Many modern movies have lost the art of suspense, spoon-feeding audiences information. But the best reveals have always made for some of the best movies.
I've become *fanatical* about avoiding reveals in trailers or text. If I hear a movie might be really good, or I sense it's my kind of flick, I might look at a few seconds of the trailer to confirm that, and then I just turn away. I've trained myself over years, so it's natural now.
Even reading Jeff's entry today, I stopped reading sentences about films that I haven't seen, like *Hereditary*. But I did put Hereditary on my watchlist.
The spoon-feeding of information and the loss of suspense in movies sucks. Bring back suspense and plot surprises.
The last movie trailer that I saw was for Moana 2 to go see it with my daughter. It has been a long time since the last one that I saw. I understand that if there is not enough in a movie trailer to grab younger movie goers they simply wont show. With living in a world with social media and instant connection to everything I think that it ruins a lot of the imagination; like in Jaws and Halloween. If those movies where made to today I don't think that they would have become the icons that they are now.
Another movie I remember seeing where the trailer didn't reveal much was the Marvel Avengers. I remember that being so much better then that original stories like Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Hulk just to name a few. Was it finally having the combination of all the actors in a single giant movie that propelled that movie, I'm not sure. That movie was so much fun and it made me go back and watch those other movies.
Suspense and Imagination have seem to no longer exist in trailers proving your point and why the movies mention hold such a high standard. Nothing like them existed and they changed the landscape of telling stories in the cinematic universe. Movies should be like a book that tells a story rather than a candle you blow out before it gets to the end.
I was in prison during the COVID era, so I didn't have access to the internet. Still, I consumed a lot of print media, magazines and newspapers, that sort of thing.
I recall there were a lot of interviews with the busy Andrew Garfield maybe a year before "No Way Home" to promote all sorts of movies, and he was asked repeatedly if he was in the new Spider-Man and if the rumors were true. Of course he denied them -- quite well, I thought -- except that someone like me had to wonder, "Why do the publicists keep allowing this question to be asked, and why are these media outlets still printing the answer?" I think it was pretty obvious and phony media-driven misdirection, given how interviews are often conducted and edited for print, and I fully expected him and Tobey to show up in the movie proper. Oops, did I just spoil it?
I saw Spider-Man: No Way Home in theater without seeing trailers (which very, very rarely do anyway) and not having seen any of the leaks.
So the both of them showing up was a huge surprise for me, and apparently a lot of others in the viewing with me.
The response was awesome :)
I've become *fanatical* about avoiding reveals in trailers or text. If I hear a movie might be really good, or I sense it's my kind of flick, I might look at a few seconds of the trailer to confirm that, and then I just turn away. I've trained myself over years, so it's natural now.
Even reading Jeff's entry today, I stopped reading sentences about films that I haven't seen, like *Hereditary*. But I did put Hereditary on my watchlist.
The spoon-feeding of information and the loss of suspense in movies sucks. Bring back suspense and plot surprises.
I do almost the same thing. It's also the genre that might interest me, but if I read it just a bad movie I will not easily waste my time and money.
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I think people want to know what’s happening because they fear wasting money, which in some way is understandable given the cost of tickets.
Speaking of hereditary: that was the last movie to really mess me up, haha. That scene.
The last movie trailer that I saw was for Moana 2 to go see it with my daughter. It has been a long time since the last one that I saw. I understand that if there is not enough in a movie trailer to grab younger movie goers they simply wont show. With living in a world with social media and instant connection to everything I think that it ruins a lot of the imagination; like in Jaws and Halloween. If those movies where made to today I don't think that they would have become the icons that they are now.
Another movie I remember seeing where the trailer didn't reveal much was the Marvel Avengers. I remember that being so much better then that original stories like Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Hulk just to name a few. Was it finally having the combination of all the actors in a single giant movie that propelled that movie, I'm not sure. That movie was so much fun and it made me go back and watch those other movies.
Suspense and Imagination have seem to no longer exist in trailers proving your point and why the movies mention hold such a high standard. Nothing like them existed and they changed the landscape of telling stories in the cinematic universe. Movies should be like a book that tells a story rather than a candle you blow out before it gets to the end.
I was in prison during the COVID era, so I didn't have access to the internet. Still, I consumed a lot of print media, magazines and newspapers, that sort of thing.
I recall there were a lot of interviews with the busy Andrew Garfield maybe a year before "No Way Home" to promote all sorts of movies, and he was asked repeatedly if he was in the new Spider-Man and if the rumors were true. Of course he denied them -- quite well, I thought -- except that someone like me had to wonder, "Why do the publicists keep allowing this question to be asked, and why are these media outlets still printing the answer?" I think it was pretty obvious and phony media-driven misdirection, given how interviews are often conducted and edited for print, and I fully expected him and Tobey to show up in the movie proper. Oops, did I just spoil it?
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