Trailers

I used to be able to pick out a good movie based on the trailer, or preview, I had seen. That's not the case anymore. The movie studios' marketing machine take the most interesting, the funniest, the most scary, etc. parts of the film and put them in the trailer. Then the audience gets to the theater and realize they have been ripped off, as the whole product is subpar.

I love watching trailers for movies made way back in the day. There was more truth in advertising then, and they really made audiences want to see the film. The trailers were flashy, but they didn't give away the whole plot like so many trailers of today.