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Post by mikef6 on Aug 29, 2018 18:20:25 GMT
In producer and director Tony Bill’s (The Sting, Untamed Heart) little book “Movie Speak: How To Talk Like You Belong On A Film Set,” he has an entry under “trailer.” He defines the word (a preview of coming attractions), gives a short history of the trailer’s development and ends with the statement, “No movie is better than its trailer.”
The phraseology is clever and cynical in a Hollywood way, but how true is it? Does the trailer always build you up while the corresponding movie lets you down?
Another conventional saying is that a bad comedy will always put its best lines into the trailer. After seeing one comedy film preview (it was for “Have You Heard About The Millers”) My Lovely Wife whispered to me: “If those were the funniest parts, this movie is going to be deadly.” So there is one example of a bad trailer AND a bad movie.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Aug 29, 2018 18:32:07 GMT
I for one don't agree; in fact I've seen many movies that the trailer left me unimpressed but the movie turned out good. Sure, that's the case sometimes, but if NO movie were better than its trailer, Hollywood would close up shop pretty fast.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 29, 2018 18:37:47 GMT
I'd say Hugo and The Gift (2015) were most certainly better than the trailers, which kind of made them look like sh*t. Actually, most good movies in general are better than the trailer no matter how good the trailer is because it's hard to pack the same punch in only two minutes as it is two hours. Alien and The Dark Knight are two of my favorite trailers, but even they don't carry the same weight the movie does.
The comedy thing is mostly true, except for some R rated ones where they can't show the funniest parts. Though I guess now with Redband trailers they can even do that.
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 29, 2018 18:44:31 GMT
I believe there have been multiple instances where the trailer did a terrible job of selling the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 18:47:22 GMT
No
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Post by Marv on Aug 29, 2018 19:02:04 GMT
I don’t agree.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Aug 29, 2018 19:07:33 GMT
Pulp Fiction, which was/is a great movie, has a trailer that is one of my all-time favorites.
The Italian Job (2003), a movie that I won't hesitate to say was fun to watch, had one of those awful, "gives away the whole movie" trailers, which may have either saved me $7, or given me a less than favorable movie going experience. I didn't see that trailer before the movie, thank goodness.
I say no, not all the time.
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Post by ck100 on Aug 29, 2018 19:40:45 GMT
A movie's goal is to entertain you while a trailer's goal is to sell you a movie. Both are put together and edited a certain way to give off a certain impression. The way a particular scene plays out in a trailer may not play out that exact way in the film.
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Post by notsure on Aug 29, 2018 20:00:26 GMT
I'm Not Sure.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 29, 2018 20:14:51 GMT
Not true at all. There are plenty of good trailers for bad movies, but a great film (even a good one) is going to be superior to the highlight reel lacking proper context that is a trailer.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 29, 2018 21:53:08 GMT
Not at all.
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Post by kolchak92 on Aug 29, 2018 21:57:34 GMT
Honestly that sounds like a very pretentious, hipster-ish statement to me.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 29, 2018 22:00:32 GMT
In the case of Jurassic Park yes-the original teaser trailer suggested a million possibilities which the movie did not fulfill.
I suppose the same could be said for Terminator 2's teaser trailer since it didnt indicate he would be a good guy.
If you can let your imagination go, then a movie trailer might give you more positives because you fill in the blanks on what's missing...
but there are a lot of really badly assembled old movie trailers.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 30, 2018 3:02:34 GMT
In producer and director Tony Bill’s (The Sting, Untamed Heart) little book “Movie Speak: How To Talk Like You Belong On A Film Set,” he has an entry under “trailer.” He defines the word (a preview of coming attractions), gives a short history of the trailer’s development and ends with the statement, “No movie is better than its trailer.” The phraseology is clever and cynical in a Hollywood way, but how true is it? Does the trailer always build you up while the corresponding movie lets you down? Another conventional saying is that a bad comedy will always put its best lines into the trailer. After seeing one comedy film preview (it was for “Have You Heard About The Millers”) My Lovely Wife whispered to me: “If those were the funniest parts, this movie is going to be deadly.” So there is one example of a bad trailer AND a bad movie. To a degree sure. I mean there shouldn't be any flaws or turn offs in a good trailer, whereas a feature film of course can go anywhere for anyone. |
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