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Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: Our increasing obsession with trailers is changing how we watch movies. We're becoming audiences afraid of surprise, audiences that would rather watch movies we're certain we'll like than risk watching films that surprise us into love. In some cases, this fixation is even lowering the quality of movies themselves by encouraging bad filmmaking habits. The most extreme example happened when Warner Bros released such a successful trailer for 'Suicide Squad' it brought on the company that cut it to edit the whole film -- dropping the director's original cut altogether. [...] Thanks to trailers' easy accessibility on YouTube and those shot-by-shot breakdowns that quickly appear online once trailers drop, anyone interested in a given flick can pore over all the available footage for hours -- even if that leads to major spoilers for them and everyone they share it with.
If only there were tornados that attacked these trailers...
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
A studio is afraid to try something new because a movie costs millions, often hundreds of millions, to make. So they are afraid to try something out of the ordinary and instead rehash the same stuff that once managed to get people into the cinemas, we get reboot after reboot, relaunch after relaunch.
And going to see a movie costs between 10 and 20 bucks a person. So we're afraid to try something that we don't know anything about, fearing that we're going to waste 20 bucks on something we are not going to enjoy.
It's a matter of money. People don't want to waste it on something that's not going to perform the way they would like it to.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They tend to give away too much, or, in a bad movie, show the only things worth watching. If I'm going to get suckered in to see it, I might as well save those five good jokes.
It really helped when I cut cable, because I barely see any these days, other than previews before other movies.
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I am convinced that the 1993 hollywood writers strike never actually ended.
We need more trailers like the Deadpool Australia Day trailer...
Why would you since they so often contain spoilers? What kind of idiot wants to ruin a movie just to find out something a little earlier?
>Our increasing obsession with trailers is changing how we watch movies.
Your obsession. I don't have an obsession with trailers. They barely register on my personal radar of things I'm aware of and they certainly aren't something I care about.
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We're not the ones making the trailers, and we're not the ones making the crappy movies. Not our fault.
We're fine with suspense and surprise. And, I'm pretty sure we're just fine with... *read slowly* GOOOD MOOOOVIES. So, make them good.
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The trailer showed Neo stopping bullets with his mind. In the trailer.
That was supposed to be the shock and awe moment that tied it all together.
There should be a new category.... Spoiler Trailer.
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for watching the commercials that they play before the movie starts. I think the movie would be way better if we didn't see baby groot pick the wrong button before running off with the nuke.
Sometimes the trailer is better than the movie.
Blaming trailers for bad movies is like blaming a fart for a bad meal.
If a studio decided to recut an entire, finished movie based on one trailer, that says far more about the studio than it ever could about the trailer.
When something costs me a lot of money, my expectations start to increase. When a movie costs $13+ for a single ticket, I expect that movie to be mind blowingly awesome. When it undoubtedly falls flat on its face for not living up to its $13 value to me, I feel ripped off and stop going to see movies that I don't feel were worth the $13 to me.
If movies cost, 6,7, or even 8 dollars, my expectations will be more reasonable and thus my enjoyment of the movie increases because i'm not asking myself, "Was this worth it?"
and that is plenty!
You. Can't. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
My 12 year old son will, at times, sit down in front of the Apple TV and watch nothing but trailers for an hour.
I'm wondering if the culprit isn't the short attention span syndrome, immediate gratification and the regular consumption of very short form videos on YouTube and the like.
The recent "prologue trailer" for Alien Covenant is worse. Look away now if you haven't seen the film and don't want spoilers.
It literally has nothing to do with the film - I have no idea what actually happened, but Noomi Rapace (Elizabeth Shaw from Prometheus) basically doesn't appear in the full film, all her scenes are in the "prologue trailer", and the film itself goes off in a totally different direction. The "prologue trailer" hypes you up for the coming story and then ... nothing. That story isnt told. They tell a different story.
There is basically a film missing between Prometheus and Covenant.
While there may be some truth that we prefer to know the movie genre ahead of time (begetting genres themselves), the idea that we're afraid of being pleasantly surprised is asinine. We almost never are, that is the problem. Absolutely no effort is made to hook us in with a genre, and deliver us with more than we expect, at best we get a marketing checklist of included sequences. It makes a bit of sense then that audiences will at least decide which spreadsheet they wish to be party to, verify their assumption via trailer, and then commit $20+ to see the thing. $20 will get you substantially more hours of (and usually better) entertainment for the dollar than a movie theater, you have to be convinced that at least you won't hate it.
Or, we stream it on something for $5, or get it via Netflix DVD or Redbox and toss it back when the nausea subsides.
The movie industry is failing itself, blaming millions of people for not appreciating it isn't good thinking. I personally think the movie industry would do way better with a $10M budget cap and some creativity, rather than $150M explosionfests and absolutely no creativity at all.
In many (but not all) movies, spoilers aren't a huge deal. Are we really surprised that Captain America beats the bad guy at the end? Seeing two seconds of the final fight in the trailer doesn't mean I'm not going to enjoy watching the entire movie. You could make the argument that the issue is that modern movies are shallow or dumb. Maybe, but I think this also applies to classic movies. Citizen Kane's "Rosebud" has been so endlessly parodied that someone sitting down to watch Citizen Kane for the first time is not going to be surprised at that revelation. They'll still enjoy a finely crafted story. Except for mystery stories, I don't think surprise is a primary factor in enjoying most movies.
This sounds like American film trailers are becoming more like Japanese film trailers. The trailers are often cut to tell much of the plot, and since there's more of a focus on the interests of Japanese women (as opposed to the obsession with American teen boys) they tend to add more emotion to the trailer itself. This is maybe most stark in the trailers for animated films which have a long history in Japan as adult fare, but are still often relegated to the animation ghetto in the USA.
Compare these two trailers for Inside Out. The American version focuses on slackstick humor, while the Japanese trailer kicks you right in the feels and isn't afraid to spoil the plot.
Also, the Trailers Always Spoil trope from TV Tropes is always a good read on this.
Hollywood aims to the lowest common group whom by sheer volume can generate the most profits.People who pay to see movies is whom Hollywood aims too. Blame those people who will pay to see Fast and Furious 345 or another marvel movie,
You sure it's not the garbage story lines that Hollywood keeps repeating that are making movies worse? How many times are they going to rewrite superhero story lines or the same boring "boy meets girl who he isn't really supposed to be in love with" plot line
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Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by hundreds of hostile Indian warriors.
Lone Ranger: Well Tonto, it looks like we're finally doomed.
Tonto: Who is we, white man?
Methinks the cnet movie blogger is obsessed with trailers and maybe a good chunk of the teenage male action movie viewers, but that's about it.
I find that I enjoy movies more when I don't see the trailer first.
I see people obsessively complaining about them... but that's about it *shrug*
If I'm going to go to the theatre I want a good experience for what I'm gonna pay: time, travel, snacks, tickets... it all adds up and really there haven't been many films that were actually good vs marketed as good (again beauty/eye/beholder whatever you decide for yourself)
So what is a trailer then? Advertising to show you the film at its best or to pique your curiosity enough that you'll at least consider it, but since Everything is Bad(tm) all I see is:
- Every good joke in a comedy film
- 'SPLOSIONS DUDE
- Jump scares
- Esoteric dialog that gives the impression of depth
I'm dead to it
Everything at this point now is word of mouth (which has always been the superior way of deciding anyway) but of course this system requires those mouths be connected to eyes that have seen said movie...
Ugh
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Might be a US thing, but I don't watch trailers, ever. Avoid them at all costs.
Fast forward the "what happened last episode" and stop before the "stay tuned for scenes from the next episode" ans scream in distgust at every popup on screen advert for either produced or another show.
To me it's as if the the entire audience in the us is high on some drug not available to the rest of the world that they put up with that sh*t. And what a bunch of... the producers of the offending items mentioned above must be.
Name and shame, it's the only way, that and a public stockade.
We don't like you.
Too many plot twists got given away. The funniest scene in the trailer isn't in the movie. I use either reviews or the subject matter to decide if I wanna see a movie or not.
Speak for yourself.
The only point to seeing a trailer for a movie, is to tease, not to show or reveal what is happening. A lot of movie trailers end up doing that, and I don't like it.
First it was piracy. Now it's because of the trailers. When is Hollywood going to get a clue that just like McDonalds, people are fed up with eating their shit. Maybe if they stop offering shit, movies and attendance would improve. But Hollywood has been out of ideas for so long they're even running out of comic books now.
I'm so srewpud pigeons beet me at tic tac toe.
But, aside from the Sixth Sense and the Crying Game, I have never been surprised by a movies plot. Because movies are written for peeple like me - srewpud.
they are like assholes, we all have one. Care to hear mine? Thought not.
The movie goer is not the consumer of a movie trailer. It's the movie producers that pay for them, and to whom they are designed to appeal. And the use of high budget content in the trailer allows producers to squeeze more value out of that content. If your shelling out Millions for a Blockbuster, it's cheaper and easier to use prime movie content for the trailer. Movie goers dislike it and you'd think that should be enough to stop the practice, but it's not the movie producers that make the trailer. That's a subcontractor. In the subcontractor is just doing Simple cost-benefit analysis. How cheap can I bid on a project that will make the biggest splash. Because of that, they're not going to film additional content. They're going to use the content that exists and the best of it to boot. Because the producer will only buy the cheapest trailer that makes the biggest splash.
There's a huge difference between saying that trailers are making movies worse and saying that trailers may give away some spoilers.
Do trailers make movies worse? Absolutely not. Except perhaps a few rare cases like the aforementioned Suicide Squad,the movie is the movie regardless of the trailers. Obsessing over trailers leading to worse movies seems silly.
I also find it hard to take anything in TFA seriously when it starts with:
"I'm not going to see "Spider-Man: Homecoming" this July. You're probably thinking I'm one of those anti-Marvel snobs who calls movies "films" and refers to foreign films by their non-English titles. It's not that. It's that I basically saw the whole movie already, when I caught the trailer before watching "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2."
Seriously? You decided you saw the whole thing in 2 minutes? It has nothing left to offer? If this is how you view the world, your opinion is worthless to me on movies, and perhaps on any topic at all.
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For me it's about time.
I came to say the same thing, the money matters a bit but the hugest investment is time. I am so busy now that to take an afternoon or evening off is a pretty big commitment. Even if I am pretty sure I will like a movie now I'm much more inclined to watch it at home as a rental, so I can abandon it if its really bad (there is almost no movie bad enough I will do so though, I think I did that once) - but moreso to avoid the overhead that theaters involve in terms of transport and ticket purchase and waiting to get it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
... then it is with the Film Studios being obsessed over returning obscene profits from each and every film.
This is driving the push towards re-hashing "proven" formats, plots and approaches. This is reducing the willingness of studios to be a little bit more edgy, or take a chance with some slightly different material. In fact, here's a little test for you... Think back to your favourite (and original) movies from, say, the 1990s, i.e. say roughly 15-25 years ago. Now ask yourself how many of these would actually be green-lit and made today, given what has happened with film studios.
If, miraculously, there is anyone out there willing to actually try this, then IMDB have, very helpfully, a list of the top movies from the 1990s, which you can find here:-
http://www.imdb.com/search/tit...
Just perusing the top 50, there are plenty of examples of films that would be highly unlikely to be made today. The single biggest issue with modern cinema is that, for quite some time now, maximising profit has come before the provision of satisfying content. Modern cinema has become the equivalent of junk food. Forget any idea of fine dining - the concepts of subtlety or art have been conveniently swept away in favour of the all-conquering bottom line.
Back in the 1970s, you either paid for a movie ticket to see a movie, or waited 3-5 years for it to show up on TV at an indeterminate time, with commercials interspersed, and with unknown editing.
Today, if you don't pay for a ticket, you can catch it on pay per view in a couple months, or rent it on Blu-ray/DVD/streaming, or watch it on a pay movie channel, or stream it from a service you already pay for like Netflix, or wait a couple years for it to show up on TV, or pirate it.
In the face all that new competition, the logical thing to do is to lower movie ticket prices to make the theater experience more attractive. Instead, studios and theaters have done the opposite and raised ticket prices. I don't mind seeing the occasional bad movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime, or HBO because I'm already paying for those services. The only thing I lose is 90-120 minutes of my time (and that's only if I choose not to stop watching before the movie finishes). With a theater ticket I lose my money as well as my time. So I don't think it's at all surprising that people are holding theater movies to a higher standard than in the past. The studios need adapt to how technology has changed in the last 50 years - lower ticket prices, or improve the ratio of good to bad movies.
While most people say they hate spoilers, there's a number of studies out there that show when you measure it, people actually enjoy movies MORE when they know in advance what is going to happen.
This is because people actually don't like being surprised, but confuse their desire for novelty with a desire for surprise. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint: surprise means having a lion unexpectedly jump out of a bush onto you. It's not something creatures would evolve to active seek out.
They tend to give away too much...
That's not a problem of the trailer it's a problem of Hollywood's inability to take risks with a plot. It's been over 10 years since I've seen a film which had an ending which I could not see coming well beforehand (and because of that it's one of my favourite films despite not being a "blockbuster"). The trailer is no different than the first few minutes of the film.
Once the characters have been established the plot follows with annoying predictability. Occasionally there may be the odd twist but even these now seemed picked from a predetermined list (character dies, bad guy turns out to be good, good guy turns out to be bad etc.). Not only don't they really affect the ending but they often feel the need to flag the twist in such an obvious fashion you can often see it coming a mile away too! So it's not a trailer that spoils a film, films are so predictable that they self-spoil.
The trailer showed Neo stopping bullets with his mind. In the trailer. That was supposed to be the shock and awe moment that tied it all together.
I think that's your re-imagination of the script, it's already pre-spoiled in the movie itself too.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
There was never really any question that he'd transcend and defeat Agent Smith in the Matrix somehow, the thriller was the counter-offensive in the real world to find the Nebuchadnezzar and destroy it because with their minds trapped in the Matrix they couldn't just run or use their EMP. Don't get me wrong I thought it was cool, it just wasn't a major spoiler that he'd eventually stop bullets. And I never saw the trailer before the movie.
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At least there is a plan in the works to make a film that will be between Prometheus and Covenant to fill that gap.
Who knows if we'll ever see that film, though.
Maybe some subset of idiots are scared of surprise, but don't dump all of us into the same basket.
If someone doesn't want to watch a movie because he's scared something that wasn't in trailer is going to happen then I mean... fuck that person is a lost cause anyways.
I tend to rant.
something wonderful happens with no advertising, people start thinking for themselves and stop falling for garbage.
we really do not need even %0.0001 of the advertising that happens at any level.
What about Terminator 2? If you carefully watch the movie as it starts, you realize that you're not supposed to think Arnold S is actually a "good robot". There's only one clue (he doesn't outright kill the bikers, he just, you know, tortures them, permanently disfiguring them, and steals their clothes and stuff, but he doesn't kill them), but until he actually saves Connor for the first time, there's no serious reason to believe he's not out to kill Connor.
Spoiled by every trailer of the movie, plus, in fairness, most of the reviews.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjaVdJt59U
Alfred Hitchcock The Birds trailer.. Not a single spoiler in the preview/advertisement.
Obviously it works better with an established director, but it could be like this again.
I avoid all trailers, spoilers, media feeds etc..
You see even one, and all 12 good jokes, and the 4 best action sequences are ruined.
I remember when the first Twilight movie came out and we had a unstoppable trailer play.
I'd not read the book or heard of it at all.
I told my wife, who had read the books, that the movie was ruined for me now.
She asked how, and then I said, well, this, then that happens, and probably then..
Needless to say I then broke down the plot-line for that movie and unknowingly the rest of the books from just the trailer.
They ruin it all.
Could you please take this story, and re-post it somewhere like Vanity Fair. It seems odd that you identify a problem caused by 97% of the population, and then tell the remaining 3% that it's their fault.
Nothing I hate more than when a trailer tells like 95% of the story. I doubt the veracity of this research.
The "Miracles from Heaven" trailer ended with the mom saying "you're telling me that when my daughter fell 20 feet onto her head it didn't paralyze her, but it cured her of the incurable disease that she was suffering from?" The movie was two hours of the mother agonizing over whether or not her daughter would be cured of the incurable disease that she was suffering from.
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When I go to GAP and I buy a shirt I can return it next day, full refund no hassle.
When I go to the cinema and sit through a movie that sucked I cannot get a refund without jumping through multiple magic hoops.
Listen to this; during a Spiderman 3 premier the film, towards the end started going dark randomly. First 3-5 seconds then 10 and then 60 seconds at a time. Apparently the projector was running back to back all day and was overheating. they had to stop the screening.
How can I get a refund? Show my ticket, the card purchase, fill out a card then and wait for a manager (if he's in) to approve the refund which will be sent to the card used in 28 fucking days. (On that night there was a queue of 300 people to get these cards.)
If I knew I could watch something and if I hated it return it for a full refund I'd not need to give a shit about "risking it" without trailers.
This BTW also works in McD's or any number of other establishments in which the product is "spoiled" after initial use. Although I stopped going many years ago I'm not afraid to try anything in McDs because if I don't like it I get a refund, no questions asked. No BS layer to wade through.
All that was reason number 1 as for reason number 2; films need to advertise themselves. In the old days there was 1 new film in a month, or 6 or a year depending on how far back you go. No there is some blockbuster every week or two...sometimes several in the same week.
So when you have to choose which burger to buy because there's many they have to advertise...and attentions spans have not decreased but people are more capable of absorbing content and cliches faster so the trailers are faster, heck film is faster!
If trailers are ruining films then why are they so successful at pushing film sales up?
Massive budgets are not an indication of quality, a bewildering array of stars is no indication either, no director and or producer can gives you a hint but ultimately films are often hit or miss. A trailer gives us buy-in, at least you get to believe you know the is of quality X
Hollywood has not changed it's winning formulas for years because they make money. If it works why change it?
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
all the trailers in a single place, like a park. We could call it a trailer park.
I don't even go to movies any more because there is no surprise.
This reminds me of our monthly management meetings. Attendance dwindled off, and during one meeting, the big guy asked what could be done to improve attendance. Most people had suggestions about how we could expand upon what we were doing, to implement the topics in more detail. People there nodded in approval.
Then a guy in the corner stood up and said - "We're losing attendance here, and you are asking how to improve attendance among the people who are left. How about asking the people who don't come to the meetings any more?"
Want to get people like me to be interested in movies again? Quit making movies like they are now.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Apparently, it's gotten so bad that even when it's different, it's the same.
This is supposedly the book that ruined hollywood...
This book took the history of three-act blockbuster movies and distilled movie making into a minute-to-minute movie formula (a beat sheet) for future amateur screen writers. Apparently, the author died in 2009 (the book was published in 2005) so he probably didn't know how bad it would become and can't even repent...
There isnt though, the next film is for between Covenant and Alien.
I'm a big fan of Ridley Scott.
I'm also a big fan of the first two Alien films.
The rest aren't worth my time.
After watching Prometheus in the theater I was extremely disappointed.
It was a joke.
I tried again just recently to watch it, thought I would give it another chance.
Nope, it stunk just as bad and I turned it off before they even got to the alien planet.
I'm sure Covenant will be just as formulaic and ridiculous.
I suppose it stands to reason that someone must still care about Hollywood movies, but I can't figure out why... they just seem like an un-ending meh-fest to me. When I see one that doesn't completely suck that's a remarkable surprise.
Me, I think Hollywood was doomed when the international market took off, and they dropped writing dialog in favor of doing stuff that would translate more easily.
I would rather watch the trashiest of Japanese anime, the dorkiest Bollywood film, or the slowest Korean comedy-drama than pretty much anything Hollywood comes up with.
Studio C nailed this with The Movie Trailer That Spoils Everything.
Liberals by definition feel their way through life instead of thinking their way through
As opposed to conservatives who brought us the TSA, security theatre, warnings of "death panels" under Obamacare, homophobia, islamophobia, xenophobia and racism?
That's bad, but it's not the worst spoiler ever, IMO. I'd go with Terminator Genisys, spoiling the biggest plot point by far (John Connor is now a prototype terminator.) Imagine how great that reveal would've been in an otherwise forgettable movie, but someone in marketing had to screw that up.
God, another idiot that thinks liberals are hiding under his bed.
Now, Bouncing Tits Apocalypse certain sounds worth watch. As long as Michael Bay isn't involved.
They want to sell tickets. They don't give a rat's ass if it ruins the movie for you, so long as you buy the ticket. They have no incentive to mark some trailers 'spoilers', and they do have a dis-incentive (an unwatched trailer won't increase turnout, and a trailer that doesn't show the interesting bits won't increase turnout).
In some cases, this fixation is even lowering the quality of movies themselves by encouraging bad filmmaking habits. The most extreme example happened when Warner Bros released such a successful trailer for 'Suicide Squad' it brought on the company that cut it to edit the whole film -- dropping the director's original cut altogether.
[citation needed]. How can you say that the quality of the movie was lowered? Did you see the original cut? I would wager that the author has zero clue as to anything he is saying since he doesn't even understand his main example.
WB brought on the trailer company to recut the film because the trailers, teasers, and general feel for superhero movies showed the original version would have massively tanked on release. It was quite clear that audiences were sick of the dark gloomy crap DC was producing and instead highly rating fun light hearted movies with retro soundtracks.
WB didn't lower the quality of anything, they tried to fix a sinking ship while still out at sea and to some degree had success with a relatively okay audience rating regardless of what the critics think. Sure the result was a critical flop with nonsensical actions and dialogue by characters, and retro music just slapped in rather than being an integral part of the movie which audiences loved so much about Guardians of the Galaxy, but ultimately at least they tried to put the fun back in. I dread the garbage that may have been.
Oh, please stop pretending. We all know it's you.
Ever been disappointed because something you saw in the trailer did not appear in the movie?
Do you consider that false advertising?
I like to watch trailers after I see the movie. I don't mind most trailers, but lots of times I will close my eyes and ears so I don't see them. I don't want to see the images that might spoil it later. They are to long and do reveal to much, I'd prefer if they would leave you hanging
Trailers are supposed to get you excited about the movie, but its all marketing. In fact the trailers are usual done by a company not associated with the production, their specialty is just trailers.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Why should I respond to your bat-sh*t insane claptrap, when I can just mod it down like it should be?
Wait... who is obsessed with trailers? I thought trailers were so you could read on your phone until the movie started without spoiling other movies.
Yeah but the time differential between him taking the bikers' clothes and him saving John is about 2 minutes or something.. its pretty close in any case (and that scene is right near the beginning of the movie to boot,) so the amount of movie "spoiled" is quite minimal.
Compare that with say, a trailer that showed 3/4 of the climactic office storming scene and then him being lowered into the smelter. That's more the level of spoiler we're seeing a lot these days.
Wow. That's a hell of a lot of ranting and generalization over a single word! I hope you remembered to take your blood pressure meds before letting that one out.
But I'm going to respond to one particular point because its not just an overzealous and underthought opinion, but actually borders into dangerous stupidity:
note they are MUSLIMS, no other religion comes close to the 30,000 plus murders committed by radical MUSLIMS in the past 17 years in the name of Islam
There is a vast difference between the statement "most terrorists are Muslim" and "most Muslims are terrorists." While your statement may be factually true, the conclusion you're implying from it is not.
I mean hell if we want to take your line of thinking to a stupid extreme: Straight men have started and controlled pretty much every war and tragedy in human history, so I guess we should just get rid of them? Time for heterophobia to get going already! Oh wait, your logic should only apply when you want it to? How convenient.
It's more like 10-15 minutes, with a lot of build up, but I do understand where you're coming from. That said, the "Arnie's a good guy?" is more of a "Luke, I am your father" event than "They end up in an office for a little bit and blow it up" type thing.
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There should be a new category.... Spoiler Trailer.
Troiler.
Waiting for someone to say "That's not what troilism is about."
This is how business works: Try to create maximum profits. To do this you take your product or service and figure out how to get the manufacturing/running cost down and appeal to the widest (or wealthiest) consumer base possible, while not inadvertently losing profit by driving away too many people. This is why Hollywood makes movies PG-13 that should be R, why soda companies use HFCS when people prefer cane sugar, why companies use foreign companies for phone support even though people prefer local and why reality TV was (and probably still is) so big even though people (I assume) prefer scripted T.V.
Businesses don't try to make the best products they can; they either aim for the cheapest price point they can achieve with an acceptable quality, or for a product that is better enough than a competitor's product at a given price point, or, if they don't have competition, the cheapest product that people will accept for the highest price they will pay for it. Movies are getting worse because we are willing to pay to the level of quality they are giving us.
If I watch a trailer and feel like 'well...just saw the whole movie'...I simply don't see it. Usually ever.
I dont watch trailers for movies i want to see.
After watching all of the trailers of guardians of the galaxy 2 to absolute death I was pleasantly surprised as I watched it in the cinema in 3d to find that the trailers were crafted in a way to show bloopers and various other bits not seen in the movie. I usually hate to watch trailers because spoilers but I thought it worked really well in this instance.
They edited the movie 'suicide squad' because of the trailer? wow, they really failed that one big time. I seem to remember some people suid them because it didn't feature enough of the Joker, which the trailer made out to believe was going to be in there.
So, they are editing movies depending on the trailer made from the same movie, but then the movie is nothing anymore like what was promised in the trailer. aaargh...
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
The issue is that the price of going to the movie is soooo high that no one want to waste money, they prefer knowing up ahead what the movie is that risquing to waste that money on a bad movie. There's a lot of reason, people dont like to think much either... but I dont think the preview are the reason. I think its an effect of other causes.
I honestly never knew that was such a thing. I hate trailers because they either spoil the movie for me or giveaway some of the better parts of the movie. But it makes me think, if a 1 minute trailer can give away the whole movie, everything really has gotten predictable in theaters
Nearly everyone agrees that "Apollo 13" was a major cliff-hanger, even tho' we all knew perfectly well how the story ended.
I've heard about 50-50 from people as to whether spoilering "The Crying Game" mattered.
In my case, I'll watch The Big Sleep and The Magnificent Ambersons plenty of times. FastAndFurious[1:237] not so much.
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Studies show people enjoy stories more if the ending's been "spoiled".
Hell, yes!
I remember seeing a TV spot for T2 that showed Arnie turning around, smiling, and saying, "Trust me".
Up until that point I had no idea he could possibly be good and had absolutely NO REASON to given the events of the past film. There was no established precedence for capturing and reprogramming one of those things.
It was a huge spoiler for me and greatly diminished the impact of the "guns & roses" scene that culminates with, "Get down!".
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Well, yes, but the start of the movie also makes it look like Arnie is the only Terminator sent back and the other guy (the T1000 played by Robert Patrick), must therefore be the human protector like in T1. They play on that by showing Arnie's POV but not Robert's, and show Robert punching a cop in the stomach without revealing he would have actually killed him.
It's not until the guns 'n' roses corridor scene that it is revealed that these roles have been reversed.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
There is a vast difference between the statement "most terrorists are Muslim" and "most Muslims are terrorists." While your statement may be factually true, the conclusion you're implying from it is not.
I mean hell if we want to take your line of thinking to a stupid extreme: Straight men have started and controlled pretty much every war and tragedy in human history, so I guess we should just get rid of them? Time for heterophobia to get going already! Oh wait, your logic should only apply when you want it to? How convenient.
First off, pretty sure I didn't say most Muslims are terrorists, that is a straw man argument popularized by Obama and the Left, and no one else makes it.
Sorry, but you are buying into the PC/Islamist propaganda. Muslims make up just 3% of the US population, yet they are the only religious group to carry out multiple, organized, religiously motivated mass murders in the last 30 years. Islam is a violent religion, and while not all Muslims are active terrorists, a poll a while back indicated that 30% of US Muslims agree with radical violence against the US. Time and again we have seen half assed Muslims pick up arms and become hardcore fanatics and subsequently murder US citizens (Nidal Hassan, San Bernadino, Florida gay bar, etc.) You may not like the reality, it may not agree with your worldview, but it is reality none the less. I know Muslims in my personal life, and I take them as individuals, but I also don't turn my back on them and I would never trust them like I would a fellow American with a Judeo-Christian background, because I have read the Koran cover to cover and I know that it condones the deception and murder of non-believers for gain among other things. Liberals want to project their morality onto Muslims, but the reality is there to see, just look at Muslim majority nations: women are treated horribly, raped, subject to honor killings, child rape is rampant, there is no freedom of religious worship, homosexuals are routinely murdered, minorities like Jews are singled out and persecuted and Islam is involved in 17 of the 19 active wars around the world. Islam is not a religion of peace and they are diametrically opposed to what most US liberals hold dear. The cognitive dissonance in the left is truly amazing.
And no, white hetero males have not "started and controlled pretty much every war and tragedy in human history" that is just the liberal brainwashing you have been fed. I am immune to such bullshit because I actually know history. Here are a few examples of non-white-hetero "war and tragedy":
World war 2 Japan was pretty evil and murdered and brutalized millions of Chinese as well as US POWs (they are not "white" last time I checked)
If you want a homosexual example, how about Jeffrey Dahmer, he was pretty evil too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Pol pot the Asian dictator murdered around 2.5 million of his own people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mao Tse Tung: communists in China (not white Anglos) murdered millions of innocents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The communist north Koreans have murdered at least a million of their own citizens since the revolution.
Muslims have started over 100 wars since 600 AD and have killed millions: http://www1.cbn.com/churchandm...
On the other side of the coin, the US has been controlled by white male presidents since it's founding and has been almost universally a force for good in the world. Our one blemish, slavery, was inherited from MUSLIMS (yes, they started and ran the majority of the African slave trade as well as the white slave trade in the Mediterranean). The US stopped slavery, first by sendin
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