10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies

5. Godzilla

In retrospect, it's difficult to see how so many of us were duped into believing that a Godzilla movie from Roland Emmerich could be anything other than a disaster, but hey, I was young, naive, and excited to see what the titular monster actually looked like in this take. One of the first rules of marketing a monster movie is not to over-expose your monster; J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves took this to extremes by showing practically nothing of their monster prior to Cloverfield's release, but Emmerich took a slightly more straight-forward approach, by simply doling out brief teases of the beast, such as a foot here and there. There was destruction en masse, and it seemed like the film couldn't fail...until we actually watched it. Firstly, there's the utterly braindead plot, which makes little sense and serves a singular function to allow the admittedly impressive visual effects to run rampant. The performances were universally awful, and the film borrowed way too much from the Jurassic Park playbook. Just awful.