Movie trailers that give everything away.

[Aragorn]

Spoilers, obviously. If you haven't seen some of these movies, you'll feel like you have after watching their trailers. What's especially sad is that you have a director, Robert Zemeckis, who is all for giving everything away in trailers to his own work, claiming that movies should be like McDonald's where people go in knowing exactly what they're going to get.

Anyway, these spoiler-filled trailers are the ones that are off the top of my head. Feel free to add your own.

The Italian Job

Arlington Road

What Lies Beneath

Cast Away

Ransom (the big plot twist is the selling point)

Snake Eyes

Double Jeopardy

Office Space

 

[Canadave]

The long trailer for Goldeneye does a neat job of patiently sitting you down, holding your hand and explaining the twist that occurs halfway through the movie.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Spoilers, obviously. If you haven't seen some of these movies, you'll feel like you have after watching their trailers. What's especially sad is that you have a director, Robert Zemeckis, who is all for giving everything away in trailers to his own work, claiming that movies should be like McDonald's where people go in knowing exactly what they're going to get.

Cast Away

This movie being the only one on the list I've seen, I was astounded at how much it gave away. You might as well not go to the cinema after seeing that!

 

[Spot's Meow]

Yeah, it showed way too much of Castaway, but at least they didn't mention that his girlfriend had gotten married and had a kid. That would have really ruined things.

 

[Scarebaby]

Lol at the Cast Away trailer. And what the hell was the Braveheart theme doing there?

 

[Worf412]

This is why, when I hear about a movie I'm interested in, I avoid all spoilers, including previews.

 

[archeryguy1701]

The Star Trek Nemesis trailers that reveal Shinzon as a clone and show the Enterprise ramming the Scimitar are pretty bad ones.

 

[nx1701g]

^ I agree. The only thing they didn't reveal was Data died.

 

[GreenBlood]

This is why, when I hear about a movie I'm interested in, I avoid all spoilers, including previews.

Me too. If a commercial for a movie I want to see comes on TV, I try to quickly press the mute button and look away.
Sometimes I'm caught off guard and see more than I'd like.

 

[Paxil]

^ I agree. The only thing they didn't reveal was Data died.

Well, they also didn't reveal how bad it sucked.

 

[nx1701g]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse gave everything away (but who DIDN'T know how that ended). Extinction gave away the ending too - minus the Wesker reveal.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I remember one of the later ads for The Mist gave away what was in the mist after keeping it mysterious through the whole promotional campaign. That was rather disappointing.

It seems that the closer to a release the more they do that almost like an act of desperation that they have done everything possible to pull in any potential viewers. So like others here have said once I really know I want to see a movie I tend to pull away whenever an ad or spoiler comes out. Depending on the movie I guess, like I don't care what I see about Batman Begins but I have been avoiding details about Hancock, not sure what triggers what.

 

[nx1701g]

^ I remember that too. They started showing the insects about two/three weeks after the movie premired.

 

[sidious618]

The long trailer for Goldeneye does a neat job of patiently sitting you down, holding your hand and explaining the twist that occurs halfway through the movie.

Oh, Christ, that is a terrible trailer for it. The twist is a great one and should not have been ruined.

 

[Aragorn]

^ Are you referring to 006? Because if you know who Sean Bean is, you'll know that he didn't get second billing just to be killed off before the opening credits. Sort of like Jon Voight getting second billing for Mission: Impossible.

Since I knew who Penny Johnson and Richard Burgi were, seeing them in the credits during 24 made their surprise last-second returns anti-climatic for me.

But for a lot of people, yeah, that GoldenEye trailer still sucks.

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

Iron Man really did. Man, to think I saw that whole movie for free watching just the ads.

 

[Brikar99]

But for a lot of people, yeah, that GoldenEye trailer still sucks.

I did like that bit of narration, though, "You can still count on one man..."

That was cool.

 

[WillsBabe]

This is why, when I hear about a movie I'm interested in, I avoid all spoilers, including previews.

Just curious. What do you do when you are in the cinema and the trailer for the film you're trying to avoid comes on while you are waiting to see the film you have paid for? Happens to me all the time.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

This is why, when I hear about a movie I'm interested in, I avoid all spoilers, including previews.

Just curious. What do you do when you are in the cinema and the trailer for the film you're trying to avoid comes on while you are waiting to see the film you have paid for? Happens to me all the time.

Haven't done it in a long time admittedly but I have covered my ears and closed my eyes before when it was a movie I REALLY didn't want to have spoiled though that isn't a lot of fun. Usually it's dark enough you don't look too silly.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Just about every joke in Get Smart was given away in the trailers. So instead of laughing in the theater, I just got a sense of deja vu.