• Film trailers 'give away too much'
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I freaking hate trailer "jokes" where they take a scene like some guy saying "are we really gonna do this...?" And then the music stops and someone else blurts an obviously out-of-context "...I don't think so." XDDDDD SO FUNNY AND WITTY!!1 And then the music continues and the announcer continues talking. And people actually fucking laugh. It makes me cringe so fucking hard it just makes me want to grab the head of the person responsible for directing the trailer and shove it through a CRT TV's screen. Along with slapping everyone who laughed at the shitty "joke" across the face.
When watching the trailer for John Wick, I was wondering if the trailer was misleading me.
The worst trailer I can think of is The Hurt Locker. Literally every suspenseful scene is in the trailer. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxSDZc8etg[/media]
I saw interstellar yesterday and the bastards put a trailer for it in the trailers at the start of the movie. I was pissed.
I'm so glad I saw no trailers for Interstellar before watching the movie. Wouldn't have worked half as well as it did if I had seen all of that before
I tend to avoid seeing any trailers because of how they give away so much now.
I often avoid trailers.. Or not even really avoiding them, just not watching them. If I hear or see something that sounds interesting, I only seek for info like the rating, general reviews, budgets. Or if people tell me it's really good, I will see it without reading or watching anything about it beforehand. It only took [I]a second[/I] of the spinning washing machine with a few dollar bills on a TV add for me to immediately get into watching the Breaking Bad. [editline]9th November 2014[/editline] Although no, don't get me wrong. I do watch trailers. Of films that I will likely never watch anyway. [editline]9th November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Hiccuper;46440935][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRbAXWfthtA[/media] I think this is the best trailer I've seen in a while, you see an excerpt from one scene that you don't see the conclusion of, but it gives you a compact gist of the suspense and drama to expect from it.[/QUOTE] Now that was a pretty fucking suspenseful trailer, which is good. Didn't even reveal anything. Although it makes me wonder if the conclusion of this scene is one of the main parts of the plot? Like, the entire movie being more or less tied around that scene.
If there's a film I think I'll be interested in, I never watch the trailer for this reason. I usually go by reviews
I'm going to see Intestellar today, watched the trailer a while back but luckily I don't remember much of it. I will be pissed if they give away a portion before the movie even starts.
[QUOTE=PatrickT;46446607]I'm going to see Intestellar today, watched the trailer a while back but luckily I don't remember much of it. I will be pissed if they give away a portion before the movie even starts.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure they didn't, the film's like 5 hours too. [editline]9th November 2014[/editline] Although the general idea of the film must be clear to you. Time-holes, and traveling worms.
pretty sure i've seen a movie trailer and its tie-in game trailer show just before said movie. pisses me off so much.
[QUOTE=FullStreak12;46441056]Didn't the Terminator 2 trailer reveal that Arnold was actually trying to save Sarah?[/QUOTE] That was one of the later trailers, the original trailer for T2 is absolutely fucking incredible: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtWhBtvHQU[/media]
Trailers, at least for me, don't give away too much. Instead, all they do is mislead. I was severely disappointed about Epic after seeing it's trailer.
The Avengers 2 trailer actually left me with no understanding of what the plot is going to be about[video=youtube;cDaRrUs0jgE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaRrUs0jgE[/video]
For the most part you have two different groups of people involved in trailers, those who are trying to sell the movie and those who created it. The creators want us, the audience, to experience what they made and this means not spoiling it. The promoters just want to sell tickets, they don't care about the audience's experience. I'm sure that's what is going through the mind of the person who insisted on putting all the key scenes, biggest sfx, funniest jokes, etc in the trailer- "This will attract the audience!" I don't see what's so difficult about creating an intriguing trailer that does not have to give away the movie plot point by plot point. Unless you've made a crap movie you should have enough for a 1 1/2 minute trailer just from the first half of the movie alone.
[QUOTE=meppers;46440034]The trailer for oblivion was the worst offender of this[/QUOTE] Just about any movie tom cruise is in has a bad trailer [editline]10th November 2014[/editline] What stinks too is if a movie has someone die early on and you absolutely know its going to happen because even if the trailer doesn't show it you can figure it out, then you spend the whole movie waiting for them to die
Super 8 had a fantastic trailer which only shows two or three frames from a super 8 camera of the monster.
[QUOTE=booster;46438151]When I watched interstellar yesterday a bunch of people just closed their eyes and covered their ears during some trailers. Going into a movie completely blind can make it such a better experience.[/QUOTE] This is quite true. I saw Edge of Tomorrow with no idea what the film was about and knowing nothing about the manga and thought it was a great movie. Raid 2 I was more than excited for and watched all the trailers that by the time I saw it I was a bit disappointed.
I have been saying this for [i]years[/i] now. The trailers give away all the good bits! [QUOTE=meppers;46440034]The trailer for oblivion was the worst offender of this[/QUOTE] Oblivion actually turned out to be a good movie though, which surprised even me, because I originally thought it was going to be shit.
I'm pretty sure that all of these Dumb and Dumber To commercials have given away every single joke of the movie
If I ever make a movie I'm going to make the trailers prologue exclusive content, which means that literally nothing you see in the prologue is in the full movie, but it is reflective of the story and quality of it. This allows people watch a preview and not have anything spoiled at the same time.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;46458667]I'm pretty sure that all of these Dumb and Dumber To commercials have given away every single joke of the movie[/QUOTE] And none of them are funny either
Oh no i watched the trailer of Avengers - Age of Ultron and the trailer gave me chills at the end :( I am actually so excited about the movie.
[video=youtube;4HALL5-PZu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HALL5-PZu4[/video] They should start being like this now.
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