Movie vs. Trailer: 13th Warrior, ROTK

[jonesy]

The Barb Wire trailer actually made it look like a good action movie:
http://www.movie-list.com/classics-alpha.shtml

The Barb Wire movie on the other hand was...kooky. Yeah. That's the word. Kooky.

 

[iwatt]

In a Nazi Gestapo looking uniform no less. Who can resist that?

I liked Starship Troopers well enough too. Not bad at all. Didn't hurt that it had Dina Meyer topless either.

I loved Starship Troopers. And watching it right after Argentina had trounced the Chilean Soccer team made me glad the bugs blew Buenos Aires up. That was a very enjoyable moment for us Chileans. :lol


My biggest beef with starship troopers were the news anouncements were the narrator would say: "Do you want to know more?".

I always wanted to know more....

 

[BiggusGeekus]

The Barb Wire movie on the other hand was...kooky. Yeah. That's the word. Kooky.

You want kooky? Watch it after seeing Casablanca.

It's the same plot.

 

[Klaus]

I loved Starship Troopers. And watching it right after Argentina had trounced the Chilean Soccer team made me glad the bugs blew Buenos Aires up. That was a very enjoyable moment for us Chileans. :lol


My biggest beef with starship troopers were the news anouncements were the narrator would say: "Do you want to know more?".

I always wanted to know more....

Needless to say, that scene got applause in Brazil as well.

And Pelé was way better than that dwarf Maradona!

And I liked Starship Troopers too, for the precise reasons Joshua mentions above.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I thought the trailer for The Fifth Element was awesome. Then I saw the movie.

And it was superduperawesome?

Man, even my mum loves that movie and she really dislikes all these types of geeky stuff.

 

[jonesy]

You want kooky? Watch it after seeing Casablanca.

My head would explode. Which might be an interesting experience. The first time.

 

[Tewligan]

The commercials for Fight Club totally failed to convey how the movie actually was. They made it look like a beat-'em-up movie tailored to appeal to guys who like 'splosions and ass-kickin's. If I wasn't already familiar with the book, I would have avoided the movie like the plague.

 

[Goodsport]

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Seriously.

The trailer made it look like it was gonna be completely stupid (not in the good way), and it took a friend's convincing to finally get me to see in the theater (a few weeks after opening day). Let's just say that I was very pleasantly surprised.


-G

 

[WayneLigon]

Having never seen the trailer, may I ask what about it was bait-and-switch?

I think they did the same thing for Patch Adams, as well, though having never seen that movie I can only go on what I heard. The trailer made it look like it was a lot of Robin Williams zaniness when in fact the trailer contained almost all of his joking around in a serious movie. I understand they did tha same thing with Kindergarten Cop. The trailer makes it out to look like a total comedy movie when (I've been told) the non-action-movie funny parts with him in the school are actually a fairly minor part of the film.

Oh, another one! Thunderbirds. The first Thunderbirds trailer makes it look like an adult action adventure movie with all sorts of daring-do in those amazingly cool Gerry Anderson vehicles. Then you see the second trailer and it's like it's advertising a totally different movie. Then you realize it's a Spy Kids-esque film all about the youngest Tracy son and his wacky second generation pals and you hardly ever see the other brothers.

 

[Starman]

The commercials for Fight Club totally failed to convey how the movie actually was. They made it look like a beat-'em-up movie tailored to appeal to guys who like 'splosions and ass-kickin's. If I wasn't already familiar with the book, I would have avoided the movie like the plague.

I agree, but to be fair it's not exactly the kind of movie that's easy to market.