10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies

7. Sucker Punch

After his stylish, eye-catching work on 300, Watchmen and Legend Of The Guardians, Zack Snyder's next project was anticipated by many.

That project was Sucker Punch, which was marketed as a thoughtful, character-driven drama coated in slick production values and that cool visual flavour that Snyder is known for.

Sucker Punch's main trailer brought the explosions, stunts and impressive action, but it also looked like it was attempting to rectify the one major complaint people had about Snyder's movies; not enough focus on the story.

But while those steampunk-infused shootouts and that dark narrative looked like a perfect mix in the trailer, the film itself was a total mess.

Snyder had again delivered a style-over-substance flick. The action scenes were the story, but they were excessive, and the constantly-blaring song choices made Sucker Punch feel like an extended music video, the drama slowly being drowned out by samurai giants, robots and fire-breathing dragons.

These elements looked cool in the trailer because we were being shown smaller snippets, so the concept of the movie seemed intriguing - but in reality, it was stupid and repetitive.

On the whole, Sucker Punch was a colossal disappointment. What should have been a tale about a young prisoner finding her inner strength was actually just an excuse to dress a group of attractive women in skimpy outfits and make them shoot stuff. Yay.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!