10 Movie Trailers That Pointlessly Spoiled Huge Details

[@swinginjoe8477]

Love it when a trailer basically sums up the whole movie in 2-3 minutes. Really saves me the trouble of actually watching it

[@moustachemoe]

My husband and I have a running joke which is, “Well, I’m glad they resolved the central conflict in the trailer.”

[@Mikkogram]

A lot of people don't want any surprises. They want to know what happens before watching something. That's because a lot of people are idiots

[@neighslayer768]

Honorable mention to Terminator II: judgement Day. How big of a plot twist could it have been that Schwarzenegger's Terminator was now the good guy and that Robert Patrick's police officer looking for John was the villain?

[@BogeyTheBear]

"This time there's two: One to destroy, and one to protect." _That_ was the last line of the announcement trailer for the movie.

[@jamesallan5914]

I came here to say this. Much of the marketing material did keep it ambiguous, but not all. I remember some of the clips released to the media definitely left it unambiguous who the hero was. Still, I did have one friend who was genuinely caught by surprise when they watched it on VHS years later having lived under a rock or something first time around.

[@mymindpictures]

@@jamesallan5914 I might be misremembering this, but I'm convinced it was common knowledge that Arnie was now the good guy going into this. Maybe not so much from the marketing and trailers, but from Arnie himself.

[@jamesallan5914]

@@mymindpictures Absolutely, but some marketing material and the film itself seemed to be trying to pitching for it to be a surprise. I figured that at some point they decided that there was more to be gained by marketing a film with Arnie as a hero, so they changed tack.

[@peterpatrickcoyle1779]

@@mymindpicturesI might be remembering a later tv trailer for the movie. But I thought part of the trailer was Schwarzenegger telling John Connor that he saw sent back by him to protect his younger self.

[@knowbrainer233]

Regarding Speed... I have to say it: It's not about the destination, it's about the trip.

[@jeffc9107]

Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@GenericGooner]

I am surprised Abigail isn’t on the list. The trailer gives away Abigail as what she is and when you watch the film they setbulit up as a twist reveal… which isn’t anything of the sort thanks to the trailer.

[@DroosterH]

The poster, title font and tagline (Children can be such monsters) also leave zero to the imagination.

[@biggestnerdalive8476]

I think it would have been hard to market the film whilst trying to hide it since y know it’s the entire plot

[@justme8592]

In my opinion, revealing the secret of the island in 'The Island' trailer, was a primary reason why the movie wasn't a blockbuster hit.

[@BR-jw7pm]

Don’t you just love it when a trailer spoils the (edit) key elements/plot twists of the movie?

[@tyrelllewis8560]

They do that on purpose so people “know” what they are paying for. Unfortunately they do not think the viewers want to be in the dark

[@jayluck8047]

The opposite is true of “The Phantom Menace”.

[@Putting_People_InPlace]

Honest question how do people like yourself think a movie trailer spoils a movie? The reason I ask is simple. A trailer is typically 1-2 minutes so mathematically cannot give away anything. Secondly it’s only after you watch the movie you piece together the out of context trailer. So you basically get the answers and then in hindsight can say oh that was in trailer

[@Putting_People_InPlace]

@@tyrelllewis8560Trailers can’t and don’t spoil movies it’s only after you watch the film you can say oh man that was in trailer.

[@tyrelllewis8560]

@@Putting_People_InPlace you uhh might be a little off in a few places up top. So I’ll just wish you the best lol

[@randyreese6413]

Wait, no Terminator Genysis??

[@futureprimitivepast3044]

I can't believe they spoiled the john Conner twist!

[@KrushgrooveOG]

No Castaway?! It straight up shows that he gets off the Island.

[@robertvaneersel3741]

The trailer of ET shows the guys floating on their bicycles with ET. ET supposedly dies halfway in the movie, so you then know that he cannot really be dead.

[@WarrChan]

Trailers were not that accessible back when many of these were shown. You may have seen it at the movie theater or a cut down version on a tv commercial. There wasn’t video on demand where people could comb through the trailer the way they do nowadays.

[@RobGrognerd]

every movie we've gone to see in the past few months, at least a dozen, has shown the Speak No Evil trailer. so, even not streaming it, seeking it out, not combing thru the trailer, we have seen that "spoiler" a dozen times

[@Maykay524]

I refuse to watch trailers anymore. I just read the plot on IMDB if I feel like watching one I watch the first half of it and then stop. Almost EVERY trailer spoils something in the movie

[@danielrose8305]

I love Ransom. You'd be surprised how great yelling "Give me back my son!" feels every time.

[@morimo11]

Haven’t seen it in ages

[@SpaghettiYOLOKing]

​@@morimo11I just watched it again recently. Still holds up extremely well.

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

Transformers One had the *POST CREDIT SCENE* front and center of every single trailer.

[@SeaBiscuit2342]

Came here to say the same

[@giannidescalzo2101]

Wtf

[@trinaq]

The first half of "Funny People" is honestly superior to the second, where George spends the rest of the time trying to get back with his ex, who's now married. It felt like they were trying to make a "Great Gatsby" reference.

[@tomwhitaker1]

The reason is pretty straightforward. Testing. They test trailers just like they test movies. Adding those extra plot elements in the trailer tests well. And when there is SO much money on the line being able to point to the testing gives studios a sense of security.

[@DCunn_82]

The trailer didn't reveal that 006 was the villain, Sean Bean was announced AS THE VILLAIN from the very beginning!

[@DoloresLehmann]

I don't remember if the trailer in Germany didn't give this away or if I didn't watch it, but it definitely wasn't announced this way here, so I walked into the movie without knowing it, therefore being able to enjoy the reveal.

[@jakereynolds4664]

While this is true, any trailer before 2000 gets a free pass, because trailers weren't endlessly dissected with frame by frame analysis videos, badly acted (over)reaction videos and easter egg breakdown videos. In the 90s we were lucky if we saw the trailer once in the cinema, maybe a shorter TV slot or two, or maybe they'd play it on a talk show if the cast was being interviewed.

[@skaetur1]

How about trailers that completely lied to us.

[@joshwilson831]

Does anyone else miss how whatculture used to seem like they were having fun and connecting with fans and had sign offs and Ewan was Jules son and now it seems to have become so much more generic? Still my favorite by far but it seems the golden age is over and they have streamlined everything at the expense of the channels personality as a whole.

[@ryanpaige1]

The one I remember that's not mentioned is 1998's 'The Negotiator' which sets up Samuel L. Jackson as a hostage negotiator who takes hostages and Kevin Spacey as a different negotiator who is called in to negotiate the release of the hostages Jackson has taken. Not only do they show scenes of the police breaching the office building to rescue the hostages (showing that the negotiations failed) but then at the end of the trailer, it shows Jackson and Spacey together with Spacey saying over a walkie-talkie, "Now you have to deal with both of us"

[@Rickkennett143]

Little Boy Lost (1978). About a child hopelessly lost in the Australian bush, the desperate efforts of the search parties, the building despair and hopelessness as the days go by. Trailer shows the boy being found alive and well.

[@thomholbrook7286]

I don't think the Pet Semetary remake ever intended the flip of which kid dies to be a surprise. Beyond the trailer I remember that fact being heavily talked about when they did cast and director interviews promoting the movie. So don't blame the trailer on that one.

[@Ryno_757]

With Hollywood struggling to make money, it astonishes me we continue to see trailers that are more than teasers or enticements. Keeps money in my pocket so thanks?

[@stephaniegormley9982]

"America's Sweethearts" (2001) the trailer reveals Kiki (Julia Roberts) and Eddie (John Cusack) begin to have feelings for each other long before the viewer should know, if they want the movie to have the same impact. At least they waited for the trailer. "Class" (1983) told you the twist on the POSTER. And for good measure in the trailer.

[@Ceares]

Its a romcom and she's julia roberts and he's john cusack, if you couldn't figure out they were going to develop feelings, you've never seen a romcom before in your life. which fine, but if that's the case, "America's Sweethearts" isn't the one to start with.

[@matthewpatrick7263]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day should've been on this list for revealing that Arnold was a good guy (cyborg). They try to show him as a bad cyborg when he arrives, so that the audience thinks he's out to kill the Conners.

[@neophenom]

For a moment, I thought I had watched this already, but then realized that WarchMojo had done this list a week ago. At least some entries are different.

[@GenericGooner]

All credit to sky tv back in the day when from duck til dawn was first shown on their movie channels. They deliberately kept the trailer as a teaser showing only the early part of the film. That twist was out of left field and I loved it.

[@iammattc1]

A minor one: Darth Maul's double lightsaber reveal would have been epic if it hadn't been in the trailer

[@gryphman]

A Dog's Way Home has the most ridiculous trailer. I've never seen one spoil so much of a movie, that there's no reason to actually see it.

[@benpriest1418]

'Nope' was the most recent one for me all the trailers made it to be out something mysterious. Then they released another trailer a week before release and it was a spaceship. Granted it had a slight twist but still not enough of one to be ground breaking.

[@esm82ify]

Remember "Siskel & Ebert"? They did a review of What Lies Beneath starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. In the course of their review of the movie, they revealed that the biggest plot twist was revealed in the trailer referring to the scene when Pfeiffer says to Ford, who is her husband, "I think she's gettinf suspicious". When he asks who, she leans forward into view revealing that her eyes are noe green and replies "Your wife". This, of course made wonder hoe because the only things we know about this couple is that a girl has gone missing and Pfeiffer becomes obsessed with findingn her, bjt nothing that provides any context explaining how this information gives away anything. What they had actually done is allowed what they knew from watching the entire movie to cloud their critique of the trailer. They did this with a handful of their other movie reviews and it drove me bonkers. All of this to say...this list os like that thing Siskel and Ebert did. Having seen these movies already makes you unable to legitimately deteminr they were spoiled by the trailer

[@aleksmeness]

Ransom is called Kopfgeld (Bounty) in Germany. We didn't need a trailer at all to be spoiled^^

[@TobiasHarms]

Shaolin soccer, a big surprise in the movie is in the last match when their goalie is taken out. The main characters love interest steps out on the field with a shaved head. This wasn't included in the original/international trailer but was added to the American version. So maybe you could do an episode with trailers that dramatically changed for the American version?

[@DoloresLehmann]

"What lies beneath" was marketed as "Harrison Ford playin a villain!"

[@dylan4cy]

I’m surprised Dream House from 2011 isn’t on here given that they actually mention the criticism of that reveal in its trailer on its wikipedia page

[@MegaZeta]

idk, _Rocky_ trades on a surprise ending. The viewer assumes that the hero will win the big boxing match. And that’s one of the world’s biggest sports movies.

[@1D991]

I've got that autistic pattern recognition so most trailers spoil everything for me 😂😭

[@randyreese6413]

I watched Ransom without knowing anything about it, so I got to enjoy it as intended. Which is why I try not to watch trailers.

[@ThePayneKiller]

Baby Driver's trailer gave me the entire plot. Like, I legit predicted 90% of that movie just from the one trailer.

[@DELC1]

Here’s one for you guys. Star Wars phantom menace showed the double lightsaber in the trailer.

[@ShadowAngel71]

Abigail? Hello?

[@shanepatrick6836]

Big miss on your part: T2, The T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the hero. If you watch the opening scenes up to the first act with only the original terminator as your background, you can see that the film is shot to make the viewers think Arnold is the bad guy and Robert Patrick’s character is the human hero (and on a second viewing there is some subtle hints, for example unlike Reese in the original film, Patrick’s character has no scars or injuries from battle.). However, the trailer blows this all (including showing off the reveal scene) as well as openly stating there are two terminators (and showing the effects budget off.)

[@futureprimitivepast3044]

Dream house trailer gave a way basically the whole film including the twist.

[@StarsAndDreamz]

Do you remember the Truman Show when the announcer on TV was laying out the entire plot of the movie? That's what trailers used to be!!

[@DesertKitsune]

Wolfs trailer doesn't spoil a *major* plot point. There are much bigger plot points and twists than the Kid being alive.

[@karenhall7775]

Thank you for the Simpsons reference with Speed 😂

[@esm82ify]

9:30 Well see...again I think having seen the movie may have coloured your view of what constitutes a "spoiler". Then again...as an American Black woman and the basic premisd of this movie it was always a matter of WHEN Rose would turn on Chris, not IF. It's a very real cynacism developed from living in the SE region of a country where people fought a war to keep human beings as property. Even if the subject matter hadn't guaranteed they wouldn't end uo together, the Hays Code would have. Black men still can't have happy endings with White women

[@sirlouie]

I want to watch this video. However, without a list of the movies, I'm afraid it might spoil a movie I haven't seen yet. :(

[@someOldBaldguy]

In Ransom that was the whole gimmick to get people to see the movie, otherwise it was just another kidnapping movie which are a dime a dozen. I remember seeing the trailer and thinking “hold up! I have to see how that turns out!” Also, in some of these, it’s only obvious that the trailer gives essential parts away after you’ve already seen the movie. Going back and watching a trailer of a movie you’ve already seen is always going to look like it gave too much away

[@alm2187]

So ST III was billed as "the final voyage" and we see a constitution class Starship getting destroyed in the trailer. On the original show, EVERY ship looked the same. Didn't anyone think it was a fake-out?

[@Taigan_HSE]

Left off Bloodshot (2020).that movie had exactly one good idea and they pointlessly spoiled it in the trailer. Vin Diesel plays a soldier whose wife is tortured and murdered in front of him before he is killed as well. He’s brought back to life and given superpowers with nanotechnology then goes on a revenge rampage to take out the guy who killed his wife. When he does, the big reveal happens: the guy he just killed didn’t kill his wife. The people who resurrected him changed his memories to make him go kill this guy, and in fact they’ve done this multiple times. Why on earth would you put that in the trailer?! There was actually a further twist the trailer didn’t spoil, but it didn’t make up for the waste of that hook.

[@carlrood4457]

YOu forget that Star Trek II had an entire scene with fakeout deaths at the beginning. The Enterprise could well have been that.

[@AgentMoray]

Rocky IV - I don't think you understand character motivation. Ransom, I don't think you understand the "hook" of the movie.

[@judalea17]

to be fair, how often does the Enterprise NOT get destroyed? also, How To Train Your Dragon 2 I remember when people would recommend a movie because there was a major plot twist that you never saw coming

[@mjroach6385]

I believe they did the same with the Star Trek Generations trailer

[@dearthditch]

The Cabin in the Woods. That movie is shocking… if you hadn’t seen the ad for it. Not totally ruined tho

[@MaxModded]

How is Terminator 2 not on this list?

[@JP-ec3ei]

What about Soylent Green?

[@Ceares]

Nah, I'm happy if a trailer gives me a heads up, especially when it comes to death and particularly child death/endangerment, so I can make a conscious decision whether that's something I want to see. And everybody who says "well I don't need to see the movie now" guess you never watch a movie you've seen before or a remake of a movie or a movie based off of other source material since apparently it's only being shocked/surprised that interests you.

[@honsou1978dk]

Most trailers spoil lots of stuff, apparently Americans prefer it that way.

[@markcahill9255]

Blumhouse trailers are the absolute worst

[@mrjagrown]

Most people who aren't forever online don't remember details from trailers, they remember broad strokes. Also most of these are details mean nothing without the actual context of the full movie

[@ryabusa7402]

Some of these entries are incredibly stupid. Just for example, Rocky IV was literally all about Apollo's death and the fallout. That didn't spoil anything, that was the plot

[@speedincooper]

In a world...

[@johnny1902]

I don't watch trailers

[@LoverOfBellies]

How is Click depressing?!

[@DavidPruitt]

This is less showing the main twist and more that older movies just had more substance. Blockbusters today are all safe trend chasers that didn't do anything interesting. For Speed that scene was at the airport so you couldn't tell us it was airport passengers or bus passengers. For Ransom the twist drives the second half of the movie that takes a deeper look at what the characters are willing to do and what their real motivations are. Meanwhile in Star Wars Palpatine comes back for reasons and dies in the must predictable manner. Matrix revolutions is just a bad copy of the first.