We all love movie trailers, right? They give you a glimpse of what upcoming movies are going to be like, and often they are the biggest news on the movie newssites out there. Trailers are downloaded millions of times, and when the trailers are playing in front of a movie in the cinema, you can hear the excited chatter from the patrons whenever there is a movie starring some of their favorite actors. But there are also plenty of reasons why movie trailers suck, and here I give you 5 of them.
1. If it's a trailer for a comedy, you have now probably seen the best jokes from the whole movie
I can understand that they make movie trailers to get people's attention, and to make sure that they will put their butts in the seat of the cinema where your movie is playing. But does this really mean that we need to see the good jokes already? And hey, mister movie executive, if it's true that the trailer does show all the good jokes, don't you think you should maybe put a few more in your movie?
2. They can be misleading
Yeah, I know, like all advertising, movie trailer will try to paint a picture that is rosier than the result you get when you see the movie in the cinema. If we were to believe movie trailers, every movie out there is the most exciting, gut wrenching, adrenaline boosting experience out there. We can live with that. But when they take a wonderful little movie like Bridge to Terabithia and make it look in the trailer like this is the new Narnia, which it's not at all, then we start to get annoyed.
3. Trailers tend to spoil too much
Chances are that if you watch a trailer for an expensive movie that has a lot riding on it, movie executives are going to try and spoil as much as possible, just so they can convince everybody that this is a movie they should see. They don't care that the surprise is gone, they want you to hand over your money!
4. Do we really need to listen to those same two guys in every single trailer out there?
Okay, maybe I'm overreacting, but it does sound like every movie is being narrated by those same two guys you hear in practically every movie trailer. Especially when it comes to the trailers for the big movies, it seems like there is some unwritten rule that you have to use them and their gravelly voices, or your trailer won't be allowed to play in cinemas. Sheesh!
5. A bit more originality would be nice actually
Trailers are becoming too predictable. They all seem to follow the same template that their genre dictates, and the time when you had trailers like the one for Jerry Seinfeld's Comedian seems long gone. I'm especially sick and tired of those trailers that play along these lines: Rousing, inspirational images are being shown, movie voice over guy blabs on about stories of epic scope, the music swells... All to reveal that this is not actually a movie about any of those things, but just another dumb comedy about a misfit and his wild and hilarious ways. Or something like that.
p.s. I still do love movie trailers, but then again, I also love chocolate, and that isn't very good for me either...
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