You think you know bad trailers? Guys, have I got a bad trailer for you.

I can’t imagine a worse trailer than this one for The Godfather. Watching this, you’d never guess it was advertising a movie many people consider to be the greatest ever made, or even a movie anyone would ever want to see. It’s perhaps the most tedious three and a half minutes ever put on public display.

Think about a trailer you’ve seen that got you so pumped up about a movie you almost dumped in your didies. We’ve all seen trailers like that. Has any of those trailers ever been an endless parade of still photos of things like license plates? I’d be willing to bet that the answer is no.

And then there’s the little matter of the trailer tipping its hand. By which, of course, I mean that it explicitly spells out everything that happens in the entire freaking movie, and I do mean everything. Three hours of masterful cinematic art rendered wholly pointless by three minutes of crap.

Prepare to have your faith in The Godfather shaken to its very foundations.

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