[Spoilers?] Great stuff in trailers that aren't in movies

[Heretic Apostate]

I've been wondering about this lately. For instance, I bought "Heist" on DVD recently, and I am pretty sure that the trailer had the lines:

"Where's the gold?"
"In the heart of the pure."

But it aint there!

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I've seen this happen a lot lately. Directors are tossing stuff in trailers that's been cut from the actual movie. It's rather annoying, if you ask me. And I'm not talking about stuff that's filmed JUST for the trailer, but stuff that belongs in the movie, and we're teased with it, and it just aint there....
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Anyway, that's just an observation by me...

 

[Crothian]

Nothing new. Trailers are ussually made before the final print of the movie is done. So, it happens from time to time.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Wow, I would welcome that rather then the trailers spoiling the whole movie.

Why bother seeing Changing Lanes or Sum of All Fears?

If you have seen the trailers, then you have seen the major plot points of the movie.

It is a shame the teasers have become spoilers.

FD

 

[Crothian]

Salutations,

Wow, I would welcome that rather then the trailers spoiling the whole movie.

Why bother seeing Changing Lanes or Sum of All Fears?

If you have seen the trailers, then you have seen the major plot points of the movie.

It is a shame the teasers have become spoilers.

FD

Actually, changing lanes is a lot more then what is in the trailers. The trailers of that movie do show a lot of plot, but none of the resolution.

 

[ToddSchumacher]

Salutations,

Wow, I would welcome that rather then the trailers spoiling the whole movie.

Why bother seeing Changing Lanes or Sum of All Fears?

If you have seen the trailers, then you have seen the major plot points of the movie.

It is a shame the teasers have become spoilers.

FD

I agree with you, but it seems we are in the minority. I remember reading somewhere (Possibly AiCN) that market research indicates that the general populous won't go to see a movie unless they know what to expect - hence the whole-movie-in-two-minutes syndrome.

 

[madriel]

Count me in that minority too. I want a general idea of the story. I want to be introduced to the characters. I don't want them giving away the big plot twists. I don't want to know the ending.

Remember What Lies Beneath or the Negotiator?

Both of them gave away a major plot twist in the trailer.

The teaser for the Two Towers is my idea of a good trailer. They showed us a glimpse of an Ent. And not a whole Ent either. The shots of the battle of Helm's Deep showed the two sides facing off before the battle and not the battle in progress.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Then there is the case of Highlander: Endgame where they filmed scenes just for the trailer. Things to make the movie look more SciFi even though they had no plan of using them in the movie. That kind of thing really pisses me off.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Even when the scenes are in the movies it irritates me when they portray the movie as something it isn't:

Pearl Harbor: War story instead of love story.
Dude Where's my Car: Bad teen comedy instead of teen sci-fi comedy.
Event Horizon: Sci-Fi Mystery instead of Sci-Fi Horror

 

[Fenros]

Yeah, remember the "Twister" trailer where it ends with the tire from the tornado debris bouncing toward the windshield and we cut right before it hits?

Yup, that wasn't in the movie.

"Sum of all Fears" also showed you a tid bit where Jack is talking to Cathy by the fire. She saying stuff like, "I don't know if I can share my life with someone who keeps secrets from me." Or something to that effect. And Jack is all, "I will not let that happen."

Then you see the movie and the scene by the fire place is there, but not the conversation highlighted in the trailer. Which is too bad because Cathy never confronts Jack on why he keeps disappearing to go do 'stuff' from time to time without explaination. She sort of starts to get upset about it, but it goes no where. By the end of the movie she just kind of excepts it, forgets it, or looks past it, or who knows what.

That missing scene didn't hurt the movie that much or anything, but it would've still helped the subplot story arc that was going on with Jack's love interest. Too me, there were a lot of other bad stuff going in that film that made it boring besides the exclusion of that scene. *shrug*