question of the day: How do we fix the problem of spoiler-laden trailers?Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek ponders the problem of trailers that ruin entire films: From a cinemagoer's perspective, however, it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid having a film spoiled, to a certain degree, by its own promotional material. How many times have you sat in a cinema and managed to work out what happens in a film next because you'd already seen snippets of it in the trailer? I've lost count. But the solutions he comes up with don’t seem very viable: Given that movie trailers aren't going to be abandoned by marketing types any time soon, I therefore propose two possible solutions to the problem of spoiler-filled trailers. Number one, they only show pieces of footage that tell us absolutely nothing about a movie's events at all, a shot of an empty sky, perhaps, or a tightly-edited snippet of a character saying "It's-", Monty Python-style. Hmmm. What options did Lambie miss? How do we fix the problem of spoiler-laden trailers? (If you have a suggestion for a QOTD, feel free to email me. Responses to this QOTD sent by email will be ignored; please post your responses here.) Disqus commentsblog comments powered by Disqus |
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