"This is a trailer that sells me a movie I don't want to see either," he says. "It's not hard to understand why this would be happening, but it's also really baffling as someone who has seen the movie months before the trailer was cut." He points to films like She Said and Green Book Redux in which trailers are misleading or false advertising.
Movie trailers are misleading audiences. Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson says you should stop watching them.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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