Archer was hilarious at first, when it was mostly just babble and improvised nonsense.

As much as I loved the first one, I'm not expecting anything much. It looks like a pile of puns and nothing more.


But, having said that, I was expecting the first one to be shite from the trailer and was pleasantly surprised at the subtlety of its humour. Is it just me or have most CG films lately been badly served by their trailers?

All movies are badly served by their trailers these days.

I, too, hated the first much less than I expected too. It was a real turning point in me giving movies aimed at younger audiences a more serious go. You know, back when I was at that snotty, high-and-mighty teenager phase.

aaaaand I'm interested in movies again.
Did they lose Mister T as well?

According to IMDB he's been replaced by Terry Crews, the black guy from the Tim & Eric directed Old Spice commercials.

Just saw Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki/The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, the third big budget film by Hosoda Mamoru (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time/Summer Wars). It was pure visual poetry and at least as good as Miyazaki at his second best (That is, not Nausicaa or Mononoke). Best film he's done so far and easily cements him as the next big anime film director after Miyazaki.

Been watching a lot of Louis CK stand-up. That guy can make any situation hilarious.

The worst things about trailers:
- They spoil a lot of the plot
- They are misleading, using quotes out of context or else cutting out important words from quotes
- Fade to black too often so you can't understand what's going on at all
- Spoil the only funny joke in the film

watched 10 Rillington Place. great film. Richard Attenborough.

That's their point, though. If they didn't do these things nobody would watch the film.

I disagree. I think the trailers with the best hook are the ones where the filmmakers shot content exclusively for the trailer, like District 9.

It seems this "trend" is getting bigger, using shots that weren't used in the film or making shots exclusively for the trailer. I don't mind it, as long it's well implemented.

A lot of trailers are edited before the final version of the movie hits the cutting room floor, so they often contain brief shots from deleted scenes, or different versions of other scenes.

You're right, but that wasn't what I was leading towards. There have been a number of films recently that looked like they would be terrible from the trailers but ended up being good.

Examples:

Megamind: The trailers made it look like the entire film was about a crappy supervillain who is incompetent and gets beaten up by the superhero a lot. I refused to see it in the cinema and thought my friends were stupid for liking it, but when they forced me to watch it I realised that the trailer only represents the first ten minutes of the film. The rest of it is about a supervillain succeeding in taking over the world and what happens next. And it's really quite funny.

How To Train Your Dragon: The trailer made it look like it was a cheesy, Disneyfied story about a boy and his anthropomorphised pet dragon. The film turned out to be a hell of a lot more interesting than that, with some really subtle humour.


Those are the two trailers that come to mind straight away, but there have been many more.

Arthur Christmas was pretty good and terribly serviced by its trailer.

I have to agree there. I think kids movies suffer from this the most. Things like Tangled, Brave, Up. Logically showing all the best bits of the movie should be exciting and draw people to see the film, but for some reason it doesn't work.

I would consider these to be good examples of trailers: Inception, Looper, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Skyfall (despite the fade-to-black overuse), The Hobbit.

The Dark Knight Rises was fairly good but I didn't like Batman's cheesy line "This isn't a car", since it absolutely kills any potential humour from seeing that part in the actual film itself.

So, I watched Twilight: Breaking Dawn The Deuce last night. You know how everyone hates on a thing so hard that you think it must be at least somewhat exaggeration, and a lot of just joining a band wagon because it's fun to hate things sometimes? Well, this movie isn't like that. This was by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The fact that the director got paid actual money for turning in this boring piece of crap depresses me more than almost anything I can think of. This was the slowest paced film in the history of film. Literally nothing happens for ninety percent of the movie, and then when something does finally happen it was all a dream sequence. There was no reason for the "bad guys" to act in the way they did, and their choice of waiting months so that the "good guys" could amass an army before attacking them was so goddamn stupid that they couldn't possibly be a threat to begin with. No one that dumb is scary.

The acting was atrocious, but what could you expect? These people were clearly hired for their looks, and not for their acting ability. Or maybe I take that back. The script was so bad that it's impossible to say whether or not the people saying the lines were doing a good or bad job. There was no way that anyone could have made that dialogue sound interesting.

There were a few redeeming qualities to the film. The one bad guy had the most amazing laugh I have ever heard. Also, the creepy pedophile werewolf's looks of longing at the baby were fucking hilarious.

I am still not sure, if you're telling me to watch the film. should I?
and can I pretend, that we're watching it together? you know, like buddies; hating it with one, collective wrath.

now please everyone; watch this trailer. I've never seen any images like these. it looks SPECTACULAR!
hopefully going to see this film by the end of this week in the cinema.

Looks... spectacular? It looks like a documentary about fishing.

Bear in mind that these trailers are aimed at the kids, not the adults. Kids laugh at fart jokes, slapstick, and bad puns, so they use those gags that usually take up less than 1/10th of the movie to advertise it. Kids don't have money, but adults do, and adults will only pay to see it if their kid wants to.

I remember sitting through several such trailers before Frankenweenie. The ratio of kids giggling and shouting "Let's see that!" to parents groaning and rolling their eyes was 1:1.

That's not to say all kids are rubes with bad taste. A trailer is only as good as the movie itself, and kids can still spot mediocrity even if you isolate all the best scenes.

Example:

my god you're fucking tainted.

that shit is like an infectious disease. stay away from me.

Watched it for my girlfriend. I kept my mouth shut through the entire film, but thought it would be safe to talk about how bad it was once it was over. Nooooooo. Bad idea. Holy shit did she get mad at me. She is still barely talking to me.

Lesson one: You just can't criticize a Twilight movie while talking to a girl, until she starts.

Twilight is an abomination

Just like masturbation!

To be fair, once I get going on something I can be brutal about it, and she began to feel like I was belittling her for liking it. Which wasn't my intention, but still, I can see why she would feel that way.

It is a really bad fucking movie, though.

Your girlfriend is a Twilight fangirl?

Damn.

It's weird because she is so not girly, but what do I care if she likes a crappy movie? I probably like tons of stuff that other people hate.

Besides, she is obsessed with Dark Shadows. That trumps everything.

it's vampires at the end of the day. there's something about cold, dead guys sucking out your blood through pointy straws that turns the ladies on.

maybe i should be a dead guy