Good cinema trailers are a work of art - unfortunately most films do
not see it like that and tend to cobble together the best bits of the
film with the V-O bloke. I am particularly enamoured of trailers
which give away the entire plot of a movie, including the ending. The
Sixth Sense trailer was fantatsic in this regard and much spookier
than the actual film. In the movie the "I see dead people" line is
not uttered until an hour in. In the trailer we get it at the end.
Willis is shot at begining of film - you need no more information.
Was reminded of this just the other day seeing a trailer for Say It
Isn't So which not only reveals that Kline and Graham are brother and
sister, it also reveals the later twist that they are not actually
siblings. Genius. Why bother writing a plot.
The Pearl Harbor trailer though - at least the European one - is a
piece of majestic beauty and almost certainly better than the film it
trails. I am always thoroughly disappointed when I don't get at least
two new tailers per visit - and there are certain arthouse cinemas
which I tend to avoid because they only show one trailer per filck.
Give me my moneys worth and ad me til I burst.
― Pete, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link