7 Trailers That Blatantly Lied To You In 2017

When the movie Jarhead was released in 2005, people were expecting two and half hours of war porn, based on the action-packed trailers. What they got was a nuanced look at armed conflict in which marines battled boredom and isolation.

There are parallels to draw between the Jake Gyllenhaal film and War for the Planet of the Apes, which was marketed in a similarly deceptive way. The trailers for Matt Reeves's trilogy capper promised all-out war, all-guns blazing and an epic final stand between the remnants of mankind and Caesar's simian legion.

Although War for the Planet of the Apes wasn't exactly devoid of action, it turned out far more subtle than the early footage suggested. Caesar and his comrades spent more time as prisoners of war than soldiers on the frontline, and intense stare-downs and slow-burning drama often took precedent over firefights.

Where many were expecting battles and explosions, Reeves served up allegorical references to slavery and the holocaust, and powerful imagery. This was a hard-hitting, relevant film, though not the one most were expecting.