generalfrevious said:
Man of Steel could be one example; you have a mopey violent protagonist (Anakin), excessively long action sequences and hamisted political allegory, trailers that end up better than the movie, and pushing in films no one wants to see but will make hundreds of millions of dollars anyways.
That has more to do with the Nolan Batman films. (Which may have been a reaction to the over the top wackiness of Joel Schumacher's Batman And Robin.) The new Fantastic Four trailer is probably the latest example of all the fun of a superhero tale being sucked out with a long straw, because superheroes have to be all dark, ponderous, and serious now.
Unless you're a Disney owned Marvel property, of course. ;)