# Worst advertising for movies.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-advertising-for-movies/210887>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-advertising-for-movies/210887 "2003-11-01T21:08:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-advertising-for-movies/210887/21 "2003-11-03T08:17:50Z")

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**Serving Sara**. The ads made it out to be a comedy with Bruce Campbell (Ash!) as the domineering Texan husband of Liz Hurley (hot!), who hires Matthew Perry (decent, but funny in _Whole Nine Yards_) to track him down.

Turned out to be a mostly relationship-driven half comedy with one gross-out gag.

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-advertising-for-movies/210887/22 "2003-11-03T08:25:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by widdershins \*  
> I read in some review that _The Matrix Reloaded_ spoof scenes in _Scary Movie 3_ didn’t test well with audiences and most were removed including the one in the trailer featuring Eddie Griffin and Queen Latifah.

I got the impression that it was a spoof scene of _The Matrix_, but whatever. I actually like it when trailer jokes aren’t in the film itself, because I feel the same way as **CaptBushido** (to a point).

The trailer for _Chicken Run_ also gave away the ending.

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**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-advertising-for-movies/210887/23 "2003-11-03T08:58:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by FilmGeek \*  
> \*\*Cold Creek Manor
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> It’s advertised as a supernatural (the house is trying to kill you) type thriller.
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> It’s actually a very tame this guy is trying to kill you and there’s no mystery to it at all. There is, however an absolutely HILARIOUS snake scene. I was crying I was laughing so hard.
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> It wasn’t supposed to be funny. \*\*

That’s too bad. I was really looking forward to seeing that movie.

On a similar note, I thought it was really interesting how they sort of did the reverse in the trailers for _Sleepy Hollow_.They set it up as some kind of Early American mystery with a rational explanation and a completely human villain (“The assassin is a man of flesh and blood and I will discover him.”), but in the end it turns out there really _is_ a headless horseman of supernatual origin.That was pretty clever of them, I thought.

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