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I avoid trailers, even for the movies that I'm not going to see imminently. Trailers have spoilers (both big and small), and/or are outright deceitful about th
by neilv 2y ago
I avoid trailers, even for the movies that I'm not going to see imminently.
Trailers have spoilers (both big and small), and/or are outright deceitful about the movie.
(Regarding deceitful, you might've seen amateur trailer cuts that, say, make a light comedy look like a dark thriller, but the professionals were doing that first. How would a director have cut this, if they were making a more marketable picture than was actually made?)
Similarly, I avoid seeing any reviews until either after I've watched the movie, or after I've started and am ready to abort it. I want to experience the storytelling, and also form my own impression, before someone spoils either for me.
I do often vet a title first by looking at its ratings pair on https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ (RT), and occasionally I look at the one-sentence review summary blurb. Especially for streaming services in recent years, where the majority of the titles are either mediocre or poor.
(SPOILER ALERT: Though, vetting with RT won't always save you from a bad experience. The other night's evening wind-down light movie, I picked what looked like a generic Jason Statham film, IIRC without vetting. And around halfway in, I was horrified, when the formulaic gruff antihero's redemption-lite arc suddenly reversed, to a double-down of violent and unnecessary pure evil, upon some innocent child. Then I went to skim the RT's summaries of professional reviews, and even none of those summaries warned of this.)
- cj 2y agoI liked the way Netflix used to automatically start playing whatever show/movie you're hovering over in the app from the first scene. If the first 30-60 seconds pulled you in, you'd continue on to watch the full movie/show without actually clicking "Play" (which also fixed the mental burden of deciding what to watch, since "stop scrolling through options" resulted in automatically playing whatever you landed on). They've since replaced that with auto-playing trailers which seems to be standard these days. I really like when they just auto-played the movie/show -- most movies/shows already set up the plot decently enough in the first 60-90 seconds (well enough to know whether you want to watch it) and of course that also resolves the "spoiler in trailer" issue.
- magicalhippo 2y ago> I liked the way Netflix used to automatically start playing whatever show/movie you're hovering over in the app from the first scene. I cancelled my Netflix subscription over that feature... If I want to watch it, I'll press play.
- sitkack 2y agoAnd these misfeatures spread like a memetic virus because PMs only clone() never new()
- allenu 2y agoThese autoplay features make me a little anxious. If I'm browsing through movies, I just want to read the description in peace and not have to worry that the trailer or movie itself will start playing. It makes me click Next more quickly than I would want just to avoid the countdown timer expiring.
- pests 2y agoInstead of just disabling the setting? Seems a little overkill.
- magicalhippo 2y agoWasn't a setting when I canceled, I contacted support to verify. Wasn't and act of impulse either, it annoyed the heck out of me for at least half a year before I had enough. Haven't had a good reason to come back.
- bravetraveler 2y agoFactor in the price hike last quarter or the one about to happen, then.
- ileonichwiesz 2y ago> Trailers have spoilers (both big and small), and/or are outright deceitful about the movie. This feels like a strange take to me. Trailers are just advertisements for movies, and ads have to both inform about a product and hype it up. Do you also feel spoiled when you see an ad for a new burger because you’ve lost the mystery of what the toppings are? Do you feel deceived because the burger isn’t actually 3 feet wide like it was on the billboard?
- t0bia_s 2y agoHave you ever watch films because of plot, not just for entertainment?
- Dylan16807 2y agoBurgers aren't supposed to have plot developments and surprises like stories. That comparison makes no sense to me. I would feel deceived if the ad showed off a beef burger and I got chicken. Or if I got some kind of meal that's the correct size but has a burger portion only 4cm wide. Now, sometimes trailers avoid big chunks of genre in service of not spoiling things, and that's a gambit that can work out, but most movies are a consistent genre and if they're trying to hype up a tiny portion of the movie because the rest is boring then that's not good.
- neilv 2y ago> Do you also feel spoiled when you see an ad for a new burger because you’ve lost the mystery of what the toppings are? Seeing the ad for the burger doesn't spoil much of the value that is the point of the burger. Analogous spoiling would be to make the actual burger taste not as good, or to make the actual burger be less nutritious.
- dr_kiszonka 2y agoTime Trap (2017) is an excellent low budget sci-fi movie with a trailer that spoils the key plot elements. Had I watched the trailer before the movie, I certainly wouldn't have enjoyed Time Trap nearly as much.