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Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via CNET: 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.
WTF?
is driving readers insane. Or is it just deja vu?
Stopped watching movies quite a while ago. There are better things to do in life than sit in front of a picture screen to escape reality.
WTF indeed...
stopped watching trailers since they spoil movies. I love reserve seating so I can not watch those things.
How dare we expect good moderators! This is our punishment!
I wasn't impress. I won't be reading the comments.
#SlashDot dups because liberal editor herp derp scum! True #patriots never double-post. Sad.
The trailer for this story almost made me not want to come and post here...
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Now that explains a LOT. That movie had some moments but there were a pile of characters that may as well not have been there - not to mention the weak unsupported plot and the hamfisted "message" shoved in our faces.
Instead of Will Smith's character being "redeemed" there was some really creepy shit about him being a good guy all along - nothing wrong with killing complete strangers for money while covered in Bible verses? Talk about living a lie. Imagine the same character covered in Koran verses to get an idea of how creepy it is.
I do not buy the concept of spoilers ruining anything. Dammit, if the fucking film is good enough, you won't give a fuck that you found out some spoiler by accident.
And PLENTY of people rank among their favorite movies and shows things they have already seen before, MULTIPLE TIMES and yet they still manage to find enjoyment in seeing them again just the same.
We all know how Star Wars ANH ends. Until Lucas changes it again, it's going to be the same goddamn movie you saw before. But if you count that as a favorite and KNOW EVERY SCENE by heart, you still like it! And it's utterly spoiled for you, isn't it?
So do not whine to me about spoilers. If knowing what happens matters that much, then the filmmakers have failed at their job. We all know the viewing public doesn't hold these assholes accountable for making shit pictures because you all line up to see them anyway. But if you ever found your spines and refused to see crap. better films from better directors would get made and eventually there would be movies so good, it didn't matter if you knew the ending.
Sig for hire.
I'm pretty sure that terrible movie writers are making movies worse