10 AMAZING Trailers That Sold Bad Movies

5. Suicide Squad

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Warner Bros.

Another Snyder entry, another DCU film that flopped. Picture this - it's 2015 and you are sick to death of dark serious DC films and out of nowhere comes this bright and fun trailer filling a Guardians of the Galaxy shaped whole in this comic book franchise.

A fun, bizarre, and most importantly different kind of hero film. Set to Bohemian Rhapsody and bursting with oddball villains like Killer Croc this trailer was announcing to the world that DC could be funny. This however proved not to be the case, the film was universally panned.

Leto's Joker was somehow both underused and overly suffocating. There were so many characters to get to know you barely cared or remembered if they died. The film's only redeeming quality was Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, so popular she has subsequently been given her own film.

Looking back at the trailer this had a lot of potential that was squandered so badly its already being rebooted.

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