What Movie Trailers Are Better Than The Actual Movies? [Archive]

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Seil

11-10-2008, 02:24 PM

I nominate this one! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtVD97ss7rU)

...The movie was really long and drawn out. And I couldn't understand what was going on half the time.

Smarty McBarrelpants

11-10-2008, 03:18 PM

The Phantom Menace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVPRfOw394)
Easy.
I mean Anakin and Jar-Jar are only in it for a second each

Magus

11-10-2008, 03:45 PM

I know recently the Max Payne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGWCLhBUxjY) trailer was way better than the movie. Made it look really exciting and fairly canonical. The movie was not.

Jackie Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhx0myyLg0)'s trailer is better than the movie. As far as Tarantino movies go it's pretty boring.

Are there any trailers that make good movies look bad?

Bells

11-10-2008, 04:12 PM

Aside from any comedy or sub-genre of comedy movie?

Seil

11-10-2008, 05:04 PM

Well, my dad went to see The Comedian based on its trailer, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbFuNQwTbs) and he said it was terrible.

RickZarber

11-10-2008, 11:07 PM

[Day Watch] ...The movie was really long and drawn out. And I couldn't understand what was going on half the time.Well... you watched Night Watch first, right?

I don't know what to say, really, other than I totally disagree with you on that one. I thought Day Watch more than lived up to its promise. :/

Regulus Tera

11-11-2008, 03:54 PM

I know this is a video game trailer, but it is way more entertaining than the movie it is based on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGZNUDDqqHw&fmt=18).

Donomni

11-11-2008, 05:18 PM

The trailer for Epic Movie.

Everything even remotely funny about that movie was in it. It was about 2 minutes.

I'll never get those 8 bucks and two hours or so back.

Today's lesson: Never go to a _____ Movie, ever.

Hawk

11-11-2008, 05:25 PM

Today's lesson: Never go to a _____ Movie, ever.

I think that goes without saying.

Personally I thought the Resi Apocalypse' trailer was way better than the movie, but other than that I can't really think of any. Maybe I Am Legend as well.

Archbio

11-11-2008, 05:53 PM

Personally I thought the Resi Apocalypse' trailer was way better than the movie

I was just about to mention it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwnB714Nq4), so you're not the only one.

From IMDB's trivia page on the movie:

"The first trailer released for this movie (which was directed by Marcus Nispel) featured an ad run by the 'Umbrella Corporation' advertising a skin-regeneration product using a special formula called T-cells. In the movies and video games, the virus responsible for zombie mutations is called the T-virus. All the footage in the advert was either shot specially for the advert or from the original film. There was no footage from the film in this advertising."