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Was there ever a time when you were incredibly excited to see a trailer for a movie and instantly realized the movie was going to be bad the minute you finished watching it? Well, when Reddit useru/Snoo_19146asked: “What’s the first sign that a movie is going to be bad?”, thousands of people replied with their own takes. Here’s what a few of them had to say below.
1.“If there are multiple trailers for a comedy movie, but they use the same joke in all of them.”
— u / jelecel865
" And then you sit in the movie theater or keep an eye on on Netflix and you ’re like , ' Oh , the jape from the preview , I think that ’s where the motion-picture show starts to get curious , but it just transition into the serious end arc , and then is over . "
— u / candybomberz
2.“It’s advertised as one of thebest moviesof the year — and it’s late January.”
— u / M - Test24
3.“An exposition in which one character explains everything that’s going on to another character that should already know what is going on.”
4.“The selling points are focused on celebrity names and visual effects.”
— atomic number 92 / RndomChineseGuy
5.“This is not always the case, but when there are more than three writers, a movie tends to lack vision. It can also occur due to rewrites.Not A Bomb Podcastreviews movies that bombed financially or critically and this is a subject often discussed if anyone is interested.”
— u / earball1996
6.“It’s a remake of something that didn’t suck.”
7.“Someone else put in the work to make the property popular in the first place, and the people in charge of making the movie put zero effort into making it look or feel like the property it’s based on, relying on the name and special effects alone.”
— uranium / VarangianDreams
8.“When the trailer already tells you the entire movie.”
— u / JAR_Melethril
9.“Every trailer has the exact same scenes…just played in a different order. These are the only good scenes in the movie.”
10.“You can tell the acting is awful even from the trailer.”
— u / SuvenPan
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— u / Optimal_Dark_2940
11.“Characters think they are funny because they speak loudly.”
— u / drod3333
12.“When I wanna get up to get some snacks five minutes into the movie but I don’t pause it because I feel like ‘I’m probably not missing out on much.'”
13.“If it’s a non-modern piece with modern hair and makeup in it.”
— atomic number 92 / Publandlady
" I had a severe sentence watchingTrue Grit(the John Wayne one ) because the female lead ’s coiffure wasvery clearlyfrom the sixties … and it was so distracting . "
— u / FromFluffToBuff
14.“For animated movies, if the trailer really pushes the celebrity voice-cast, shows mainly the gags and action scenes, and has generic, modern pop songs, it’s going to be bad.”
— u/4morian5
15.“Family moves in, and guess what? Someone got killed in their new home.”
16.“It’s advertised as sexy. Sex sells but it’s usually just a cheap way to get sales.”
— u / IDontMean2B
17.“It’s an adaptation and the director or the studio already discussed the changes they made, which makes it clear they don’t understand the audience.Percy Jackson: ‘We aged the characters and added in Romance.‘Golden Compass: Take out the religious controversy to appeal to the American audience.”
— u / tandemxylophone
18.“It’s been in production for too long. There’s always a reason. A recent example:Chaos Walking. It changed the screenwriter, director, and production company so many times over 10 years but was sold on it being ‘A Charlie Kauffman movie starringDaisy Ridleyand Tom Holland.’ Kauffman left in 2013, and Ridley and Holland filmed it over years due to so many reshoots and failed screenings. Then Lionsgate said the negative reviews were shocking to them… Really?”
19.“You can look at the ad and already tell how the story will start and end.”
— uracil / Frenzi_Wolf
20.“A NONSTOP THRILL RIDE!”
