http://faerye.net/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-movie-trailerComments on "The decline and fall of the movie trailer" - Faerye Net2007-02-10T13:55:52+00:00http://faerye.net/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-movie-trailer#comment-2076Re: No subject2007-02-10T13:55:52+00:002007-02-10T13:55:52+00:00<p>I think the Pixar movies are a pretty good example of great movies having really crappy trailers. They eventually get better, closer to the release date, but I know the first few trailers to come out for their films really fail to sell them at all. I just cross my fingers and bank on the fact that it’s Pixar, so it has to be good!</p>infinitecreaturehttp://faerye.net/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-movie-trailer#comment-2075Re: No subject2007-02-06T10:41:15+00:002007-02-06T10:41:15+00:00<p>The thing is that the trailers tend to be so crappy that I’m unlikely to be able to make the comparison.<br />
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I will ponder, I am sure that I’ve seen the bad overplotty trailers for good movies on at least an occasion or two.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-movie-trailer#comment-2074No subject2007-02-06T07:27:25+00:002007-02-06T07:27:25+00:00<p>In their defense, they could be doing the best with what they’ve got. I have never had the experience of seeing a half-assed trailer and then watching the movie and going, “wow, they really undersold that, it was so much better than the trailer!” Most of the time the trailer just adequately conveys the crappiness level of the movie and is probably designed to lure in the movie-goer that sees such a trailer and says to him or herself, “this movie looks average, but I really want to see that scene where he rides the motorcycle through the window again, that looks kickass!” Hollywood is very very cynical. Thus, the predominace of crappy movie trailers is probably just the inevitable result of the predominance of crappy movies.</p>thursdayhttp://faerye.net/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-movie-trailer#comment-2073Trailers2007-02-05T22:33:04+00:002007-02-05T22:33:04+00:00<p>Technically the first category isn’t a trailer, it’s just marketing fluff. They’re shown in theaters, but only as part of the pre-movie digital advertising, not as part of the actual trailer reel prepended to the film. But yes, they are obnoxious and annoying.</p>wonko