I've got to say Can't Hardly Wait, at least on principle.

Never saw the actual movie, don't even remember the trailer...but I remember it got booed so badly at the theater, the projectionist actually changed reels before it was over and got right to the main feature.

Sweet November.... because it gives away the ending

The first thing to pop to mind is Elizabethtown. From the placement of lines with Orlando's horrendous accent to being a 2.5 minute version of the full movie to the narrator coming in at the end, this preview grates on my nerves as badly as any ever has.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramo...er_medium.html

My vote.

The trailer gave a complete Cliff's notes version of the movie from beginning to end. We looked at each other and said, "Now we don't have to go see the movie!"

How old was the theater that the trailers were on a different reel? Let me mention too that i've only been a projectionist in a few theaters, so I know some theaters may do things differently. I just never heard of trailers being on a different reel, usually their spliced in with the film.

I remember seeing the trailer of "Free Willy" before "Jurassic Park". My girlfriend at the time, said "I wouldn't mind seeing that.", and I just looked at her and said "I think you just did".
I know there has been a few trailers that has ticked me off since it gave away major spoilers. I think "The Glass House" or somthing like that gave away every little thing in the two minute trailer.

You're probably right---they could've just "fast forwarded" ahead, as it were. All I remember is that the lights came on in the middle of the trailer, and less than 30 seconds passed before they went out again and the main feature started. The audience practically gave the projectionist a standing ovation.

Since I certainly can't "fast forward" on a film when I project, I'mm guessing there was an unrelated problem with the trailers - perhaps a melt or a brain wrap on the platter - and they had to fix the problem. To make up for lost time, they removed the rest of the trailers and played the feature. This can be done by cutting the trailers from the main big reel - they're only taped on, and you can feel where the join is - and threading the film through the projector again.

Projection is fun! But oh, it's such a pain.

YES. My girlfriend and I were doing my scour through the $5.50 bin at Walmart, and she came across The Glass House.

"Have you seen it?"
- "No, I don't have to."
"Why not?"
- "I've seen its trailer. I've seen the film"

She understood.

Amen. Especially thursday nights when you had films you had to tear down, and it never failed every one of them didn't end till 1am. The one good thing about it was no matter how much the theater was getting slammed I still did the same amount of work.

Last Action Hero - I actually ended up liking this movie, but the trailer pretty much was all the worst/cheesy parts of the movie.

House of the Dead (Teaser) - Of course you can't polish a turd, but you can at least attempt to temporarily hide the turd. The early teaser for this was one of the biggest "this film is going to suck balls" announcements I've ever seen. The finished film is actually an improvement, and that says a lot.

YES.

I love Saturdays in the booth. I'm away from the unwashed masses.

As for breaking down the prints, yes, it's a pain. However, some of them aren't picked up until Sunday afternoon, so I can leave some films to break down in the morning while the firsts shows of the day play and I have nothing else to do.

Any trailer that has the sound of a needle scratching on a record automatically goes in my worst trailer list.

I don't if this counts but Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Scenes pretty much ruined every movie on that list.

Funny thing, I just saw the worst one ever.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=463373

this has quickly become the top cliche of comedy trailers. second only to what they call sandler-esque sound fx -- which really is just mixing them as loud as possible.

SCCCRRRAAAAAATTTTCCCCCCHHHHH!!!!!!! Stop the music!!!!

now, i only see it used by the greenest of editors, too insecure to develop their own style, and relying on tricks they've seen in other trailers.

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.