Movie previews misleading or revealing too much?

By Farina August 24, 2000 2:53 PM

The premiere day of Autumn in New York is finally here.?I wait anxiously in line to purchase my ticket.?Another sappy love story I was totally in the mood for.?At least that?s what the previews informed me.?I ended up sitting in the theatre with dry eyes, waiting impatiently for the movie to end.?I felt cheated.?I definitely wasn?t expecting to detect a slight Freudian feel as Richard Gere chats to his awfully young lover Winona Ryder about how he used to date her mother and how Winona?s laugh reminds him of her.?In the end, of course Winona dies.?Sorry to let the cat out of the bag, but I suggest blaming the preview for that.?Major lines spoken between the two lovers alluding to her death were already displayed in the preview.?

The point is, previews mislead and reveal too much of the plot.?Instead of whetting the appetite of a viewer it gives them a full meal and desert.?What else can I say? Previews just suck nowadays.?

According to E! Online I?m not the only one who noticed.?However, the industry makes very little apologies.?The people in charge of the trailers aren?t usually aspiring to make art, their main concern is to sell the movie.?They even say that the trailers that they produce aren?t especially good but hey, they got an audience into the theater didn?t they?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 24, 2000 8:35 PM

And to all Hollywood movies being produced today, dear god, everything that has been made for the summer has been ABSOLUTE CRAP! What the hell ever happened to the big film industry? I'm royally pissed off.

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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on August 25, 2000 2:00 AM

Gawd and that flick "The Ninth Gate".. I said it best in my review. "You know the feeling when you walk out of a theatre saying to your friends "gee, the trailer made this look so good!!"? " Also there are a lot of previews that have shots that are not in the movie (like "Hollowman").

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 25, 2000 9:12 AM

Hee hee. 

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Posted by arandomshemp (arandomshemp@hotmail.com) on August 28, 2000 2:49 PM

Agreed! except for X-MEN, which totally kicked ass!

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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on August 29, 2000 11:07 AM

Godzilla 2000! It looks just as cheesy as I hope it to be.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 4, 2000 11:51 AM

I've resorted to closing off my ears and looking between my legs(or those of my girlfriend) in cinema previews. 

The sole movie, where the trailer completly destoryed all enjoyment for me was Mission Impossible. What a crock and I'd shure like to stuff the trailer-maker-morons mouth with the shit he's produced.