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Please Stop! Trailer are spoiling movies and making me not want to watch them.

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boiled goose

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Dear Hollywood,

I know you think viewers are not very smart and you don't respect us or your medium at all and all you want is money, but please, stop spoiling the entire plots of movies on your trailers. Also, don't give away the big surprises and punchlines or jokes away.

Just this year, these trailers have completely turned me off from watching these movies:
Southpaw
Self/less
Terminator Genisys

The trailers made me not go watch these movies, so they are having the opposite effect that you intended.
 
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Freedom = $1.05

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sounds like they're mostly doing you a service given that list of films

The Mad Max trailer was so visually striking and incredibly well edited that i wouldn't have checked that film out otherwise.
 
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Timeaisis

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Remember when Interstellar trailers spoiled the
giant wave planet
? That was so dumb. Would've been awesome and genuinely surprising if I first saw that during the actual movie. Y'know, with dramatic context and all that stuff.
 
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toadsworth

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Timeaisis said:
Remember when Interstellar trailers spoiled the
giant wave planet
? That was so dumb. Would've been awesome and genuinely surprising if I first saw that during the actual movie. Y'know, with dramatic context and all that stuff.
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Felt the same way with the helicopter and geo dome in Jurassic World.
 
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ninjabat

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Just watch the first trailer. It usually shows the least. Then skip all the other trailers, and the tv spots.
 
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boiled goose

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Freedom = $1.05 said:
sounds like they're mostly doing you a service given that list of films

The Mad Max trailer was so visually striking and incredibly well edited that i wouldn't have checked that film out otherwise.
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Yes. Mad Max was an awesome trailer but they didnt give away any of the plot.

Other good trailers: Interstellar, Star wars (so far), UItron.

ninjabat said:
Just watch the first trailer. It usually shows the least. Then skip all the other trailers, and the tv spots.
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I wish I could. I can't avoid them at movie theaters.

BronsonLee said:
Southpaw looks awesome you bastard!
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I would be interested, except I already watched 75% of the movie.
 
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Leynos

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Dear Hollywood,

Please continue to "spoil" your movies via trailers. It saves me money.

Regards,
Leynos


In all seriousness, I love trailers that show me exactly what the movie is. I want to know what I am going to spend my time, attention, and money on. If I watch a trailer, and don't have a clue what the film is about, then I have no interest.
 
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John Kowalski

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They only need you to buy one ticket. One that transaction is made, the marketing doesn't need to work anymore. So trailers that are done with marketing firstly and foremost in mind don't much care for the experience they are giving you.

Which is an absolute shame because trailers can be such a strong experience if done well, heightening the movie with mystery and expectation, but unfortunately that's not something enough people care about.
 
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The Right Deal

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There was a quote someone posted on GAF in a similar thread, something about how we go to movies to see longer versions of our favorite trailers, that really struck a chord and is something I think about every time I watch a trailer now.
 
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Syf

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Jurassic World was really bad for this. The last trailer basically ran us through the entire plot.
 
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cyba89

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I skipped Jurassic World because I got the feeling I already saw everything in the trailer.

Joni said:
It is easy, it is making sure you don't waste money.
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I'd rather risk watching a not-so-good movie, than being bored of a good movie because I am able to guess every major story development and action scene just from the trailer.
Avengers 2 was a disappointment for me and I think it was partly, because they already showed almost everything in the various trailers and TV-Spots they released.

Timeaisis said:
Remember when Interstellar trailers spoiled the
giant wave planet
? That was so dumb. Would've been awesome and genuinely surprising if I first saw that during the actual movie. Y'know, with dramatic context and all that stuff.
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I agree with you on the wave scene, but Nolan trailers are usually good examples of how you do a trailer. They show you enough to get you interested, but not too much to give everything away. You can't really guess the story of a Nolan film just from the trailers.
 
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Rodney McKay

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Syfadious said:
Jurassic World was really bad for this. The last trailer basically ran us through the entire plot.
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Yeah, after the first week in theaters the "Critics and fans love it!" trailer even shows off the big finale action scene (
I-Rex vs. T-Rex
) which I loved seeing in theaters mainly BECAUSE I hadn't seen it in the trailers/commercials a hundred times before finally seeing it.

I'm hoping that there is something left in Ant-Man to keep me entertained. That's a movie I feel like I've seen way too much of by seeing the commercials every day.
 
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boiled goose

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cwmartin said:
How is there any definitive way for you to know this? You watched 2 minutes of spliced footage.
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Have you seen the trailer?
They give away like 2 or 3 pretty major twists.

I dont know FOR SURE, but as it is, I dont want to watch it anymore. If critics say it is awesome then I'll reconsider.
 
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Disgraced

Member
boiled goose said:
Yes. Mad Max was an awesome trailer but they didnt give away any of the plot.

I wish I could. I can't avoid them at movie theaters.
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Well, with Mad Max, don't get me wrong, but there's not much of a plot to give away, and the trailer did give away some major set pieces.

I feel your pain. I avoid trailers as much as I can, but you just can't do much of anything about it in theaters. Sadly, I don't think there's any chance of it stopping, either. Trailer-culture is huge; people eat it up.
 
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hosannainexcelsis

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boiled goose said:
I wish I could. I can't avoid them at movie theaters.
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You could always arrive late.

And while I can sympathize with the desire to go into a movie sight unseen, I do think that if a movie isn't worth watching when you already know the plot, it wasn't really worth watching in the first place.
 
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Commander Jameson

Member
I'm sure that I enjoyed both Jurassic World and Terminator: Genisys more than I would have done becauase I deliberately avoided any trailers apart from the earliest teasers. I'm definitely going down that route in future.
 
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zert

Member
I stopped watching trailers for this same reason. Now I only watch the "teasers" just to get the mood of the movie and if that looks interesting I'll go and watch it.

So far it has paid off extremely well. I went to watch Mad Max without having seen anything and my mind was blown so good the entire movie.
 
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kirblar

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They've learned people tune in specifically because of the spoilers. It sucks. It's been a thing since the days of Shakespeare - they used to literally go over the entire plot outline beforehand.
 
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Timeaisis

Member
toadsworth said:
Felt the same way with the helicopter and geo dome in Jurassic World.
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Lucky for me I saw the movie before seeing any of those super spoiler-ific trailers. Recently they have been spoiling even more with the trailers like the
T-rex sequence at the end
. Seriously.
 
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michaelius

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That's because modern holywood movies are so hollow and cliche that they need all good fragments to make 1 minute long interesting trailer
 
PAULINK

PAULINK

I microwave steaks.
Freedom = $1.05 said:
sounds like they're mostly doing you a service given that list of films

The Mad Max trailer was so visually striking and incredibly well edited that i wouldn't have checked that film out otherwise.
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It's the opposite for me, the trailer was so in your face and obnoxious that I didn't want to see it until I was convinced by it's critical acclaim to give it a chance, and i'm glad I did.

Some of my favorite movies are movies where I did not watch a trailer for.
 
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Dominator

Member
I see so many movies in theaters that its hard for me to avoid them, I know how you feel. If I go during the week I try to time it where I get there right at the end of the previews, but on the weekend i just try not to pay attention lol
 
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Enco

Member
Yea trailers are 90% garbage these days.

If I'm very interested in a movie, I won't touch a trailer.
 
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Ninja Scooter

Member
Is Self/Less the horror movie where Ben Kingsly gets transported into Ryan Reynolds body and suddenly all of his films become box office poison?
 
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Savitar

Member
Cast Away featuring Tom Hanks had one of the worse trailers that told you if he got home or not.

He talked to a friend about the funeral they had when he got back home even with it having no body.
 
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Cyan

Banned
boiled goose said:
The trailers made me not go watch these movies, so they are having the opposite effect that you intended.
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This seems like a good outcome though, right? I mean, the trailers presumably helped you out by showing that you didn't need to see the movie.
 
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The Beard

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I totally agree. Can they keep the cliff notes trailers online only for people who seek this shit out ? The trailers on TV should not reveal major plot points, twists, funniest jokes, etc.
 
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Lunar15

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Film Crit Hulk had a good point on this, basically that movie marketing tries to get feedback through focus testing, and they basically hear two different parties: "There's not enough action/humor/drama from the film in the trailer" and "I'm not sure what the film is about". So then they go and make trailers that tell you what the film is about while also putting the meat of the film in the trailer.

I think this kind of stems from the nature of a lot of movies today: When movies are less about something and more about just satisfying fan desires, It's hard to convey what a movie is "about" without just saying what the plot is. I think you can make people feel comfortable with the "idea" of a movie without telling them the plot, but that gets more difficult when you don't have much there other than the plot. When you think that hooks, like "So and So is actually the villian!" is what's awesome about your movie, you're more likely to put those up front when tracking gets low. We've moved away from trailers being a "pitch" to audiences and more a breakdown of what a movie is. It's a bit of a race to the bottom.
 
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The Beard

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shagg_187 said:
Imagine if Terminator 2 released in 2015. They'd spoil the entire twist/reveal of T-1000/T-800 role switch.
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They would've showed the scene in The 6th Sense where Bruce Willis says "You know Ellie, we really are the last of us with this 6th sense". Ellie being a ghost, thus ruining the twist.
 
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Dalek

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Savitar said:
Cast Away featuring Tom Hanks had one of the worse trailers that told you if he got home or not.

He talked to a friend about the funeral they had when he got back home even with it having no body.
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I'm usually not a spoilerphobe and typically laugh at those who are-but I mean c'mon. This trailer is legendary for spoiling literally the entire movie-including the final scene and shot!!!
 
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ElectricBlanketFire

Member
What did you guys think would happen in Jurassic World?

People are fine.
Dinosaurs.
People are not fine.
Some people are dead.
Some people are fine.

The end.
 
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