The Ghostbusters Thread

[Volband]

I don't think the Hollywood trailers excuse works for the new GB, not at all. It is a movie where they could be very liberal what they want to show, because it is not entirely a story-centered movie. No one would care if they had shown the main antagonist, or if they included at least the audio of a dramatic scene, where someone calls for help, then screams or something. This trailer had two job: 1. peak your interest about the story and 2. show the fun side of the movie. Number 1 is basically non-existant, ghosts are all over the city. Just wow, how will we sleep at night? As for number 2, it's subjective, but as a hint, it should be noted that there is a reason to the ratio of people who think this was lame comedy, and those who say it was hilarious.

The Hollywood trailers-problem is real, but it had nothing to do with this trailer.

To be honest, with the constant bitching about how much trailers show off, wouldn't you think the studios would just go back to the old format of a man's voice over some clips of different scenes? Like how they were in the 70's and 80's.

Or just solve the problem with hiring decent people. The trailer for SW7 was pretty solid. It was very cool, yet it tricked you a lot, because some of the dialogues were not even matching the scene which was shown. Yeah, someone actually did a very good job guessing the plot of the movie based off the trailer and some rumors, but it's fine. If you have to cut together a lot of pieces and brainstorm for hours for all the possibilities, then I would not blame the trailer for giving too much away, it is entirely on those people who actually WANT TO know the plot.

The Batman vs. Superman trailer on the other hand... yeah, that was not ok, not at all.