Good Trailers, Bad Movies

And by "bad" I mean, "really, really bad."

But first, let's discuss where the idea of this posting came from!

So at 10:15 last night, I was totally ready to write this post after watching the first seven minutes of the 2008 comic-book movie, The Spirit. While it does have an all-star line up of, well, stars (Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendez) and a new guy (the impossibly suave and diesel at the same time, Gabriel Macht) the movie itself was totally not what you would expect from the guy who did Sin City. After all, didn't critics looooove Sin City?

Anyway, so I stuck it out, and my final grade for The Spirit is a well-earned C-. But that'll come later.

So even though The Spirit wasn't totally bad, I still stuck with my original posting idea. Because, let's face it: we have all seen movies that look totally cool with the trailers, yet the full-length version sucked.

Have any off the top of your head? I know that you all and I probably have not seen exactly the same movies, but here are my top four:

1. Syriana (the one with overweight George Clooney and Matt Damon)

2. Adventureland (And I wanted it to be good so bad!)

3. Public Enemies (Christian Bale + Johnny Depp should = epic, but instead it =s boredom)

4. State of Play (There's a twist?! Completely unforgettable and the "twist" is something no one even understood.)

Anyway, so can you think of some good trailers but bad movies? And isn't it disappointing, too? Because how could a movie screw up so bad after all the editing and post-production stuff? Am I the only one who thinks of this stuff???

Happy Memorial Day, blog-readers! Here's something else to think about: the people behind the 2009 bomb Valentine's Day are looking to make another "Day" movie called New Year's Eve. What I want to know is, could they make a Memorial Day movie? And what would it be about?