That's why trailers are so boring watch. Always the same.
What's the name of that video with a parody of video game trailers. It ends with a starcraft 2 / Gears of war quote.
[QUOTE=booster;47626796]What's the name of that video with a parody of video game trailers. It ends with a starcraft 2 / Gears of war quote.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;lSwceekphqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwceekphqU[/video]
[QUOTE=lonefirewarrior;47626669]*all action movie trailers are the same.[/QUOTE]
They should do another for shitty popular comedies and point out how they always splice dialog from different scenes. that bullshit pisses me off.
[QUOTE=Marden;47626859]video[/QUOTE]
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I can't believe nobody in Hollywood has noticed this by now. Are all movie trailers cut by the same incredibly overworked, bored, sweaty man locked in an editing suite somewhere? Are they trying to imply their movies are all the same? Is there any creativity left in the movie industry at all?
Going to the cinema early nowadays is an exercise in self-harm - you're just bombarded by 20 minutes of dull, desaturated trailers that blend so seamlessly together you'd swear it was a long-form trailer for the same movie - one you don't particularly want to see.
This didn't need to be eight and a half minutes long.
It's almost like the people who make trailers are just looking off a cheat sheet
[QUOTE=Scot;47627403]This didn't need to be eight and a half minutes long.[/QUOTE]
RedLetterMedia doesn't do short videos
they all follow the same formula because it always gets the same results - hype. you see all the little explodey bits and dramatic and mysterious bits and get excited.
The single thing I hate the most in modern trailers is that strobe / epilepsy cut... You know, where they slice a bunch of shit together with black frames inbetween, so it goes
DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-D-D-D-D-D-DDDDDDDDD BBLLAAAACCKKK SCREEEEENNNN
Christ, bugger off with that shit my eyes and ears can't take it. Also no, not Darude Sandstorm.
[QUOTE=Quark:;47627834]they all follow the same formula because it always gets the same results - hype. you see all the little explodey bits and dramatic and mysterious bits and get excited.[/QUOTE]
speak for yourself
The people who make the movies aren't the ones that make the trailers. Marketers make the trailers, and they can be some of the most creatively bankrupt, unscrupulous, shitheaded people in existence. That's how you end up with a raunchy gay-and-sex-joke filled comedy getting a trailer like this:
[video=youtube;SuyLeUjuT_k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuyLeUjuT_k[/video]
The 2010s are the decade of the Inception horns
I don't feel as if you can fault whoever makes these for using a 'winning'/proven formula. Even if it's chewed up and overdone to hell, it still works.
Better to stick with something that is pretty much guaranteed to work, than wasting money/time on experimenting with a different buildup/payoff in your trailer, right? This is Hollywood after all.
action montage in a trailer for an action movie? blasphemy!
a shot showing off the main character as badass? dumb!
title of the movie at the end of the trailer? how unoriginal!
I don't get what this video is really trying to point out. Trailers are pretty similar, but who cares, at the end of the day they are just adverts to make you excited. Of course they'll have inception bwongs, cuts to silence, pans of the city (which is called establishing a setting), it's a formula that works and I'm ok with it. We get a good dose of original trailers as well.
Which is more or less why I haven't been to the theathre for like five plus years. I think the last movie I saw at the place was like Iron Man 2 or something.
[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;47628571]The 2010s are the decade of the Inception horns[/QUOTE]
Farts. It's just farts. No instrument made by man either physical or electronic can make such a noise, so they record whales farting and turn the volume way the fuck up.
[QUOTE=Pappi_man;47626731]That's why trailers are so boring watch. Always the same.[/QUOTE]
The same could be said of most of the movies.
Trailers now are so cookie cutter and full of spoilers I've just given up on them, movies are so much better when you are surprised by the good parts, not having the movie advertised just by them
I don't deny there is a generic action movie trailer formula, but obviously you are going to end up with this video if you purposefully pick the ones that are very similar and edit them to emphasize the similarity. Even the movies that were chosen are not very different (pretty much all the generic superhero movies).
I'm not sure if I made my point clear enough. The video shows that there is a lack of creativity when it comes to some movie trailers, but apart from as a funny and effective way of drawing attention to a point, I don't think it proves much. Also to be perfectly honest there is a reason why that formula works. It establishes the setting to a degree, introduces characters, gives a taste of the action and ends on an exciting shot, exactly what the trailer should do. Whoever is making those trailers might not be taking risks, but then again why should they? If a formula works reasonably well, why take a risk?
What I am more pissed about is the new comedy movie trailers that give away every joke in the movie so you are stuck with watching 2 hours of filler since you already know the funny bits.
Man, this is something I've been pointing out for years and no one else seemed to notice.
Trailers are so generic, cheesy and lame nowadays.
I'd love to see a trailer which is shot entirely on its own, not showing any footage from the actual movie. Instead it shows you a scene indirectly tied to the main plot, kinda like a prologue, making you want to know how it keeps on going on. It would probably take a couple of minutes, but it would convince me more to check out a movie than a generic hollywood montage.
[QUOTE=GeneralSpecific;47626917]They should do another for shitty popular comedies and point out how they always splice dialog from different scenes. that bullshit pisses me off.[/QUOTE]
[I]character tells a joke or does something awkward
music suddenly stops[/I]
[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;47630945]I'd love to see a trailer which is shot entirely on its own, not showing any footage from the actual movie. Instead it shows you a scene indirectly tied to the main plot, kinda like a prologue, making you want to know how it keeps on going on. It would probably take a couple of minutes, but it would convince me more to check out a movie than a generic hollywood montage.[/QUOTE]
this is why I watch only a teaser or two now
[video=youtube;aLlNXTvoZ2o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLlNXTvoZ2o[/video]
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;47628567]Marketers make the trailers, and they're some of the most creatively bankrupt, unscrupulous, shitheaded people in existence. [/QUOTE]
I work in marketing and sometimes it can be dumb but this is a little harsh
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47632314]I work in marketing and sometimes it can be dumb but this is a little harsh[/QUOTE]
Sorry :(
I should have said "they can be."
I admit I don't know why I have this residual anger towards marketers. Now that I think about it, it's mostly triple A movies and games' marketers that I don't like, and even then there are a lot of advertisements I've really liked. Movie trailers are almost universally terrible though and that was sort of the context I was talking in, but I'm pretty sure almost every movie trailer is done by the same few companies since they're almost always outsourced.
I have more of an issue with a movie having several trailers that are just the same clips put together in different ways. And of course trailers giving away everything.
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