Refund over misleading trailer.
Apparently a disgruntled customer got his money back after complaining that a scene featured in the trailer for Jack Reacher - wasn't present in the final movie.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a470274/jack-reacher-moviegoer-refunded-over-missing-explosion.html
Whilst I can understand some scenes not making it into the final film - the cynic in me thinks that sometimes the movie studios do this on purpose to make the trailer more exciting.
What are the worst/most disappointing examples you have seen.
The worst/most blatant one IMO is the trailer for Predators - where Brody's character gets targeted by dozens of predator lasers. This scene is in the movie - but he was only targeted by one and there aren't "dozens" of predators even in the movie. The studio later admitted that they did this on purpose to make the trailer appear more exciting.
A disappointing one for me is the trailer for Iron Man 2. In the trailer - Pepper kisses the suits helmet (snigger) before throwing it out of the transport plane - making Stark jump out after it. I thought this was a funny scene - but was omitted from the final film.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a470274/jack-reacher-moviegoer-refunded-over-missing-explosion.html
Whilst I can understand some scenes not making it into the final film - the cynic in me thinks that sometimes the movie studios do this on purpose to make the trailer more exciting.
What are the worst/most disappointing examples you have seen.
The worst/most blatant one IMO is the trailer for Predators - where Brody's character gets targeted by dozens of predator lasers. This scene is in the movie - but he was only targeted by one and there aren't "dozens" of predators even in the movie. The studio later admitted that they did this on purpose to make the trailer appear more exciting.
A disappointing one for me is the trailer for Iron Man 2. In the trailer - Pepper kisses the suits helmet (snigger) before throwing it out of the transport plane - making Stark jump out after it. I thought this was a funny scene - but was omitted from the final film.
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Cherie Blair wasn't in it. Infact nothing else was.
Good grief, anyone who saw the amazing spiderman last year can get there money back also...bonus for me since it was the crappiest film I saw at the cinema since Batman and Robin
Seriously though, ridiculous, though not as ridiculous as the morons at that cinema in Liverpool who asked for (and got) there money back for not realisingThe Artist was a "silent" movie....:rolleyes:
Haha that's quite funny as I agree...it was anything but "amazing"
Were they living under a rock at the time??
Quite simply, in a lot of cases trailers are put together and released before the final edit of a movie. Therefore some scenes may not end up in the final movie.
This is especially true of highly anticipated movies, the sooner the trailer is out the quicker the publicity people can start creating the buzz.
And I would'nt make any big deal over a single person somewhere being given a refund, that was a decision made by the cinema itself, it hardly sets a precedent,
I know what you mean. Still a good movie, but NOTHING like Bourne as the trailer seemed to make out. More a romantic film with shades of Inception. Just because Matt Damon was in it, doesnt mean its like Bourne.
I also felt Tangled was badly misrepresented, the trailers made it look like Shrek or something playing up the comedy aspect but its a sweet romance more like classic Disney
I was very annoyed.
A bit similar to Slumdog Millionaire being the "feelgood movie of the year"
A point I made in the OP. However - is it beyond the realms of possibility that the studio sometimes do things like this on purpose (like the Predators example I gave).
I suspect in some cases, scenes are filmed specifically for the trailer - with no intention of ever making it into the film.
Its not like things like this hasn't happened before. Both movies and games are prone to the production companies sexing up the marketing material to make something that is unrepresentative of the final movie/game.
I'm not making a big deal out of it - just using it as a jumping off point for the discussion.
Hardly promoted as some Spider-man-alike light viewing, was it? Plus it was rated 18. Sounds like they didn't do their homework.
Plus the graphic novel is one of the most acclaimed of all time and had been around for about 20 years prior.