My wife came from a family that never watched many movies so many of the classics or even just fun but forgettable movies she has never seen. I enjoy showing a lot of these movies I and a lot of people grew up on for the first time.

Sometimes to sell her on a movie we will watch the original theatrical trailer. It’s amazing if you go back to around the mid 2000s and before how many trailers just give the whole movie away, or at least give away a ton of twists and suspenseful moments.

I feel like prestige tv today and to some extent movies, are a lot more strategic about that they put in trailers, and even will manipulate trailers to make you think something different will happen. I guess back in the day, you saw a trailer once or twice and it was months before the movie came out so maybe a lot of what was in it was forgotten.

Anybody notice this with old trailers?

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Posted by rebelrouser

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Member since Feb 2013

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Posted on 7/2/24 at 8:02 pm to jlovel7

I see it in new trailers. I can't think of one for an old movie. The trailers we watch today may be a long version of an older movie trailer that was actually chopped up before being played in the theater and they show more now that it is a tv movie essentially.

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Posted by alajones

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Posted on 7/2/24 at 10:37 pm to jlovel7

The trailer for the Paul Blart movie showed every single funny scene in the movie. After seeing the trailer fifteen times, the scenes in the movie weren’t as funny.

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Posted by sqerty

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Posted on 7/3/24 at 12:49 pm to alajones

There were funny scenes in Paul Blart?

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

Member since Nov 2015

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Posted on 7/3/24 at 1:34 pm to jlovel7

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movies, are a lot more strategic about that they put in trailers

If by strategic do you mean overselling a movie!

Go watch Alien 1979 trailer.... Trailers used to be hook, line and sinker....in a mashup snippet.

Now they show you major plotlines. It's impossible to watch trailers today so I avoid them....which means I unwittingly see a lot of crummy movies because I go in blind.

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