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Too Much Trailer

posted 9 years ago by bluehunter16
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but in a way I feel like I have. I just watched the trailer for it and from the trailer I now already know that the President's plane crashes, his right-hand man is a traitor working for terrorists who is hunting him, a Finnish boy finds him and rescues him, the terrorists go looking for him in Finland, They catch him, he tries to shoot him but fails, he is locked in a box and flown in another airplane that crashes, he escapes with the kid, they try and get the plane working for backup, and then in a scene where Samuel L Jackson is shooting the same gun the right-hand man just had and he says the same line, I assume he kills the traitor, effectively freeing himself from terror. Trailers are meant to get you excited for the movie, not be an entire synopsis of it.

What do you guys think? Should trailers be less detailed?

[–] ludovico_88 9 years ago

Agreed. It's not trailers in general but this one is particularly revealing...

It's always tough to use this argument without watching the whole movie but unless the events shown in the trailer happen all in the first two thirds and there's some sort of plot twist in the final act, I will be leaving the theater really disappointed.

vibes atm:http://vimeo.com/108650530

[–] ender342 8 years ago

Look on the bright side: the trailer saved you the cost of buying a ticket to watch the movie. But in general I agree that the trailer should whet your appetite, not satisfy it. The same goes for reviews, by the way. The late great Roger Ebert used to make a habit of telling too much. I always found it best to check only his rating before deciding whether to watch the film. Then after watching it I would read his review to see how many of the subtleties I missed ;-)