I'm sure when I was a lad there were only two types of trailer, or at least the ones I remember. First there was a teaser trailer that would only last for about a minute and was quite coy in what to reveal. Although in fairness, that's probably because there wasn't enough footage ready to make a trailer, especially if it contained special effects elements.
The second trailer would later arrive, two minutes at most, containing special effects shots, and it would give you an idea of the film without revealing too much.
What have we got now? The entire film in three minutes to make sure everyone comes to see the film. I don't, I feel like I've seen it and have no plans on watching it now. cough The Fall Guy cough
I agree with your overall sentiment, but I actually was thinking about the trailer I had seen for The Fall Guy as an example of a trailer done with a little more care, before even reading your post. I thought The Fall Guy trailer was cool in that it made you think you knew the whole story but it was a bit of an intentional misdirection. I would have bet $20 going into that movie that I knew the plot ... and lost. I will add the disclaimer that I am typically trying not to pay attention to trailers because so many of them do spoil the movie.
I went back to watch both trailers today after seeing the movie last week. One is a lot of plot points but jumbled to make it somewhat unclear (by design?). The other has what you would expect to be full scenes that I don't even recall from the movie. The full plot is not more than hinted at in either. I enjoyed the movie, and having seen a trailer didn't take away from that at all, in my experience.
Again, the disclaimer: I agree that plot revealing trailer suck. I typically avoid watching trailers in theaters by looking at my phone or whatever just to distract myself, and never watch trailers at all outside of theaters.
Possibly for good reason - of all the four Cocaine Bear mockbusters currently out, Cocaine Shark is only nudged off the bottom spot by Cocaine Jaguar.(by IMDb ratings). For the foolishly curious they are, from "best" to worst:
Wikipedia describe them as a "mini-major" and "large independent". So,I suppose they get the advantages of size with the flexibility of being independent.
I found it hardly scary, the protagonist being nearly indestructible, but a super weird trip, like diving head first in a 70s cosmic cult poster, full of hallucinogenics and rivers of blood, and yes, pretty funny at times.. "you ruined my favourite shirt"!
Also it's not "Yeti" any more, they prefer Mi-go. The Y-word has acquired insulting connotations over the years and while they are reclaiming it, it's their word to use.
Yea, it was bit more of a cluttered video than I would have liked too. Maybe copyright issues were on their mind? Still, I had no idea bout any of this. I can imagine a bigger deeper dive on the ideas though!
I'm bang up for this, it looks like Nekrokosm is being pushed down the running order but the article says it's still in development at A24 and a commercial hit could really help get it done.
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