7 Upcoming Movies Potentially Ruined By A Single Shot In The Trailer

Bruce Wayne's origin story again? Really?

You can't always trust always trust a trailer. Why? Because the purpose of a trailer is to sell a product to a mass audience at whatever cost. Editors take the best or most marketable parts of entire films and condense the footage into little showreels. And given that here are no rules regarding how you depict any given movie in a trailer, it's entirely possible to make a picture look entirely different from its finished product. Remember when Prometheus and Man Of Steel looked like the best movies ever? That's because their initial trailers were akin to mini masterpieces, though they actually represented the final versions of said movies in very few ways. That said, it's entirely possible for a trailer to accidentally warn audiences of an upcoming turd, despite its intentions to do the exact opposite. Think of the trailer for Terminator Genisys, which was designed to sell the movie, but only succeeded in warning people of the dreck to come. That one shot of Emilia Clarke trying to replicate the iconic "Come with me if you want to live..." moment said it all. Because sometimes it's just one shot in a trailer that has the power to unnerve you from the get-go - a questionable few seconds that has you wondering whether or not the entire film might have been compromised. Here, then, are 7 such shots from movies due in theatres in the next couple of years; trailer moments to make you say "Hmmm..."
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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.