Honourable Mention - Brothers
When compiling this list, Brothers was one of the movies that immediately came to mind. A remake of Danish hit Brødre, it tells the story of a US Marine returning home after being presumed dead, convinced his brother and wife have entered into an affair. With an incredibly competent cast (Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal), it would have been an intense family drama, if it weren't for the trailer. Its common to hear people say that a trailer gives away the entire plot of a film and this is no truer than with Brothers. Now in a film such as this, where the action is pushed forward by the emotions of the characters and there is little in the way of visual spectacle, its understandable for a trailer to focus on the rare moments of action. Brothers, however spends so much of the plot dealing with characters repressing their feelings, that these moments are even more sparse than expected. Rather than using creative editing like some culprits later on, the marketing department decided instead to just have the films ending at the end of the trailer a decision made worse in that the previous two minutes had already been a perfectly condensed version of the plot. This film doesn't make the list because its hard to say the trailer actually mis-sells the film. In fact, it is an overly honest representation; one that ruins the enjoyment because we know the ending from the beginning. Its like getting full from the appetiser, but not worthy of making the list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYyCCjLpZs