Too Good To Be True? Awesome New Trailer: "John Dies At The End"

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The first "too good to be true" trailer of 2012. Posts with a "too good to be true" tag feature movie trailers for movies that I am pretty much judging by the trailer alone. If I'm already convinced a movie is going to be good i'll generally either not watch the trailer or not care what the trailer is like.

When I post a trailer here with this tag, it's not the names involved that caused me to put it up. Instead it's the contents of the trailer itself. I fully recognise that in most cases this is doomed for disappointment, hence the choice of tag.

The trailer above features Paul Giamatti (which tends to be a good sign) and absolutely bizzare and weird stuff galore. This can either be awesome or dreadful. I'm not sure how it could just be "alright". Check it out. :)

Bonus: Recap of last year's "too good to be true" trailer choices.

Naturally if you want to see what trailers intrigued me last year, you just need to click on the tags. However, here's a neat little list with a recap on whether I saw them and whether I'm still interested now the reviews have come in:


- Hanna
Review in progress...
- The Mechanic
Intend to see both versions... perhaps.
- Endhiran
Not bad, but the songs are so long! Still need to finish watching it...
- X-Men: First Class
Solid B+ score and one of the better films of last year. Best X Men movie. Least impressive Matthew Vaughn movie.
- Attack The Block
Once again, solid B+ score. Nice. (Little bit Spielbergy, but thankfully more like Raiders of the Lost Ark than E. blooming T.)
- Immortals
Bad reviews, but I feel like I still have to catch it on DVD anyway.
- Cars 2
Michael Caine as a super spy car just looked awesome. However, bad reviews have totally put me off this one now.
- The Dark Knight Rises (poster rather than trailer this time)
Wow that poster was amazing. Impressed me rather more than the recent trailer to be honest. (The CGI on that football field was not convincing at all.)
- Conan The Barbarian
The trailer featuring the young Conan seriously kicking ass really made me think this would be good. A review from Red Letter Media even made me think this would be great stupid fun. However, I've now seen enough bad reviews to properly put me off this (for now at least).
- Red State
Really looking forward to this on DVD.
- Sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Straight after the good reviews for ROTPOTA came out, there was news that the director was keen on doing a sequel. Now I've seen Rise, I'm more excited than ever. Having recently rewatched all of them, I actually reckon that ROTPOTA may be better than all the Planet of the Apes movies except for "Escape from the Planet of the Apes". (Surprise revelation: The Tim Burton version is worse than all of them, including "Battle".)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
A+ score. Brilliant film. Not at all what I was expecting from the trailer, mind you...
- The Woman
A+ score. Brilliant film. Much better than I hoped. Now my favourite Lucky McKee movie.
- The Muppets
This had good reviews, yet somehow I'm not sure about it. I really don't think the poster helped and news that Piggy's part in the movie may be somewhat underwhelming is not encouraging either. It's not out in UK cinemas yet, but I'm probably waiting for the DVD anyway.
- The Thing
Mostly lacklustre reviews, but some pretty high recommendations from the Horror Etc. podcast. My reason for wanting to see it hasn't changed. Just the promise of more of "The Thing" is enough to get me on board, even if it doesn't work out. John Carpenter's version will still be just as awesome no matter what this prequel is like.
- Chronicle
Still interested. Coming out soon!
- Snow White and the Huntsman
Wow the trailer looks great, but can it really survive casting Kristen Stewart in a lead role?
- REC 3: Genesis
ZOMG I NEED TO SEE IT RIGHT NOW!
- MS One Security Maximum
Could be cool. Mainly looking forward to Guy Pearce's performance.