10 AWESOME Movie Trailers (Then The Film Sucked)

10. Terminator Salvation

The Trailer

Never underestimate the power of Nine Inch Nails to make basically anything seem extremely cool. The first trailer for the fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation, was backed to the industrial metal band's brilliantly fitting "The Day The World Went Away."

The moody track was the perfect accompaniment to showcase the movie's grim, post-apocalyptic visuals, which combined with the gritty presence of Christian Bale's John Connor and a bevy of chaotic action, suggested fans would get the full-throttle future war movie they'd been craving since James Cameron's 1984 original.

The Film

Terminator Salvation wasn't terrible, but it was a massive disappointment all the same - appropriately bleak but largely lacking the gallows humour of the Cameron-directed first two movies.

Furthermore, Christian Bale was surprisingly bland as Connor, the CGI-soaked action underwhelmed, and the revelation that Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) was a human-machine hybrid was bafflingly treated as a huge twist despite being spoiled by the trailers.

Alright, that last point isn't really the movie's fault.

Even so, Salvation boldly tried to prove the series' viability without Arnold Schwarzenegger - who only lent his CGI likeness to a T-800 model that briefly appears in the film - but instead served up a strangely soulless sequel far from the promise of that gorgeous trailer.