Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) 28
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via CNET: Our increasing obsession with trailers is changing how we watch movies. We're becoming audiences afraid of surprise, audiences that would rather watch movies we're certain we'll like than risk watching films that surprise us into love. In some cases, this fixation is even lowering the quality of movies themselves by encouraging bad filmmaking habits. The most extreme example happened when Warner Bros. released such a successful trailer for 'Suicide Squad' it brought on the company that cut it to edit the whole film -- dropping the director's original cut altogether. [...] Thanks to trailers' easy accessibility on YouTube and those shot-by-shot breakdowns that quickly appear online once trailers drop, anyone interested in a given flick can pore over all the available footage for hours -- even if that leads to major spoilers for them and everyone they share it with.
This is still on the front page... (Score:5, Informative)
WTF?
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You must be new here.
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Wow. Usually "duplicate story" isn't meant quite so literally around here....
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Maybe we can just call this a sequel. Next year, another editor can post it a third time as a reboot.
Our Obsession With Duplicates Is Making Slashdot W (Score:1)
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Yeah, do BeauHD and msmash not even talk to each other or do basic handover?
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Let's go for the trifecta when EditorDavid takes over!
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Haven't we met before?
Meh (Score:1)
Stopped watching movies quite a while ago. There are better things to do in life than sit in front of a picture screen to escape reality.
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Oh, sorry I did not respond to you sooner as I was finishing up building a new fence for the horse barn, then went for a bicycle ride. Yes the computer screen is another picture screen, so get off your lazy ass and go do something that doesn't require the use of one hand in a rapid up and down motion in your lap.
Watched the trailer for this topic (Score:4, Funny)
Our Obsession With Dups is Making SlashDot Great (Score:2)
Meh... (Score:2)
The trailer for this story [slashdot.org] almost made me not want to come and post here...
Now that explains a LOT (Score:2)
Now that explains a LOT. That movie had some moments but there were a pile of characters that may as well not have been there - not to mention the weak unsupported plot and the hamfisted "message" shoved in our faces.
Instead of Will Smith's character being "redeemed" there was some really creepy shit about him being a good guy all along - nothing wrong with killing complete strang
Spoilers are for the weak! (Score:2)
I do not buy the concept of spoilers ruining anything. Dammit, if the fucking film is good enough, you won't give a fuck that you found out some spoiler by accident.
And PLENTY of people rank among their favorite movies and shows things they have already seen before, MULTIPLE TIMES and yet they still manage to find enjoyment in seeing them again just the same.
We all know how Star Wars ANH ends. Until Lucas changes it again, it's going to be the same goddamn movie you saw before. But if you count that as a