# Good trailer, baaaad movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 2, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363 "2001-09-02T01:46:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/1 "2001-09-02T01:46:20Z")

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I’m sure this has been discussed before, but now that we have a **NEW** board to discuss this kind of thing in the proper and just context, it’s worth another go, I reckon.

So I’m asking for examples where the trailer was a little 2 minute work of art, and the movie was a 2 hour piece of crap.

Most recent example for me was **Pearl Harbor**. Very nice, stirring trailer and a quite unsatisfying and misguided movie to go with it.

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**Author:** ![Nausicaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@Nausicaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nausicaa)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/2 "2001-09-02T02:03:13Z")

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My vote would be for Driven with Sylvster Stallone. Really good trailer - really bad, lame movie.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/3 "2001-09-02T02:16:20Z")

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**Under Seige II**

Well it looked neat back then. The movie was horrid, though.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/4 "2001-09-02T03:37:16Z")

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I agree about _Pearl Harbor_ the trailer for that was a work of art. Add my vote for _Mission Impossible II_ - fantastic trailer, but absolutely shitty typical Jon Woo bullshit.

BTW: Is anybody else disturbed that Jon Woo is directing a film about WWII Navajo codetalkers? ☹

Those guys deserve a talented director.

☹

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**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/5 "2001-09-02T15:58:40Z")

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The trailer for _Hollow Man_ made it look exciting and interesting. It really sucked.

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-trailer-baaaad-movie/79363/6 "2001-09-02T16:00:18Z")

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I went to see “The Fifth Element” because the trailer made it look a lot more fun than I found it to actually be.

In the other direction, I watched “Die Hard” last night and the DVD included the trailer. The awful, awful trailer.