redfiona99

Because I'm having a real disconnect. All my friends, whose tastes I trust, keep assuring me that this film is fantastic, and features plot and characters and interesting stuff. Also, it's directed by Guillermo del Toro who, whatever else, makes interesting looking films.

The only problem is, your adverts do not suggest any of this. They suggest:

In the first advert - this is Real Steel robots fighting in what looks like Battleship's background and sets. It looks like humungous mecha: the movie, and that's not a genre I'm even vaguely interested in.

In the second advert - generic geek is going on (and on, and on) about how cool his job is to Ron Perlman in front of neon futuristic city lights. He keeps saying that he can't give any details. But his work is cool. I understand the intent of the advert but it just doesn't work for me.

They are bad adverts. They make me not want to watch what appears, in reality, to be a cool sci-fi film. I'm used to trailers lying to over-state their case, I don't think I've ever seen a trailer that makes a film look worse than it is.