One of the (now)classics is The 5Th Element, it was marketed as a star wars type movie.
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Recently Digger and The Sheep Detectives come to mind. I'd also add Paddington 2 and Wonka to that list
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Elemental (2023) was so poorly marketed that it bombed. Nevermind that viral clip about the kid character trying to flirt. The problem was they marketed it as a love story when it was actually about the struggles of moving into a new culture/environment and parallels to immigration.
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The Warrior with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton. I remember the trailers making it seem like some generic boxing/sports movie, and I was not interested in seeing it. I went to the movies with a couple friends once and after seeing the movie we originally planned to see, walked into The Warrior for a "second feature."
I was honestly blown away by the performances and story. It's such a good movie.
The Pixar movie Hoppers comes to mind. Trailer made it look like the crap “bean mouth slop” that Pixar had been churning out in recent years. Actual movie is WAY more weird and unhinged than the trailers indicate. I enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would.
(I randomly watched the Honest Trailer and it totally sold me on the movie, even if it spoiled stuff.)
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Mostly because I thought the trailer made it look like total crap, but Civil War turned out better than expected, though it's far from what I'd call amazing or anything
I try to avoid trailers for things I already want to see as best I can these days tbh, had too many things spoiled in various ways over the years
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Frozen.
The trailer implied it was a movie about a snowman and a reindeer.
Star Trek Beyond, but that was a blatant fumble on theh marketing side.
Inception was just undersold as an action thriller
John Carter.
Not saying it was great, just that it might not have flopped so hard if they had it least included "of Mars" and given us a clue about the theme.
Kudos to OP for this thread, I'm reevaluating a lot of movies' placement on my to-see list.
Transformers One most definitely.
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