10 Movie Trailers That Pointlessly Spoiled Huge Details
6. Apollo Creed's Death - Rocky IV
Sports movies generally aren't known for their unpredictability, and that's certainly true of the Rocky franchise, though the fourth movie had quite the shocking surprise up its sleeve - the death of Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) at the hands of villain Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) during a boxing match in the first act.
Even accepting that this happens early in the movie, it's such a jaw-dropping, devastating moment that fans should've been bamboozled by it in the cinema - not months beforehand!
All the trailers really had to focus on was Drago's ferocity as a seemingly insurmountable opponent for Rocky, but spoiling Apollo's demise was a cheap shot by the marketing department, pressing fans' emotional buttons in a desperate attempt to get their butts in seats. And to their begrudging credit, the gambit evidently worked, as Rocky IV remains the highest-grossing entry in the entire nine-film franchise almost four decades later.