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Musings of a girl with a feverish love of film, horror & horror films. Welcome to my tea party.
The Inevitable Preview Trailer Let Down
Submitted by Christine on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 18:39.
I think it's safe to say that most of us here like to be "in the know", so to speak. We enjoy being ahead of the curve. I personally love being ahead of the curve. We seek out trailers and teaser posters and casting revelations. This weekend it really hit me. The magic has been sucked out of the preview trailers.
It's my own fault. No one instructed me to watch the "Watchmen" teaser a dozen times. Of course I was dripping with anticipation to see it on the big screen with the "Dark Knight". The fact that I was even expecting it before the film speaks volumes. Where's the excitement in that? I have always been the girl who feverishly enters the theater no less than a half hour early. I need to get choice seating; I need to see the previews. Now I've already seen them all!
As I sat with my Twizzlers clenched, I watched the previews prior to "Hellboy" breeze past. "WTF? I've already seen the "Quarantine" trailer." No one to blame but myself. As the teaser for "Terminator Salvation" flashed by, I yawned. I yawned as I heard others begin to exclaim and bustle with new found knowledge. My boyfriend leaned over and whispered, "I can't believe people are just hearing about this."
Am I saying I wish I didn't have all this information? Of course not! I'd have to stop trolling the interweb and writing blogs every time Entertainment Weekly released a new still. Then what would I do with my free time? I'm just saying, my beloved previews will never be the same. That "Watchmen" one was pretty amazing though...
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I've found that beyond the
I've found that beyond the initial teasers, I rarely watch the trailers of the films I'm actually really interested in seeing. For example, I watched the O.G. teasers for Cloverfield and The Dark Knight, but refused to continue to pay attention as dozens of subsequent trailers were released. However, with films like Hellboy, I needed to watch four or five of the promo clips to be even remotely interested enough to see it.
I used to be a wicked
I used to be a wicked trailer whore. I loved them but that was back in the limited bandwidth days. 28k modem style, you know? When you couldn't just download some shit in a timely manner. These days, I see them as soon as they hit.
Also, am I the only person not caught up in the Watchmen hype? I keep seeing people go ape for that trailer which looks really nice, visually rich, but that comic is number 1 with a bullet for me and Zack Snyder has proven to me that he's all about the shallow exteriors. Truth be told, I've warmed up to it a bit where I used to be outwardly hostile to the entire idea but man, I really don't think anyone can make THAT movie and put the proper message across.
Context is very important to me in this case.
But keep in mind that even
But keep in mind that even if the movie sucks the book is still on your shelf. It won't get rid of it. BUT pick up the Entertainment Weekly with his interview in it and find out that if he didn't take over it could have been even worse. The people in place before hand were going to do it as an updated tale about terrorism and whatever. He got on board and threw all that away and took it back to it's source material. The Black Freighter stuff is coming out on DVD at the same time of the movie's release and what Snyder wants to do is put out on DVD the ultimate Watchmen movie with it all edited together. Just something that they couldn't do in the theaters as it would be 4 hours long. And Snyder also said at comicon that he had to fight to get a lot of stuff from the book into the movie as producers wanted to take stuff out and really that at the end of the day if it just ends up being a 3 hour commercial for the book then that was okay too. I'm giving him a chance. I love the trailer and can't wait.
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I'm too much of a baby to be
I'm too much of a baby to be reasonable about these things.
Nah I understand. I'm the
Nah I understand. I'm the one on the floor throwing a tantrum about the Nightmare On Elm Street remake.
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