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I was Born in a Small Town, Taught to Fear Jesus in a Small Town

Dec 28, 2006 11:07

I am determined to put up a post every day this week. I need to make it feel like I am having a vaction AT work as apposed to working ON vacation.

On my way to buy my soup and half a sandwich for lunch yesterday I passed by a newsstand where they had the Jan/Feb issue of Premiere staring at me. It was calling out to me with a cover featuring Tobey ( Read more... )

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subtlegray December 28 2006, 19:47:35 UTC

Did the article give a reason why people prefer the revealing trailers?

Interesting how this entry inadvertently acts as evidence that the internet is slowly killing printed works.
Presuming your knowledge of Spider-man 3, prior to the magazine purchase, came from online sources.

spiderichman December 28 2006, 20:18:56 UTC

Well the article said that the revealing trailers let people know what to expect from a movie. The people who feel that this ruins the trailers is because they get their information about the movie from other sources, or just don't want to see the movie in general. The direct quote "The reason that those things are there is because they find that it works". Further quote "People really want to know before they decide to spend $50 to go out for the night - to get a babysitter or parking or whatever it is - that it's going to be worth it." And "...a significant portion of the audience relies on the trailer to deliver up the entire movie going experience. 'The average consumer does not know all the details, and does not read Premiere.'" Basically what it comes down to is selling the movie, the higher the pedigree of the movie and the people behind it, the less you will see in a trailer, the more the studio feels the movie needs to get sold, the more you will see in the trailer, case in point the Simpsons movie. They are pretty much ( ... )

subtlegray December 28 2006, 20:51:01 UTC

Essentially what your saying is that the worse a movie is (or lesser known) the more programming the studio must accomplish.
Including the major plot points of a movie will install the viewer with the ability to repeat what the movie is about to other who have not seen the trailer.
Whereas the Simpsons movie trailers using arbitrary clips would create conversations that probably look like this:
"Hey, the Simpson's movie is coming out."
"Cool."

spiderichman December 28 2006, 21:02:46 UTC

exactly. Or in my case, the simspons clips lead to general exclamations of "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO BE GOING ON IN THIS MOVIE?!?!"