality.

I look down on them with the contempt they deserve. Little people with no imagination but to enclose themselves in the most boring world imaginable and deliberately wear down their own imaginations and humor. Case in point - consider the "jokes" in that trailer. Yes they clearly were supposed to be jokes due to the pretentious way they would highlight one had just been made. You know like a not-so-subtle hint to the dumbass audience that it was time to laugh. And I bet they did laugh.

I bet whoever made this movie thinks it is a real ingenious story of relationships that has a lot to teach us all about life. The narrators BS about "sometimes the end of one man's journey, is the beginning of another mans life" said slowly with a pause between the two phrases, as if we had just been given the privilege of hearing something meaningful and witty concerning reality that had only just been discovered. It isn't meaningful. It isn't witty. It is tripe. You might as well say:
"sometimes the end of one man's dinner, is the beginning of another mans laundry cycle."
Yep that's true too. Wow what a revelation.

If somehow, and I don't know how this possibly could happen, but if somehow I found myself watching this movie in a cinema surrounded by people who actually thought this movie was good...well I am quite sure some sort of killswitch in my brain would activate.

My brain + worthless turd of a movie + cinema audience who do not realise the turdness of the movie = kill frenzy

^ Better switch to decaf, jimln.

I don't see how anyone could watch the trailer to White Chicks and feel compelled to pay money and go see it.

Agree. But even if someone just told me that the Wayans brothers had a movie where they dressed up as white girls, I would pass. :)

I actually liked the trailer and the movie wasnt that bad,

One of the worst that I seen most recent is little man

The new Cars trailer. I pretty much feel like I've seen the movie now. While I'm not the target audience by any means at least give the adults something to look forward to. My 3 year old nephew didn't even want to finish watching it, but was amazed by the Superman Returns trailer. :)