Movie Trailers
There is something to be said about a great trailer. We have gone to see many a movie based solely on our visual and emotional reaction to its trailer. If a trailer has great music and kickass editing it can make even the dullest movie seem worthy of our hard-earned money. A truly great trailer to an almost always great movie experience will literally give me goose bumps on my face [or 'duck bumps' as my hubby calls them...lol]. And once in a blue moon, a trailer can be so good that it brings tears to my eyes, regardless of the movie’s subject matter. I find huge pleasure in spectacular visuals paired with amazing audio. Sometimes all it takes is the right sound and the timing of the color of what’s on the screen [and no, I don't do drugs... if you couldn't tell, I don't need them. I was born with built-in multi-sensory euphoric triggers. lol]. Bass in particular will get me every time – the bassy, other-worldly sound in the Transformers teaser killed me, I loved it so much. As I’ve said over and over in my ramblings, it takes very little to please me. ;)
I have to say my biggest pet peeve, which I’m sure is true for most movie goers, is when they put all the funnest scenes or the biggest, coolest effects or surprises IN the trailer, so that when you actually go to see the movie, you feel like you’ve already seen it. That happened for us with movies like Hot Rod and even Transformers – because there were so many versions of trailers and clips available online before the movie actually came out. It was a bit disappointing when nothing really surprised us. We still enjoyed it because it was a great summer action movie, but it sparked the going in blind policy for us. We’ll watch a teaser and maybe a one full trailer, but after that we fast forward through commercials and avoid seeing more online to preserve that sense of delight.
And I can’t seem to NOT call them ‘trailers’ even though they don’t play them at the end of the movie anymore. They really are ‘previews’… If they DID play them at the end of the movie, I would sit through all the credits to see them – I must be in the minority on that, otherwise we’d still have trailers and not previews.
Cheers!
~Helena
