I had only the vaguest notions of what the film was about when I saw it; something about an orphaned boy who lived in the clocks of a Paris train station prior to the start of WWII. There was nothing at all in the trailers to suggest it had anything to do with early silent films in general, and the works of Georges Melies in particular.

While it was not the film I had been expecting via the trailers, once I cottoned on to what it was really about, I thought it was wonderfully well-crafted and I enjoyed it a lot. Yes, I had to adjust my expectations, but that happens so much these days when studios are given a film they don't know how to market because it doesn't fall into an easily defined category like Romance, Mystery, or Thriller. The trailers for The Adjustment Bureau made it look like an Inception-style thriller when it was actually a romance. That's the advertizing department's fault, not the film's. At this point, I don't trust trailers to tell me anything about a movie other than who is in it and who directed it.