10 Movie’s Trailers That Was Better Than The Actual Movie
Submitted by DangeloGreen on Tuesday, 19 August 200854 Comments
You ever saw a trailer that made you say WOW… That’s going to be a great movie. I really can’t wait till this movie comes out. Then you go to see the movie on opening weekend, only to find out WHAT A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT that was or saying to yourself “I absolutely hated that movie”. Well here is a list of the top 10 most disappointing movies with great trailers…
10. Alien vs. Predator
When the movie Predator came out back in the 80’s everyone wanted to know who would win a fight between Aliens and Predators. Well, 20 years later the Trailer of Alien vs. Predator shed light on that very question. Those who saw the trailer just knew how great this movie was going to be. In the end movie goers were let down with a below average movie.
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August 19th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Do you actually like any movies? Or do you just enjoy disliking them?
August 19th, 2008 at 2:02 am
agree with you on all of them, except one - Mummy Returns.. that movie was much better than the trailer, but of course.. Mummy 3 was the worse of the trilogy!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
This sucked. Reasons aren’t very long or well thought out. Wasn’t funny, witty, or even quirky. If you’re going to make a negative article, make it well written please.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
wow, you must have horrible movie taste.
Some I agree with you on, but I doubt you thought of those ones all by yourself.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Wow dude, you hit the nail right on the head. There is nothign worse then having a trailer build you up, only to be let down when you go shell out money to see the movie!
JM
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August 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
oh i dont know, many of those movies did very very well in the box office.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
you forgot The Invisible. HUGE letdown.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I’m putting in my vote for Pearl Harbor. The trailer for that movie evoked so much more emotion than the movie ever managed to display. I remember actually getting a little choked up over the trailer, but the movie…damn was that just awful, boring and pointless.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I totally agree. All those movies had me much more excited than I should have been. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy any of them, but not near as much as the trailer led me to believe. In fact, i have another example of such, Tropic Thunder. Trailer was hilarious, but after seeing it yesterday I felt a little disappointed. It was funny, but not the laugh riot I thought it would be after seeing the trailer.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
“When I first saw this trailer on I Am Legend it really sold me.”
Wow, for a world that isn’t supposed to have any humans left, that trailer sure does show a lively town.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Ok, I’m confused by #4… are you criticizing Hancock or I Am Legend? I know it’s confusing being that they’re both Will Smith movies and all. But if you think the Hancock trailer was great then I have to call your judgment into question because I and most people I know were convinced that movie was crap from the very first trailer.
There is one trailer that I feel is missing from your list, it has stuck in my mind over the years as one of the best examples of a fantastic trailer that turned out to be a horrible movie. Go back and watch the trailer for The Avengers. Boy that trailer looked great, and with great actors like Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes and Sean Connery I thought there was no way this movie could loose. But alas it turned out to be a horrible, horrible movie. I actually fell asleep in the theater, which I NEVER do!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I’m gonna have to add Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer, me being partial towards the silver surfer had high hopes for the movie, knowing fully well the first fantastic four was missing something and the same team returned for the sequel.
the trailer looked great, but the story was too flat, the surfer’s character was too wallflowerish and the decision to make galactus a giant cloud was just too much for this nerd.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
@ Jessica
I agree that the trailer for Pearl Harbor was far more emotionaly charged than the movie itself. I chock a lot of this up to the fact that they reused the terrific score from The Thin Red Line by Hanz Zimmerman for this trailer. If you want to see an emotionaly powerful film about World War II I recomend you go see The Thin Red Line and listen for that wonderful peice of music used in the Pearl Harbor trailer that comes around near the climax of the movie.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
So, the Spider-Man 3 trailer was pretty much PREFECT?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
What about GODZILLA?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I totally agree about Pearl Harbor. I too had a strong emotional reaction watching the trailer. I was so stoked to see the movie the day it opened. I was ready for what the trailer promised. A powerful visual retelling of one of the watershed moments in the history of our nation. I expected patriotism, and gratitude and horror and reflection. Instead I got a schmaltzy love story and 3 totally self-centered and unlikable main characters. By the end of this total crapfest of a film I was actually rooting for all of them to die.
I’ve never felt like such a sucker sitting in a movie theater. Total bait-and-switch job.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
How come Sky Captian isn’t on your list? The trailers looked great, but the movie was more than a total let down. The only exciting bits were in the trailer.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I’d like to add 300. I liked the movie, but the trailer was quite possibly the most perfect 3 minutes of film ever created.
A big part of what dissapointed me about the film was that I went into it expecting the musical style from the trailer, which worked perfectly for the hyper-modern film style. Yet the actual score for the movie was just a boring standard orchestral soundtrack. Am I the only one who thought that was a huge mistake?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
The Transporter ?
You are an explotion junky lover if you like the trailer more then the rest of the movie, since the trailor missed all the wonderful fighting scence.
I recommend you to see Crank, more explositions less fight.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
“What a 360 this movie pulled on me…”
You lost me after this typo.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
That’s how it goes for alot of movie trailers nowadays. It’s like Hollywood is banking on people wanting to go see movies just because of the trailers. I have the tendency to use my common sense when it comes to movies, and that is mainly because I can tell that most movies are crap without even seeing the trailers for them. Call it a special gift. Let’s face it, most movies nowadays are all about flash and fluff, but no real substance, and when we’re done watching them, there’s not really anything we can say we remember about them, other than the flash and fluff. I personally didn’t like Hancock all that much, mainly because it wasn’t as good as it was hyped up to be. I did, however, like how Superman Returns was done.
And I don’t personally get why so many people have a problem with Jar Jar Binks being in the first Star Wars movie. I personally loved how George Lucas did that movie. I liked the action sequences, and the fighting, as well as the origin of Anakin Skywalker. Jar Jar was just a filler character. He wasn’t supposed to be the one that took the starring role.
I have to agree that I was a bit let down when I saw “Galactus” as a giant planet, but if you read the old comic book where the movie is derived from, you’ll find out that that’s how Galactus got his start. And if you delve into the history of the Silver Surfer, you’ll find out where he originally came from as well, and how it came to be that he was under Galactus’ control.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
You forgot The Dark Knight
and its 180 not 360
August 19th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Dude on #4, you meant 180-degrees…..doing a 360 means you are still staring at Will Smith saying ‘awwww hell nooooooooooo’.
Right on for all of them….Spiderman 3 was a turd the same color as Venom…
August 19th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I personally thought the trailer for 300 was better than the movie. I watched the trailer at least 50 times before the movie came out, but I got bored with the actual movie after I saw it a second time. But that’s just my personal opinion.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
You forgot “License to Wed” - the most forgettable Robin Williams movie ever. But the trailer was THE best scene.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
uh wheres Cloverfield?
August 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
i can understand many of your reasons but you obviously missed the point of Jarhead.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Original Fantastic Four. That trailer looked badass, especially since it was synched so well to the A Perfect Circle song “Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums”. The movie just didnt fall though for me. The story was thin and the acting so so. Jessica Alba as a blue eyed blonde genius just wasn’t believable, plus she just looked weird. The second one wasnt much better ;(
August 19th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
These are all action flicks. Where are all the comedies that put their only funny lines in the trailer and then you never get anything else funny in the movie? Sometimes the trailer isn’t even funny. When that happens I won’t watch it even when it comes to cable.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I agree with God.
And have you actually watched these movies or just judged them on some 11 year olds opinion? “Not enough explosions?”
August 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Maybe Alien Vs. Predetor Requiem, but the first AVP was sick!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
What about Ransom?
“GIVE ME BACK MY SON!”
Give me back my 8 bucks….
August 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Oh yeah, and the Negotiator. Seriously, the trailer tells you the whole damn movie!
This is only 30 seconds… the original theatrical one was worse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOoQARnqnh0
August 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
PFFFFT, got you all beat…..
THE VILLAGE (idiot)
Actually idiot is me for sitting through the whole thing.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
@dog food
Might I remind you that most of the viewing public is stupid, just because they make a lot of money, doesn’t mean they are good.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
dude… AVP was an awesome movie… and so were a couple others you mentioned. Either you only watched the trailer and ignored the movie or you have really bad taste in movies. I think the 1st person to comment, aaron, said it best… “Do you actually like any movies? Or do you just enjoy disliking them?”.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Jarhead should have been #1 on the list. All that build up and no action, what crap!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
WOW! I so agree with you, they all did suck!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Thank you, Nicole. Cloverfield had one of the best trailers I have ever seen because it told you absolutely nothing of what the movie was about. The fact that it came before Transformers made it that much more badass. The knowledge the audience had at the end of the trailer and the film itself were identical, except you didn’t waste $9.50 to see the trailer. You never found out anything about the monster and why he was in New York, you just saw it destroy. Total letdown…
And on a side note, New York City was destroyed, yet the tape survived? That’s a hard one to believe…
August 20th, 2008 at 12:58 am
This is coz studios,directors create hype with the trailer; witty one liners and the best scenes…but the movie actually sucks!but they get the crowd to come in numbers and make their buck!
this is movie marketing!
a few good examples..
Jumper
10000BC
Disaster movie ya they named it right this time.
Mummy 3
Wanted only thing worth watching in dis was Angelina Jolie’s butt!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:39 am
I wasn’t excited about The Phantom Menace until I saw the trailer, then I was blown away! Someone should re-edit it with stock footage and outtakes.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Resident evil 2 , the trailer was brilliant , it pretends to be a ad for some cosmetic cream that holds back the signs of aging , check it out, shame the film was rubbish
August 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am
The best article of recent memory I’ve read.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
why is pineapple express not on this list?
August 20th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hancock was actually a good movie… unlike the rest.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
what about x-men: the last stand?!
August 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I would also like to add “Reign of Fire.”
The trailer was packed with dragons, and destruction and it looked like a blast! But when I saw the movie, it was boring, only had one scene with a whopping 2 dragons in it, and a horrible story!
August 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
What about Starship Troopers, especially with them playing “Song 2″ by Blur (which didn’t appear in the film itself!).
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
You put Alien VS Predator but not the second one, the first one was decent but the second one was complete bullshit, I feel the same about Transformers, why does there always have to be a crappy love story in EVERY movie? For once I would just like to see a kick-ass movie without some gay love shit that is totally unrealistic and has nothing to do with the story. Time-filler, they can’t come up with anything original anymore, that’s why they trick you with trailers like this, this is why I pirate movies, you wanna make deliberate crap, then I’m not buyin.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 am
you should add pineapple express to this list.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
i agree with some like spider-man 3 yea that was a much better trailer than the movie itself. but man some of reviews are to simple you need to stop expecting much from only the trailers, just do what i do keep your expectations low so if the movie sucks your not surprised and if its any better you can leave the theater happy.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Sorry but most of this movies looked like they’d suck in the trailers. Then when they sucked, thats not a surprise.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Dude, some on this list sure, the trailers were better than the movies, but I have to really call you on your taste in movies. A lot of you actually.
But there is a time and place for that.
AVP was a good flick, so was Hancock. Cloverfield, (IMHO) was awesome. I like a movie where you leave with some questions unanswered. You find out everything in one sitting, it leaves you not wanting to see the sequel. Rumor has it, there is another one coming out that tells the rest of the story from an actual cinematic perspective. I can be patient to have the rest of my questions answered then.
Oh, and as far as where the monster came from, if you pay attention to the video, at the end, where they are in Coney Island, if you pay attention to the water, you’ll see something fall from the sky, and land in the water. Now, as to whatever else was going on, why the little monster baby thing was all angsty and pissed, I couldn’t tell ya.
November 4th, 2008 at 7:32 am
is this guy an idiot? did he just picked these movies at random??