This has been on my mind a lot lately. Trailers portraying every single second of action in a slow drama-driven story, putting in scenes that are already cut from the movie or even making new scenes for the trailer that were never intended to be in the movie. Similar things happen with the posters for movies. There are of course also trailers which leave out major story elements, omitting parts like 'This movie is about two cowboys falling in love and having to deal with a double life because their society doesn't accept homosexuality'. Now I get why this is done. Trailers must attract as many viewers as possible, so they must feature the best (or better) CGI from the movies and none of the points that could possibly make anyone not want to watch it. But on many occasions this goes straight against 'truth in advertising'. So, do you think this is becoming a real problem? should the 'truth in advertising' laws become stricter? is this just annoying and nothing else? Or am I just whining and it isn't a big deal?
As far as movies go I don't see it as a big deal. Most of the time I research the movie first on the internet which always gives be a good clue wether or not it's worth seeing and to be honest it seems like more and more trailers count on people doing their research first. So the answer is no.
No, I do not think it is a problem. In fact my first reaction at the suggestion is that only an idiot would be mislead by your average trailer today. Then again, I am frequently shocked by what I hear people doing and saying in news, so maybe there is some merit to protecting a certain class of people that are being taken advantage of by 'misleading' trailers.
I have seen the trailer for Monsters and I want to see it. I have seen the trailer for Sharktopus and I want to see it. The trailers seems to be working fine for me. I know they use the best bits in the trailers and that's ok, they need to do that to make people interested. That's just how it is.
I liked the trailer for Inception because when you saw it you had no idea what the movie was going to be about but it still made me want to go see it (I even went at the midnight showing). If the trailer leaves you guessing as to what the actual movie is about, it can't lie.
In my opinion the last few years of trailers have put me off seeing quite a few movies since they all seem to target the lowest common denominator. Then my friends drag me along and they are actually 10x better than i thought :S
I went and saw Kick *** the movie, and the trailer had none of the best parts in it... it'd a NC-17 trailer if it did. lol I have been finding this to be the truth quiet a bit myself.
I want to read the comic soon. I plan on getting ahold of it..... somehow. I devour comics (especially manga) at the rate of a volume an hour.
The kick-*** comic was fun, but I still have to see the movie . Mark Millar writes some of my favorite comics. Also, this isn't about trailers just having the best parts in them, this is about trailers which use scenes to make their movie seem to be about a more popular topic, or who add scenes to the trailer that aren't in the movie and are about ten times as epic.
I'd rather go to Rotten Tomatoes to get both sides of the story before going to the cinemas. I don't want to waste time watching poorly made movies. But you are right, trailers are all packed with the best scenes from the movie. Which in turn spoils the movie - kind of like a double edged sword =/
