Older thread: Hollywood – Stop spoiling our movies: Today’s trailers reveal every last 'surprising' twist.
The absolutely WORST trailer I saw that RUINED the entire movie - (because we saw almost all of the key scenes in the trailers) - was Prometheus.
Totally ruined the movie because the trailers that were wall-to-wall on the net, on TV and at the theaters - showed EVERYTHING - including the climax scene at the end. There was NOTHING left to surprise the audience. I heard several remark as the theater was emptying - “That sucked - they showed the whole freaking movie in the trailer - I coulda saved twelve bucks”.
The ONLY thing they did not show in the trailer - was the pre-Alien xenomorph busting out of the Engineer’s body in the postscript. But everything else of key importance was splashed out well in advance of the release.
Ridley Scott must be brain damaged these days.
coming after the Country Bear Jamboree, you had to wonder what Disney was thinking. Then Geoffrey Rush stepped out into the moonlight and said, "You better start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one." And then it got real.
Their is one that is out there now...something about a ne’er do well brother visiting a straight laced brother (or sister) and one of the ‘better moments’ is when they show a teen age girl with cake on her face and a voice screaming in the backgroung “YOU GAVE HER SUGAR”? followed by same girl with cake still on face and a quart of ice cream in her hand.
She yells out “You told us that yogurt was the same as ice cream”.
Not all that funny but conjuring up the ‘scene’ around it is good...almost like ‘watching’ Radio.
It seems the nearer to the release date of a movie and after its release date that more is revealed in the trailer.