And let’s not forget Lady in the Water.. It seems this guy is real good at misleading potential movie goers.
Well,
the gang of black-and-white kids smashed up the diner and attacked spiderman’s mom
Yeah, but that seemed more out of ignorance than emotion. No matter.
I haven’t seen that one yet. Although – I know that sometimes TV trailers don’t reflect the producer’s true wishes – case in point, a recent episode of LOST, where the TV trailers made promises about “3 island mysteries being answered” that the producers never claimed.
Does the same happen with movie trailers? I’m guessing so.
I disagree. Both were great films, but Aliens was more an action film where as Alien was a horror flick. Perhaps y’all expected more gore, but at it’s heart it was a Victorian ghost story. What went bump in the night just happened to be aboard a space ship rather than a haunted mansion.
Ever found the cover art on a VHS or DVD box misleading? The smiling sweet pictures of Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jena Malone on the cover of Bastard out of Carolina are quite confounding, given the title and the nature of the subject matter.
I was kinda disapointed that Boogie Nights was not about a disco contest like the trailers made it seem. I had to sit through painful nude footage of both Julianne Moore and Heather Graham. 
Somewhere in between. The fantasy elements were overrepresented in the trailers and ads, but they weren’t as brief as you seem to think. There’s an element of the fantastic that runs through the whole film.
It is not a romantic comedy or a ‘chick flick’. It is actually very complex. It is one of the very few Australian movies that I would recommend.
I really like it too. Most people seem to have had the wrong idea when they walked into the theatre.
Arnie sends himself up. It was great.
Here is another who liked it.
Why is it that when action heroes send themselves up in a movie, it is not popular? Sounds like another thread title.
Aliens isn’t a horror film, it’s a war movie. Sure, they’re using pulse rifles against parasitic xenomorphs, but it’s still a gung-ho “few against a faceless mass” war movie.
My choice would be Brokeback Mountain. The marketing made me expect the movie to say something worthwhile about homosexuality, but as it turned out the genders of the main characters were irrelevant.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this trailer:
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2681181
OK, yes, it’s a spoof, of course
It is what I call a horror film, but a good one, like Silence of the Lambs. It relies on suspense, not gore, though. In the classic “chest burst” scene, you are shown how bad it could be. Then, for most of the film, you may see the creature leap, or confront someone, but no more. The horrors that the mind can imagine are much worse than anything that could be put onscreen. I thought Aliens II was as good, unusual for a sequel, but it’s only rumors they made A III and A IV!
My mom took me to see Alien when I was 4 years old, thinking it would be a family film about a cute friendly alien - something more like ET. I don’t know what marketing materials she saw to give her that impression. I found it all fascinating and she covered her face with her hands throughout the entire movie.
It wasn’r emotion that gave people color, it was change. People colorized when they acted against type - when they “went off script,” so to speak. Thus, it happened to meek Toby Maguire when he fought back, it happened to flighty Reese Witherspoon when she chose studying over socializing, it happened to iron-willed J.T. Walsh when he lost control and shout at someone… and so forth. Change, not just emotion.
Full Disclosure: I have not seen this movie, I am only going on news reports of the time.
Kangaroo Jack was represented in trailers as a kid’s movie, using footage of a hip talking kangaroo. My understanding is that it was really an action film, with some content that parents might have found objectionable for their kids. It just had a brief scene where one of the character’s hallucinates that a kangaroo is talking to him. I think the movie studios went as far as advertising the movie with a fast food toy tie-in.
PG-rated action/comedy with a mobster theme, but mostly involving a wacky chase to find a kangaroo. The ultra-conservative Parents Television Council said the film was inappropriate for children, but the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it was okay for all but the youngest of kids. This caused someone to write to the PTC something to the effect of “When the Parents Television Council disapproves of a film okayed by Catholic bishops, something is seriously wrong.”
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. I love those kinds of dark, deadpan comedies but they are hard to pull off but Muriel’s Wedding does it well and had me cracking up uncomfortably.
Now that’s just great. What a cool mom … she had the decency to let you watch a classic in its prime rather than remove you from the theatre at the tender age of 4. 
On the topic of the Alien saga, I don’t think either of the first two movies could’ve qualified as having had misleading trailers. The first film’s promo made no bones about it being a horror film with its tagline: “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The sequel made no bones about being a war film: “This time, it’s war.” The shots shown in these trailers were also quite representative of the respective tones of each film. How anyone could be misled is a mystery to me. Hell, the score for the trailer of the first film was so nightmarish, even Cameron recycled it for the teaser trailer to the sequel. The score for the Alien trailer (if you could call it that, it’s really more of an alert klaxon altered to sound like a biomechanically inhuman scream) makes the skin on the back of my neck crawl. 
There is the trailer for Alien 3, however … a perfect fit for the OP. Due to the big fiasco that was the production of the third film, the studio wanted to market it to appear very much like Cameron’s sequel with quick edits set to a thunderous orchestral score by James Horner (the composer for the second film – his motif actually ended up being a reworked musical underpinning for more than a few future action movie trailers). The third movie changed so much from concept to execution that it was destined to be unsure of what it set out to be, which is really a shame since the initial concept was admittedly cool. I read the original script treatment by William Gibson (or what remains of it) and it had some genuinely twisted psychological horror and surreal nightmarish imagery that would’ve been a great direction to take the franchine in if it had been made anything like the first two films. But since the third film was stilted due to collective gang rape courtesy of too many people involved in the creative process, Fox ended up promoting it to look like a Cameron film. In reality, it’s paced nowhere near as brilliantly as anything Cameron (an unsurpassed genius when it comes to steadily pacing the narrative of long films) puts together.
Even the tagline was misleading. “The bitch is back.” The actual “bitch” didn’t show up until the last moments of the film and only appeared for about three seconds, having little significance to the plot, if any.