Comments on: Open Forum Friday: Should Movie Trailers Be Shortened to Avoid Spoilers?

By: Matthew Colton

Matthew Colton — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:04:00 +0000

if i had my way only teasers would be allowed. Trailers at the moment give far to much away. I’m really hoping the Gravity trailer has held something back.

By: devolutionary

devolutionary — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:32:00 +0000

It would be good if theatres posted the ‘actual’ time a movie was being shown on top of when they advertise the showing time (of said trailers…). Ha, yeah right! That would only mean that nearly everyone logpiles into their seats when the actual movie starts, causing even more ruckus and commotion for those who actually did arrive early.

By: Lori Cerny

Lori Cerny — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:43:00 +0000

At a Niagara Falls, NY theater, a friend of mine saw one movie trailer and twelve commercials before the film started. They said the ads were for Nivea face cream and cell phone plans, etc.

By: Lori Cerny

Lori Cerny — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:40:00 +0000

I intentionally arrive at all movies, ten minutes later than the showtime – in order to skip any trailers. Sometimes I miss the opening of a film, but it’s worth it to me.

Seeing any trailer is off-putting… I anticipate movies based on my own interests and hearing friends’ or pod casters excitement for certain actors or directors.

By: Jr

Jr — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:27:00 +0000

I love trailers. It’s more annoying to me when people complain about spoilers.

By: Steve Ferraioli

Steve Ferraioli — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:27:00 +0000

1 billion x yes. I am sick of movie trailers showing glimpses of the third act in a movie – any scene at all, I don’t care if it’s a 1 second snap, I don’t want to see it. Even a lot of second act stuff is still way too much… recently the Oblivion trailer did this. They made it way too obvious where they were going with the movie – even seeing Morgan Freeman talk to him was too much. If it was the first 20 secs or so of the trailer of him flying around, surveying, etc., and then showing him crash land or drop into the hole, and then some fast cuts of action and maybe a drone or two, that would have been plenty.

Also, the worst case of all time for me, was the trailer for the remake of The Italian Job. If anyone else remembers, they spoiled an important twist right in the trailer.. egregious.

By: MisterQuigley

MisterQuigley — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:04:00 +0000

Love the Disqus. Formerly “Bryan” = now “MisterQuigley”…

Take a bite of peach…

By: Heradixle

Heradixle — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:31:00 +0000

I don’t like the new comment section. It’s not half as clear as the old one. Maybe everyone else loves it, in which case ignore me

By: Alex Krajci

Alex Krajci — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:23:00 +0000

I Like It When Movie Trailers Play Before The Movie Even Starts.

By: Owozifa

Owozifa — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 06:03:00 +0000

What a terrible acronym. I can’t read that without continually wondering why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization cares about movie trailers.

I don’t think the length of the trailer is as important as what’s shown in it. I’ve seen too many short trailers that decide to put shots from the ending in them for no reason.

By: Matt Gamble

Matt Gamble — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:39:03 +0000

For the record, the actual NATO guideline request say nothing about the reasoning for shortening trailers to two minutes. The whole “reducing spoilers” mumbo jumbo came out during the rpess release if I am remembering correctly.

There actually are some other very interesting things that NATO is asking for that aren’t really being publically stated, things regarding collecting consumer data are quite interesting.

By: kyri

kyri — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:05:29 +0000

what they should do is remove the age rating and replace it with a spoiler rating. Green as spoiler free and red as filled with spoilers..