What movie had a trailer that was totally misleading about the premise of the film?

agamemnonymous , 11 months ago

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.

Moonviola , 11 months ago

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.

sibloure , 11 months ago

Mother! (2017) with Jennifer Lawrence was not even the same genre I thought it would be.

mcathen , 11 months ago

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.

jordanlund , 11 months ago

The trailer for Speed made it look like garbage when it was actually really fun.

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UlyssesT , 11 months ago

District 9.

The movie trailer I saw before another movie made it seem like a standard issue shitty action movie. It was not.

1984 , 11 months ago

Yeah it’s pretty good.

rincewind5136 , 11 months ago

Highlander: Endgame, original trailer showed the villain, Jacob Kell, as some kind of sorcerer. Suffice it to say, they removed all of the “magic” in the released film. The trailer can still be seen with a quick YouTube search.