Trailers are getting to the point where they're almost a blight on modern cinema. As exciting as it is to get a glimpse of an upcoming film, it's becoming the cinematic equivalent of peeking at your presents on Christmas Eve, cheapening the big event proper. Sure, Guardians Of The Galaxy wouldn't have made anywhere near as much without getting audiences Hooked On A Feeling, but most of the time trailers merely build us up for disappointment. It's long been commented on that they can completely misrepresent a movie (Drive may be a proper cult favourite, but it didn't garner much popularity with audiences following a trailer promoting it as a Fast And Furious thrill-ride) or contain so much footage it's almost not worth seeing the film (on top of leaving nothing of the plot ambiguous, The Amazing Spider-Man 2's trailer had the audacity to include the dinal shot of the movie in its entirety). But there's also the case that a trailer could just be so good it doesn't give the movie a fair chance; there's no way the full feature can live up to that little peek behind the curtain. To show you just how big the gulf in quality between trailer and film can get, here are ten trailers that reached heights the movie just couldn't.
