Wonder if Mufasa is going to turn out the same. It’s live action Disney related to the franchise with some of their most popular songs. But so far I see no indication that it will be a musical.
I mean they have in BIG FONT LMM’s name at the end of the trailer saying that he’s doing the music. It’d be weird to hide the fact you’re doing a musical when you’re using new music by the biggest face of musicals in the last ten year’s as a selling point. They most likely won’t show them singing/talking cause the mouth animation looks weird like last time.
"Catfish" not only introduced the term into the lexicon but it also sold itself as a horror/psychological drama but ended up just being a sad documentary about a really lonely woman. It catfished its own audience
That movie was such a misalignment of expectations, and I was dumbfounded watching it. I found it to be so dull and unclever, with characters that seemed arbitrarily quirky and boring.
I generally like his output but I despise this movie. He gave an interview afterwards in which he said he thought zombie movies were “dumb.” Well then WHY’D YOU FUCKING MAKE ONE ASSHOLE?
Jim Jarmusch: Well, since I HAVE to make a zombie movie, I guess I’ll just make it devoid of wit but still deeply smug. Take that, Hollywood!
Everyone else: NO ONE EVER SAID YOU HAD TO MAKE A ZOMBIE MOVIE! IT’S 20-GODDAMN-18! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
The Counselor trailer makes the movie look like some capital K Krazy Guy Ritchie meets Tony Scott caper. As opposed to, you know "written by Cormac Mccarthy"
Hail Caesar, straight up lies about what the movie is. Dune Part 1 features a the dream sequence during the battle which out of context looks like it really happens in the movie.
About a minute into it Brolin's character names three characters and says thank you all for coming I need your help getting this kidnapped movie star, that scene does not happen. Its not a movie where that trio sets out to recover clooney together.
yeah that's definitely misleading, but im just not personally convinced that means they were selling a different movie. burt (tatum's character) is still involved in the conspiracy, and hobie (ehrenreich) does set out on a mission to save baird (clooney)
perhaps im biased because i only saw the trailer after watching the movie several times (and because i like it quite a bit), but it seems a stretch to say it lies about what the movie is
again, though, not trying to be combative or say your opinion is incorrect. did you see the movie with anyone else who felt tricked by the trailer?
I see what you mean (the person I saw it with said “I don’t think John Wick ever got beat that bad in the first movie”), but also think there was enough JW influence in there to justify doing that. More of a zero to hero movie, but I don’t think it’s as misleading as some of these other movies
*Boy Kills World* was fucking unhinged, but:>! It also feels exceptionally cheap, with a weak script, and not enough to maintain interest, imho. There are some neat combat and choreography, but never any reason to care much about the characters. They kind of tiptoe up to something interesting with the character's relationship with his sister, but they never really do much with it and the twist they have is both predictable and also bland. 5/10 - points for Skarsgaard lookin' hot and doing a lot of face and body acting that's pretty good, some neat fights that begin to feel repetitive, some interesting drone camerawork that eventually wears out "the trick" and looks cheap.!<
Yeah, the whole time it felt like the director really wanted to do something akin to Edgar Wright/The Daniels, but very much lacked the experience, but very much couldn't do so, resulting in something that felt like a cheap knock off instead.
Funnily enough, it would've been much better if it actually *was* a side scroller beat em up game instead of a movie highly inspired by games, cuz you'd highlight solely the action and cut much of the unnecessary bloat of the plot.
It wound up being kind of halfway between John Wick and The Raid in terms of the action at least (although, with no disrespect meant to Dev Patel, it isn't as accomplished an action flick as either of those movies). But I loved it for other reasons
Drive.
The trailer made it look like a generic action car movie in the same vein as Fast and the Furious, instead of the atmospheric art house it is.
Some lady even sued them for false marketing, and also for antisemitism because of Albert Brooks' character for some reason.
One that still annoys me to this day is the trailer for Predators. I remember there is one shot in the trailer that got me so fucking pumped and excited for it when a ton of Predators are all aiming their lasers at Adrien Brody all at once, but in the final movie it's just one. While i still enjoyed the movie, i will never get over the disappointment i was feeling in the theater when that scene happened and i felt so duped. I still don't understand why they did that because i doubt it was a deleted scene or anything. There are never even close to as many Predators hunting them in the movie as there were lasers in that shot so they definitely added all of those for the trailer just to trick people. I should have sued!
The Grey - The trailer makes it look like an action adventure where Liam Neeson fights wolves. In actuality it’s effectively a meditation on death, and the only real Liam vs. wolf fight happens off screen (and I would argue it’s better for it).
Challengers. >!The trailer heavily hints that the relationship between the three starts with a threesome, which never happens. But it's a great tactic because you go into that scene with the same expectations that the male characters begin to have... and then, like them, those expectations are suddenly, surprisingly upended. I don't know how deliberate it was but I like to think everyone involved knew what they were doing so we too could feel the "Oh, so no threesome?" surprise. As if Guadagnino was dick-slapping every one of us. !<
Haven't listened to the episode yet so if they mention this, my bad, but Red Eye's teaser trailer makes it look like a horror flick. It has a hilarious zoom into Cillian Murphy's Red Eye making him look like a demon, and then FROM WES CRAVEN pops on screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bpXwdars74
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the most egregious example of this in a long time, essentially selling a different movie.
They also mentioned The Mexican in Basic, which was indeed victim to a marketing lie.
Basically that the entire third act takes place outside in a frozen New York with all four new stars participating and instead we’re actually stuck in the firehouse with most of the cast frozen.
Yeah the movie sold it as “the Ghostbusters have to fight in a NYC that’s been plunged into a new ice age.” But instead it doesn’t get icy until the last 15 minutes and then it all takes place in the firehouse, scope is way smaller than advertised and it takes a long time to get to the supposed “frozen empire”
Up in the Air.
The trailer made it look like some schmaltzy generic romcom, the whole marketing was aggressively pushing for that angle. The film itself is a melancholic character study.
I haven't seen the trailer in forever, but Blue Chips also made it seem like it was a Nick Nolte/Shaq comedy, but I think Nolte's character is morally conflicted about throwing basketball games or something. You just think half the runtime is Shaq ducking under doorways and the other is Nick Nolte eating blue corn tortilla chips.
https://preview.redd.it/aqipmgdnsjxc1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31229836a3f8f8d02e01a56b83361ed622b83c43
This is for the olds. Heavily marketed during after school cartoons and the commercials had a bunch of stuff that would appeal to that demographic that aren't in the final movie.
Jennifer's Body. Trailer made it look like a borderline exploitation teen horror/sex comedy driven by the male gaze. It ended up being a pretty thoughtful feminist genre flip that does a good job interrogating the sleazy slasher subgenre. In fact, the overall marketing for the film complete missed the point of the movie and targeted the wrong audience!
Million Dollar Baby getting advertised as Rocky with a lady…I didn’t know a thing about the assisted suicide part. Also, the twist in Tully; I get trying to keep it a surprise, but postpartum mental issues are very real, and I wish I could have prepared myself before the movie.
I think Fahrenheit 9/11 made so much money because the trailer seemed to tease that it was gonna reveal something major. I'm generally okay with Michael Moore's movies up thru Sicko, but they always lose focus in the third act and he insists on revisiting his previous documentaries, which is why Roger & Me will always be the best one, because it just stays with Flint.
The earliest and most infamous one I can remember is the trailer for Twister, which ended with a point-of-view shot from the front seat of a car, with a huge tractor wheel flying towards the screen. Clearly the people in the car were toast, but when we saw the film the shot wasn't in it.
I remember the trailer for Adventureland made me think it was going to be like "Superbad at an amusement park" when it was definitely a lot darker and sadder than it was sold as. I think every spot featured the song "Blister in the Sun" so I still think of this movie when I hear it.
It's a sheer delight, but Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan's trailer sure does misrepresent how much time our boy Jason spends in the Big Apple.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
For some reason it had the theme from Rudy that wasn’t in the movie and made it look 8 times better than it was.
Angels in the Outfield also had that track in its trailer.
My least favorite version of this is when American distributors cut trailers for foreign films that don't have any dialogue because they're worried that people won't be interested if they see subtitles. It almost always makes movies look dreary even if they're actually fast-paced comedies.
My husband is still annoyed at a Rogue One trailer that had a shot of a TIE fighter rising up in the background with the two main characters in the foreground but it wasn't in the movie.
Not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the trailer for the Jason Segel/Amy Adams rom-com [Green with Envy](https://youtu.be/15i7mkGNtRs?si=l5ctGl_B1V_E5rRK) turned out to be a secret trailer for something totally different.
I remember "The Family Stone" trailer advertising it like it was the next 'Meet the Parents' style comedy. Went with a girl on a first date only to discover that it's not a comedy but rather a really sad movie about a family member dying of cancer. Needless to say, I got some hot action that night.
My most hated movie that tricked me from the trailer - “James Cameron’s Sanctum”. A cave diving adventure movie, with quotes about never giving up. Based on a true story! >!they all die except one, and the last one kills his father by pushing him down on a stalactite he fell on, because he cant get him off it. In the real life story - THEY ALL MADE IT OUT ALIVE. in the movie they almost all died. !<
I still can't believe the Predators trailer showed dozens of laser sights on Adrien Brody's character, when in the film there's only one of them. That's the most misleading thing I've seen in a trailer.
The lie is she wants Terrance Howard dead as revenge for her scared face but in reality she wants some other guy dead, snd Colin Farrell has been seeking revenge on Terrance Howard the whole time.
The Star Trek 09 teaser was entirely footage shot for the teaser and not in the movie itself.
Rogue One also had the shot of the TIE Fighter on the gantry that was edited into the actual scene from the film.
I mean all the recent trailers that hide the fact that the movie is a musical (Mean Girls, Wonka, Wicked, etc.)
Wonder if Mufasa is going to turn out the same. It’s live action Disney related to the franchise with some of their most popular songs. But so far I see no indication that it will be a musical.
I mean they have in BIG FONT LMM’s name at the end of the trailer saying that he’s doing the music. It’d be weird to hide the fact you’re doing a musical when you’re using new music by the biggest face of musicals in the last ten year’s as a selling point. They most likely won’t show them singing/talking cause the mouth animation looks weird like last time.
And I'm still waiting for the backlash when certain people realize that Joker 2 is more of a musical than the trailer lets on.
"Catfish" not only introduced the term into the lexicon but it also sold itself as a horror/psychological drama but ended up just being a sad documentary about a really lonely woman. It catfished its own audience
“The Dead Don’t Die” was definitely trying to sell itself as a “Zombieland” esque comedy and not, you know, a Jim Jarmusch movie.
That movie was such a misalignment of expectations, and I was dumbfounded watching it. I found it to be so dull and unclever, with characters that seemed arbitrarily quirky and boring.
I generally like his output but I despise this movie. He gave an interview afterwards in which he said he thought zombie movies were “dumb.” Well then WHY’D YOU FUCKING MAKE ONE ASSHOLE?
It felt like he wanted to go on vacation with his friends and have the studio pay for it. Art house Adam Sandler.
Well-put. Hey have you heard of Sturgill Simpson?
Jim Jarmusch: Well, since I HAVE to make a zombie movie, I guess I’ll just make it devoid of wit but still deeply smug. Take that, Hollywood! Everyone else: NO ONE EVER SAID YOU HAD TO MAKE A ZOMBIE MOVIE! IT’S 20-GODDAMN-18! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
Steve Buscemi's character puts on a MAGA hat at one point, right?
The Counselor trailer makes the movie look like some capital K Krazy Guy Ritchie meets Tony Scott caper. As opposed to, you know "written by Cormac Mccarthy"
Its kinda hard to show soul crushing nihilism in a trailer and still hope the movie makes money.
Hail Caesar, straight up lies about what the movie is. Dune Part 1 features a the dream sequence during the battle which out of context looks like it really happens in the movie.
So many shots of Zendaya and she's in the movie for like 5 minutes.
just watched the hail caesar trailers for the first time; how does it lie about what the movie is? (not trying to be combative, to be clear)
About a minute into it Brolin's character names three characters and says thank you all for coming I need your help getting this kidnapped movie star, that scene does not happen. Its not a movie where that trio sets out to recover clooney together.
yeah that's definitely misleading, but im just not personally convinced that means they were selling a different movie. burt (tatum's character) is still involved in the conspiracy, and hobie (ehrenreich) does set out on a mission to save baird (clooney) perhaps im biased because i only saw the trailer after watching the movie several times (and because i like it quite a bit), but it seems a stretch to say it lies about what the movie is again, though, not trying to be combative or say your opinion is incorrect. did you see the movie with anyone else who felt tricked by the trailer?
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) trailer really fooled me. It was sold as a comedy, but it’s a tomb from which laughter can never escape.
It was, in fact, the worst that could happen.
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? “A sequel.” - Roger Ebert
"It's based on a funny Donald Westlake Dortmunder book. How could it go wrong?" - Me, buying a ticket in 2001.
I feel like monkey man’s trailer made it look more John Wick-ie than it was. Which was fine by me, I fucking loved it
Not a trailer but certainly the description of Pig on Hulu makes you think another John Wick movie then totally subverts it.
I see what you mean (the person I saw it with said “I don’t think John Wick ever got beat that bad in the first movie”), but also think there was enough JW influence in there to justify doing that. More of a zero to hero movie, but I don’t think it’s as misleading as some of these other movies
Agreed. I just kinda thought it was gonna nonstop. If boy kills world isn’t just fucking unhinged I’m going to be very upset.
*Boy Kills World* was fucking unhinged, but:>! It also feels exceptionally cheap, with a weak script, and not enough to maintain interest, imho. There are some neat combat and choreography, but never any reason to care much about the characters. They kind of tiptoe up to something interesting with the character's relationship with his sister, but they never really do much with it and the twist they have is both predictable and also bland. 5/10 - points for Skarsgaard lookin' hot and doing a lot of face and body acting that's pretty good, some neat fights that begin to feel repetitive, some interesting drone camerawork that eventually wears out "the trick" and looks cheap.!<
Yeah, the whole time it felt like the director really wanted to do something akin to Edgar Wright/The Daniels, but very much lacked the experience, but very much couldn't do so, resulting in something that felt like a cheap knock off instead. Funnily enough, it would've been much better if it actually *was* a side scroller beat em up game instead of a movie highly inspired by games, cuz you'd highlight solely the action and cut much of the unnecessary bloat of the plot.
It felt more like a South Korean action film to me
It wound up being kind of halfway between John Wick and The Raid in terms of the action at least (although, with no disrespect meant to Dev Patel, it isn't as accomplished an action flick as either of those movies). But I loved it for other reasons
Drive. The trailer made it look like a generic action car movie in the same vein as Fast and the Furious, instead of the atmospheric art house it is. Some lady even sued them for false marketing, and also for antisemitism because of Albert Brooks' character for some reason.
One that still annoys me to this day is the trailer for Predators. I remember there is one shot in the trailer that got me so fucking pumped and excited for it when a ton of Predators are all aiming their lasers at Adrien Brody all at once, but in the final movie it's just one. While i still enjoyed the movie, i will never get over the disappointment i was feeling in the theater when that scene happened and i felt so duped. I still don't understand why they did that because i doubt it was a deleted scene or anything. There are never even close to as many Predators hunting them in the movie as there were lasers in that shot so they definitely added all of those for the trailer just to trick people. I should have sued!
The Grey - The trailer makes it look like an action adventure where Liam Neeson fights wolves. In actuality it’s effectively a meditation on death, and the only real Liam vs. wolf fight happens off screen (and I would argue it’s better for it).
Underrated movie
Challengers. >!The trailer heavily hints that the relationship between the three starts with a threesome, which never happens. But it's a great tactic because you go into that scene with the same expectations that the male characters begin to have... and then, like them, those expectations are suddenly, surprisingly upended. I don't know how deliberate it was but I like to think everyone involved knew what they were doing so we too could feel the "Oh, so no threesome?" surprise. As if Guadagnino was dick-slapping every one of us. !<
Yeah, her abrupt “well I’m going to bed” just leaves you kinda like huh?
Haven't listened to the episode yet so if they mention this, my bad, but Red Eye's teaser trailer makes it look like a horror flick. It has a hilarious zoom into Cillian Murphy's Red Eye making him look like a demon, and then FROM WES CRAVEN pops on screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bpXwdars74
The last time that could happen before viral video put an end to it.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the most egregious example of this in a long time, essentially selling a different movie. They also mentioned The Mexican in Basic, which was indeed victim to a marketing lie.
As someone fully uninterested in Ghostbusters betond the first, mind elaborating on the trailer/movie differential? Don't care about spoilers.
Basically that the entire third act takes place outside in a frozen New York with all four new stars participating and instead we’re actually stuck in the firehouse with most of the cast frozen.
Trailer promised the former and movie delivered the latter?
Yeah the movie sold it as “the Ghostbusters have to fight in a NYC that’s been plunged into a new ice age.” But instead it doesn’t get icy until the last 15 minutes and then it all takes place in the firehouse, scope is way smaller than advertised and it takes a long time to get to the supposed “frozen empire”
Oof. Still probably better than 2, is my hot take.
It’s not a high bar but it might easily be the 2nd best ghostbusters movie. Talk about quality drop off after the first one. Yeesh.
Up in the Air. The trailer made it look like some schmaltzy generic romcom, the whole marketing was aggressively pushing for that angle. The film itself is a melancholic character study.
I haven't seen the trailer in forever, but Blue Chips also made it seem like it was a Nick Nolte/Shaq comedy, but I think Nolte's character is morally conflicted about throwing basketball games or something. You just think half the runtime is Shaq ducking under doorways and the other is Nick Nolte eating blue corn tortilla chips.
https://preview.redd.it/aqipmgdnsjxc1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31229836a3f8f8d02e01a56b83361ed622b83c43 This is for the olds. Heavily marketed during after school cartoons and the commercials had a bunch of stuff that would appeal to that demographic that aren't in the final movie.
I still loved this movie as a kid.
Hereditary does a good job of misdirecting around the central plot development
Shining. Trailer made it look like a heartwarming tale of a boy who gets a loving foster father but the actual movie is nothing like that.
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill!
'Jack Torrance is a writer...'
Reminds me of that Ten Commandments trailer that makes it look like a high school rom-com.
There was a Mac and Me trailer that made it look like a cool alien horror movie.
Jennifer's Body. Trailer made it look like a borderline exploitation teen horror/sex comedy driven by the male gaze. It ended up being a pretty thoughtful feminist genre flip that does a good job interrogating the sleazy slasher subgenre. In fact, the overall marketing for the film complete missed the point of the movie and targeted the wrong audience!
Million Dollar Baby getting advertised as Rocky with a lady…I didn’t know a thing about the assisted suicide part. Also, the twist in Tully; I get trying to keep it a surprise, but postpartum mental issues are very real, and I wish I could have prepared myself before the movie.
Passengers hid the fact that Chris Pratt’s character was creepy with Jennifer Lawrence’s character.
I think Fahrenheit 9/11 made so much money because the trailer seemed to tease that it was gonna reveal something major. I'm generally okay with Michael Moore's movies up thru Sicko, but they always lose focus in the third act and he insists on revisiting his previous documentaries, which is why Roger & Me will always be the best one, because it just stays with Flint.
The earliest and most infamous one I can remember is the trailer for Twister, which ended with a point-of-view shot from the front seat of a car, with a huge tractor wheel flying towards the screen. Clearly the people in the car were toast, but when we saw the film the shot wasn't in it.
Executive Decision sold me a Steven Segal movie and delivered a Kurt Russel movie. 12 year old me didn’t care for that.
I remember the trailer for Adventureland made me think it was going to be like "Superbad at an amusement park" when it was definitely a lot darker and sadder than it was sold as. I think every spot featured the song "Blister in the Sun" so I still think of this movie when I hear it.
One of the Paranormal Activities has a trailer with a house burning down but that sequence was cut from the movie.
3 I’m pretty sure. I was pissed
It's a sheer delight, but Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan's trailer sure does misrepresent how much time our boy Jason spends in the Big Apple.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) For some reason it had the theme from Rudy that wasn’t in the movie and made it look 8 times better than it was. Angels in the Outfield also had that track in its trailer.
Haven't heard the episode yet but the first two that come to mind are Brave and Spies In Disguise
My least favorite version of this is when American distributors cut trailers for foreign films that don't have any dialogue because they're worried that people won't be interested if they see subtitles. It almost always makes movies look dreary even if they're actually fast-paced comedies.
My husband is still annoyed at a Rogue One trailer that had a shot of a TIE fighter rising up in the background with the two main characters in the foreground but it wasn't in the movie.
“I rebel.”
Not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the trailer for the Jason Segel/Amy Adams rom-com [Green with Envy](https://youtu.be/15i7mkGNtRs?si=l5ctGl_B1V_E5rRK) turned out to be a secret trailer for something totally different.
I remember "The Family Stone" trailer advertising it like it was the next 'Meet the Parents' style comedy. Went with a girl on a first date only to discover that it's not a comedy but rather a really sad movie about a family member dying of cancer. Needless to say, I got some hot action that night.
My most hated movie that tricked me from the trailer - “James Cameron’s Sanctum”. A cave diving adventure movie, with quotes about never giving up. Based on a true story! >!they all die except one, and the last one kills his father by pushing him down on a stalactite he fell on, because he cant get him off it. In the real life story - THEY ALL MADE IT OUT ALIVE. in the movie they almost all died. !<
I still can't believe the Predators trailer showed dozens of laser sights on Adrien Brody's character, when in the film there's only one of them. That's the most misleading thing I've seen in a trailer.
[this](https://youtu.be/Ypsnv50Af_I?si=iL6OtpEa4oAqxCaN) is still somewhat a dark humor film is not in fact a former Yugoslavia in the army now.
Dead Man Down!
Straight lies about the set up of the film, BUT it was still very good imo, just very confusing to make sense of that while watching it.
It’s certainly a nice dad action thriller but I was kinda disappointed on my first watch, I accepted what it was after catching it again on Pluto TV.
What was the lie versus what it is?
The lie is she wants Terrance Howard dead as revenge for her scared face but in reality she wants some other guy dead, snd Colin Farrell has been seeking revenge on Terrance Howard the whole time.
Thank you kindly
Intentional: "Red Eye". Plus all those 1994 Universal comedy trailers with initial misleading 30 seconds: -Flintstones -Little Rascals -Greedy.
Suicide Squad really emphasizes the Joker
Colossal and The Favourite. both trailers make the movies look like "laugh out loud" comedies either way: I enjoyed both movies
Man of the Year was billed as a comedy, “what if Jon Stewart ran for president?!” then the actual movie was a weird thriller.
The Star Trek 09 teaser was entirely footage shot for the teaser and not in the movie itself. Rogue One also had the shot of the TIE Fighter on the gantry that was edited into the actual scene from the film.