Do Trailers with spoilers stop you from seeing a movie?

[GhostPoet]

There are a few movies I actually didn't go see due to the trailer ruining the plot. I remember a movie with Gene Hackman in it...about some court case that turned into a chase-thriller...but the trailer ended up showing ALL the major plot points and their secrets...so I passed.

Now the Island is out..I was going to see it until I saw the trailer...now I know the big secret and so what's the point of seeing it?

My question to you is...do trailers that spoil the major plot points discourage you from seeing the film?

[bigsleepj]

No, I'll watch a movie even if I know what the plot is but it angers me a whole lot because I see it as incredibly sloppy.

A good movie's plot must be inessential - dialogue, cinematography and such is more interesting than in what order things happen. But its fun to get surprised by the way plots twist.

[BigZam]

it impossible to spoil a movie for me. you could tell me everything about a movie and i'll still go see it and enjoy it. thats what happened with me and LOTR and i still enjoyed it.

[Stephen]

It does anger me when a trailor shows too much. If your like me, and watch the trailor like 20 times in anticipation of the film...it does hurt the overall film enjoyment. IE, in the trailor they show someone fall...then in the movie there hanging on the edge of somthing....you know whats gonna happen. But you also gotta figure that trailors are the way film makers get your attention. So they want to hit you with the most exciting stuff they can.

[Fsiphskilm]

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[ThaKladd]

I have seen a trailer and said "this trailer say too much" but when I see the movie it did not do it after all. And if it did(because sometimes it does), it did not spoil the movie. But what disturbs me is when a trailer mislead you a bit from what the movie is about... I could have done it better sometimes myself

[Orange Kitten]

They do annoy me, but theres the old saying, it's not the ending that counts, but the journey that gets you there.

But in the case of the Island, so the plot was spoiled...its a Michael Bay movie...I'm sure there's not much PLOT to be spoiled. His movies, though entertaining, are always action packed with a mediocre story and character development.

I like the trailers that make a movie look completely different from what it is. Take Stealth for example, I've seen 3 different trailers that each appeal to a different audience (or at least thats what they were going for). One of the trailers didn't even MENTION the 'gone-bad-stealth-plane', which is the main point of the entire movie.

[Retten]

It really doesn’t bother me >.> I don’t know why either but if I want to go see a movie I will go regardless of seeing the trailer or not. More often than not though the biggest surprise is not shown in the trailer.

[Godly Paladin]

I thought the spoiler in the Two Towers trailers [SPOILER]about Gandalf[/SPOILER] was unreal. I'd read the books years before, but still!!! That was supposed to be one of the big shockers, and they just gave it away!

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Trailers often give movie spoilers. They are designed to get you to the movie and the way they think this will work is if they give you the best bits of the movie and spoil everything for you. Ironic.

[Godly Paladin]

What I hate is when the trailer for a so-called action movie has all the best action and the rest is just boring.

[Kaligraphic]

Trailers ought to be more circumspect, I'd agree. I liked the idea of something like the ads for the American Godzilla movie - they didn't actually show much at all of the lizard, just enough to convey something of its scale. This is good for movies, as well - it builds suspense to reveal things slowly.

That said, trailers don't really stop me from seeing a movie - usually it's the [spoiler=what keeps Kali from seeing a movie]armed guards who won't let me in.[/spoiler]

[Godly Paladin]

Bwahaaheeheeho.