Comments on: The Road Has a Trailer… http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/ "ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta" - Dante, Inferno, XXI.139 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Tyler Watson http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1495 Sat, 16 May 2009 15:14:11 +0100 http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1495 That's a tough question, Ben. <em>Fight Club</em> was a notoriously difficult movie to market given its tone and if you didn't want to give away plot points. I agree that <em>Fight Club</em> might have had intentionally misleading marketing. If the trailers were trying to trick us, that would have easily fit within the themes of the film. I think <em>Fight Club's</em> trailer did a good job making me interested in the film, but didn't give me a great idea of what the film was going to be about. My problem with a film like <em>Master and Commander</em> was that it should have made more money than it did, but in my opinion, marketing cut its legs out from under it. The studio marketed it to teenagers, which wouldn't appeal to the adult audience for whom the movie was made. Then all those teenagers leave the theater thinking the film was long and boring and would tell their friends it sucked. I think that's the problem <em>The Road</em> is going to have. The trailer makes it look action-packed, but if the film is truly faithful to the novel, the action will be sporadic, sudden, short, and very violent. (Enough alliteration!) That’s a tough question, Ben. Fight Club was a notoriously difficult movie to market given its tone and if you didn’t want to give away plot points. I agree that Fight Club might have had intentionally misleading marketing. If the trailers were trying to trick us, that would have easily fit within the themes of the film. I think Fight Club’s trailer did a good job making me interested in the film, but didn’t give me a great idea of what the film was going to be about.

My problem with a film like Master and Commander was that it should have made more money than it did, but in my opinion, marketing cut its legs out from under it. The studio marketed it to teenagers, which wouldn’t appeal to the adult audience for whom the movie was made. Then all those teenagers leave the theater thinking the film was long and boring and would tell their friends it sucked. I think that’s the problem The Road is going to have. The trailer makes it look action-packed, but if the film is truly faithful to the novel, the action will be sporadic, sudden, short, and very violent. (Enough alliteration!)

]]> by: Ben http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1494 Sat, 16 May 2009 08:50:29 +0100 http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1494 What about trailers that are intentionally misleading? For instance, I feel like Fight Club was terribly represented by the trailer, BUT that perhaps it was done for a reason. Surely, the movie would not have had the impact that it did, had the trailer been more accurate concerning the point of the movie? What about trailers that are intentionally misleading? For instance, I feel like Fight Club was terribly represented by the trailer, BUT that perhaps it was done for a reason. Surely, the movie would not have had the impact that it did, had the trailer been more accurate concerning the point of the movie?

]]> by: Bill Ekhardt http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1493 Sat, 16 May 2009 01:15:09 +0100 http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2009/05/15/the-road-has-a-trailer/#comment-1493 As to the Princess Bride, perhaps this is why I never even heard about the movie coming to the theater. Great movie, no theatrical following. Coincidence? As to the Princess Bride, perhaps this is why I never even heard about the movie coming to the theater. Great movie, no theatrical following. Coincidence?

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