10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies

2. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice

Before its release, Batman V Superman was one of the most highly-anticipated blockbusters of all time.

Bringing together two of the most popular superheroes on the planet, it promised the showdown to end all showdowns, with Henry Cavill's powerful Man Of Steel facing off against Ben Affleck's grizzled, world-weary Dark Knight.

And as if we needed another reason to be excited, its Comic-Con trailer was an absolute tour de force.

Teasing plenty of Bats V Supes action with a peppering of psychological drama and the introduction of Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, the film looked like a thoughtful examination of vigilantism covered in the shiny exterior of a pulse-pounding summer blockbuster and Zack Snyder's eye for beautiful visuals.

In a way, the movie could never have lived up to the enormous expectations we all had for it, but Batman V Superman even failed to please at a basic level.

A tonal mess with severe pacing and story issues, the movie made a lot of money but didn't resonate with audiences (or critics) like Warner Bros had hoped, its depressingly bleak story and dull, momentum-killing subplots (Lois and the bullet) sapping the film of any fun and turning what should have been a crowd-pleaser into a pretentious bore.

Before release it was really hard to not get over-excited, but sadly, it wasn't to be. The title fight was great when it eventually came, but otherwise, BvS was overlong, joyless and meandering.

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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!