Too Much in Trailers?

What trailers have you considered to be giving away too much?

Take, for example, the movie P2, which gets released today.

A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve

IMDB

Now For the Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6y-gxOEItA

Right, if you've watched the trailer then there's no need for spoiler tags as it seems like it's given the entire film away. Possibly snobbish woman gets stalked by psycho parking attendant (we even see who the person is) and traps her in. What's the point in seeing the movie if you know more or less exactly what happens?

Also, this movie is based over Christmas. Christmas Eve to be preicse. And it gets released over here before Summer. Wow.

Vokes

Definitely that final Spiderman 3 trailer. Twas like a full plot synopsis.

Necronomicon

Yep, after seeing the R-rated trailer for AVP: Requiem I was pretty excited, but pretty much anything worth seeing was in the damn trailer. Including the last fight scene between the Predator and the Pred-Alien.

L31mr0d

The worst one for me was TFF: Rise of the silver surfer. I mean the final trailer for that pretty had the whole storyline it. It even featured scenes from the subplots. I believe it also ended with the scene of the guy with all the FF powers actually defeating the badguy.

I mean it was a crap movie, but it was made crapper by the fact the trailer had pretty much every action scene and plot twist in it.

I personally avoid trailers for movies that get released the month before the movie is released. I'll only watch a trailer if its titled as a "teaser"

The Artist

whats P2 stand for and i saw that trailer and does give a bit too much info of the film which mean it might not be good as you think.As for little trailered films with little info would be a good film imo.

red dave

Not only the trailers giving away too much but the whole thing now about releasing a 5 minute clip from the movie. (AVP Requiem, I am Legend)

I thought Iron Man showed way too much before releasing it. I still really enjoyed it but would have preferred not to have seen a few of the scenes until in the cinema

Loomis

That actually looks half decent except now you know where all the good jumpy scenes are so you've nothing to look forward to

TheIrishGrover

Castaway trailer.

shows Tom Hanks talking to his girlfriend after escaping the island and, just in case you thought it may have been BEFORE he got stranded, she says womething like "We thought you were dead"

And The Sum Of All Fears:

Shows the nuke going off

faceman

The trailers are a marketing tool, and often show the best bits in the film because they are the best bits to attract viewers.

the ironman trailer is the same, gives the whole plot away.

Galvasean

After seeing the trailers for the Mist I basically know the whole story
Phone Booth is another criminal example.

Jesus Wept

Titanic - the trailer totally gave away that the boat sinks in the end, ruined it for me. :mad:

johnny_ultimate

I think my least favourite trailer of recent times was for TFF: Rise of the Silver Surfer. They did give away a hell of a lot of stuff in it, but they also showed by far the only good scene in the film in its entirety: i.e. the human torch + surfer race through NY. And cinemas had a nasty habit of showing it before every film I went to see three months before release. So the only competent moment of the film was completely ruined for me, I knew exactly what the first half of the film was going to consist of, and the actual film contained absolutely nothing else up to the standard of that scene.

I have also started avoiding second and third trailers, which is unfortunately becoming an increasing annoyance. One trailer can give away a lot, but two-three can completely ruin it.

Although the Indiana Jones trailer is perfect IMO. Little more than a teaser: only around three or four very short clips shown, with the first half just a refresher of the franchise. No plot details whatsoever: just glimpses at some of the action scenes. And with only three or so weeks til release (yay!), should be able to go into it with pretty much no spoilers. They may cave and release another one, but should be avoidable. Its the ones you are forced to watch in front of another film that can be the ones you dont want to watch.

faceman

for the indy trailer all they needed to show was him picking up his hat to get us revved up for it!!!

Tusky

I completely agree. Ive been saying this to my mates for ages. Trailers these days seems to be a miniature version of the film. They begin at the start and show you clips of the best bits throughout the movie, often spoiling important plot details.

Its not unusual for you to see the main guy 'get' the girl and also for his buddy to unexpectedly turn evil by the end of the trailer. A great example of how to do a trailer properly is the teaser for the original Hulk. It was shot independently from the movie. See below.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7qU62AvnkjY&feature=related

Pigman II

davey180 wrote: »

whats P2 stand for

It stands for Pentium II. What the trailer doesn't show you is that the psychopath is actually an archaic personal computer from the mid-90's propelled into the future somehow to kill the daughter of it's creator. The precise reason why escapes me right now.

Anyway I don't see the problem with giving the full ABC of a movie in the trailers. Some people (specificially people who don't care enough about movies to post in a place like this) want to know what they're paying over the money for before they do so. They'd rather the anticipation of an upcoming sequence than the surprise of it.

Besides, most of the movies you mention here are just cookie cutter blockbusters anyway so even if you'd never seen the trailer to begin with you more or less know what's coming anyway.

The alternative is something like Lars and the Real Girl whose trailer (I believe?) doesn't fully represent the movie and makes it out like he's just some goofy nutcase getting into a sequence of slapstick situations with his sextoy. Result being I don't want to see it despite recommendations. So well done the trailer editor there for not "spoiling" it for me.

speedboatchase

In Bruges actually, I'd been living in England so knew nothing about the film or Fiennes part in it so I really enjoyed it. When I got home and looked at the trailer it gave away nearly everything plot twist, even scenes from the last 5 mins!

The Artist

Pigman II wrote: »

It stands for Pentium II. What the trailer doesn't show you is that the psychopath is actually an archaic personal computer from the mid-90's propelled into the future somehow to kill the daughter of it's creator. The precise reason why escapes me right now.

Anyway I don't see the problem with giving the full ABC of a movie in the trailers. Some people (specificially people who don't care enough about movies to post in a place like this) want to know what they're paying over the money for before they do so. They'd rather the anticipation of an upcoming sequence than the surprise of it.

Besides, most of the movies you mention here are just cookie cutter blockbusters anyway so even if you'd never seen the trailer to begin with you more or less know what's coming anyway.

The alternative is something like Lars and the Real Girl whose trailer (I believe?) doesn't fully represent the movie and makes it out like he's just some goofy nutcase getting into a sequence of slapstick situations with his sextoy. Result being I don't want to see it despite recommendations. So well done the trailer editor there for not "spoiling" it for me.

thanks for that pigman 2.So why a computer meaning to this film?odd isnt it.So was there a Pentium 1 and this new film a follow up???

Pigman II

Eh no it doesn't. It doesn't give the twist away and it also completely misrepresents the movie (makes it look more like some early Guy Ritchie effort, rather than what it is).

If you're talking about that

1/4 second shot of the kid lying on the floor

then good luck to someone guessing what that was supposed to mean even if they had managed to catch it in time.

Pigman II

davey180 wrote: »

thanks for that pigman 2.So why a computer meaning to this film?odd isnt it.So was there a Pentium 1 and this new film a follow up???

No, this was the first movie in the (hopefully) endless series.

The Artist

Pigman II wrote: »

No, this was the first movie in the (hopefully) endless series.

ah tv series you mean,american tv series?

Pigman II

davey180 wrote: »

ah tv series you mean,american tv series?

Nope, feature film series. Possibly as good as the Lord of the Rings series but at least as good as the American Pie series.

Mr. Presentable

I like it! A condensed film means I save two hours.

Full_Circle

I've always found trailers to be WAY too spoilerific. You have to wonder what the hell does be going through these peoples heads when they intentionally give away major plot points or secret twists :mad:

Most of the time, if its an early trailer, I'll watch the first minute or so. But when it gets near the end (where there is usually a quick succession of fast cut shots put to the sound of a furiously chanting choir :rolleyes:), I look away, as those bits tend to ruin the whole outcome of the film.

You'd think that with all their marketing talent, they could come up with some sort of middle ground; a trailer that can successfully entice the audience without giving away the start, middle and end of the movie......

OoSKYLINEoO

Bottomline; Trailers suck

cloverfields were the best i've seen lately

CivilServant

It's to get bums on seats, they don't actually care once you've bought your ticket, the job is done.

keefg

I can't think of any offhand but trailers for comedy films get on my nerves.

The main reason for this (in most cases) is you watch the trailer and laugh your arse off.....you shell out for tickets to the movie only to discover that the only funny bits in the movie were shown in the trailer and the rest of the film is crap :mad:

L'prof

This completely ruined Titanic for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LtYk7wsFnk

javaboy

The trailer for Sweeney Todd was hilarious. They only had one bit of singing and it was Johnny Depp kind of half talking/half singing. They obviously wanted to trick a few people into going by not explicitly saying it's a musical.

I've stopped watching trailers altogether now. In the last 2 or 3 years they have just been giving away too much. They're like mini movies now.

theonion.com has a funny video about the Iron Man trailer being made into a full length feature film

The Bollox

the one that got my goat was the first trailer for SW III. they only had one clip and it was the biggest spoilerific thing that has ever been shown! Anakin becoming Darth Vader. wtf!