As in, you see a movie trailer, and based only on that trailer you make up the whole movie in your mind, and it ends up being different than the actual movie. Was your version better or worse?

I’ll go first: Men In Black 1 had a somewhat misleading trailer, where they’re about to shoot down the flying saucer at the end, and they say to each other “Do you have any idea what you’re doing?” “Not a clue.” And they shoot. So in my mind it was two guys from the FBI who had to suddenly deal with the existence of aliens and learn to fight them on the fly, learning and making it up as they went along all the while learning to work with each other.

  • Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 days ago

    A lot of trailers spoil things for me when I’m not even looking for the spoiler. Nothing really surprises me from what comes out of Hollywood anymore.

    I don’t need to watch blockbuster films when their trailers play the best parts and know how much of a budget was blown as to where the focus of the movie is going to be about.

    I don’t need to watch comedy films when the chances are likely that they put in the funnier bits in the trailer.

    I don’t need to watch horror films when the trailers play up the shitty effects and give you too many clues as to what it’s going to be about.

    This isn’t just simply shitting on films, it’s a matter of having watched so many, it’s second nature to you.