Worst Trailers Ever

That 's the problem with 9 out of 10 trailers.

I don't have a specific trailer to name, but any trailer that uses that song by LIT as it's music bed I discount on principal.

Trust me, you may not know the band by name (I don't even know the name of the song) but you have heard the guitar hook at least a billion times in countless trailers.

Ricky Bobby - It killed so much of the movie in the trailr. I would've actually laughed at the scene after his crash if I hadn't seen it a million times before I went to the movie.

WB's trailer for The Iron Giant is a confusing mess (not the movie).

I think any trailer for a kiddie flick is insulting for that matter.

I saw a Black Dahlia trailer that seemed to give away too much of the film. I hate when the trailer shows too much.

The one that sticks with me more than any other is for Mystery, Alaska. It may be the fact that it played before every movie I went to in a five month span. It may because since the movie was pulled and given a later release date, it came back yet again, like a zombie. Or it may be the lawyer saying "Excuse me your honor. I'm fat."

Any horror tralier from before about 1995, with that dramatic male voiceover.

What Lies Beneath

It gave away most of the movie. Funny how Zemeckis directed this one too.

Oh man, those are my favorites. "Just keep telling yoursely, It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie."

Identity. Saw the trailer and just went, "Oh, the kid did it." I guess I understand wanting to show explosions in the trailer. Action action action! But you really shouldn't include the shot if it shows the little kid walking towards the camera looking evil.

The trailer for "Failure to Launch". I just couldn't escape it that year for some reason. It was a poisonously ubiquitous infection of a trailer.

The Deep End Of the Ocean: sums up the whole movie (twists and all) in two minutes.

The Negotiator: gives away the twist.

The Mask: highly-deceptive trailer that made the movie look funny.

"If you don't find this scary, we'll have to drill it into your head"

Jurassic Park 3: Just about every dino scene was in the trailer. Raptors in the research lab? Check. T. Rex vs. Spino? Check. Pteradactyls? Check. I remember sitting in the theater waiting for some awesome moment I didn't know was coming and being seriously disappointed when I had seen virtually every action scene already.

CLICK- I'm sure the movie was just as bad, but the trailer was just so stupid.

WHITE CHICKS, because: I never had or will have any intention of watching that piece of crap, but catching the trailer before a few movies in the theater actually forced some of the "film's" footage through my eyes & into my brain forever.

I will never forgive Columbia Tristar's marketing, the Wayans Bros., or Regal Cinemas...

I thoroughly enjoy those trailers, albeit on a nostalgic level.

It was worse when you heard people laugh at it. I kinda have a short temper anyway, and that didn't do it any good....

Not a specific trailer, but a specific thing that I hate in trailers. I hate it when right after they tell you the name of the movie at the end, they go right into another final kicker before they show the credit board or whatever. I think most trailers do this, and has been going on for years now. But most of the time, whatever is in that kicker just annoys the hell out of me. Especially when it is a comedy, and they splice together footage from two obvious different scenes, saying here is the joke, and look, here is the reaction (which is from a completely different part of the movie).

Example, the Employee of the Month trailer (which was an all around shit trailer). After the title of the movie came up, it cut to a scene with Dax Shepard, standing in the store floor, holding up a sharpie to Dane Cook. Dax: "you know waht this is?' Dane: "yeah, a 10 times larger that life replica of your-" then it cuts to various employees af the store al looking shocked or laughing, while they are all kicking back in some breakroom or locker room.

Yeah, it's a minor thing, and I probably sound like a grumpy old man, but I always dread the end of trailers, and their final little kicker. Hell, even the one with Nicholson in the bar, saying whatever it is he's saying, drives my bat shit. I thought it ruined an otherwise excellent trailer. I'm still going to see the movie, but man, please cut it out. Show me some damn footage, then show me the title. Hell, you could even show me the title of the film repeatedly thruought the trailer, proclaiming the name in a loud voiceover. I would laugh my ass off if during the Juon 2 trailer, instead of showing the floating hair like five or six times, some guy's voice came up and said The Grudge 2!!! Whatever. Just stop cobbling together shit to try to leave a good impression.

I think they were mostly great before 95. Not so great after 95. When I still hear some of those now with the same voice over guy, it makes me cringe.

Gotta be BLOODRAYNE's trailer. I distinctly remember the "deep-voiced-narrator" saying every actors name in the film. When Michael Madsen's name is said, it immediately cuts to him punching someone in the face, with the worst sound effect possible.

"This could be... the end... of the world... as we know it..."

SAW and SAW II, like the movies, are anal cancer. For once they didn't lie.

I dunno, I thought the internet trailer for Saw made it look pretty sick. What a letdown.

I can't remember the name of it, but there's some Al Pacino movie (The Recruit?) where they ruin the ending.

The Grudge 2 trailer is like a compilation of every scare from the friggin' film.

What happened to just giving you a taste of the film?

That's a myth.
Trailers that predate the 80's commonly revealed every money shot and climax.

no porn jokes, please

The pacing is a bit off in the 80's trailers. There's still something nostalgic in them, flaws and all. Like the exploding text in the final trailer for Die Hard.

<Bruce Willis holding a gun, Tchaikovsky's Overture starts playing>

IT!

<shit blows up>

WILL!

<more shit blows up>

BLOW!

<even more shit blows up>

YOU!

<shooting, running>

THROUGH!

<shit blows up again>

THE!

<more shit blows up again>

BACK!

<even more shit blows up again>

WALL!

<more running, people screaming>

OF!

<choppers>

THE!

<Bruce holding bigger guns>

MOVIE!

<choppers blowing up>

THEATRE!

<DIE HARD, coming soon>

Yeah! This trailer and the one for Nightwatch with Ewan McGregor simply would not die!

Mission Impossible 1 gave away the entire climax. Showed the helicopter flying through the tunnel, showed it blowing up, showed Cruise get blasted onto the train, showed the metal almost cutting his throat, but not. Fuck Mission Impossible.

Halloween has a terrible trailer.

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Bug. It seems like a great trailer, but VERY misleading. Bug just isn't what this trailer tells you it is.

There's too many trailers in recent years that either gives away too much or misrepresents the film.