Did The Film Deliver What The Trailer Promised? (1 Viewer)

[Sultanofcinema]

I booked films for all of my theaters, which were in various locations in Northern/Southern, NJ. Some we could play Art films, some Disney/children fare, some exploitation and still others, popular fare. I remember getting the Superman 2 trailer and running it, thinking "wow", "this is going to knock 'em dead". The film for me, was a disappointment, but I always remembered how that trailer went over the top. Naturally a trailer has to "hook" you to buy a ticket and some were incredible while the films themselves were bad and others gave us exactly what the film delivered. What trailers delivered the film it promised and what ones had a better trailer than the film itself. Teasers can be included.

 

[Sultanofcinema]

I always felt that the teaser for The Exorcist was simple, to the point (remember the narration? "the one hope, the only hope...") and thoroughly chilling. And for me the film was terrifying.

 

[Sultanofcinema]

One of my favorite films remains Romeo Is Bleeding from 1994. A friend who was managing the theater asked me to go in and look at this trailer because he didn't know what kind of film this was for. It was hard to tell by watching it and it was obvious that MGM didn't know how to market the film. It never did come to his theater and in this trailer's case, it was hit or miss for the viewer of the trailer.

 

[bmasters9]

Two I've seen very much lived up to their trailers (although I didn't see the trailers in theaters, but rather on DVD/Blu and online):

--The China Syndrome:


--The In Between:

 

[BobO'Link]

Decades ago I learned that movies rarely live up to the promise of a trailer and trailers frequently contain snippets of scenes that are not in the movie. I use a trailer for nothing more than getting the general premise of the movie as you can't trust the rest.

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

Well, I saw two different trailers for Tenet, and they looked like two totally different films, and when I saw the actual film, it really was a mix of both, and more films, so I guess it, or they, the trailers, did deliver, in a confusing way

 

[Sultanofcinema]

Unique trailer for a film I liked was Brian De Palmas Femme Fatale, which plays the entire film in super fast motion and I think, backwards.