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The MSJ posted:Another one from the CineD poster thread. I saw Lost Highway when it came out in theaters and to this day I still don't know if I liked it or not. The soundtrack was amazing, though.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas had a similar ad. The copy was "Love It. Hate It. Buy the ticket, take the ride."
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Sarcopenia posted:It was a trailer for at a lot of horror movie showings, making it seem like it was a totally edgy horror torture porn and not a hamfisted "art" movie. So they Bridge to Terrabithiad it? Maxwell Lord posted:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas had a similar ad. The copy was "Love It. Hate It. Buy the ticket, take the ride." I like this a lot more than "lol here's some negative quotes" because it's basically a cliche now and not a very funny one to begin with. It edges on being an intentionally "bad" effort, which as far as fictional media go is my sworn enemy. That doesn't make me wanna see the movie ironically or not, it just signals to me that whoever's responsible has the same sense of humor as SIDS. Instead of highlighting that people hate it, better to use polarizing reactions to say that it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. TenCentFang has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Sep 24, 2017 |
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Byzantine posted:gently caress you say? I appreciate you  Third street!To contribute to movie marketing chat, is there a term or anything for when a movie shoots itself in the foot by giving away choice elements in trailers? Like showing the monster in a horror movie, or using all the best jokes in a comedy, or the biggest effects shots in an action blockbuster. Putting the best stuff in the trailer and leaving nothing for the movie seems to happen more often than it should.
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Traxus IV posted:I appreciate you Yeah, it's called "we have a real stinker on our hands so let's just hope putting anything actually worthwhile about the movie in the trailer tricks a few people"
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Intoluene posted:Yeah, it's called "we have a real stinker on our hands so let's just hope putting anything actually worthwhile about the movie in the trailer tricks a few people" Even good movies do this. And it used to be worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ This one gives the entire summary of the plot short of the twist, and I'm almost certain there was a trailer that literally has Charleton Heston screaming SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE. The reality is trailers are made for marketing, not artistic expression. If you wanna get people in the movie you show them the parts that will draw them in, that's naturally the best parts.
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TenCentFang posted:I like this a lot more than "lol here's some negative quotes" because it's basically a cliche now and not a very funny one to begin with. It edges on being an intentionally "bad" effort, which as far as fictional media go is my sworn enemy. That doesn't make me wanna see the movie ironically or not, it just signals to me that whoever's responsible has the same sense of humor as SIDS. Instead of highlighting that people hate it, better to use polarizing reactions to say that it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I agree, this movie poster is probably written by people who laugh at sudden infant death syndrome
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The Terminator 2 trailer gave away that Arnold was the good guy, against James Camerons wishes. The Suicide Squad trailer took literally every bit of humor and joke from the movie, and put them in the trailer. They then had to spend millions of dollars doing reshoots of the movie to make it more like the trailer.
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evobatman posted:The Terminator 2 trailer gave away that Arnold was the good guy, against James Camerons wishes. Batman vs superman spoiled wonder woman's appearance didn't it?
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ilmucche posted:Batman vs superman spoiled wonder woman's appearance didn't it? That's the only thing that got anyone into that theater post opening weekend.
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evobatman posted:The Suicide Squad trailer took literally every bit of humor and joke from the movie, and put them in the trailer. They then had to spend millions of dollars doing reshoots of the movie to make it more like the trailer. That movie was my first thought too - the only parts worth watching were all in the trailer. Likewise Kick rear end 2 - the trailer is filled with Jim Carrey (mostly adlibbing) being funny. Watching the film, you realise that those bits are the only part of the entire movie worth watching Let's put the final plot twist on the front of the DVD cover 
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spog posted:That movie was my first thought too - the only parts worth watching were all in the trailer. DVD covers and menus spoil poo poo all the time but I think it's assumed that you only bought the DVD if you loved the movie, and if you're renting it it doesn't have the cover and you're going straight to "play movie."
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I mean I'm gonna give a pass on that one because it may possibly be the most ubiquitous twist of all time at this point. There's more than a handful of people who know nothing about the movie but know that line.
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REC's cover was the literal last shot of the movie, but it didn't really give anything away. Still, weird choice.
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One of the main clips they used in trailers for Paul Blart 2, Paul getting kicked by a horse, was also the literal last shot of the movie.
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Pretty sure the menu on the usual suspects DVD has the Kobayashi teacup on it. It isnt an issue if you don't know what it means, until one of your frienss says it spoils the movie
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evobatman posted:The Terminator 2 trailer gave away that Arnold was the good guy, against James Camerons wishes. This wasn't actually true iirc. The Suicide Squad reshoots were normal, budgeted-for, happens-all-the-time reshoots which any big budget film has, but terrible media blogs lost their minds over it to generate a headline. There was a similar thing about another film where a big fuss was made about 'the original cut was 5 hours long!!' which completely misunderstood what a workprint was and why it existed.
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If it was true the film would have been better, because the trailer was still nothing but the best moments.
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spog posted:That movie was my first thought too - the only parts worth watching were all in the trailer. its a dvd cover for an old as hell movie, there is no twist for anyone watching already
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I had a friend who watched Soylent Green recently, and didn't know the twist. Another friend watched the Star Wars movies in preparation for Episode VII, having not seen them before, and was shocked by the twist in Empire Strikes Back. Spoiling things is dumb, no matter how old something is.
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Mikl posted:I had a friend who watched Soylent Green recently, and didn't know the twist. Another friend watched the Star Wars movies in preparation for Episode VII, having not seen them before, and was shocked by the twist in Empire Strikes Back. The ship hits an iceberg and sinks.
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Spoiling things is necessary because society needs shared points of reference and sources of universally intelligible metaphors. Everybody knows what happens in Romeo and Juliet, and it's fine.
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Mikl posted:I had a friend who watched Soylent Green recently, and didn't know the twist. Another friend watched the Star Wars movies in preparation for Episode VII, having not seen them before, and was shocked by the twist in Empire Strikes Back. i'm sorry you can't see where its smarter to market to the big bunch of people who know the twist and might check the movie out to see where it comes up, rather then the five people who don't know they blew it up! god drat them all to hell!
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Platystemon posted:The ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Jeesus dies at the cross.
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mandatory lesbian posted:its a dvd cover for an old as hell movie, there is no twist for anyone watching already I'm pretty sure it was on at least one of the VHS covers because I remember standing in line at rogers video waiting to rent some lovely N64 game and they had them all on display and I figured out the plot twist just looking at the cases.
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The DVD cover for Quarantine shows the final scene. The one where the main character is killed.
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To be honest, as someone who's always lived with Planet of the Apes and "you blew it all up!", it's never actually seemed like a twist to me. Like, okay, The Sixth Sense, that has a twist, Citizen Kane has a mystery that you wanna find out, but the whole Not-Earth-Actually-It-Is-Earth thing is just...eh? What I mean is I don't feel spoiled and if I sat down to watch it I can't imagine the surprise would really add anything.
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TenCentFang posted:To be honest, as someone who's always lived with Planet of the Apes and "you blew it all up!", it's never actually seemed like a twist to me. Like, okay, The Sixth Sense, that has a twist, Citizen Kane has a mystery that you wanna find out, but the whole Not-Earth-Actually-It-Is-Earth thing is just...eh? I mean given the movie came out during the cold war it was like a cautionary thing and made the events more impactful than just some other place.
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Oh yeah, I totally overlooked that. That context really does help.
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Its pretty much why the newer movies go with an engineered virus instead of nukes. At least, so far. It wouldn't have the same relevance in a post soviet world.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Its pretty much why the newer movies go with an engineered virus instead of nukes. At least, so far. It wouldn't have the same relevance in a post soviet world. North Korea is gonna bring the 80s back gently caress yes
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ArtIsResistance posted:North Korea is gonna bring the 80s back gently caress yes The ’80s are already back. 
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Yeah, genre movies are especially prone to bad marketing ruining surprises. Wes Craven's They had a big twist money shot at the very end...which was the main image the marketing team centered on. It's a poo poo movie otherwise so whatever, they tried. Much worse is the early 80s indie horror, Dead and Buried, which is a quite good film with a weird mystery plot, and a great third act set of twists that I guess can be figured out if you try hard, but I've discovered that much of the initial marketing (and far too many reviews, even today) just spoil the hell out of things, which totally reduces the intrigue down to zero.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I mean given the movie came out during the cold war it was like a cautionary thing and made the events more impactful than just some other place. What was the context that made uniquely impactful the ending of the new Planet of The Apes when they return to Earth and they find the Lincoln memorial, but abe lincoln is a monkey and then everybody is a monkey but in present day america
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That Tim Burton is a hack. Not that impactful I guess.
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steinrokkan posted:What was the context that made uniquely impactful the ending of the new Planet of The Apes when they return to Earth and they find the Lincoln memorial, but abe lincoln is a monkey and then everybody is a monkey but in present day america I think that ending was from the novel.
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The MSJ posted:I think that ending was from the novel. Ill be damned, it was.
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Aperaham Lincoln (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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EmmyOk posted:Aperaham Lincoln Honest Ape would've been much better
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EmmyOk posted:Aperaham Lincoln lol
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