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Re:Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

laylor — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:34:42 GMT

1. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

This is probably the worst movie I have seen in theatres in the last few years. I could not believe that this is what they decided to put out into the world. The first movie was hilarious and silly but this one is just awful. I maybe laughed twice. Maybe.

2. Iron Man

I was pretty excited for it before the trailer and then was excited that they, obviously, used Black Sabbath's Iron Man in the trailer. Then when I saw the movie I keept feeling like Robert Downey Jr. was doing Dudley Moore who is doing a cabaret act for the entire film. I didn't so much laugh as I did snort.
There were some okay action scenes but man, Jeff Bridges was a waste and Terrence Howards was an even bigger waste. Gwenyth Paltrow's performance was absolutely heinous.

3. Lady In The Water

I wasn't insanely excited for this film nor was I waiting for the last possible second for a twist ending. I just thought, from the trailer, that it looked beautifully shot and pretty interesting. Well I was half right: beautiful stuff going on here with the grass wolf or whatever that was and the night time imagery was pretty cool but man was it boring and convoluted. I kept getting really annoyed by something new being introduced: "Hey, I forgot to tell you this part of the story...". Ugh, here we go again.

4. The Tiger's Tail

I recently saw this for free (thankfully) at the independent theatre I work at. I was constantly bombarded by the trailer for weeks before we got the film and I thought it had an interesting premise. Well, yes the premise was interesting but it was so poorly executed I can't even begin to discuss it. The worst part of the film was casting Kim Catrall as an Irish woman. That accent is...just wow. Think Brad Pitt in the Devil's Own or Kevin Costner in anything that requires him to do an accent.

5. Be Kind, Rewind

From the trailer I thought this movie was going to be really funny but it was just okay and sometimes plain irritating. Jack Black is always annoying (except in Kung Fu Panda, maybe that's a sign he should stick to voice work) and Mos Def got on my nerves on and off throughout the film. It had some sweet elements and it tried very hard but this film is pretty forgettable.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

STEPHENtheDIRECTOR — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:40:57 GMT

Awesome Topic

The New World - Just as T-Money said, this movie seemed advertised as a war movie, instead of the contemplative piece it was.

Shaun of the Dead - I thought this movie looked so incredibly stupid from the trailer. So much so I never wanted to see it, until finally I was forced to, and thought it was the best comedy I had seen in a long time.

Hot Fuzz - This time i didn't let the trailer discourage me, but still...people can't seem to give these films the advertisement they deserve.

Night Watch - After seeing the trailer, I was so excited to see this film. I had to...every moment without it was painful. And then I watched it, and was disappointed. The movie isn't necessarily bad, but it's not nearly as good as the trailer makes it out to be. Although, I might just be partial to the M83 song they played over it (which never actually makes it into the film).

Domino - Okay so the movie was exactly like the trailer. Just extended. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was just a fun interesting way of introducing the film. Little did I know, they pretty much just took the first five minutes out of the hyper-edited pretentious poo of a movie. So I guess this trailer didn't lie about the movie you were going to see, just I didn't expect it to suck as much as it did.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

indieabby88 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:32:59 GMT

I'm gonna add "Be Kind Rewind" to my list of iffy movies with great trailers. The trailer for this movie made it look like, in the words of Filmspotting's Sam VanHalgren "The best movie ever. Period." The movie was something quite different, and really pretty disappointing, I thought. Anyone else agree/disagree?

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

indieabby88 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:27:30 GMT

I just saw a bunch of really awesome-looking trailers, and I hope the movies hold up to them. I've seen the trailer for "The Dark is Rising," which looks alright, and I'll probably see it anyway, but I'm a bit miffed that they've decided to set it in the U.S. I'll watch just about anything with Christopher Eccleston in it, though.

"The Spiderwick Chronicles" gave me pretty good fantasy-movie chills, the kind that really get me all excited to see the movie. I liked the book as well, so I hope it all works out for the best.

The trailer that took the cake for me, however, was the Robert Zemeckis motion-capture "Beowulf." I about peed my pants when I saw this. It might have been the bad-assitude of the trailer, my love of the source material, my knowledge that Neil Gaiman (my favorite author) wrote the script, or that the trailer used the music from "28 Days Later" (the cool music in that scene where Cillian Murphy goes batshit insane at the military base). It could have been a combination of these things. I really hope that Zemeckis can manage to make his characters look alive this time, instead of the creepy doll-children from "Polar Express." I also found it funny that the motion-capture characters all looked like their real-life counterparts...except for Ray Winstone, who has the voice for a guy like Beowulf, but definitely not the body.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

pippin06 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:58:10 GMT

I thought of two more, from recent memory, the first of which was Spider-Man 3. For the record, in my wide, eclectic tastes, I do like superhero movies more often than not. Hello, fantasy person here! And, I don't watch them for cinematic excellence. I watch them for the ride and to see if they do justice to their source material. Spidey is not my favorite even of the superheroes themselves, but I had enjoyed the first two movies and thought, hey, this one should be good! I do have low expectations for sequels, but this trailer had me pumped, really pumped. I was looking forward to this movie, Sandman and Venom are two of the cooler Spidey villains. However, the movie was mediocre at best, even by superhero movie standards. It left me colder than X-Men 3, and that's saying something.

The second: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Come on! Most people were all geeked about the trailer, oohing, aaahing, camping out. I never camped out. I'm proud of that now. I did get opening day tix but didn't have to see it at midnight. I was glad I didn't get too crazy about it beforehand. The minute Jar Jar started talking, the happy excitement generated by the trailer dissipated into confused and outraged nothingness. Dramatic.

This is a great topic, but I'm unable to contribute better because I have a problem remembering teasers, even for my most favorite flicks, and even after trying to recall them for this convo. I remember some trailers, like for those above. I love watching them; I cannot go to the movies and miss the trailers, and if someone else makes me late so I miss them, this is grounds for grumpiness. Yet, I don't remember how I felt about the trailer versus the actual movie because I don't really remember the trailer. Plus, I tend to see more films on DVD, and I don't really watch the trailers or try to go back and remember.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

AlienLazer — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:18:25 GMT

Oh, yes... I love trailers and I never allow my friends to skip them when we are watching a DVD. Even if I've seen the trailer or already saw the movie. Mostly, I like just watching a shorter version of the movie that makes me relive my favorite parts by memory. But, yeah. Some movies aren't even worth watching, yet you get looped in by their trailers. The editors pick and choose the best parts of the movies to broadcast, leaving only scraps and a crappy story-line left for the viewers when they finally get around to watching the actual movie. It makes me just want to skip the movies and get DVD's with nothing but previews on them. Do they make those?

Here's some that got me irritated....

1. The Da Vinci Code - This trailer left you hanging for so long. Then, when they finally showed something else besides that extremely chapped painting, it was very fast clips that intrigued my interest. They were all grotesque, so yeah, that's what I thought the movie would have more of; but it didn't show any more of these images than we had already previewed. Very deceptive indeed, and I didn't care for the story at all.

2. Alone in the Dark - This movie looked scary, but it wasn't in the slightest. Boo stupid action survival movies that try to pass as scary to draw more viewers in, and that name "Alone in the Dark"... Grrr, the trickery.

3. Epic Movie - I was never really into any of the "Scary Movie"s, but I loved "Date Movie"; so this preview really made me want to see more. Yeah, I still hadn't learned my lesson. I thought this movie would be funny, but it was more stupid than anything. Not even the so-stupid-it's-funny that I'm used to either, but just plain dumb. Although, it may have gotten better at the very end considering I feel asleep halfway through the movie. I NEVER fall asleep to a movie unless I've seen it at least 2 other times, so that really says something. I mean, I wasn't even tired when I started watching this flick.

4. Guess Who - Over and over I keep trying to give Ashton Kutcher a chance with a romantic comedy, but this one as well as many others always seem funnier when you are previewing them than when you have to endure the movie in its entirety. I find that most romantic comedies always turn more serious by the time it's all over. And, they stay that way for the last half of the freaking movie. Grr... They say on the cover that they are "hilarious", but they are actually just soppy "chick-flicks". Yeah, I'm a girl and I like chick flicks, but only if that's what I went in for. If I wanted comedy, damn it... I want comedy! (At least "Just Friends" with Ryan Reynolds made me happy.)

5. Movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" with Jet Li in it always entrance me with their trailers. My simpleminded brain follows their graceful fighting style and slickly swung swords right into a butterfly cage. It's not that I don't like the movies, it's just that I'm stuck in that cage for so darn long. These beautiful movies are always drug out to the extent of utter boredomness.

...and yeah, I love to make up stupid words or just try to use stuff that obviously doesn't work. lol

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

tmoney — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:43:13 GMT

I would second dreamcatcher. all i have to say is "I DUDDITZ!".

I would say the Village and Transformers weren't too misleading, for one knowing you were seeing an M. Night film and a M. Bay film. I think most people know what they are getting themselves into.

I don't remember the AVP or Ocean's twelve trailers. I can only assume 12's trailer was similar to 11's, and 13's. And i'm sure 14's,15,s,and16,s will be very similar. and maybe 17's, and 18's will be close too. maybe ocean's 19's will stray towards neo-realism, but i think 20 will stick to the old hollywood heist formula.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

tinokiev — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:55:18 GMT

1. Transformers !!! The trailer looked awesome, like there was gonna be a sort of a good story and less cheesy acting and plot. I remember watching the trailer i went like I HAVE to see this movie.

2. The Village, this looked like a monster thriller movie that was gonnna be full of sick scenes like sixth sense and the 10 minute happy dancing sequence really made me think: They cheated me !

3. Ocean's Twelve Well the traielr was just Colors, Text and good music. It just had a feeling that it was gonna be a great film, and the trailer itself was so good, like: Hey i am not showing any scene you have to wait and see. And well, I wait and see and ... .. What can you do

4. Alien Vs Predator

5. Dreamcatcher looked like it was a really good horror-thriller, and ...

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

lukasblu — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:56:21 GMT

"I wasn't saying that i thought it should have been a werewolve horror film."sorry about that. you never said anything about werewolves;The werewolf part, is part of a online review i read describing the movie that was completely misleading.

"no atmosphere. Atmosphere that the trailer would hint at. " your definitely right about that. The atmosphere describe in the trailer was not in the movie

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

pippin06 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:25:10 GMT

Oh, premature trailer footage happens all the time, literally. Frames that make the early teaser don't make the final cut once the movie's been edited. I can think of a dozen examples, especially in genre films where I would have watched the teasers repeatedly, like Harry Potter, and trailer footage didn't make the final cut. Often times, these "throwaway" scenes are filmed first before production of the movie is complete. It's what they have to make a trailer from; then, they somehow don't fit and are discarded, only to pop up on DVD menus later.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

Risselada — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:02:56 GMT

JEllen:
I remember being very excited by the preview for Greystoke. The trailer used the music from Mars by Holst, which has a great driving beat and builds to a great crescendo. But the actual movie? Very weak and meandering. I was puzzled because huge chunks of the preview were not in the movie, including a scene with a large fire. I guess they cut them because of length? Comparing expectation to results, it was a huge disappointment.

I'm thinking there are many times when they shoot stuff specifically for the trailer not intending for it to be in the film.

I am remembering specifically the trailer for Robin Hood: Men in Tights when he shoots an arrow at a tree and the whole tree splits in half. That definitely didn't happen in the movie. I don't know if they had planned on it and then took it out later. But in that case why would they put it in the trailer???

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

tmoney — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:00:01 GMT

lukasblu:
The hairy guy showed the passion/gift that diane has;Therefore diane began to culivate her own passions ,and started on the road to her own independence( a feminist photograher who ws creative behind her time)
NO werewolves, monsters,or anything creepy about this movie; In fact it was steering more to romantic/drama/inspirational feminist flick

I wasn't saying that i thought it should have been a werewolve horror film. There were just too many points in the film where I rolled my eyes. Couldn't understand motivations, or feelings most of time because I feel it wasn't communicated properly. That and the movie had no atmosphere. Atmosphere that the trailer would hint at.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

pippin06 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:59:30 GMT

I don't have five right now because I have to think about it, but I think one of the biggest violators of this clause was The Village. It was hyped as a thriller/horror movie by the maker of the Sixth Sense and turned out to be something completely different. For that reason alone, many people hated it. I didn't mind it so much, but it was definitely not what it was advertised as.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

JEllen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:02:22 GMT

I remember being very excited by the preview for Greystoke. The trailer used the music from Mars by Holst, which has a great driving beat and builds to a great crescendo. But the actual movie? Very weak and meandering. I was puzzled because huge chunks of the preview were not in the movie, including a scene with a large fire. I guess they cut them because of length? Comparing expectation to results, it was a huge disappointment.

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

lukasblu — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:58:12 GMT

"Fur - I don't know if anybody saw the trailer but it made the film look so creepy and mysterious. Turned out it was just Hollywood schlock." - nothing creepy about this movie; read a write up critics about the movie having a werewolf or a continuation of teen wolf from the 80s BUT all false; it is just about a man that had more hair than most, and a bunch of other folks that had physical differences from most common people;It is about tolerance,accepting other people no matter what physical differences they have; It is about a hairy guy that opened dianes eyes to other kinds of people and in turn open up things about her that she did not know she had or was capable of;The hairy guy showed the passion/gift that diane has;Therefore diane began to culivate her own passions ,and started on the road to her own independence( a feminist photograher who ws creative behind her time)

NO werewolves, monsters,or anything creepy about this movie; In fact it was steering more to romantic/drama/inspirational feminist flick

i thought the movie was decent ;not the best,not the worst; the story was a good idea

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)- the trailer gave me the impression that it was going to be HILARIOUS but it was NOT; it is more to the drama side; that really disappointed me; The movie was decently good but a bit overrated (with its critical praise and awards)

Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

tmoney — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:05:07 GMT

Great topic. I have to admit, even the trailer for 23 made me want to vomit. It's possible we saw two different trailers.

And I totally agree about watching trailers as a favorite part about going to the movie. In fact, when there is a movie I really want to see, odds are I have been anticipating it for months upon months mostly just based on the trailer. I'm actually going to list movies that were just very different than the trailer because it is not often I am severely dissapointed by a film (as I usually follow critics recommendations before I actually see it).

1. Fur - I don't know if anybody saw the trailer but it made the film look so creepy and mysterious. Turned out it was just Hollywood schlock.

2. A Dirty Shame - This was a John Waters film, and the trailer I thought looked hilarious. It wasn't. It was slap stick, screw ball, perverted humour that only a junior higher would be enthralled by.

3. Noi - The beauty of this trailer absolutely took my breath away. And I liked the film very much, the mood and style of the film was completely different than the trailer would lead you to believe. Watch the trailer for this if you can find it, it is beautiful!

4. X-Men 3 - Okay I am never one to get excited about comic book movies, but I must say this trailer made it look really X-citing (hahaha i'm so clever!). It wasn't. This film was a piece.

5. V For Vendetta - I thought this would be really cool from the trailer. But I felt all the themes were spoon fed, and all emotions were a hammer on the head. But I did like when they danced to Cat Power and Antony and the Johnsons on the juke box (a couple of my favorite artists). I had hyped this movie up a lot before I saw it.

And there are trailers which are deceivingly bad:

28 Days Later - This film I was actually pleasantly surprised by to say the least. The trailer had some heavy metal band blasting, and goofy looking titles. I thought it was going to be terrible, but I loved it. The trailer was "Americanized", and was very deceptive.

The New World - Made it look like a war film, with melodrama throughout, but in turn was a beautiful, contemplative, and poetic tone poem.

Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers

indieabby88 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:57:29 GMT

I'm sure I'm not the only person who's had this experience: You're sitting in the theater, the lights dim, and the trailers (my favorite part of going to the movies!) start up. You see a trailer that catches your fancy. "Wow," you say, "this movie looks like it'll be really good!" Then, after a couple of months, the thing is released and it turns out to be a pile of flaming dog poo...or at the very least not what you'd expected. Here are my top five films with deceiving trailers:

1. "The Number 23": I realize the fact that it was directed by Joel Schumacher should have tipped me off, but I didn't realize that until it was too late. Anyway, the trailer made the movie look ambient, creepy, schizophrenic and bloodier than a rare steak. It delievered on none of these counts, although it tried.

2. "Aeon Flux": The trailer looked slick and awesome, and the cartoon was a cult favorite. As I'm sure most of you know either by personal experience or by reading the reviews, this one was (in the words of my friend Rebecca) "a hunk of rotting meat." Her review of the movie consisted mostly of blurbs from other peoples' reviews, after she stated that there was no part of this movie she could complain about or rip apart that hadn't already been hashed and re-hashed by every newspaper in the country.

3. "Big Nothing": It looked funny. It wasn't. It looked like a lighthearted heist movie with a twist. It wasn't. In short: the trailer looked good. The movie was not.

4. "The Holiday": Okay, while the trailer for this movie didn't make it look amazing, it didn't prepare me for the train wreck I got when I rented the thing.

5. Either of the trailers for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels: Disney realized that all it took to get an audience to wet themselves in anticipation for these movies was plaster Johnny Depp's face on as many advertising materials as they could. Worked like a charm.