" To this day , it ’s still the reason I quash all trailers except for the occasional teaser . "
Personally, I’m a major fan of movie trailers. I’m that person who’s rewatching the trailer ten times, getting hyped to actually see the movie.
But even I have to admit, there have been times where I thought a trailer made a movie look good…then saw the movie and realized the trailer had basically given away all the best twists, jokes, and scenes. So recently, Reddit userWikipediaBurntSiennaasked, “Which movie trailers spoiled their movie the worst?” I was ready to hear about allll the movie trailers that did us wrong.
Here are 23 movie trailers that gave away MAJOR plot points, character reveals, twists, and scenes.
🚨 🚨 Spoilers ahead , patently . 🚨 🚨
1.“BatmanvsSuperman: Dawn of Justice. It very blatantly showed them teaming up after their fight, and also did a full reveal for Wonder Woman.”
Watch the trailer here:
2.“Castawaygives away that he makes it back home.”
3.“How to Train your Dragon 2. They show Hiccup’s mother returning, and spoil the entire emotional punch of the move.”
4.“The Truman Show. It literally shows him leaving in the trailer. Totally ruined it for me.”
5.“All the promotion material forThor: Ragnarokgave away that the Hulk was gonna appear in the movie. How hype would it have been if you didn’t know the Hulk was gonna be in the movie?”
6.“This is exactly how I feel about Spider-man being inCivil War.How wild would it have been to go in not knowing that? After that, I swore I’d never (intentionally) watch an MCU trailer again.”
7.“My friend and I still agree that the ‘those aren’t mountains…they’re waves’ scene inInterstellarwould’ve been the most mind-blowing moment in a film that had a number of memorable ones, had it not been entirely spoiled by the trailer. To this day, it’s still the reason I avoid all trailers except for the occasional teaser.”
8.“ForTerminator 2, it was spoiled that Arnold’s Terminator wasn’t a killer robot. As I watched the movie, I felt like they could have made it a mind-blowing twist that he was actually there to protect the Connors rather than kill them.”
9.“Terminator Salvationkept the trend going by revealing Sam Worthington was a Terminator in the trailer.”
10.One lastTerminatorone: “Terminator: Genisysspoiled that John Connors was a Terminator in it for some reason.Terminatorand revealing trailers are an iconic duo.”
11.“Kingsman: The Golden Circle.Showing Colin Firth coming back to life took all the weight out of the reveal in the movie.”
12.“Supposedly Dennis Villeneuve wanted it to be a surprise twist when Deckard showed up inBlade Runner 2049,but the studio said they needed Harrison Ford on all of the promotional material to sell the movie.”
13.The Amazing Spider-Man 2showeda ton of shots of Gwen falling that mirrored her death scene in the comics (as well as with her wearing about the same outfit as her character wears during her death in the comics), as well as shots of Peter crying over what looks like it may be blonde hair, and Peter at a funeral. It also spoiled that Rhino would be in the film — showing footage from literally the last scene in the movie.
Watch the trailer that teases the rhino battle (which didn’t even end up happening in full in the film) here:
Here’sthe trailer with the shot of Peter crying , here’sthe Superbowl advertizement of Peter catch Gwen , andhere’sthe trailer with Peter at a graveyard .
14.“The trailer forGet Outhas a shot from near the end of the film where his girlfriend Rose has her hair slicked back and aims a rifle at someone outside the house with a menacing look. It was quick, but enough to confirm to me that she would be a villain.”
Watch the trailer here.
15.“The Phantom Menace. People would have shit bricks seeing Maul’s double saber for the first time.”
16.“Quarantine’s trailer showed the final scene of Angela being dragged away by the infected. I haven’t seen the movie, but my brother told me he was so disappointed when he realized while he was watching it that it was the final shot of the movie.”
17.“Oblivionwas a big one for me. It’s not the only twist of the movie but in the story the protagonist has to deal with aliens but then it turns out to be humans. Quite an interesting twist in the story it they had not shown the whole thing in the trailer.”
18.“The Godfather Part IIshows Hyman Roth get shot.”
19.“2012’sAvengers.Hulk catching Iron Man when he returned back to earth from the wormhole. I imagine how much more powerful that moment would’ve been had I not seen it in the trailer.”
20.“Ransom.[The trailer gave away] the mid-film twist, wherein Mel Gibson’s character decides to take all the money he’s accumulated to pay the ransom and instead posts it as a bounty on the kidnappers. That really feels like something that should have been held back.”
21.The trailer forSoylent Greenmakes it pretty darn obvious that Soylent Green is made out of people.
22.“An older one, but the trailer forSuperman 3literally shows the end of the movie, with Richard Pryor’s character, who up to then has been a villain, albeit a mostly accidental one, saying ‘thank you brother’ to Superman after he saves him.”
23.And finally…“The trailers for both of theSingmovies give away every major plot beat and character arc for the entire ensemble cast. Literally every scene is a side character telling one of the leads they won’t achieve their goal, followed immediately by a shot of said character achieving the goal.”
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