Great Trailers Attached to Bad Movies

karmajay wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:

I already know how bad this movie is, and the trailer still fools me:

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What-the... Suckerpunch was a great film! I know it's all personal preference etc... but I really liked it!

Duoae wrote:

What-the... Suckerpunch was a great film music video!

FTFY!

It was also a horribly misogynistic romp that tried to convince nerds that, "No, these girls are empowered!"

Jayhawker wrote:
Duoae wrote:

What-the... Suckerpunch was a great film music video!

FTFY!

It was also a horribly misogynistic romp that tried to convince nerds that, "No, these girls are empowered!"

I didn't take that message from it (the empowered thing)... I thought the idea of her imagination being the driving force of the movie - like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was pretty cool and the acceptance about the ending...

I was going to suggest Starship Troopers. I remember loving the trailer. I do not remember loving the movie.

Duoae wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
Duoae wrote:

What-the... Suckerpunch was a great film music video!

FTFY!

It was also a horribly misogynistic romp that tried to convince nerds that, "No, these girls are empowered!"

I didn't take that message from it (the empowered thing)... I thought the idea of her imagination being the driving force of the movie - like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was pretty cool and the acceptance about the ending...

MovieBob on the Escapist actually did a two part video on how guys watching it were actually BEING sucker punched into hopefully realizing that their drooling was the very problem the girls were trying to escape from in the first place. I still haven't gotten around to seeing it, but based on his interpretation of it, I'm curious.

Nevin73 wrote:

I was going to suggest Starship Troopers. I remember loving the trailer. I do not remember loving the movie.

I still love that movie just for the propaganda-y bits.

Demosthenes wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

I was going to suggest Starship Troopers. I remember loving the trailer. I do not remember loving the movie.

I still love that movie just for the propaganda-y bits. :)

I recall watching that for the first time a couple of years ago and it had some surprisingly deep social commentary going on. So, I actually think that movie is pretty good. I kind of want to watch it again now.

Nevin73 wrote:

I was going to suggest Starship Troopers. I remember loving the trailer. I do not remember loving the movie.

Which trailer?

Demosthenes wrote:
Duoae wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
Duoae wrote:

What-the... Suckerpunch was a great film music video!

FTFY!

It was also a horribly misogynistic romp that tried to convince nerds that, "No, these girls are empowered!"

I didn't take that message from it (the empowered thing)... I thought the idea of her imagination being the driving force of the movie - like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was pretty cool and the acceptance about the ending...

MovieBob on the Escapist actually did a two part video on how guys watching it were actually BEING sucker punched into hopefully realizing that their drooling was the very problem the girls were trying to escape from in the first place. I still haven't gotten around to seeing it, but based on his interpretation of it, I'm curious.

Nevin73 wrote:

I was going to suggest Starship Troopers. I remember loving the trailer. I do not remember loving the movie.

I still love that movie just for the propaganda-y bits. :)

Must I keep posting this link in perpetuum?

http://www.avclub.com/articles/stars...

Starship Troopers isn’t a satire about any specific war, it’s a brilliant dissection of how all wars work—how they’re packaged and sold via propaganda, how the enemy is (in this case, literally) dehumanized, how young people are sent eagerly to sacrifice on the front lines.

And it's on Instant Watch now! I'm going to have to watch that again soon. You are welcome, everyone.

Book of Eli had a very cool trailer, and though I wouldn't say the movie was bad, I found it disappointing.

Grenn wrote:

I'll back up Iron Sky. That movie was a joke. And it was on us.

That movie was fantastically bad. It's at the top of my bad movie collection, right under The Room and The FP.

mr_n00b wrote:
Grenn wrote:

I'll back up Iron Sky. That movie was a joke. And it was on us.

That movie was fantastically bad. It's at the top of my bad movie collection, right under The Room and The FP.

Nothing's worse than The Room.

Unless you're seeing it in a cinema, in which case there's nothing better.