Monday, March 26, 2007

Movie Previews that Show too Much

Its become a popular trend over the past few years. Instead of a short preview with just enough tidbits of information to get your mouth watering, studios are putting out the movie condensed down to a couple of minutes. Nearly all of them include all their best one liners and what they hope will be memorable and quotable sayings. But some go as far showing not only the tidbit of information that is suppose to keep you waiting on the edge of your seat for the movie, but also the conclusion or result of that exact same situation. I've even seen a few lately that actually showed the end of the movie.

There indeed may be a large portion of people out there that don't appreciate a little suspense or thought provoking teaser, but I am not one of them. And so far, neither is anyone I've asked. The movie 300 previews showed 2/3rd's of the best lines and a couple of scenes that should have been major plot points if you didn't know how they turned out already. Luckily this movie had plenty to offer and I still found it quite enjoyable. But now every time I turn around there is another Spiderman 3 trailer. And the most recent one seems to show exactly how one of the entire theme's in the movie ends up turning out, and on top of that introduces a new character that would have been much more climactic if not known about until watching the movie. To take a scene from the over played 300 preview, I'd like to line up the marketers in charge of previews and kick them down a well yelling "This is SPARTA!"

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