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I'm wondering if you should have posted this in the General subforum, as the gist seems directed at readers rather than writers. That is: it's good for readers when blurbs are so bad you can pass over the book quickly and move on (assuming the cover hasn't already made you do so), but from a writer's perspective there's never anything good about a bad blurb (unless you manage to do something so bad that it gains lots of attention from around the world and has people buying your book just to see if the content could possibly be as bad as the blurb - but somehow that doesn't seem likely).
Your bit about movies certainly rings true. There are many movies where it seems the only good bits were the bits you had already seen in the trailer, and often not looking as good anymore when the scenes are surrounded by the rest of the dross.
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