Can I just say that if you're looking for reviews or even just a suggestion of what a film's about, AVOID Empire at all costs - they've even taken to describing entire major scenes just with their set visits, and without warning usually

Mind you, it's amazing the studio/film-makers let them do that...

And was that all you wanted to see in the film?




Given that the most you're going to see in a trailer would be, what, 30 seconds of a scene, I think you're judging unfairly. I've seen the entirety of Lost described in 140 characters by one of it's creators. Somewhere on YouTube, there's an edit of Lost that goes from the crash to the finale in about 3 minutes. Does that make the rest of the series any less enjoyable? I'd hope not.

If it does, then surely just reading the cast list, the director and the movie title should be enough to 'spoil' the film for you?
'The Other Guys' with Will Ferrel (funny man, so it's probably a comedy), Mark Wahlberg (actioney kinda guy), The Rock and Sam Jackson (both actioney kinda guys), directed by Adam McKay (wrote Anchor Man, Step Brothers, lots of SNL stuff)... I think I see where this is going.

Of course, I'm not saying you're wrong, but I do feel the art of the trailer is being somewhat unfairly judged.

As the philosopher says; sometimes the journey is the only thing that matters, not the destination.

From what I've heard/read, that's probably the best way to look at Lost's ending

No but it's a bit crap when you've seen all of the "exciting" scenes - it really distracted from the story-telling and IMO that's the important thing.



As I said, it doesn't apply to every trailer but some of them practically show the entire movie.


1 min from a film is a bit different to 3 mins from an entire series.

Typical film = 120 mins. Trailer = 1/120*100=0.83%
Lost series = 121*45 mins = 5445mins. 3/5445 = 0.055%
That's a 15 fold difference. 3x15 = 45mins would be more accurate and probably give more info.


Stop being frick-tard. That info just aids me in deciding whether to bother watching it.

Example: Meet the Fockers - all of the good jokes were in the various trailers released in the film. Consequently the film was a pain in the arse to watch and I actually thought about sticking pins in my eyes. Had I not already seen the jokes, maybe it would have been a bit more bareable.


There's an art and there's a mess. Some people seem to do amazing trailers that whet your appetite despite giving very little away. These are awesome trailers. Other trailers give away the best bits of the movie and hence spoil it when you do actually watch it. This means it's either a poor film or a film ruined by a poor trailer(s).

How do you know that's all the exciting scenes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5WHj0bZ2Q
The parkour's in there.
And, FWIW, I think that's a great trailer.
It excited me about the film before it came out, and watching it again kinda makes me want to stick it on again.



My sources suggest it's only under 1% of the movie.



In your example, you should've been able to guess what you're about to sit through from the offset.
Same cast, same director, but it's a sequel. I don't even need a trailer to tell about that. Even if the trailer gave away all the good jokes inside it's 2m30s, aren't they worth repeating?

Is that the theatrical trailer? That wasn't as bad as the ones that I saw, and definitely a lot better than some of the "bad" ones.

CR for me was ruined by the TV promos. There were a lot more scenes not in the trailer that were in the promos. The daily mail had their own promo which had loads of scenes. I can't remember if it was ITV or BBC but one of them also had extensive scenes.


I actually enjoyed Meet the Parents. It was great. The sequel however was horrendous and much more painful to watch. You expect the remainder of the jokes in the trailer to be of the same calibre as in the film. But you don't always know until you watch the film and that's when you realise all of the best bits were in the trailer. That frustrates me in a "comedy" as there's no really funny jokes left to see. The jokes you've already seen may not even raise a smile the second time around and I guess that says something more about the writing than anything else.