Very true. And with comedies now, they usually show the best jokes.
Increasingly I even have to switch off TV documentaries on movies, as I
find they reveal too much of the plot. Started to watch a BBC doc on film
noir last weekend, but they gave away the storyline and ending of In A Lonely
Place, and when they moved onto Kiss Me Deadly, I decided not to take the
risk... I may have seen an unhealthy number of these movies, but my partner
has not. Clearly, they have to show some key scenes to illustrate a point,
but they never used to have quite so many spoilers as they do now. Looking
back at older documentaries that I recorded from TV, they used to have a
more balanced structure, acting both as teasers to novices, and with a bit
of analysis for crusty old film buffs.
A few years ago I went to a retrospective showing of Get Carter (Michael
Caine), preceded by a talk by the director Mike Hodges. During the talk,
Hodges casually gave away the final scene. There were audible groans from the
audience, and one disgruntled person actually asked him to shut up and come
back after the film had been shown. Amazingly, being the nice guy he is,
Hodges took no offence and did precisely that, even though he must have
originally been planning to sneak out when the film started! You could say
that
these sort of showings are primarily for an audience that has seen the
film a dozen times before, but it's obvious on this occasion that people had
brought friends etc along to see it for the first time.
Back to posters, the Quad for The Fly gives away quite a lot, but I think
this is one case where I wouldn't have minded:-
_http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=693&Lot_No=64055#ph
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(http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=693&Lot_No=64055#photo)
Paul
_www.movieposterstudio.com_ (http://www.movieposterstudio.com)
In a message dated 27/08/2009 03:33:00 GMT Daylight Time,
brucehershen...@gmail.com writes:
I can't bear to watch trailers anymore. They say"First, they met, then
they fell in love, they she found out she has cancer, and then he decides to
steal a lot of money so they can have one last wonderful weekend together",
showing you images from all these scenes.
Who then needs to see the movie?
Bruce
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