I used to, but nowadays many trailers - especially the longer versions (2min+) that you see in theaters - basically give away the entire plot. I remember seeing the trailer for Allied (the new-ish Brad Pitt movie) not too long ago, and it blatantly said "your wife is a traitor!". Why would the trailer tell me that and spoil the entire movie?!
shareI don't seek them out, but if it's on a dvd I am renting or on a movie I am seeing, I do see them.
shareYou don't find that most modern trailers spoil the movie?
I recall trailers for old movies usually have a narrator doing a voiceover while showing cutaways from the movie, whereas new trailers include actual audio/talking from the movie.
If there is a big twist like the Sixth sense or The Crying Game, they don't usually give that away in the trailer. But it does give some plot clues. Usually it's not something I wouldn't have figured out myself in the first half hour.
spoilers below for Passengers.
In some trailers like Passengers, the trailer is deliberately misleading. That made it seem like some conspiracy or plot woke them both up together, so I was expecting a plot like a mystery where they both find out who woke them up. But then in the movie you find out they woke up at different times and he woke her up deliberately.
Same here, PopcornKernel.
shareI don't go out of my way to watch one. I'm the kind of person, that doesn't want to know anything, when going into a movie. But still, I'd watch a trailer from time to time (and sometimes you can't avoid them), but usually not to something I'd actually watch.
What really irritates me is that now we have trailers for trailers! That's crazy to me. The dropping of a trailer has become such an event in itself, that it needs a commercial of it's own? It's madness, madness, I tell you!
I watch trailers, but I also check boards to see if someone wrote "the trailer reveals too much", in which case I skip the trailer.
shareI usually do, because I like to have an idea of what I'm getting into. That, and they're somewhat hard to avoid sometimes, especially in theaters.
However, I agree that sometimes trailers give away way too much of a movie. For some reason, the first movie that comes to mind is Megamind. They gave away most of the major plot points and a good deal of the jokes.
I love trailers. In fact I consider it a part of the cinema experience.
shareI've waited RE 6 for 5 years until IT was released and i watched every trailer that was shown for this movie because i was curios about it and not only the trailers
shareFor me the most spoilers trailers ever is the fast and furious trailers. I mean last knight they realese the second trailer for the fate of the furious and it was 3min like the first one also the game spot and as a huge fan i disappointed because they almost spoiled the entire action scenes and the entire movie...
shareI usually watch a movie due to liking an actor/actress. Trailers would come after the first requirement is satisfied. It kind of makes me wonder though, if I have such a requirement for watching a movie, how have I ever watched a movie to know what actors/actresses I like? It tells you that I am not much of a movie buff, however, will go out of my way if I am not busy. Now days, my wallet is pretty much low on cash and so whatever I see headlining on radio or on the internet, I may just bootleg watch.
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