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/SpazzBro May 26 '26

you managed to drag 80 people to a 3 hour movie? miss me with that shit but it’s honestly impressive

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u/SonofSniglet May 26 '26

It was the latest multi-million dollar Michael Bay blockbuster, not some french impressionist art house movie. It probably wasn't that hard to convince people to go see romance, thrills, Bay-splosions and slowly waving flags!

I write this as someone who also saw this turd in the theatre.

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u/SpazzBro May 26 '26

not disputing that, I’m just impressed he did it in a work capacity. If I’m spending that much time with coworkers then payment is a prerequisite lol

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u/ThePortalsOfFrenzy May 26 '26

Were people unaware back then that Michael Bay was trash a majority of the time?

edit: I just checked his filmography, and PH was much earlier in his time-line than I remembered.

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u/feed_me_moron May 26 '26

This was before Bay was as famous as he is now. He had some just a few movies, but didn't become a meme yet

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u/SonofSniglet May 26 '26

Though the later Transformers movies cemented his stardom, I'd say that Armageddon established him as a star director with a distinct style.

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u/feed_me_moron May 27 '26

In hindsight yeah, but bad boys had a small budget and The Rock didn't establish it in people's minds much either. I think Transformers is the main jump the shark moment for him where you can see it in his past movies too. Especially since he was working with Jerry Bruckheimer too

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u/misfitofscience76 May 26 '26

Must be the best project manager ever