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“Well, now I feel like I’ve seen the whole movie,” is an increasingly common complaint about movie trailers. Studios’ marketing strategy is frequently to lure viewers into the theater with a peek at a movie’s biggest fight sequence or most compelling twist, a promise of what people will see if they buy a ticket. But there are some trailers in recent years that have mastered the art of creating a sense of mystery and avoiding spoiling key surprise moments.

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The Iron Man 3 trailer spoiled too much shit that I now actively avoid trailers with some exceptions

Yeah the Iron Man trailers have seemed to ruin all the big reveals. IE: Cool armor types and Pepper.

Yeah; I'm really excited/pumped for what's been seen of Pepper in the trailers, but I kind of wished I wouldn't have known until I saw it in the theater.

The minute I realized they were doing THAT story line with Pepper (fuck you Fraction) I knew I wasn't going to pay money to see IM3.

It seems that I either don't watch trailers at all (simply because I cannot be bothered to) or watch them because I already know what the movie is about (as in "it is a screen version of something I like").

But then again, I'm not afraid of spoilers. I can know every detail of the plot and still enjoy the piece.

Kinda OT, but last night I had a dream about watching a trailer for a movie and it was completely spoiled for me and I was so mad. It was a pretty epic trailer tho.

I like my trailers to be short and concise. Give me a taste of what the movie is about and make me want more. In general I stay away from movies trailers now, because movie trailers spoil themselves or give away all the great bits.

Opps, replied to the wrong part! Sorry!

Edited 2013-04-21 21:31 (UTC)

Any details of the trailer?)

Yeah, I see. IDK, I'm seriously not qualified enough to have any kind of opinion on these. I've watched what - three of them in my entire life?.. Not really a representative sample. This is just not the way I get into movies.

Besides, I don't think I've seen any good ones. They tend to be mish-mashy and overly histrionic.

Re: How do you Like Your Trailers

sootyowl - 2013-04-21 21:49 (UTC) - Expand

Re: How do you Like Your Trailers

dreemyweird - 2013-04-21 22:18 (UTC) - Expand

I never watch trailers if I'm already planning on seeing the movie in question. I tend to really enjoy them after I've seen the movie, but seeing out-of-context trailer snippets of them before generally screws with my perception of the scenes in the actual movie. Also, I'm of the opinion promo-style teasers >>>> trailers that try to tell a partial narrative.

I agree, I rarely watch trailers for movies I plan on going to. It's not even so much that it screws with my perception as like... I already want to see the movie, I don't want to be spoiled, and LOST really killed my taste for wild speculation, so I don't feel like there's a point for me.

The worst are the trailers that try to tell a partial narrative, but make you believe for example that one character works for Character A when he actually works for Character B, or use a line from one scene to illustrate something completely different.

I remember the Bridge to Terabithia trailers making the movie look like two kids find a real fantasy world. I know the real story via the book, but there are a lot of kids these days who DON'T know the book, and they probably got a nasty shock when they saw the movie. It makes me shake my head. Don't get me wrong, the movie was great, but the subject matter might be difficult if somebody suffered a recent loss or is sensitive to stories/movies dealing with loss. (The scene with Jess sitting at his desk after Leslie is gone makes me cry EVERY time because I've been in that position. My best childhood friend died of an asthma attack when I was 12 and she was 13.)

Unrelated, but they showed us this in school, and I left halfway through, so I never actually knew what happened until years later having not read the book.

I like my trailers to match the movie. I hate it when a slow and dark movie is made to look like an action movie.

Or a dark movie to be a teen comedy. : [

http://youtu.be/JotHT5OrIeQ

also, why the hell isn't embedding working?

This is what I hate most. Do NOT make a freaking trailer that belongs in a different genre than your movie and then wonder why your (possibly quite great) movie didn't sell.

Yeah, I though Kick-Ass was going to be comedy from the trailers.

A good trailer should make you excited for the movie without having to show me the Cliff notes version of the entire story line.

The trailers for David Fincher and Christopher Nolan movies are usually good at doing that.

One of the best trailers I've seen was Fincher's trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was fantastic. It set up the storyline, a murder thriller, without giving too much away as well as set up the mood. I wish more trailers would do that. I haven't seen a trailer since then that has impressed me like that one.

I also hate the comedy movie trailers where the only funny moments are in the trailer and that's it, where the rest of the movie is lacking completely.

Oh, I hate that too. It doesn't even have to be a comedy movie, just anything where the funniest moments in the movie are 'spoiled'.

That was The Hangover for me. I liked the trailer but the movie was soooo boring.

I'll just watch the teaser traliers and that's it. Only after I watched the movie do I watch the full trailers on YouTube.

Gimme: The title, the release date, some indication of genre and premise, and some highlights of any of the following which apply: cinematography, fx shots, animation.

Do not give me: The best 30 seconds of the movie. ANYTHING plot related from the second half. Major twists, even if they come in the first half.

The worst trailer I think I've ever seen was for Sinister, which gave away literally the entire plot (save, maybe, for the last 5 minutes, which you'll see coming a mile off, anyway)... (But luckily, I didn't see it until after seeing the movie - I went to see it blind at the recommendation of a friend with similar tastes.)

Edited 2013-04-21 23:31 (UTC)

Echoing everyone else complaining about trailers that make the movie look like something it's not.

Like this trailer for an amazingly powerful drama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbGAkkOgcM
...that ended up as Mulan.

Don't get me wrong, Mulan was great. But there was a part of me that was disappointed, and is still disappointed when I see that trailer again.

Wow. I've never seen the official trailer, but that looks so much better than the actual movie. Thank you for retroactively disappointing me on that. Man, it could have been so good. I've only ever somewhat liked Mulan, and that looks ten times better than what we actually got. And then we had Tangled with its awful trailers and fairly good movie.

Sci-fi films tend to get hit pretty hard by this. Since sci-fi movies can be great when it comes to concept and spectacle, but often fall badly on the narrative part, trailers really play up how interesting a sci-fi can look and feel and justifiably leave out anything else.

Re: How do you Like Your Trailers

inkdust - 2013-04-22 13:31 (UTC) - Expand

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