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.

Comments

I don't know of anyone that watches them

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:I don't know of anyone that watches them

[Opportunist]

Take your average movie. Say, anything Michael Bay did lately.

Now spoiler it in any meaningful way. I dare you.

Nearly all mass appeal movies of today are so formulaic and predictable that "spoiler" doesn't really describe the problem. The problem is more that it's "seen one, seen 'em all".

Re:Why should we be different to studios?

[Opportunist]

Big explosions and tits.

Come to think of it, why not simply name a movie that way? No trailer needed.