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Wheat Loaf posted:A new Glass trailer: I'm sure they'll be some kind of twist at the end, and yeah I know this happens a lot and it's not exactly the hottest take in the world, but that trailer sure feels like it lays out the entire plot of the movie from start to finish. Could be a bait and switch given the fact that the trailer doesn't feature nearly as much of the titular character as it does the beast. It's probably a rental for me just to see McAvoy chewing scenery.
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Gravy Jones posted:I'm sure they'll be some kind of twist at the end, and yeah I know this happens a lot and it's not exactly the hottest take in the world, but that trailer sure feels like it lays out the entire plot of the movie from start to finish. Something I've been wondering lately; does anyone suppose there are people who actually like when trailers do this and want to go into a movie knowing more or less how it's going to go without any danger of their expectations being upset? Or so they can feel clever when they watch it because they know what's coming? It's a bit like that one Futurama joke: "But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid and unexpected things make them feel scared!" Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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Gonz posted:Oh poo poo, Amahl Farouk as The Sultan? Huh. Based on how he played Farouk, you'd think Navid Negahban would make a better Jafar.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Something I've been wondering lately; does anyone suppose there are people who actually like when trailers do this and want to go into a movie knowing more or less how it's going to go I vaguely recall reading some article like a decade ago that said this is the case for the vast majority of people, that marketing people know this, and that’s why so many trailers give away so much info
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What's the biggest recent movie - like, the studio tentpole or blockbuster - that had the trailer which gave the least away or presented scenes in such a way that didn't really reveal the context? Are there any really good examples? There aren't many that come to mind for me, but I tend to forget trailers once I've actually seen the movie.
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Trailers nowadays come in waves and you need to know when to bail from promotional material once you’re sold on a movie if you care about poo poo like being surprised. There’s usually a teaser, followed by the main trailer, followed by maybe a 2nd trailer, and a few weeks to release you’ll have a final trailer that gives you everything in the movie because they haven’t hooked you yet.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What's the biggest recent movie - like, the studio tentpole or blockbuster - that had the trailer which gave the least away or presented scenes in such a way that didn't really reveal the context? Are there any really good examples? There aren't many that come to mind for me, but I tend to forget trailers once I've actually seen the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4 Didn't really give away much/any of the plot, and the scenes out of their context just look pretty/exciting/mysterious.
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Oct 12, 2018 14:45
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Not recent, but I appreciated that the Matrix trailers made no sense and were just a wild jumble of pretty images. I went into the theater not knowing anything and had my mind blown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgCqGm_6Hs
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Wheat Loaf posted:What's the biggest recent movie - like, the studio tentpole or blockbuster - that had the trailer which gave the least away or presented scenes in such a way that didn't really reveal the context? Are there any really good examples? There aren't many that come to mind for me, but I tend to forget trailers once I've actually seen the movie. The recent star wars movies have had very vague trailers. But maybe by the very nature of being star wars movies, a lot *is* given away
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Wheat Loaf posted:Something I've been wondering lately; does anyone suppose there are people who actually like when trailers do this and want to go into a movie knowing more or less how it's going to go without any danger of their expectations being upset? Or so they can feel clever when they watch it because they know what's coming?
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Wheat Loaf posted:What's the biggest recent movie - like, the studio tentpole or blockbuster - that had the trailer which gave the least away or presented scenes in such a way that didn't really reveal the context? Are there any really good examples? There aren't many that come to mind for me, but I tend to forget trailers once I've actually seen the movie. mother! ? Also Passengers jumped to my mind but maybe you mean more than just spoiling the ending twist. I guess neither of these movies were really blockbusters though.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What's the biggest recent movie - like, the studio tentpole or blockbuster - that had the trailer which gave the least away or presented scenes in such a way that didn't really reveal the context? Are there any really good examples? There aren't many that come to mind for me, but I tend to forget trailers once I've actually seen the movie. Infinity War did this a bit. For the trailer they added the Hulk to a big climactic battle, to hide that Bruce Banner would spend most of the movie unable to transform. They also changed around how many gems were in Thanos's gauntlet for some trailers to obscure what order various scenes would appear in.
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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has spots on both ends of the spectrum, the initial trailer is entirely a mood-setter and the second one spends like five minutes laying out the plot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWXEfXGWtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqQe3OrsMKI
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BlueBayou posted:The recent star wars movies have had very vague trailers. But maybe by the very nature of being star wars movies, a lot *is* given away The original Star Wars trailers - which I saw for the first time when they were on the 2004 special edition dvd set - are great because I think one of them starts with "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away" then ends with "Somewhere, in space, this could all be happening right now!"
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Holy poo poo, a Yoda could exist! Right now! In space! While you sleep and/or poop, a Yoda is somewhere at that moment doing the same. Imagine...
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Someone in the Star Wars thread just posted some long forgotten behind the scenes documentary of Empire, and it’s always fascinating how the actors were free to discuss the plot quite liberally because “spoilers” weren’t even a thing at that point.
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Jewmanji posted:Someone in the Star Wars thread just posted some long forgotten behind the scenes documentary of Empire, and it’s always fascinating how the actors were free to discuss the plot quite liberally because “spoilers” weren’t even a thing at that point.     https://mightymega.com/2014/12/21/1982-mad-magazine-star-wars-predictions/
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Sirotan posted:mother! ? Also Passengers jumped to my mind but maybe you mean more than just spoiling the ending twist. I guess neither of these movies were really blockbusters though. mother! , for sure. I'd say it's even a case of outright tricking the audience, which takes balls for a wide-release film. The Matrix was pretty cryptic in its pre-release.
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Wow, yeah. I never watched the mother! trailer because I like going in blind & especially to Aronofsky movies but it's pretty much a trailer for Rosemary's Baby 2017. That's a great trailer. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but generally I only watch trailers for the setup + dilemma which is roughly the halfway point. All the spoiler stuff usually comes after that.
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https://youtu.be/YfE7PUKH76w The new Claire Denis film with Robert Pattinson. Looks incredible.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Something I've been wondering lately; does anyone suppose there are people who actually like when trailers do this and want to go into a movie knowing more or less how it's going to go without any danger of their expectations being upset? Or so they can feel clever when they watch it because they know what's coming? I unironically do. Mainly because I have a limited amount of money and if I'm not going to enjoy the movie, I'd rather not waste it. I get my enjoyment from the acting and direction and editing, not any twists or surprises. I hate mysteries and JJ Abrams obsession with an unopened mystery box absolutely baffles me.
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Jewmanji posted:https://youtu.be/YfE7PUKH76w loving YES
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I like watching movies with Robert Pattinson in them.
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Steve Yun posted:As an adult and thinking about John Henry for the first time since elementary school... something doesn’t feel right about a folk tale where a black man working himself to death is applauded and nobody questions the corporation continuing to get rich from underpaid labor
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Charlz Guybon posted:Aren't all the laborers replaced by machines in the story? Yeah, John Henry had a race against a newfangled steam-powered rock drilling machine to prove that he was better than the machine. He beat it but his heart gave out just as he won. In this version he was an emancipated slave and his wife had his slave chains forged into a hammer for him https://vimeo.com/70969279
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So in other words, the railroad tycoon literally worked John Henry to death by cranking up his steam engine.
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Krankenstyle posted:So in other words, the railroad tycoon literally worked John Henry to death by cranking up his steam engine. Yes it almost makes you think
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Krankenstyle posted:I like watching movies with Robert Pattinson in them.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Something I've been wondering lately; does anyone suppose there are people who actually like when trailers do this and want to go into a movie knowing more or less how it's going to go without any danger of their expectations being upset? Or so they can feel clever when they watch it because they know what's coming? In college, I knew a guy who would read through the Wikipedia synopsis of every movie before he’d watch it. It used to drive me insane.
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So, apparently, they're making a new sequel to "The Mask" and it looks closer to the comic book version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftqWqGpZoTI
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volts5000 posted:So, apparently, they're making a new sequel to "The Mask" and it looks closer to the comic book version. That has to be a fan film
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It says so right in the Youtube description. Also, the comic was still a comedy, ya embarrassing nerd dopes (the folks making this).
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I dunno if I’d call it closer to the source either, the source was pretty comical.  
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Teenage Fansub posted:It says so right in the Youtube description. drat it! How did I miss that? Guess I've been on a trailer kick lately and I got lazy.
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Fan films are cool, whatever. Not any worse than having four different “official” takes on Spider-Man.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Also, the comic was still a comedy, ya embarrassing nerd dopes (the folks making this). Steve Yun posted:I dunno if I’d call it closer to the source either, the source was pretty comical. The original comics were pretty drat dark, most of the jokes were about Stanley going on a murder spree when he first gets the mask and cartoonishly slaughtering people he hated like the mechanics who ripped him off and the elderly teacher who used to humiliate him in school:   Also I'm guessing the fanfilm people don't have much of the special FX shots completed and that's were pretty much all the comedy would be happening. There's almost no comedy in the story except when the Mask is going nuts, Stanley's life is pretty sad and pathetic and the rest of the story is cops going "What the gently caress do we do???"
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The Mask comics are extremely 90s, in fact I kinda want them to do a Jared Leto Mask movie rather than Morbius.
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It's crazy how much Doug Mahnke developed between the original and Mask Returns. The Dark Horse omnibus with the first three miniseries is a pro buy.
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If they're rebooting The Mask they should just do The Hunt for Green October It's basically already "what if Shane Black did a Mask story," to the extent that I almost feel like The Predator ripped it off a little, and it would make a loving rad as hell movie.
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