Your Thoughts on Movie Trailers

**Doc Holliday** · 13 May 2010, 02:52 PM

That was an Epic Trailer. although, the fonts and clouds look low-rent today

But nothing tops this:

**Josh** · 13 May 2010, 03:34 PM

Yeah, the Alien trailer is perfect.

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 13 May 2010, 03:37 PM

I liked the Jurassic Park trailer that had the water start to ripple as stomps got louder and louder.
Never have seen that movie beginning to end though.

**kingoffighters** · 13 May 2010, 03:50 PM

If it is porn, show me the money shot.

**Taito** · 16 May 2010, 02:35 PM

I tend to enjoy movies most when I know almost nothing about them before viewing. I usually look forward to the initial teaser when it's online, but that's it. I won't exactly close my eyes when a full trailer leads into another movie, but I don't scour the net to watch them.

Internet discussions about movies annoy me (I should just cut my sentence right here) when someone expresses disappointment over a movie having little surprises.. after every trailer, featurette and TV spot they watched gave so much of the movie away. They should figure out for themselves that they're watching the actual movie in short segments.

It's like a child sneaking in the kitchen to eat parts of his birthday cake days in advance, then getting angry at how small the cake is at the party.

**Dolemite** · 17 May 2010, 07:01 PM

Forget trailers, thanks to the internet you can't keep anything secret. If a movie's got me interested I pratically have to seal myself in a bunker to avoid having shit spoiled.

But yeah, a trailer's job is to get you excited about seeing the movie. But instead of being all creative with them, most modern trailers are Cliff Notes versions of the movie itself, with pratically every money shot included, up to and including spoiling the ending to lying to you about a film's content because they don't think it'll sell as is. Dicks.

This reminds me...I can't count the number of times I've seen trailers for comedies that play the big HaHa scene of the film over and over (for example, Hot Tub Time Machine's "what color is Michael Jackson?" joke) and audiences still crack up when the see it in the movie despite having already seen the gag 10,000 times already. It's like the fuckers are programmed.