Movies We've Just Watched discussion

Have you ever felt a bit disappointed after watching a movie and thought that the trailer was way better than the movie?
It happens to me all the time

Example:
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Sweeney Todd (2007)

It happens to me 99% of the time. There are too many examples really.

Every Hollywood horror movie.

it's usually the opposite for me - trailers make movies look ridiculous and i want to avoid them, but then i see them and they are much better than i imagined.

most of the time i close my eyes when the trailers come on - unless it's a movie i'm really excited about. half the time the trailer gives away way too much info .. and i prefer to know as little as possible about a film before i see it. i want it to take me by surprise.

I'm of two minds about this (I'm referring to trailers on dvds). I discover films I wouldn't have known about and then check to see if my library has them (this is usually for foreign films). I've seen some great films this way.

On the other hand, it's true that sometimes the trailer gives away most of the film. I really don't like that. It should give you a taste of what the film is about and that's it.

oh i got one, if anyone remembers Avatar. I loved the trailer ...it opened with this huge starship opening and ...awesome.

i must be one of the few people who thought Gladiator with Russell Crowe was crap. The trailer was pretty good though.

The one that wins it for me was Super-8. The trailer had me hooked but that turned into a pile of crap once i watched that sham of a movie.

Pickle wrote: "i must be one of the few people who thought Gladiator with Russell Crowe was crap..."

no, i would agree with you on that one.

I just remembered

Watchmen 2009

Master and Commander 2003

Cinderella man 2005

The Butterfly Effect 2004

Lost in Translation 2003

Vanilla Sky 2001

Bad Teacher 2011

i'm with Julie on this one .... trailers have introduced me to movies i might not have seen otherwise, so i like them for that ... but there is a growing trend to give away too much. the trailor should be a tease not a summary of the entire story.

THE SHINING .... best trailer ever.

Phillip wrote: "THE SHINING .... best trailer ever."

Yeah, that's kind of a classic. And the one for the original ALIEN, too.

I remember seeing a trailer for BUGSY about a year before the movie came out, and it made the film look like a screwball gangster comedy rather than the solemn gangster movie that was finally released.

mmmmn. original alien trailer - exactly.
less is more, people!

Pickle wrote: "i must be one of the few people who thought Gladiator with Russell Crowe was crap."

There's a great new Geico ad that riffs on the opening scene, though. Hilarious.

The one that immediately comes to mind every time I think about the trailer being better than the movie is Malick's woeful adaptation of The Thin Red Line.

wow those movies had trailers? !!!!

Phillip wrote: "Pickle wrote: "i must be one of the few people who thought Gladiator with Russell Crowe was crap..."

no, i would agree with you on that one."

Gladiator sucked.

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