By that title I mean being stuck in a movie theater while a trailer plays that you have seen, approximately, 4,000 times. It isn’t just that the preview is bad, it’s that it’s BECOME bad because of the sheer volume of times you’ve been forced to watch it. Though if the trailer really sucks seeing it four more times won’t likely change your mind.
So what are the most egregious offenders? I’m talking trailers that you literally groan when they come on before movies. [A typical trademark of being in trailer hell is when a movie trailer plays that is so ubiquitous you’re just as likely to see it before Toy Story 3 as you are Saw 7, trailers like the godawful romantic comedy Something Borrowed that defy genre by playing before movies that have nothing to do with it.]
For this Summer there’s a list of the usual blockbuster suspects: The Green Lantern, Captain America, and Mr. Popper’s Penguins but none of those trailers was really OFFENSIVE to me (although that depends on how many more times I have to watch Captain America). I can’t say the same about Transformers 3, literally every time that trailer comes on I boo it…so familiar I am with Robot A trying to kill Robot B and the fake ass shots of the moon.
Still, that just annoys me by thinking exploding metal smashing into each other is an appealing sound instead of headache inducing. Two other movies starring Justin Timberlake offend me out of sheer obnoxiousness: Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits. The trailers for those movies just leave me feeling depressed…and even more depressed that I’ll probably see the movies they belong to.
So what movie trailers do you hate the most?
My movie trailer hell is usually scary movies…I have no interest in seeing them or even seeing two minute trailers of them
I would say the trailer for certain family movies really makes me groan…also anything where a guy gets hit in the nuts