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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 23, 2023 16:54:21 GMT -5
The second Jurassic World... Showing lots of the dinos on in the real world.. When most of it was set at a mansion.
Plus one of the main things they put in the trailer was bit with a kid in bed in a dark room and the endoraptor creeping up on her.. Like something from a nightmare.
While that seen is in the movie.. It was really contrived in it's setup. It's like they wanted that bit for marketing but couldn't figure out how to get it in this film. So the kid enters the room, turns the lights out and then hides in the bed under the covers.. Not under the bed, or in a closet.. But gets into the bed like she is about to take a nap. I know she is a child.. But come on even a kid knows that a blanky is not gonna protect you from a smart bio engineered killing machine.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 23, 2023 17:10:10 GMT -5
Hudson Hawk. Coming right after Die Hard, they made the trailers to try and sell the movie as more of an action comedy than the musical comedy it really was. They told people they were getting John McClain Bruce Willis while giving them 'Under the Boardwalk' Bruce 'Bruno' Willis.
I feel the movie would be a lot more fondly remembered if they were honest about what the film was and accepted getting a middling success rather than going for a box office smash based on lies.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 23, 2023 17:19:50 GMT -5
I suppose one of the more recent ones, which also had people whining about false advertising:
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on May 23, 2023 17:55:47 GMT -5
Happy Death Day's trailers did it no favors at all.
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Post by Raskovnik on May 23, 2023 17:58:49 GMT -5
Kangaroo Jack is the king of this. Snow Dogs also lied to me.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 23, 2023 19:08:54 GMT -5
Hudson Hawk. Coming right after Die Hard, they made the trailers to try and sell the movie as more of an action comedy than the musical comedy it really was. They told people they were getting John McClain Bruce Willis while giving them 'Under the Boardwalk' Bruce 'Bruno' Willis. I feel the movie would be a lot more fondly remembered if they were honest about what the film was and accepted getting a middling success rather than going for a box office smash based on lies. I’ve never seen Hudson Hawk and this is the first time I’ve heard it is a musical comedy.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 23, 2023 19:13:00 GMT -5
Plenty of that Kick-Ass guy, though. Honestly it fared better on a rewatch but at the time I was absolutely pissed
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on May 23, 2023 19:17:58 GMT -5
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Makes Phantasm look like the big bad of the film. Phantasm was correctly advertised as the villain in context of the story from Batman's original perspective. A very underrated twist IMO
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on May 23, 2023 21:35:31 GMT -5
There was this movie about a dragon where the trailers and promotion featured this awesome scene of helicopters battling dragons over Paris. That scene appeared in the movie ... as a still image on a newspaper cover.
Like, f*** you,
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Post by jm on May 23, 2023 23:12:25 GMT -5
Happy Death Day 2
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Post by agent817 on May 23, 2023 23:21:59 GMT -5
The first "Kick-Ass" had a trailer made it seem like a teen/slapstick comedy, especially like comedies from that time (from the late-2000s to the turn of the decade). The part when it showed Big Daddy throwing a grenade into that room made it look like a slapstick bit when in reality, the scene that part was in was more violent and badass.
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Post by tirtefaa on May 23, 2023 23:36:32 GMT -5
A couple I remember especially due to their Oscars push;
Million Dollar Baby - a movie that was marketed as a female Rocky, when it was about ethical euthanasia
Slumdog Millionaire - marketed as a "feel good" movie, and while I guess it had a "happy ending" of sorts for the main character, his brother gets killed, and most of the movie is a depressing retelling of this guy's life.
The moral here I suppose is if the word "million" is in the title, then the tagline is a lie.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 24, 2023 7:18:46 GMT -5
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow which made it seem like Angelina Jolie was a Co star of the movie when she is in it for like three minutes
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 24, 2023 8:42:09 GMT -5
The game 'Brutal Legend' as far as I recall was not advertised as having RTS elements.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 24, 2023 9:13:55 GMT -5
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was marketed as being a comedic satire-ish movie starring Tina Fey, doing Tina Fey style comedy. It was darker and heavier than the previews indicated.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on May 25, 2023 4:02:41 GMT -5
The 2006 remake of Black Christmas had scenes shot just for the trailer that have nothing to do with the actual movie. They apparently did it behind the director's back, too.
The trailer for Case 39 similarly is comprised largely of scenes cut from the final version (although as far as I'm aware, at least they weren't shot specifically for the trailer) when it was going to be a very different film. It also claims the film is about "the church" (presumably meaning the Vatican) investigating supernatural events when the plot has exactly bugger all to do with that.
The trailer for Hereditary became infamous at the time for making it look like it's a movie about a creepy little girl when the film is nothing like that. It's really weird too considering the actual film has a much more interesting premis IMO.
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Post by RI Richmark on May 25, 2023 5:37:22 GMT -5
Thor Love and Thunder's trailer heavily featured the Guardians of the Galaxy, who were in the movie for 5 minutes.
The same for Transformers Age of Extinction with the Dinobots.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on May 25, 2023 5:42:39 GMT -5
Pan's Labyrinth. Not in a way that made me mad, but I thought I was getting an "Adult Fairy Tale". So, while it was beautiful to look at, ultimately it was a much tougher watch than I expected, and it mad me cry. Stupid heartwrenching movie *kicks Pan's Labyrinth in the shin* Thor Love and Thunder's trailer heavily featured the Guardians of the Galaxy, who were in the movie for 5 minutes. The same for Transformers Age of Extinction with the Dinobots. Wait, the Dinobots aren't in it very much? The trailer makes it look like they ARE the movie.
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Post by BRV on Jan 14, 2024 9:41:26 GMT -5
Bumping this thread after people are quite upset after finding out that the new "Mean Girls" movie is a musical, despite the trailers not even hinting that it is.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 14, 2024 9:44:38 GMT -5
Bumping this thread after people are quite upset after finding out that the new "Mean Girls" movie is a musical, despite the trailers not even hinting that it is. This has happened a few times before; Wonka had select promotional material which didn't mention the songs (though it hasn't hurt is box office) and Sweeney Todd got some pushback by people not realizing it was a musical until they saw it.
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