Timeless. It’s a rather lazy hype buzzword, used when the guy scripting the ad can’t think of any actual redeeming feature of the movie.
Funniest of the year. Movies do sometimes get released at very different times of the year in different territories. Sometimes, here in the UK, we’ll get a trailer yelling that some movie is the funniest of the year when it’s early January, which is, in itself, funnier than anything about the movie itself.
**…and introducing… ** . We offered the part to everyone in Tinsel Town and they all passed, hence this unknown non-star getting a role way bigger than anything they can handle.
Heh. You got mine in the OP. As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought, “Thriller”. Any movie that advertises that it is likely to or intended to scare me is a non-starter. Scared isn’t a feeling I like or try to stimulate.
Also I generally won’t see a movie in which something blows up in the trailer, although there are exceptions.
So…you’re saying you’re not looking forward to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie? For shame.
Unless, of course, that was one of the exceptions you were talking about.
In a similar vein, *Rollicking. I haven’t seen it used much lately, but I don’t remember particularly like anything described as such when it came up more often in the past.
Director’s Fucking Pretentious Asswipe Cut
I have yet to see a director’s cut that improved a film’s watchability. Generally they’re just a vehicle for the smarmy dung smoker of a director to say, “Oooh, lookkit how artsy and oh so special I think I am. My way is the superior way, you peasants.”
“IV” and “V” and “VI” and “VII”… etc. Even many “III’s” aren’t worth seeing.
“Executive Producer Lorne Michaels…”
“Directed by Peter Verhoeven.”
“MTV Productions presents…”
“A View Askew Production…”
“… starring Don Cheadle.”
“Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan…”
“…with DMX…”
“… with Ben Affleck.”
Marlon Wayans. Shawn Wayans.
Any teen sex comedy marketed in the summer.
Any “epics” launched immediately after the summer season but before the release of Veteran’s Day/Christmas serious Oscar considerations from the studios.
ANY movies released in February/March. Blech.
And I’ve sworn off the Ernest, Chucky, Freddy, Jason, Bond, Trek and Star Wars franchises forever.
I’ll second Pauli Shore. The most overrated, unfunny comic actor in Hollywood. Seeing him in an ad will immediately kill any desire I have to see that film.
I can’t stand Jim Carey either, although I liked him in that one Batman movie.