Basically all trailers in the last ten years. They reveal so much you are just watching a cliff notes version of the movie.
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The worst is when you go see a comedy and the only funny parts were in the trailer.
"Oh that has funny jokes!"
"Oh... they were the only good jokes."
More often in my experience, all the funny jokes from the trailer were cut from the actual film.
Terminator 2. The ad campaign and trailers revealed what had the potential to be an amazing reversal of expectations well ahead of time. I actually got to see it with a friend who was out of touch enough to not have seen any spoilers; I wish I'd had his experience.
A friend of mine told the The Matrix was about a guy who could move really fast.
I was so glad he didnβt spoil it for me.
That's a solid friend
It was an amazing movie with the twist given away in the trailer. I can't imagine how much more amazing it would be without knowing the twist.
I'm eagerly counting down the hours until my kids are old enough to watch Terminator with me. Hopefully they can stay spoiler free until then. Luckily the franchise did everything it could to not stay relevant.
As ridiculous as this movie was, I always thought that the trailer for Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace shouldn't have shown Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber.
Yes, but that cool factor was more valuable as a marketing tool than a reveal in the film. It wasn't a plot point so, I don't blame them too much but it did reduce the impact in the cinema.
After that happened in the movie, I was angry that a big moment had been denied me. I basically stopped watching trailers of any film I intended to see that day.
People who are into movies say that the trailer is a part of the experience. But I'd prefer to go in completely unspoiled.
This happened for me with the scene in one of the new star trek movies where they play beastie boys while busting out of a cloud or something. Idk, it was a really cool scene, but I was mad that I'd already seen it in the trailer. It's ludicrous. I still complain about it to my wife to this day.
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I basically don't watch trailers anymore. I'll read a synopsis and look at some aggregate scores.
Ideally though I'll just ask someone I know for what they've seen that's good.
The only time I watch trailers anymore is when I trust the people involved to leave me with nothing but confusion and questions. Like the Death Stranding trailers that Kojima puts together.
I saw Get Out without knowing anything about it. Very effective movie if you were expecting a romantic comedy like Meet the Parents, lol. If I'd seen a trailer I wouldn't have been nearly as blindsided by the horror turn of events.
If I saw a movie titled Get Out, I wouldn't be thinking romcom.
Oh yeah, it's definitely a movie you should watch completely blind! I went in not knowing what to expect at all and felt delightfully unsettled throughout. I'm not sure how I somehow managed to avoid all the trailers π
Also, that couple second teaser before the trailer starts. Why do they do that shit now?
explosion TRAILER random shocked face BEGINS dog taking a piss outside next to stuntmen NOW
Yes guys that's why I fucking clicked it, I know how the play button works you idiots!
They put the video as ads., If people didn't skip it after that 2 second bit then the trailer continues.
I know! Drives me crazy.
Lincoln (2012). They totally gave away how it ends.
You mean how he goes to see that play?
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Prometheus showed literally every good shot from the movie including the titular spacecraft colliding with an alien spaceship at the very end, but then maybe thatβs ok because the trailer was much better than the actual movie.
For me it was Marvel Studios' Civil War.
Leaking Spiderman's appearance was too much. I don't watch movie trailers at all anymore.
Hulk in Ragnarok. Why?
Yeah, that would have been so much more fun if it hadn't been spoiled ahead of time.
Basically all mainstream ones since the 2000s. Nowadays I skip trailers entirely to not spoil the movies for me.
I mute trailers and just watch the first 20 seconds to see if the film's atmosphere matches my current mood. Haven't had a trailer spoil the film in years this way
Terminator: Genisys has the big reveal right in the trailer. I think if they had left that out it could have at least redeemed that steaming pile of shit a little bit.
I was a kid when it came out and I'd never seen the first one by that point, but Terminator 2 did the same as nobody knew Arnie was a good guy in the second one until they spoiled it in the trailer.
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The trailer for Green Lantern gave away the best parts of the show, but it wasn't actually good. I saw the trailer in the theater, turned to my girlfriend and said, "I think we may have seen everything good about that movie." Turned out I was right.
The trailer for The Martian (2015) contained every plot point, including the finale.
The short episode summaries on Netflix that show before you watch an episode often spoiler the main plot or even the plot twist. I will never understand why they do that.
The last Johnny english movie. It was just an extended Trailer.
Suicide Squad. π’
I saw a version of the trailer for Split (2016) that revealed the plot twist. I was glad I already saw the movie, but my parents did not watch it because of that.
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Everyone of them
I never watch Trailers fully. Just 30seconds to get a feel of the movie.
I've stopped watching them altogether. I want to be surprised by the production design of the movie, the plot, the key moments marketing loves to spoil and so on.
I will read up on what people comment on the trailer but that's it. It's so much better to jump in fresh
I saw a trailer for this which I'm pretty sure contained at least 75% of the movie. I never bothered to confirm that.
Astonishingly, the trailer for Triangle Of Sadness reveals a lot, even the whole timeline of the plot, while the movie achieve to surprise and astonish with how much more there is to it.
I was afraid I wouldn't enjoy it because I somehow "knew" how it was going to end, but oh, my, that was only the surface and the craziness ran m7ch, much deeper.
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