10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies

6. Transformers: The Last Knight

In hindsight, it was foolish to expect anything other than a bloated, boring mess from Transformers: The Last Knight - considering the many bloated, boring sequels Michael Bay had already delivered - but its trailers teased a new vibe for the decade-old Transformers series.

The teaser didn't start off with quips, action or explosions, like we all expected - it opened with an ominous voiceover by Sir Anthony Hopkins, striking images of Transformers throughout history, and a melancholic, piano-based score.

When the trailer's action did start, it wasn't fast-paced or choppily edited, either; it was slower, giving us time to soak in the incredible camerawork that Bay - for all of his flaws - is bloody good at.

Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager also didn't appear until over a minute into the trailer, as though Paramount were signalling a move away from the immense stupidity of Transformers: Age Of Extinction.

Everything seemed great, but then... the movie happened.

And it was the same stupid, incoherent, cluttered Transformers flick we'd been watching for ten years. The Last Knight might be the worst in the series, and its poor box-office and abysmal critic ratings actively back that notion up.

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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!