Wow. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a trailer that so utterly and completely unravels the entire contents of a movie into our faces. Cast Away might have been the worst, but this gives that a run for its money.
This Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz thriller is about a mother and her children that are murdered, and an entire town that thinks the father is responsible. You’ll learn that and way more if you decide to watch the trailer (via CinemaBlend) so gander at it cautiously. It doesn’t look bad, but it seems so spoiler-ish that it almost ruins any anticipation you might muster up to see it.
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Jesus, do we need to start asking studios to spoiler tag trailers?
Depends on whether we’re seeing the just the first act spoiled, which I think we are. Even before the reveal I felt like I was starting to get ahead of the story.
WHYYYYY would you spoil that?
No way an “Academy Award®-winning director” rips off the major plot twist from Shutter Island and allows the studio to spoil his film’s ending in the trailer unless his name is Allan Smithee.
I agree that this is probably just a set up for the 2nd and 3rd acts.
This is an issue that’s been driving me crazy lately. It seems like every other trailer I see gives away the whole film. And it appears to be a trend that has gotten worse in recent years to the point that the logical end result is a time where trailers are simply short film versions of the complete films.
Wondering why this is, I realized it must be the fault of the bane of all our collective existences; marketers.
I swear, there must be nothing more soul crushing then your job being the guy dumbing down all promo materials so a larger baseline audience can feel comfortable and coddled when viewing a trailer and seeing all the beats represented, even the outcome.
MARKETER: “Um, guys can we re-cut this trailer so people know that the hero survives at the end?”
CONSUMER: “Oh, wow the guy survives after all that? Cool I’ll see that movie!”
It kills my faith in humanity to think people are so dumb that they can’t experience something new.
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