Fantastic 4: rise of the silver surfer.
Not only the trailer but during the whole movie there is this big build up to a reveal/fight of Galactus.
Was so hyped to see that by only be so disappointed seeing the silver surfer go in to the clouds and say “stop” and that was it…
Like what the fuck! Still salty about that one…
I didn’t watch the trailers for it, but Click by Adam Sandler was supposedly marketed as another Adam Sandler comedy but was actually tearjerker drama with a medium heavy sprinkle of comedy.
Oh yeah. That one caught me off guard as a child. Did not expect to leave that theater crying. 9/10 movie though.
One of the best Adam Sandler movies. His usual shit got old fast and it’s one of the few actual well written movies with substance he’s done. Funny people was decent too, mostly cuz he basically plays himself and is a sad clown douchebag in his personal life, which I don’t know if is true but I bought it.
I think it might be my favourite too. it’s between that and Uncut Gems.
Anger Management with Jack Nicholson was good too.
Downsizing
I enjoyed this movie, but was it trying to be a Sci fi flick, a dramatic comedy, or a rom com, or a political commentary on environmentalism, or a political commentary on colonialism… It could have been really amazing if it chose any of those options but instead it was pretty messy, sadly.
The trailer made it look like a funny, interesting sci-fi flick. Instead it went everywhere.
It wasn’t the worst movie I‘ve ever watched but the fact that it tried to do everything all at once was weird. It’s like the writers kept passing along the script to a new team every few pages.
That’s exactly what it felt like. It’s a shame, too, I feel like I would have been into it if it had committed to any one or two or those directions, but it was just a mess.
From Dusk Til Dawn. I actually quite enjoyed the unexpected about-face in genre midway through the film, however.
Iron Man 3.
Led us to believe Ben Kingsley was going to be a badass villain only to be revealed that he was an actor.
Godzilla (2014) The trailer showed it as a Godzilla movie starring Bryan Cranston. Instead Cranston only had a brief cameo at the start of the movie and the whole movie was about a couple MUTO creatures, not Godzilla. Godzilla basically only had a couple cameos in the movie. I think most people who didn’t like it just didn’t like being tricked by the trailer.
Blade runner (the OG one), kangaroo jack (and a very similar trailer I don’t remember with talking dogs?), Toys (maybe not exactly misleading per se, just chaotic as shit? Lots of hype but you had no clue what you were about to watch?), the village…
Definitely more, but most of it goes back far enough that I don’t really remember enough specifics to place the shit.
Kangaroo Jack…I was legitimately outraged when I finally got to watch the movie after seeing trailers
They heavily featured the talking kangaroo that was only part of a short dream sequence in the movie.
Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr did the exact same thing
2011s Drive, great movie, just not what they advertised.
Amazing no one has mentioned Bridge to Terabithia (2007). The screenwriters disavowed the trailers, iirc. Looks like a cute kids fantasy movie, starts out leaning that way with a middle-school Manic Pixie Dream Girl, then turns hard into being completely real life and extremely tragic. 14-year old me was not prepared.
Man of the Year (2006) looked like it was going to be a lighthearted Dave-esque movie about a comedic everyman president finding common sense solutions through his hijinks. It pivoted pretty quickly.
Pearl Harbor
The trailer for Speed made it look like garbage when it was actually really fun.
From what I’ve heard, Barbie 😅
Snow Dogs heavily marketed a couple of minutes bit so it seemed like the entire movie.
