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 user u/Snoo_19146 asked: "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."
"And then you sit in the movie theatre or watch on Netflix and you're like, 'Oh, the joke from the trailer, I think that's where the movie starts to get funny, but it just transitions into the serious end arc, and then is over."
2. "It's advertised as one of the best movies of the year — and it's late January."
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."
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 Podcast reviews movies that bombed financially or critically and this is a subject often discussed if anyone is interested."
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."
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."
"Cats, The Emoji Movie, and other examples that come to mind."
11. "Characters think they are funny because they speak loudly."
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."
"I had a hard time watching True Grit (the John Wayne one) because the female lead's hairstyle was very clearly from the 1960s... and it was so distracting."