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.

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

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