Comments on: Paparazzi and Other Trailers that Give Everything Away

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:37:09 +0000

The biggest offending trainer I’ve seen is for Swimfan. I felt absolutely no need to go see the movie after seeing the preview. What’s more, the trailer for this movie seemed to run for many months before the movie came out…perhaps the movie release was delayed because they were trying to re-eidt a bad movie. The latest offender is the one for the movie Darkness…every scary scene seems to be covered in the trailer.

I think what’s happening is that the people that make these trailers have started thinking that this is THEIR little movie. They want to display every major scene in the movie for their own sense of “artistic” fulfillment OR the corporate offices of the movie studios are just full of idiots that are asking for this or going along with it because they don’t know any better.

These people should be strung up and forced to watch Showgirls and Batman 3 till they repent.

By: Hap

Hap — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:13:48 +0000

Collateral belongs right there in the mix. The minute I saw Jada on screen, I knew the ending because of what I knew from the trailers. Big bummer…much better movie if I hadn’t known anything going in.

Accidentally caught a behind the scenes thing on Paparazzi on E the other day. If you think the trailers gave away a lot, just watch that special.

By: Kerim Friedman

Kerim Friedman — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 01:46:39 +0000

Or how about comedies where *all* the good jokes are in the trailer, like Bruce Almighty?

By: Alvan Bobrow

Alvan Bobrow — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:23:12 +0000

DIE ANOTHER DAY!The trailer! The plane getting blown up and say that they will go down together in the helecopter.It showed what the huge badass thing was. And had most of the action!!

Cellular!(WHAT I AM SAYING IS ALL IN THE TRAILER, NOT THE MOVIE) You see what happens to her and her son. You see her make the phone, you see her call someone, he picks phone up, cops in mess, see good car chase, see him get mad, see him how he got into mess, bad guy walks around, they have fight.

By: dmiller23462

dmiller23462 — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:38:30 +0000

“Joe Dirt”……Horrible movie, the trailer had all the funny parts in it….I felt used, didn’t even get a reach-around…

By: G

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 03:14:50 +0000

Sure, tell me who’s in it, who directed it and whether or not there’s boobs and then I’ll decide.

By: D

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:50:23 +0000

trailers for s.w.a.t. and the recruit went above and beyond too to spoil the movie.

By: dmiller23462

dmiller23462 — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:51:04 +0000

Hey “G”, I’m ALWAYS enticed by boobs and alcohol…..Guess that rules out the trailers for Dreamworks Animation and Pixar though, huh? He he he he he….

By: G

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:08:06 +0000

I rented From Dusk Til Dawn several years after the release and was completely surprised when everyone turned into a vampire, then I saw the trailer which gave that away. I really hate and don’t want to see trailers anymore. They need to have something else to entice.

By: Michael Rittenberry

Michael Rittenberry — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 05:38:24 +0000

DOUBLE JEOPARDY was another film with a give-it-all-away trailer. You see every single plot point… guy and girl happily married, guy winds up dead, girl gets convicted of his murder, girl goes to prison, girl learns in prison she can’t be convicted of the same crime twice, girl breaks out, cop chases her down, girl finds out husband faked death, cop finds girl, cop believes girl’s story about husband, girl tracks down guy with cop’s help, girl has gun pointed at guy with the cop in the same room…

It’s REALLY gotten ridiculous. It’s especially annoying to watch a trailer for any “event” movie, because every money shot is normally spent.

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:54:55 +0000

I thought Italian Job was a terrible trailer. As soon as I saw the trailer I was mad because they showed everything, including the best part when they blow out the road and the armoured car falls through to the level below, right after Edward Norton is talking about how they can’t get the money from him. I refused to see the movie for many, many months because of that. It was a good show, but I was never in suspense since I’d seen the trailer and knew what would happen.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:38:43 +0000

One other thing. The rule of thumb on this is that a film that has to give everything away in its trailer will suck. On the flip side. A movie that is good, or highly original is hard to condense into a 2 minute format, so it stands a much better chance to be good.

Trailers which sucked (or were confusing), but backed great films:

Fight Club. (sucked)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (confusing)
Three Kings. (sucked)
Hero. (Confusing and wrong)
Triplettes of Belville. (confusing)

and I hope
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Kinsey
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