Worst Trailers ever?
 

yeah, this is the thread for trailers that didn't grab you, or looked really bad just by the trailer. reminder, don't go by the movie.
for me its the movie Tristan and Isodel. (if the guy who posts here who also cuts trailers and did this one should post about this one.) I mean i like the song used ("going under" by evanesance) but a so called period movie should not be using goth rock /nu metal music, plus it doesnt' really fit into the trailer. Also the tagline "before romeo and juliet there was..." is really bad and lame. (is this even based on source material??)\

and another one is the full cast away trailer

The Empire Strikes Back

Get a look at these storyboards, folks!

The Negotiator

Hey, thanks marketers...now I don't have to see the film!

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
All the marketing made me want to avoid the film like the plague, but fortunately I saw the film in class and thought it was brilliant. I told Joel Silver that I didn't think the trailers did the film justice, and he told me to shove it; the B.O. would prove me wrong. Boy, did I eat my hat on that one...

What about trailers that give away major plot points, if not the entire story? Snake Eyes, Arlington Road, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Double Jeopardy, Office Space... hell, the Star Trek III trailer showed the Enterprise blowing up!

If The Usual Suspects had been released by a bigger studio, the trailer would've told you who Keyser Soze was.

The trailer for BloodRayne made it seem more like a cheap straight-to-video cheese fest than something a major studio would release... which is actually giving straight-to-video a disservice to compare them to BloodRayne.

Behold the lovely awfulness.

The Legend Of Simon Conjurer

Simon Conjurer looks pretty bad, alright. However, the key difference between that and the others is, although the trailer is cringeworthy, it is still likely better than the film itself!

Fast and Furious 3: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thef...okyodrift.html
Snakes on a Plane: http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane
DOA: Dead Or Alive: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xgV-RKUksEw

The trailer for KKBB was one of my favorites last year.

I've never been a fan of Teaser trailers (telling people the movie is coming, whoopdifuckingdoo). But that said, that movie about the amish time machine had the worst trailer I've seen, but I can't remember the name of it.

it's Tristan & Isolde. and the movie was terrible. to quote a line from John Carpenter's Christine, "You can't polish a turd."
i assume you're talking about me. i didn't cut this trailer. i cut some "making of's" for both the movie and the music video.
looking at all the other marketing materials, its clear that the client was trying to mimmick the tone of the campaigns for Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet which also relied on contemporary tracks to modernize the period drama. are you kidding? yes. there is source material. very, very old source material. -rolleyes-

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

"Murder at 1600"

Wesley Snipes speaks into a walkie-talkie as he gets out of a helicopter on the lawn of the White House: "There's been a murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue --- an address that changes all the rules."

The scene was shot strictly for the trailer, because there wasn't anything in the actual movie worth putting in a trailer.

reminds me of a quote from the movie "orange county" which kind of shows my ignorance on not knowing that this peice of crap (alright, i haven't seen it yet, but it looks like one)
Mr. Burke: Now, when I say "Romeo and Juliet," who comes to mind?
Dana: Claire Danes?
Mr. Burke: That's right, Claire Danes. Who else?
Chad: Leonardo DiCaprio.
Mr. Burke: Right. Who else? Well, you know someone else was involved in that movie who in some ways is as famous as Leonardo Di Caprio. And his name is William Shakespeare. And some great movies have been made based on his plays: Hamlet, West Side Story, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Waterworld, Gladiator, Chocolat...

I'm sure you would've seen that coming anyway considering it is a pretty derivative movie. It's the cinematic equivalent of a paint-by-numbers book.

Thanks Assholes!


Another one that spoiled every plot point: The Fugitive (not only every plot point but every action sequence)

Snakes on a Plane

I disagree with that. It didn't reveal anything about Dr. Nichols' involvement or how Gerard and his team eventually suspect Kimble is innocent and start investigating the one-armed man themselves.

I personally thought both the teaser and trailer were great and really hyped me up to see the movie(which more than lived up to my expecations).

Now the trailer for U.S. Marshals. THAT gave away nearly everything.

Well, they can only do so much...

I remember the trailer for The Beach completely gave the wrong impression for the film. I love the movie, but it isn't some sort of action adventure in which Leo saves the day with his shirt off.

And that scene wasn't even in the movie.

Actually, that's Stephen King's line, as adapted by John Carpenter.

I remember Italian Job spoiling every part of the end set piece. All others have pretty much been mentioned. And for the record I liked the ESB teaser, must have been cool to see in theaters in the 80's.

i stand corrected. John Carpenter did polish that turd. ;)

Battlefield Earth

Swimfan

I've got to say <i>Can't Hardly Wait</i>, 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 <i>changed reels before it was over</i> 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. -eek-

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.