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Have you ever watched a movie in theaters over the past few years and thought to yourself. "I feel like I've seen this all before." Ever consider that it might be because of the trailer? 

 

Trailers these days tend to run up to 3 minutes. That's a lot of time to cram juicy dialogue, full action scenes (and resolutions) and character appearances. Also time for spoilers to be aired and major plot points revealed.

 

Between teasers, theatrical trailers, TV spots, first looks, sneak peaks and international trailers, an entire film is pretty much layed bare. Not to mention how poorly cut these are, with so many fade to black shots the use of Inception horns, the 'music stops and derailing one liner is used' trope, and the throwing in of footage not used in the movie.

 

Also, there's using footage in a trailer that turned out to be a dream sequence. Wondered how Ultron would break cap's shield in avengers 2? What Luke was doing w/ R2 near the lava pits in Force Awakens? How batman would get out of the apocalyptic wasteland in BvS:DJ? Well wonder no more! Cause it was all a dream. 

 

What about you? You think trailers are too long and show way too much, while being cliche and predictably edited, as well as misleading at points? Or are they just fine? Or do they need to show more? 

 

 

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Have you ever watched a movie in theaters over the past few years and thought to yourself. "I feel like I've seen this all before." Ever consider that it might be because of the trailer? 

 

Trailers these days tend to run up to 3 minutes. That's a lot of time to cram juicy dialogue, full action scenes (and resolutions) and character appearances. Also time for spoilers to be aired and major plot points revealed.

 

Between teasers, theatrical trailers, TV spots, first looks, sneak peaks and international trailers, an entire film is pretty much layed bare. Not to mention how poorly cut these are, with so many fade to black shots the use of Inception horns, the 'music stops and derailing one liner is used' trope, and the throwing in of footage not used in the movie.

 

Also, there's using footage in a trailer that turned out to be a dream sequence. Wondered how Ultron would break cap's shield in avengers 2? What Luke was doing w/ R2 near the lava pits in Force Awakens? How batman would get out of the apocalyptic wasteland in BvS:DJ? Well wonder no more! Cause it was all a dream. 

 

What about you? You think trailers are too long and show way too much, while being cliche and predictably edited, as well as misleading at points? Or are they just fine? Or do they need to show more? 

You forgot the generic epic music with a choir  :D . Who knows, maybe by 2020 they'll change their trailers with something that'll be the new annoying trope in movie trailers  :orly:

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It often hurts movies that they put their best scenes in the trailer itself so when you get around to watching it the rest of the movie is extremely lackluster.

 

But movies are so short they almost can't help it.

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I used to think the trailers were better than the movies in most cases. I would so often go to movies, because of having seen the trailer, and thinking, "Anything can look good in a trailer." It's true that they freely make use of dream sequence footage and even outtakes that never make it into the movie, and that seems like false advertising to me. Teaser trailers even lift their musical scores off other movies, making them seem much better than they end up being when released. Granted, they have to have some music to fill-in during the early stages of production, but sometimes they use those substitute scores right up to the release of the actual film, so again, false advertising. 

The trailers do their job, which is to wrangle people into theaters, but if they can't legitimately find enough quality in a two hour movie to fill out a two minute trailer, the studios should carefully reconsider what they give the green light to. The problem isn't the trailers, it's the movies themselves. 

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I agree with this, ESPECIALLY for horror movies. Literally every horror movie trailer is the same now. Show glimpses of the threat, have jumpscare noises and loud screams and an intense sequence where scenes are fading in and out with loud booms and stuff. It is soooooooooooooo tiring at this point. Why can't there be a trailer like the one for the original Blair Witch Project? That trailer was basically perfect for the genre. Filled with mystery, dread and it made you wonder the entire time. Loved it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Hw4bAUj8A

 

It is a shame that the new reboot/sequel movie basically went the modern horror trailer trope.

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