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 almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.