No Trailers
- 1 minIt’s finally here.
The new Star Wars movie is landing at 00:00 sharp and I will be there eagerly waiting for the screen to light up.
I’m obviously excited for the movie itself but I almost feel double the excitement because for months I have avoided any sort of trailer or piece of information that could reveal details about the movie.
This would not be the case though if I continued on the path of watching trailer after trailer of a movie until the movie itself was out. I remember years ago, a colleague of mine who had worked in the film industry, telling me how trailers were bad and that even actors themselves hated them. I simply dismissed his ideas and said how I thought they were great to build up excitement around a movie. Until…
Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: Winter Soldier.
When I went to watch the above films, there were two (1, 2) scenes where the potential for suspense could be great but it wasn’t. Why? Because I had watched the trailers and I knew what the outcome would be in both cases. At that moment I made the decision to not watch a trailer again unless it’s a movie I don’t care about that much.
Tonight I am truly in for a surprise.
Personal blog of Makis Otman