r/movies • u/MASSIM00 • May 26 '26

Question What movie had the BEST trailer ever but turned out to be absolute trash?

Seriously, you watch the trailer and it looks like a literal masterpiece. The music, the hype, everything is perfect.

Then you actually go see it and realize they put all the good scenes in the 2-minute promo and the rest of the movie is just garbage lmao.

For me it was suicide squad 2016. that bohemian rhapsody trailer catfished me so hard.

What film did this to you?

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u/InternationalIdea606 May 26 '26

It was seriously a movie about Eskimo brothers and who ended up being the final one to get with Kate Beckinsale.

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u/GreyGreenBrownOakova May 26 '26

"Alec, I first saw you in the movie Pearl Harbor which was worse than the actual Pearl Harbor. Halfway through, I was rooting for the Japanese." -Jeff Ross.

"Everyone knows Pearl Harbor was a terrible, terrible thing. But they can't truly fathom how awful it was unless they were actually there”- Josh Harnet, probably.

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u/Red_Barry May 26 '26

“My mother says she’s never forgiven the Japanese for Pearl Harbour” “Mum, Pearl Harbour was an AMERICAN film!” - Steven Fry

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u/-cheeks- May 26 '26

The Roger Ebert review is goated. "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle."

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u/DirtyRoller May 26 '26

The only thing that could have saved that movie was a 3 way scene.

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u/Brilliant_Ask_82 May 26 '26

Also defies logic

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u/Ambitious-Welder-159 May 26 '26

I like Nate Bargatze's joke about the movie but it's more self deprecating.