Never Trust a Trailer/Film: Difference between revisions

* Parodied in ''[[Smokin Aces]]''. The trailer begins by suggesting it would be some sort of sappy romance, then abruptly switches to a frenetic action montage more fitting for a movie about competing assassins. The film itself was much slower paced and dramatic than the trailers suggested.

** However, Smokin' Aces had the single most honest trailer [[Temporary Life|I]] have ever seen in my life:

* The dark comedy ''The Matador'' was billed as an action movie, which it is not. As a result, the film did very poorly in theaters even though critics generally liked it.

* ''Water Horse'' trailers suggested it would be a kiddy film about a boy and his cute little water dragon, in the tone of ''[[Babe]]''. One trailer even showed the bulldog saying it was the titular horse's "best friend". Sure, the movie starts out this way, but for the most part it's a lot more gritty than that, especially when the water horse grows up. It nearly kills the boy, and devours all the lake's wildlife. Towards the end, [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] mistakes the water horse for an enemy sub {{spoiler|and nearly kills him and the boy.}} Oh, and remember that bulldog who is supposedly the horse's best friend? {{spoiler|Towards the end, when the water horse goes berserk, he swallows the dog whole and then tries to kill the owner. Make one wonder if the marketing people even watched the movie, there wasn't any hint of friendship between the dog and the water horse. The dog spends the earlier part of the film trying to catch the water horse when it's a baby, and then spend the end of the film in the water horse's belly.}} Combine all that with a boy who is counting down the days when his father will come home from the war, {{spoiler|only to slowly realize his father is never coming back since he's dead}} and it's far from the happy go lucky mood of the trailer. That said, that doesn't make it a depressing film and there are some heartwarming moments.

** One of the trailers also has Bo Peep hitting on Woody, followed directly by Buzz saying "Don't even think about it cowboy!" Making it seem as though they fight over Bo.

** The trailer also made a small change in the dialogue:

'''Movie Woody:''' My name is Woody, and this is Andy's room. }}

* The trailers for ''[[The Wrestler]]'' made it out to be a bit of a modern ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'', and one of those "sad person gets his or her life back together, heartwarming ensues," movies. It's actually quite the subversion - wrestling is his highly self-destructive form of escapism from his crappy life, which he tries {{spoiler|and fails to get back together, then kills himself fighting in the ring.}}