10 Awesome Trailers That Tricked Us Into Seeing Awful Movies

2. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

After Paul W.S. Anderson's Alien vs. Predator was a total bust, I had virtually no expectations for the sequel...until this red band trailer came along and completely blew me away. Hell, it had awesome visual effects, a kid getting face-hugged, predators and aliens beating the s*** out of each other, and to my greatest surprise, a sickening amount of gore. Yes, AvP was back, and this time, it was R-rated, after Anderson's mild PG-13 take on the material. After that trailer revealed so much carnage, I couldn't help but be optimistic...and then wind up totally disappointed that the trailer had shown virtually every cool thing in this movie, which amounts to just 2 of its 94 minutes. Though it's super-gory, pretty much everything else about this film is somehow worse than Anderson's take; the storyline is asinine, but worst of all, the teenage characters all talk as though they're in an American Pie movie (a pizza delivery boy says "I guess we know who ordered the sausage lover's"), such that we begin rooting for the titular beasties.