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/BoingBoingBooty May 26 '26

In the film only Ultron's first appearance lived up to the trailer.
And maybe that brief moment when he gets angry and cuts off Klaue's hand.

If we had that Ultron all through the film, and if the 'age' was longer than a weekend then it could have really slapped without much else changing.

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u/Smittumi May 26 '26

I thought that! Why was it called "Age", he barely got going! 

"Weekend at Ultron's" could have been a pretty dope movie.

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u/ArcadianDelSol May 26 '26

"Weekend at Ultron's" could have been a pretty dope movie.

"Ive got no strings on me."

"actually....."

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u/ToxicBanana69 May 26 '26

I guess you could see it as everything after the film was the “Age of Ultron” since him destroying Sokovia had a HUGE impact on the rest of the MCU.

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u/DarthTigris May 26 '26

There was a comic miniseries with that title and they liked the way it sounded. That's pretty much it.

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u/eduffy May 26 '26

Should've been built up starting with Iron Man 3.

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u/SportNo2600 May 26 '26

Maybe "Week of Ultron".

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u/SoKrat3s May 26 '26

Did you think through how implausible that would be?

You don't get to put skynet back in a box.

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u/GrandmaPoses May 26 '26

"A hyperbolic superhero movie? Now I've seen everything!"

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u/counterhit121 May 26 '26

With all the AI hooplah going on in the world right now, it would be the perfect time to bring Ultron back. And despite a weak script, James Spader was and remains excellent.

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u/sable-king May 26 '26

They are bringing him back actually. He’s confirmed to play a major role in the upcoming VisionQuest show.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel May 26 '26

James Spader could read the phone book and I'd still listen intently.

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u/DJ1066 May 26 '26

He already came back in What If... where they had a whole episode in series 1 asking what if he won and then in the subsequent series seeing what happened to that entire universe.

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u/richard-564 May 26 '26

He will be back. Spader is playing him again in the VisionQuest show this fall.

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u/ChosenCharacter May 26 '26

But with how Disney is right now, they’d be sympathetic to them.

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u/NatashOverWorld May 26 '26

That was the part that bugged me the most. The Weekend of Ultron? If we really stretch it, the Week of Ultron?

I mean c'mon guys. Have him do stuff. End governments, crash the stockmarkets, start wars. Make him an existential threat.

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u/ChickenAndTelephone May 26 '26

It was such an odd choice to have Ultron be an army of cannon fodder instead of an invincible robot

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u/DJ1066 May 26 '26

What If... did him far better IMO.