# Anybody else notice this weird new trend in movie previews? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494 "2014-08-14T05:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/21 "2014-08-14T20:09:11Z")
The trailer for the film _Reign of Fire_ had a bunch of footage that wasn’t in the film. It made it seem like it was going to be a sort of Godzilla with dragons. Instead it was a post-apocalyptic movie (with dragons). I always kind of wondered if the mislead was on purpose, or if they’d planned to have a lot more dragons sacking cities and dogfighting military jets, but for whatever reason bailed on that bit late in the process. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/22 "2014-08-14T20:13:58Z")
[TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissingTrailerScene) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/23 "2014-08-14T20:22:20Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > That would have been Bob Hoskins’ voice. Originally his detective character was going to be disguised as a Toon when he went into Toontown. Not quite. Eddie was turned into a Toon by Judge Doom’s weasels with the intent of tormenting him. [Here’s the scene, after Zemeckis talks about it.](http://youtu.be/lz_TEJ0BFEI) (I think some TV prints might have included it - I have a pretty vivid memory of seeing it as a kid, and imdb agrees, but we all know how reliable memory is, and imdb can be fooled.) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/24 "2014-08-14T20:30:30Z")
“‘Do you like what you doth see…?’ said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/25 "2014-08-14T21:25:43Z")
Trailers for Godzilla showed a devestated Statue of Liberty. In the movie Big G was strictly a San Francisco monster who never got to the Big Apple. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/26 "2014-08-14T22:06:17Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Not quite. Eddie was turned into a Toon by Judge Doom’s weasels with the intent of tormenting him. > [Here’s the scene, after Zemeckis talks about it.](http://youtu.be/lz_TEJ0BFEI) > (I think some TV prints might have included it - I have a pretty vivid memory of seeing it as a kid, and imdb agrees, but we all know how reliable memory is, and imdb can be fooled.) Thanks for that, Kamino Neko. But this is going to drive me nuts: I _know_ I read, fairly recently, that an abandoned idea for the movie was having Eddie go into Toontown disguised as a Toon. Anyone else see this information anywhere? (It’s not impossible that I dreamed it as I often have very detailed dreams, but I still think I really did read it, somewhere…) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/27 "2014-08-14T22:28:14Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Planes: > In the preview there’s a scene showing Dusty accidentally drinking some jet fuel then zooming frenetically all over the sky. > I can understand why they would leave this scene out of the movie, but why was it in the preview? > Frozen: > In the preview there’s a scene of Olaf (Snowman) and Sven (Reindeer) sliding all over the ice. Leaving this scene out of the movie only made it shorter. With 3D animated films, probably they do some test animations, to see how they like the look of the characters, certain special effects, and the background, entirely divorced from the script. This also makes it perfect content for a trailer, since it provides content that looks good, captures the feel of the movie, but doesn’t spoil anything. It’s a lot harder to get the actors, costumes, and sets all together, and have everyone act out some random stuff while you fiddle with the specifics, before starting to shoot real scenes. But if it’s just an animator, tinkering with stuff on his computer, it’s a lot more reasonable to keep adjusting before getting down to work. Live-action films are basically stuck with whatever happened to be in place on the day of filming. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/28 "2014-08-15T00:12:50Z")
“And in the Summer of 2015 you too will be…Hailing to the Chimp!” \ Sorry, now I’m just amusing myself with trailers that don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/29 "2014-08-15T19:55:14Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > “‘Do you like what you doth see…?’ said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within.” This was probably just done for humor, but I stopped reading the synopses on the back of books. They always give you a misleading idea of what’s in the book. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494/30 "2014-08-15T20:01:22Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > This was probably just done for humor, but I stopped reading the synopses on the back of books. They always give you a misleading idea of what’s in the book. True! And worse…they all too often give away important plot surprises! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-notice-this-weird-new-trend-in-movie-previews/695494.md?page=1)