quality of today's movie....trailers

I thought I'd follow up on Rob's post.

I feel as though today's movie trailers are getting worse and worse. My primary complaint about them is that they simply ruin the movie. Now a good movie is one that is not ruined by knowing the entire plot, it is good time and time again. But most movies just aren't that good, and knowing the ending spoils the movie. It's like sports games, once you know the score what's the point in watching?

Every funny line out of Scary Movie was in the trailer. If I hadn't seen the trailer I might have thought the movie would be a little funny, but I did and I didn't, respectively. Movies where I see the trailers and think it'll be a funny movie usually turn out to be the ones where all the good lines were in the trailer. MIIB, for example. Sure the trailer was funny, but not much else in the movie was....best line of the whole movie was with respect to the autodriver of his Benz....in the trailer.

Now this is why I like not seeing trailers before I go to see a movie. Most of the movies I've thought have been the best over the years are the ones I knew the least about going into the movie. Most of this I attribute to my personal preference in movies is the opposite of the most popular movies, though. Again, a good movie can't be ruined by a trailer. However the worse the movie is, the more they seem to promote it, thus the more likely I am to see the trailer.

Another feature is that some of them are blatantly misleading. Lilo & Stitch, for example. They made it look like a fuzzy guy having a great time with friends, I had no idea he was an evil monster. I think this feature is a mixed blessing. Lilo & Stitch is an example of where it's okay, but Scary Movie was made to look funny when it wasn't.

My $.02.

b