Movie trailers are their own art form, and sometimes the trailer for a movie ends up being better than the actual movie itself. Who do we blame for setting us up?
Movie Trailers That Are Better Than The Movies
There is, perhaps, nothing more annoying than when movie trailers are better than movies! We’ve all experienced it - we see an enticing, emotive trailer and think that we absolutely HAVE to see the movie because of it. And then, when we watch the movie, it’s a bit of a disappointment.
Movie trailers are supposed to intrigue and entice audiences to see the full film, but they ultimately shouldn’t be better than the movie itself. What happens when a movie trailer is better than the movie? Who do we blame?
We take a look now at five trailers that are better than the movies based on audience and critic feedback.
Do movie trailers reveal too much?
A good movie trailer is meant to give us a snippet into what the film is all about and create an emotive response in the viewer to want to go and see the movie. Making movie trailers is a business all on its own and can often be as intricate a process as making the film itself. However, do some trailers give too much away? Or do some trailers make too much hype about a film that doesn’t deliver?
Here are our top five choices of good trailers for bad movies, do you agree?
Godzilla (1998)
The trailer to this film was a masterpiece, filled with action, anticipation and the horror of something emerging from the sea. In the movie, once you saw Godzilla, that was probably as exciting as it got.
Suicide Squad (2016)
The trailer made us think that we would be witnessing Jared Leto’s take on The Joker, but in reality, he got very little screen-time in this film which really saw top-class actors all trying to be as bad as possible.
Man of Steel (2013)
The movie was a yawn-fest and the trailer was ecstatic. The trailer made audiences think they might be getting an exciting new take on Superman and his origins, but sadly the movie didn’t deliver.
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
This movie is on every good trailer/bad movie list possible. The trailer was a movie masterpiece all on its own giving viewers a very high expectation of the film. Sadly, the movie gave the same old human vs alien storyline that’s been seen time and again, with nothing else to show for itself.
Miami Vice (2006)
The trailer made us think that the 2006 movie, based on the 1980’s television series, was going to be an action-packed adventure starring two very big actors. The movie was mediocre though and didn’t give us much more than some skop-skiet-en-donder that’s already been done.
Why are movie trailers better than the movie?
Some movie trailers offer us cinematic brilliance while the experience in reality is the most disappointing movie. This happens when the movie itself is a bit weak and the producers of the trailer are doing their best to make the movie seem better than it really is. Or, when trailer producers put absolutely everything into the trailer, leaving little for the movie to live up to.
Either way, it can be annoying. In our opinion, a good movie trailer should simply entice you with enough of a taster of what the movie is about to make you want to go see it, but it should never out- shine the movie itself.
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FAQs
Do movie trailers reveal too much?
Some movie trailers reveal way too much or can make us think the movie is going to be about something completely different. A movie trailer should simply give us a taster of what’s to come, and never reveal the entire plot. It should make us feel something or be moved in some way, and it should make us want to spend our hard-earned money seeing the full film, without being disappointed once we do.
Why are movie trailers better than the movie?
Some movie trailers put absolutely everything into their production from action, sound, drama and everything in between, leaving very little else for the movie to deliver on.
