You are right, Bruce! Many trailers show way too much and many reviewers (particularly the third-rate blogging kind) choose to reveal entire plots, twists and all, in their reviews. When the new "Casino Royale" came out, the New Orleans "critic" ended his review by revealing the clever use of a Bond dialogue staple as the film's punch line. But then-- "Trailers That Tell All" DO allow one to have "seen the movie" without going through the expense and motions of actually going to the theatre, paying exhorbitant admission, seeing the film through the blinking distractions of text-messaging idiots and having one's ears blown off at a volume designed to drown out the babbling voices of teeny-boppers (remember that term??) and their older peers. I saw the trailer for...and then happily managed to miss "Transformers 2; Electric Boogaloo" recently-- and couldn't be more pleased! Joe B in NOLA
--- On Wed, 8/26/09, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Posters Should Not Foreshadow To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 9:32 PM 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 On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Craig Miller <[email protected]> wrote: The original US poster for THE WICKER MAN (the original one, not the awful remake) showed the surprise ending. Craig. At 05:58 PM 8/26/2009, you wrote: the other night, i watched for the first time, KIND LADY. ....with the great ethel barrymore. afterwards, i did a poster search. boy, am i glad that i didn't read the poster first. the poster gives away the plot; the poster ruins the development of the plot....; would have ruined the first 25minutes, or so. poster link from bruce's site: http://www.emovieposter.com/imagearchive/poster/162129.html POSTERS SHOULD NOT TELL THE STORY!!!!! agree? of course, hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN does this in the title. michael Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Craig Miller Wolfmill Entertainment [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
