I was right. They were test-marketing trailers for 16 Blocks to be shown during the Super Bowl. And apparently my input mattered (or the input of people who answered as I did mattered) because they ran a different trailer than the one I saw and hated.
Not that the one they ran was much of an improvement, if you ask me. Now, insted of having no idea what the movie is about, I have a decent idea and know to a moral certainty that I’m not interested in seeing it.