indieabby88
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7/26/2007 12:57 AM
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Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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.
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tmoney
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7/26/2007 2:05 AM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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.
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lukasblu
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7/26/2007 2:58 AM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
"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)
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JEllen
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7/26/2007 3:02 AM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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.
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pippin06
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7/26/2007 8:59 AM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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.
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tmoney
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7/26/2007 11:00 AM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
 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.
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Risselada
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7/26/2007 2:02 PM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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???
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pippin06
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7/26/2007 2:25 PM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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.
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lukasblu
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7/26/2007 9:56 PM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
"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
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tinokiev
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7/27/2007 10:55 PM
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Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers
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 ...
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