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WHAT LIES BENEATH trailer from ET available for download
Hey folks, Harry here. I believe it was last friday that Entertainment Tonight aired it's trailer for WHAT LIES BENEATH, and from the email I've received I imagine it was on most prints of GLADIATOR... However, if you haven't seen the trailer yet, I would try to avoid the trailer. One, it spoils way too much of the film in my opinion. Two, it's just rather boring... at least to me it is. I felt it was a bit uninvolving. BUT... to each their own. Check it out only if you want to know a major TWIST in the film. Sigh... Astounding. Here ya go...
Dear Harry,
As promised here is the teaser of WHATLIESBENEATH that aired on ET friday
Spielberg-Dreamworks.Com has ET's First Look at WHAT LIES
BENEATH (its the teaser)
Jawad
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Is Risky Business the best film ever made or what?
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Very Dissapointed in the trailer, it seemed like Random Hearts 2 meets The Story of Us meets A Stir of Echos!
I am sorry but this movie better be somewhat good, Last year we were forced to give head to that lame ass Shlong of a Haunted House known as The Haunting, This year we at least better not have Michelle Pheifffer yelling out
"WE ARE FAMILY!" at the ghost at the climax! Whatever, I am going to sleep now, good night, -
Yeah, I hate it too when a trailer spoils the movie, Remember a certain Kev Spacy + Sam L. Jackson movie? and what worries me most is that there is usualy no reason for spoling the movie. It's like "Why, oh why?" . I think the coolest trailers are the ones that hardly show the movie, the ones that just tease. For that same reason teasers are sometimes better than whole movies (I'm temped to use SW:TPM as an example but I wont). Anyhoo, there is a norm, a rule if you will (which I don't trly agree with but..) that says that if a trailer spoils the movie it's cuz the movie is crap. I don't really get the logic behind that arguement, but I heard it so many times before. I don't know, what do you guys think? -Check ya Later.
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And boot him right in the jewels! I had dilligently been trying to avoid learning anything about this trailer, and then saw it attached to "Gladiator"! DAMMIT! I swear to God the people in Hollywood are so retarded they couldn't find their asses with two hands and a flashlight. I only hope there are more surprises left in this film.
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I can't think of ONE SINGLE film that is more enjoyable for having seen the trailer. Instead, the studios show as much as they can to get us into the cinema. Worst offender I can think of this year - Brian De Palma's Mission To Mars, where the trailer showed you EVERYTHING up to the very last 3 minutes. Here in the UK the posters had the tagline: 'getting there was the easy part'. Well excuse me, but getting there took up 80 per cent of the film. I'd love to know what Bob Zemeckis things of a spoiler filled trailer. I mean - can't these guys figure out that the reason 6th Sense was so successful was that we didn't know the whole story before watching the film. PLEASE STOP IT!
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I call it insecure marketing execs. They think that the way to advertise a film is to show people every thing. Unfortunately, That's not good storytelling. I think a good rule is that your promo should contain a hook, a certain amount of exposition, maybe a couple of money shots (one or none if you can get away with it) and nothing else.
Because who the heck want's to pay seven bucks to see a movie when they already know what happens in it? -
May 08, 2000 10:12:33 AM CDT
TRAILER EDITORS ARE EVIL!!!! WE WANT TO BE TEASED AND SEDUCED, N
by sdg
Of course I didn't watch the trailer -- I didn't want to be spoiled! I've been burned too many times in the past. I only watch trailers that are "teaser" trailers or trailers for movies I don't care about being spoiled on or trailers for movies where I'm confident the creative powers that be are exercising creative control over the trailers (e.g., Star Wars). (I wonder how many people will read my subject heading and never get to my comment?)
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With the sudden Cartuna reruns,I was afraid you'd skipped out on us and went for a high-paying gig with Greg at Upcomingmovies or something!WHEW.Although,technically,Harry's BIG break had to be his debut in "The Ballad of Sad Cafe",as Fat Boy.Hey,did you guys know Harry was born in 1818?Oh,wait,wrong guy.Friggin IMDB.I still say some fellow AICN Talkbackers and I should make some AICN trailer house for highly-anticipated movies.We wouldn't NEED spoilers to get attention!!!!Hmmmph,says I!!!!This has been a Harry,When's The 'Ol Book Coming Out,and Will Ya Dedicate A Section To The Likes Of Us TalkBackers Moment with User ID Indeed!Pwease?
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Zemeckis was working tooth and nail to keep this plot under wraps! Even going so far as to blast internet sites, saying it was "sad" that movies couldn't remain secret thanks to fan sites. And who does he get boned by? HIS OWN PEOPLE!!!! Man, that's rich! I think Zemeckis is great, but today he has a mass of egg on his face the size of Texas.
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Didn't he produce that movie years and years ago? THanks for the trailer, now you know yer movie must flop! Why should anyone in their right minds make this film a hit?
Oh wait a fucking minute....those same assholes that will MAKE YER MOVIE A HIT are the ones that watched the Double Jeopardy trailer and did not get it, so they had to flock to the film and basically watched a 2 hour retread of the same tired ass trailer, then got it, and BAM Double Jepardy was a hit!
SO ALL YA MARKETING PEOPLE OUT THERE! SHOW IT TO US! SHOW US THE ENTIRE MOVIE! BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE RETARDED PEOPLE WILL MAKE YA MOVIE A HIT! meanwhile......I will just make a voodoo doll out of Robert Zemeckis penis....and stick milliions of pins in them....shame on you buddy! -
..now I know exactly what the movie is about now. A few more months it will get to Sattelite and I'll watch it for free (sort of).
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The worst,WORST,*WOOOOORST* case of spoiling in a trailer is without a doubt the infamous Negotiator trailer.It was going really strong,building,building, good action,plenty of captivating lines,THEN,with 5 fucking seconds left in the thing,they shove in the spoiler that,if kept secret,could've given the Negotiator enough surprise-twist word-of-mouth to make it the biggestaction flick of '98.I swear,when I saw it in theaters,the WHOLE audience groaned at the trailer's end.One guy even threw up his arms in disgust!The trailer was even derided in Entertainment Weekly!That's pretty spoileriffic.Friggin morons.It not that these advertisers WANT to ruin the movie:they jusy don't give a shit.They could care less.Another commercial,another dollar.They don't understand how important a trailer,a poster,a fucking NEWSPAPER AD can be.This has been a Then,There's The Godzilla Fiasco Moment with Lovable Old Me!
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could somebody help me out a little bit and kind of explain that one to me. thanks, if he is in it, i want to go see it, i wanna see him in person! he seems cool
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Well, I guess I won
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Didja know that nobody was actually supposed to know Arnie was the good guy in T2? If you watch it closely, you'll see that no hints whatsoever are given as to the role reversal until, of course, they meet in the hallway in the mall about to shoot and the brat doesn't know which is aiming at him until Arnie goes 'Get down'. Prior to that point, the T-1000 was totally incognito (you don't know about his mimicking power so you think he just punches that cop at the beginning and steals his clothes). Well, surprise surprise, the trailers gave that all away. Shots of the T-1000 very clearly acting evil, shots of Arnie hanging around with the kid. I was actually surprised later upon a later viewing when I realized we _weren't_ supposed to know about the switch until that meeting scene. Craptacular. 'course the film is great, but as far as I can tell folks make a movie and then ship it to some big ad firm in NYC that runs a computer simulation on what will likely get the most butts in the seats. What's interesting to me is that when this approach _doesn't_ work, the same marketing firm just does it again the next time anyway. Doesn't require much adroit style, I guess.
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Seems like a lot of us have got trailer rage - Harry you've got to help - how can we let the big guys know we're tired of being burned? I actually look away from the screen and sometimes cover my ears when they play trailers in the cinema now. Sad, I know, but you tend to enjoy the actual films a LOT more. Let's not be hasty in balming them - trailers from 'old' films burn you even more... I recently saw the one for 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence' and you really would think 'what's the point of me seeing the film now?' (if you didn't know that it was one of the best westerns etc. etc.) Anyway, can we think of trailers that DID hold back some money? ID4 didn't show anything from the 3rd act. Likewise, I think, Lost World - they didn't show any San Diego in the trailer. Can anyone think of any other trailers that werer effective but didn't spoil too much?
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From those 2 trailers you knew about / could work out about...
1. All the cameos by characters from the 'classic' trilogy (the droids, Jabba, Yoda etc), with exception of the sandpeople
2. The double ended light sabre - the fact that Maul uses both ends on Naboo but NOT Tattooine suggests that this could have been a cool Act 3 revelation
3. The shot of Ewan shouting 'nooo!' suggested a death of Qui Gon similar to Guiness in Ep 4 when Luke shouts 'nooo!'
4. The 2nd trailer - I can't believe this - actually STARTED with the awesome shots of the droid troops preparing for battle
5. You saw shots of Palpatine looking dodgy over the sound of Qui Gon saying 'there is something more behind this' - so you could easily work out that he WAS Sideous.
6. Visually, you saw small glimpses of just about every 'money shot' in the film - especially the final space battle, droid/gungan battle and sith duel. You even saw shots from Qui Gon's funeral. -
Batman used a symbol and music for the trailer. That's it. That allowed for the audience to have a pure experience. The worst spoiler ever was the trailer to the first Mission Impossible. Tom Cruise is hanging on to a helicopter, it explodes throwing him onto a moving train in a tunnel. Five minutes before the end of the movie we see a helicopter heading for a train that is about to enter a tunnel. Gee, I wonder what is going to happen?!! Will little Tommy live?!! Whatever!! That would have been a spectaclar scene if I hadn't scene it 30 times before I went to see the movie! Why have independent films received so much attention as of late? Because what they have going for them is their ability to engage and surprise a virgin audience. Big studios have proven again and again that they're just a bunch of whores willing to lift there skirts for a cheap buck.
STAY GOLD!
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