CBR

  • Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures have cut the best summer movie trailers. 1 / 8

  • Detective Pikachu gave us what the trailers promised, if not much more. 2 / 8

  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters, however, was a disappointment following amazing trailers. 3 / 8

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  • Part of why the trailers were superior is that the film ... is shot like a trailer. 4 / 8

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  • Even the relatively "quiet" scenes are framed in the same, extreme trailer-ready way. 5 / 8

  • It's akin to Roger Ebert's assessment of Armageddon as "the first 150-minute trailer." 6 / 8

  • The trailers actually had more dramatic contrast than the film, due to unique music choices. 7 / 8

  • The film has no use of music as inspired as the trailers'. 8 / 8