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I saw the trailer for "American society of magical Negroes" and it looked kinda funny in the first 20 seconds, then the trailer went on to show what I'm pretty sure was literally everything in the movie.

Are there any other trailers that made you lose all interest in seeing it because it showed literally everything?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Basically all trailers in the last ten years. They reveal so much you are just watching a cliff notes version of the movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And they're speeding them up so they can cram more scenes in. I went and saw Godzilla X Kong and could barely keep up with some of them they were switching through things so fast.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The worst is when you go see a comedy and the only funny parts were in the trailer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

"Oh that has funny jokes!"

"Oh... they were the only good jokes."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Downsizing was a real bait and switch

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

More often in my experience, all the funny jokes from the trailer were cut from the actual film.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A friend of mine told the The Matrix was about a guy who could move really fast.

I was so glad he didn’t spoil it for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

That's a solid friend

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

If I saw a movie titled Get Out, I wouldn't be thinking romcom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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 πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Also, that couple second teaser before the trailer starts. Why do they do that shit now?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

They put the video as ads., If people didn't skip it after that 2 second bit then the trailer continues.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lincoln (2012). They totally gave away how it ends.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

You mean how he goes to see that play?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 that’s ok because the trailer was much better than the actual movie.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For me it was Marvel Studios' Civil War.

Leaking Spiderman's appearance was too much. I don't watch movie trailers at all anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that would have been so much more fun if it hadn't been spoiled ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Basically all mainstream ones since the 2000s. Nowadays I skip trailers entirely to not spoil the movies for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The trailer for The Martian (2015) contained every plot point, including the finale.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The last Johnny english movie. It was just an extended Trailer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Suicide Squad. 😒

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Everyone of them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I never watch Trailers fully. Just 30seconds to get a feel of the movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I saw a trailer for this which I'm pretty sure contained at least 75% of the movie. I never bothered to confirm that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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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