Judging Movie Trailers

[BuggyBY]

In a world where trailers were good approximations of the films they promoted ...
Where everything you assumed from them was correct ...
One man ...
... dared to make a stand.

 

[Socius]

most of the new movie trailers suck! they miss the magic! they miss Don la fontaine! you know, the old guy with the overpowered voice who always was like "In a world where no man could defeat the bad guy, there was one chick who kicked ass" or somthing like that...v now Don died almost 3 months ago so movie trailer industry is forewer doomed!

 

[E-mantheseeker]

Many people seem to have the ability to know how good or bad a movie will be based off the trailer. Some say it's not fair to judge an entire movie off the trailer, but in my case I am hardly wrong, and it saves my time and money.

90% of the time, I'm correct on my judgment, I knew (in my opinion) "Twilight", "Max Payne", the newest "Punisher", and countless other films would be bad, and I knew "300", "Dark Knight", "Pineapple Express", and others would be awesome.

for that 10% however, films like "Jumper" and "The Spirit" amazed me with how much they sucked despite my "Movie Trailer Approvement"

You knew Max Payne and Punisher would be bad based on the trailers? I knew they'd be bad based on hearing the name of the movie.

As for Twilight, is it really "bad" or is it that it is "not your thing"?

Your mystical movie sense is not so amazing when you think about it. Did anyone expect Marky Mark and the chick that plays Meg on Family Guy to bring it to the next level?

Fact is you watch a certain type of movie and when you see a trailer that is interesting to you you say "awesome movie" when you see a trailer of a movie that you are either uninterested in or embodies a scenario you have see fail before (i.e. Video game Movie) you say "crap movie".

Twilight is a perfect example of this, if you were a teenage girl, it would have been awesome. I'm sure if you saw a Bride Wars trailer you would have said lame, but I just saw a 4 star review of it after a quick google search.

If given half a chance I guarantee based on what you have told me I could watch 20 trailers and correctly guess what your movie sense told you for at least 15 of the films, and that's a worst case scenario, I wouldn't put a perfect score past me either.

To answer the question: Mars Attacks, there were three funny moments in that entire film, they put them all in the trailer, so by the time I had seen them on screen they were old hat and there was nothing else to laugh at for like two hours (and this is after I laughed out loud at the trailers to the film) I was sadly disappointed.

You just made the exact point I wanted to state beforehand. If the movie is in a genre I'm uninterested in, I don't judge. I simply place it in the "not for me" category. For example, I don't like spinach, so I wouldn't judge any spinach related food, I leave that in the hands of spinach lovers

As for Twilight, I judged it because it had to do with vampires and a complicated love story (supposedly) both of which have the potential of a good movie. I knew it wouldn't be an action orientated movie even though the trailer tried to convince me it was, which was strike one for me, I knew they crammed in every action scene in the trailer for people who liked action.

Plus, the small amount of dialogue they squeezed in the trailer was flat. I ended up seeing the movie anyway because a friend of mine begged me, and I was right about it, there was no chemistry between the main characters to the point where they seemed uncomfortable, and the "action" scenes in the movie were all in the trailer

I'm not saying I'm an omnipotent trailer god, I just can tell most of the time what may be good or not. If you were thinking that a gory action movie with very little dialogue and hard rock playing throughout would be up my alley... you would've been wrong, I'm a diverse movie watcher and I can proudly say that I enjoyed watching the Sex & the City movie more than twilight, because it at least had somewhat of a sensible plot. (not saying that Sex and the City is a great movie by itself though)