Do we like seeing film trailers?

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semi_sonic18

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Do you like to always see a trailer to get a feel for a movie or to help set the story line or do you try to avoid them as they may give some of the story/plot/scenes away which may spoil things.
 
I admit that I love a good trailer - one that really entices me to watch. Some are better than the movies themselves (thinking Matrix Reloaded here) !!! However, by the same token I feel that they can also spoil a film if done wrong and even reveal the entire point of going to see the film in the first place (thinking that terrible, self-indulgent 15 minute preview trailer for the original 'Psycho').

They are very much an art-form and I feel that it's about time that certain industry bodies (BAFTA, The 'Academy') began to recognise them as such.

Ooooh - interesting factoid about trailers! The first TV trailer ever broadcast was for 'The Poseidon Adventure' in 1974...
 
Some trailers spoil the film because you know whats going to happen, especially if you see them more than once. Like the 5mins S.W.A.T. trailer just gave most of the films plot away :cry:
 
am i right in thinking that film trailer makers are a specialist group of people and are paid sometimes as much as the film cos to make to make a film look good?
 
I would have to agree with that but the thing is if you don't see a trailer you probably won't see the film unless you hear from someone it is good.

Trailers do what they are supposed to attract you to the film. It is a shame that they use all the best bits in the trailers and especially use a lot of the comic punch lines so when you go and see a film you know what the joke will be.
 
I like watching film trailers, as it anticipates us for a certain release in the coming months. For some, yeah they do put together the best bits of the film in the trailer, then you get to watch it and feel disappointed.

I didn't like the thought of a Mask sequel coming though when I saw the trailer. The first one is a classic and its no good bringing back a sequel to a classic movie, 10 years after it was made!
 
i luv movie trailers..it makes the hype go up..unless i go 2 the cinema and the trilers were overrating the film
 
I love them but dislike the fact that comedy films put all their best jokes in them so when you get to see the film you've heard it before and don't laugh a bit.
 
Thats very true. If you watched the prirates of the caribbean trailer, Elizabeth "If you like pain, try wearing a corset". Its annoying because when the film came to that part, you could almost see the people watching it mouth her worRAB as she said it.
 
Trailers serve to make a crap film look really good. The trailer to cabin fever did this by showing as little of the actual movie as possible. Little to say i was drawn in by the mysterious trailer beliving it to be one of the most frightening films of the year, only to be dissapointed.
 
I find a good trailer gives very little away, just encourages you to find out what the film is like. The original Donnie Darko one did this, and Kill Bill Vol 2 gave away nothing that happened in the film - which made the film very appealing.

I don't like the Hollywood trailers, with the ridiculous over the top voice overs and so on. But I don't like many Hollywood blockbusters anyway...
 
I really love watching trailers at the cinema providing they are well done. If they give the plot away, like in Titanic (and I don't mean the ship sinking, but seeing Jack and Rose go under) you may as well call the trailer a synopsis.... however some trailers are simply stunning. For example, watching ROTK trailer was amazing... the music climaxes amazingly and it is really heartrenching without actually telling you exactly what happens (same true for TTT)
 
I love trailers. They're usually better than the movies anyway.

However, I saw the preview for "The Stepford Wives" remake this weekend and they practically gave away the entire plot. :rolleyes:
 
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