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@TramiNguyen-oi3kp

28 күн бұрын

Awesome video!

@jacksonteller3973

28 күн бұрын

SMB live-action movie was good I honestly liked it better then the animated movie

@eddiecatflap3838

28 күн бұрын

First of all,, great to see Doug looking healthier, 2nd i love the new Alien trailer. Feels very old school.

@user-ez7sm8ts8l

28 күн бұрын

Say can you review this film that was not well known "Eleanor's Secret [2009]" That italian-french animated feature film, since 2024 just started maybe it's a good time for film to be reviewed!

@Nio744

28 күн бұрын

We don't need trailers for trailers. Yes I know they do them because people skip adds in the first few seconds but just make them their own thing then. Don't put them in front of the main trailers. Call them Trailer highlights or something I dunno.

I don't mind the trailer on the internet. I just hate those little 4 seconds previews before the trailer starts.

@MythicSuns

28 күн бұрын

Same, I also wouldn't mind if the "trailer drums" or whatever you want to call them went away. I feel they just make any film they're advertising seem cheap.

@zulubunsen9067

28 күн бұрын

The 4-5s pre-preview can bug me all to Hell as well. I know it's because they use the trailer as preroll ads as well and the first 5 seconds are the unskippable part. But they could just make a version of the trailer dedicated to be used as ads and leave the "public" version without the preview.

@dreadprime9315

28 күн бұрын

Ikr, they always show off something cool that's already in the trailer.

@davionwilliams4011

28 күн бұрын

Trailers for trailers is a wild reality

@Adam-jw3uz

28 күн бұрын

They do that on purpose to cram in as much of the trailer into five seconds as possible before most people can click away or Internet ADHD kicks in. Drives me absolutely insane how desperate the attention economy is.

People who send movies to the trailer-makers NEED to stop giving them anything from the third act anymore. I've been able to tell every time since Disney's Onward

@davidjames579

27 күн бұрын

Or make the trailers themselves.

That’s why Cameron showed the trailer to Avatar 2 firstly in theatres before Doctor Strange 2, and only two weeks later on KZread. He knows that nothing will replace cinema experience of the big screens and used it.

@louisduarte8763

28 күн бұрын

I totally forgot AVATAR 2 had a trailer play before DOCTOR STRANGE 2.

@shona-sof

20 күн бұрын

Love him or hate him, Cameron is a cinematic genius who knows the science and psychology of film making inside and out.

@Emeret.

12 күн бұрын

Fair! I think they should follow Cameron's example otherwise practice of making trailers will not survive...

I feel like the industry has relied on the memes and user generated content much more than they did in the past. The less details they give, the more speculation, the more fan content. The worse the trailer, the bigger the meme!

@Tadicuslegion78

28 күн бұрын

See Star Wars Sequel Trilogy for how that can blow up in everyone's faces.

@wolfmerrik

28 күн бұрын

@@Tadicuslegion78 oh it definitely can, but a buzz is still a buzz. Even if negative it gets people talking about the franchise... maybe even sparks a renew in older films. Then there is just the general weirdness that memes: We all remember "it's morbin time" etc

@wjzav1971

28 күн бұрын

You hardly need to advertize a movie when the Internet advertizes it itself. They were banking on negative word of mouth with Madam Web to get people to hate-watch it.

@stewarthowell6781

28 күн бұрын

It is indeed Morbin' time.

@andycostanzo8057

28 күн бұрын

Okay but please no matpat hate aka no film theory hate please.

I feel this is why Nintendo Directs are so fun for fans. We all are here to watch a bunch of trailers, but have NO idea what's coming. They still get to play around with our expectations and stuff, so I'm glad there's still somewhere that carries on this tradition.

@jjrsbigo

28 күн бұрын

And if Direct content is leaked beforehand, either it’s generic (Mario game, but is it 2D or 3D?), incorrect (remember the “Grinch leak”?), or there’s at least something NOT leaked and can be a legit surprise.

@niclaswa5408

28 күн бұрын

The best example is probably the Metroid Prime 4 teaser

@hogey989

28 күн бұрын

Movie studios having "Direct" style events could actually be cool. Release like 7-10 trailers at a time. I'd be down for that.

@IssyCoonify

27 күн бұрын

Still remember the Smash Ultimate reveal with the inklings. That head turn is iconic at this point.

It's social media as a whole cause you gotta generate that clickbait algorithm nonsense

@BriahnAznable

28 күн бұрын

Thissssss

@kidboeger4694

28 күн бұрын

I also think a lot of company’s saw trailers like infinite warfare and the last Jedi get disliked to hell so there a lot more careful with there trailers so there product isn’t dead on arrival

@Hannah_The_Heretic

28 күн бұрын

All trailers need now is a caption say " wait until the end 😂" with that robot lady voice narrating that over a trailer with a bonk sound affect and some of those vine boom sounds and heck, put an "ohhhwwmyyygawwd" in there for good measure. Perfection

@KoolKeithProductions

28 күн бұрын

​@@kidboeger4694 What l hate about youtube trailers are the spoilers. There still is SOME surprises that can be had with them, but of course channels want those clicks, so they reveal everything. Case in point, 2016's CA: Civil War trailer. Most channels didn't, but MANY still put Spiderman right in the thumbnail, even tho no one at the time knew that Sony and Disney had worked out a deal for him to appear in the film, so it was a complete shock to see him in the last scene of the trailer. Imagine seeing that in a theater unspoiled 😔

@FusionDeveloper

28 күн бұрын

I actually block all channels that use clickbait style thumbnails or titles. I suggest you do the same. Don't feed views to the people who annoy us.

This is Doug’s most spot on editorial ever, I’ve been missing that about trailers too man. The internet is the biggest double edged sword in history…

One of my favorite marketing campaigns was for the Muppets when they made their film look like a run of the mill romcom and then in the starring section said “Kermit the …. Frog?”. Entire theater died with laughter

@bl3343

28 күн бұрын

YES!!!

@blakgumshoo

27 күн бұрын

I love the Muppet parody trailers! My favorite is Pig with a Froggy Tattoo, a spoof on the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Yes KZread is definitely killing trailers. I get a lot of fake trailers posing as new teasers on my news feed all the time and I can't stand it

@MikeAruba69

28 күн бұрын

I despise Screen Culture for that. I remember being deceived by them back when I was into Marvel films.

I'm more bothered by trailers either spoiling the movie too much, trailers that include things that are deliberately not in the movie, and trailers that are meant to generate so much hype that the movie can never live up to it. I also hate the teaser culture, where teasers and trailers are coming out so far in advance of the movie that you no longer care once it is released.

@bowmaj8666

28 күн бұрын

I'll never forget the trailer to Disney's Tangled. I'd heard that Disney were trying to market the film more towards little boys, since that was the main demographic that they missed out on with their previous movie, The Princess and the Frog. Little boys just weren't interested in seeing a movie about a princess. That's why the movie was renamed Tangled and not Rapunzel. That's why the trailer focuses on Flynn Rider escaping from prison, riding a horse to escape, climbing up the tower to hide. It just had this real epic feel to it. Then there was the big comedy scene where he gets beaten up by this long, blonde hair; a scene that didn't actually appear in the movie. And Rapunzel, the main character herself, only appears briefly at the end and doesn't even say anything. It's such a weird example, but none of that ruined the movie for me. I don't know if their tactics worked the way they hoped, and if little boys actually still avoided it because they cottoned on that it was "a prissy princess movie for girls" but I almost applaud Disney for their attempt.

The internet killed a lot of the surprise. The surprise used to be the trailer's job. When you can see movie companies post what's coming, it's not a surprise when the trailer drops. IMDB lets people know when movies are rumored, in production, or are already in post production. Plus, companies are spending tens of millions of dollars on advertising. (I realize it's been that way for a long time now but we have TVs in our pockets now). By the time the movie has a trailer, some of us are already burned out on the idea of the movie. I think we are bombarded with media nowadays as well. So much content to consume and not enough time. We are completely spoiled. Which means we take things for granted. And ease of access is a big thing too. Back in the day, you had to see it in theaters or wait for it to drop on VHS/DVD. Now, movies hit streaming instantly or almost instantly. When movie companies had to drop a trailer to let you know something was on the way, that's when the trailer was king. Trailers aren't really necessary anymore because we are given so much information about a movie, long before it comes out. And you need the movie to be nearly finished to get a trailer. The only time I get any reaction from a trailer, it's because I saw it on the big screen or the trailer was a surprise because I didn't know they were making said movie.

@wjzav1971

28 күн бұрын

To be fair, the description on IMDB can still be very vague and sometimes, things are in production on IMDB forever because a film is in production hell or movies get cancelled mid production. There is still a bit of an element of surprise on what really comes. When a trailer drops, you see that its actually really coming.

@KTF0

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, it works best to me to avoid certain sites like IMDb/rotten tomatoes or any movie preview whatsoever.

Best trailer I ever saw: 1994 The Lion King. It was just the first two minutes of the movie, the Circle of Life scene. No dialogue, no jokes, no narrator, just animals marching to epic music on the big screen. Worst trailer would be Dream House, a 2007 thriller staring Daniel Craig. It not only told you the movie would have a twist ending, but it then told you what that twist was.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

I’ve never heard of Dream House. I’m gonna check it out without looking at anything about it.

That first live action Scooby Doo trailer played out like it was going to be a Batman movie

@ChrisS9993

27 күн бұрын

I remember seeing that before Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Seeing CG Scooby Doo scared the crud out of me. I was scared of seeing trailers before a movie started for a while because I'd get creeped out by seeing an early CGI character such as Hulk or Garfield.

@Cartman254

27 күн бұрын

@@ChrisS9993My DVD and Blu Ray of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone don’t have any trailers before it.

I feel with a lot of trailers these days is they always tend to spoil almost all of the entire movie and in my opinion, it has really killed the element of surprise, i have mostly avoided watching these trailers for the last few years which has worked out mostly very well for me as i prefer to experience watching something for the first time without anything spoiled.

@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332

28 күн бұрын

Spoiling has been a trailer problem forever

@wjzav1971

28 күн бұрын

I fully agree on avoiding trailers, but if you watch trailers from films from several decades ago, they also do often show the entire film.

@nine_tails137

27 күн бұрын

I've noticed that quite a bit in recent years. Especially in movies that interest me.

An example of a “Good Trailer for a Bad Movie” is “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.” It repeated the same joke from the original movie’s trailer, with the dictionary definitions for “Dumb” and “Dumber” but they went to “DUMBERER” and included “for example, someone making a prequel of the movie ‘Dumb and Dumber’” As soon as I realized they were self-aware, I was on board for whatever dumpster fire this turned out to be. I genuinely enjoyed the movie, because the whole time I was just thinking of it as a dumb idea that knows it’s a dumb idea, and didn’t get too hung up over anything. And there are actually some really smart comedy moments.

@petconerd1984

28 күн бұрын

If we’re talking good trailer for a terrible film, Godzilla 1998. The old guy going fishing with his friends heckling him until that massive form comes crashing in and we see the eye. That had the Godzilla fan in me do pumped…then I saw the film and was deflated.

Baller move would be if a movie shadowdropped this year with no trailer.

@artloveranimation

28 күн бұрын

That would be risky 😅 especially when people don't go to theaters casually anymore. Maybe for on a streaming platform?

@anth636

28 күн бұрын

Deadpool & Wolverine would have been cool to not have any hype and just released. Or even better, have fake trailers for something like Squirrel Girl or something and then the actual movie is DP&W

@robricloc5663

28 күн бұрын

Miyazaki kinda did that last year with The Boy and The Heron in Japan. No marketing at all

@jstarwars360

28 күн бұрын

Clover field Paradox

@chaimsamuels7553

28 күн бұрын

I love that idea.

Trailers are a dead thing for years. They just tell you what the whole story is rather then actually just teasing the film.

It's the internet in general. There used to be a surprise to finding out in the theater when you're surprised by a great trailer. But now you hear about movies often years before their trailer. But as someone that used to gi to the movies at least weekly if not 2 to 3 times per week I wouldn't learn about new movies without internet trailers.

The one trailer that is going to stay with me has to be the first teaser for Oppenheimer Where it’s one minute of swelling violin getting louder and showing shots of the sun and an explosion and then as it gets to intense it goes silence And all that’s left is the reveal of the title and hearing Lewis Strauss saying slowly “The man Who moved The Earth”

@samuelbarber6177

27 күн бұрын

That movie had some pretty cool trailers. I watched them so much before the film came out that I’m fairly sure the words: “Truman needs to know what’s next” are going to be in my brain forever. The same with Leonardo DiCaprio’s narration from the Killers of the Flower Moon teaser.

@jacksykes4680

27 күн бұрын

@@samuelbarber6177 that one trailer was incredible that line you mentioned is gonna stick with me to same with Matt Damon’s “this is the most important thing to happen in the history of the world” and Kenneth Branagh’s “you gave them the power to destroy themselves”

@maxhall7832

23 күн бұрын

Its a shame Oppenheimer sucked

@jacksykes4680

23 күн бұрын

@@maxhall7832 maybe to you

16:40 That actually happened two years ago with “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The trailer for it played before “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” before it went online. Made the discovery of it that much more special.

_The Cabin in the Woods_ 😈

People in general seem to be at a crossroads of how much society should try to progress and evolve, or if we should just revert to culture(s) of 20+ years ago

@AshParth560

28 күн бұрын

Be like the good ol' days and not many smartasses in comment sections, too.

@wjzav1971

28 күн бұрын

To be fair, celebrating the culture from a few decades ago has always been a thing. Think off how Back to The Future or Batman 89 are Love Letters to the Fifties. You can always make films that pander to the crowd that is in their 30s because they are at a place where they yearn for memories of their youth.

@CyberLance26

28 күн бұрын

The only thing that has really gotten better is technology but everything else was better in the past. The 2010s was when everything started to become way worse.

@shawerful5209

21 күн бұрын

​@@CyberLance26 i think the things got worse, when we killed Jesus christ

@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n

17 күн бұрын

@@shawerful5209western society and everything “good” came from the protestant reformation and Protestant bibles. So yes everything was because of Jesus and his sacrifice

Something I respect is how the 2011 Muppets movie kind of knew this but did a fake-out trailer anyway, and not only did the title not give it away, but they even set up a fake KZread channel for the movie it was pretending to be (which is still up)

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

What’s the name of the channel?

I remember being in the theater when the trailer for "Devil" played. I didn't know what it was, but it looked pretty good and then the words "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" came on the screen. I said "OH, SHIT!" out loud and everyone in the theater cracked up! :D

@sillygirlkc

27 күн бұрын

😂

5:38 You just reminded me of the Godzilla 98 trailer that played before Jurassic Park The Lost World. They made it seem like the movie had started and there was a school trip to a museum where a bunch of kids were looking at a T-Rex skeleton… and then the _giant_ foot of Godzilla crashes through the ceiling and completely crushes it.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

Reminds me of the Olympic commercials they always have for the Jurassic World movies. Those are a lot of fun!

Communities are what I'm afraid to be a part of, because I don't know what's going to be good or not. I hope I can find the right ones to be a part of.

@yami122

28 күн бұрын

Stay away from the Star Wars community Extremely negative And mean spirited

@wjzav1971

28 күн бұрын

That is the whole risk and reward of going to the theater. You may either go a crowd that laughs with you and cheers with you, or a crowd that keeps talking and playing on their phones during the film.

Trailers just aren't like they used to be. Which is why Deadpool and Wolverine stood out to me.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

What about it stood out?

@claytonrios1

27 күн бұрын

@@Slicedude2004 Mostly the fact that it didn't show all of the surprises meaning you have to see the movie to get them and the final shot with Wolverine.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

@@claytonrios1 Oh yeah I rewatch that trailer so much

I've always thought the Meet Joe Black thing was hilarious since I saw a different movie that weekend (Waterboy, I think) and it still had the Phantom Menace trailer in front of it.

I'll never forget the time we saw the trailer for Sinister at the theatre. A woman screamed bloody murder at something scary in the trailer. The BEST!

I hate being in theaters now whenever they show trailers, especially comedy trailers. One dramatic trailer is the same as the last dramatic trailer; comedy ones always start with some sort of electric guitar, then the music stops, punch line, zooming credit and music coming back in, audience laughs (even though it wasn't funny), then repeat the whole thing, and it gets more cringy as the trailer goes on.

@TheSoapontheWii360

14 күн бұрын

Or one thing I'm annoyed is in every trailer, they need to end it with the Title Reveal, then you cut the music and show a really unfunny "Joke". Every single F***ing Time

When he talked about Super Mario Bros I couldn't help but think of this interview “The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F*ckin’ nightmare. F*ckin’ idiots.” -Bob Hoskins 😂😂

@KoolKeithProductions

28 күн бұрын

Meh. I still liked the movie 😅 But 1 great teaser trailer that l remember seeing in a theater, but HATED the actual movie was Robocop 3. The teaser was soooo good. You didnt know it was Robo at first. All it showed was a car driving off a buildings roof, falling 20 stories, landing on 4 wheels, a hole being shot though the roof, and then Robo popping out with a GUN ARM and saying "police officer, no loitering...". Then he shoots some street punks 😢 That teaser got me SO hyped, but of course the film was an abomination 😂

@davidjames579

27 күн бұрын

Why would their agent tell them to get off the set?

The original Lion King teaser is a great little mini movie as well! It's the whole Circle of Life sequence and I feel like it's a great example of spectacle and emotion being communicated so well.

I imagine that with Titanic they knew they could get away with showing more of the plot because everyone knew the ship would sink in the end.

@bl3343

28 күн бұрын

SPOILERS!😂😂

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102

28 күн бұрын

Yep, if you're a movie about one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history, you can get away with spoiling that the ship sinks (and maybe the identities of some of the victims if they're historical ones).

Everybody apparently loved the Titanic movie and its trailer, but I bet the survivors (those who were still alive) didn't think they were so great.

This is why I still love watching gaming press conferences. Sure I may only care about one or two games, but getting blindsided by a trailer you weren’t expecting feels awesome

Trailers kill trailers, specifically the ones that overexplain and spoil key details. Watching them on KZread works when you actively avoid spoilers online. I'm always rewatching trailers to movies I was hyped for like Super Mario Bros and Spider-Man No Way Home

@BlueGriffin20

28 күн бұрын

Right. I can’t say I was over the moon with Minions 2, but I was interested. Then they showed too much of the movie in the theater revealing how the climax was going to happen. Lost all interest.

@ericd1084

28 күн бұрын

I was going to say exactly this.

I only experienced once that the audience reacted to a trailer. And that was either The Empire Stikes Back or Return of the Jedi, which was shown more than a year before the movie was released. And everyone laughed when it said "Christmas next year". But here in Germany, audiences do not react at all in the cinema. People laugh, but nobody shouts or screams or makes other noises.

Society went downhill when we lost the "in a world..." aspect of trailers.

We all know about what movies are coming now and who will star in it long before the trailer is shown.

@yami122

28 күн бұрын

And fans will pick apart certain trailers to death to try to find every little detail they can and speculate on what every little thing means which inevitably leads to extremely inflated expectations

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102

28 күн бұрын

@@yami122 And then a lot of false outrage when their expectations aren't met.

I remember spending hours at the video club to watch the trailers of upcoming movies. I miss video clubs.

Can we also talk about the trailers give away the plot and characters of a movie? I always see trailers that even show a ton of the finale and how they win and how certain characters arcs resolve. It always makes me think “What’s the point of seeing the movie now? I’ve basically already know how the movie goes” its just gotten ridiculous nowadays.

Hi Doug! I hope this comment finds you well. Please consider doing an NC on Coneheads. There is such a fine balance between absurd and genius in this pioneering movie. And nobody seems to talk about it or notice.

I always loved to see trailers in movie theaters

@sarahsims6164

28 күн бұрын

Me too.

Around the end of 2013 I had a date with an old friend. Hadn't seen her in quite a while. So we met, had few drinks and went to see 12 Years A Slave. I wasn't interested in the movie, even though it was good. Haven't watched it since. Yet, I still remember watching the trailer for the 2014 Godzilla film. From the moment on I heard Bryan Cranston's "And it's gonna send us back into the stone age!" and saw the halo jump scene, I knew what ever comes after this trailer won't be as good. I was a Godzilla fan before, and I knew the movie was in the making. Yet, the moment I realised what I was watching (the face on the bomb) my face went numb, my jaw dropped and the corners of my mouth touched at the back of my head. I even stood up, saying to my friend "We're done here. We already saw the best thing. No need to waste our time." She convinced me to stay, saying she ordered me another beer. Truly, a good friend. About a year ago, I sat down on my favourite seat at the hotel I work at. I work the graveyard shift. Have been doing so since mid 2017. It was an ice cold, unpleasant night. So I sat down to watch some of my favourite analogue horror KZread channels. Backrooms, Local 58, Gemini Home Entertainment, Vintage 8, ... Fantastic works of horror. I still get excited when one of them releases a new video. Very entertaining. Out of nowhere, a trailer starts playing. The footage looks and sounds like it's from a 90s home video. And the moment the "narrator" says the words "In this house." for the very first time, I jumped right out of my seat. That trailer did everything the right way. And I'm glad I got to see this trailer, cause Skinamarink is a masterpiece. A few weeks later I bought the film on KZread and watched it two times in a row. I understand that it might not be everyone's cup of tea. It's a painstakingly slow burner. But, my god, it's a powerful horror film. I love it, just like I love The Exorcist. Long story short. The thing is this. I'm glad I saw both trailers the way I did. Both gave me the right experience at the right place and time. If it was all the other way around I wouldn't feel as strongly about these experiences. Watching the Godzilla trailer in a room with possibly similar minded movie watchers was as much of an experience as watching the trailer for Skinamarink all alone, in a hotel, in the middle of a stormy night, with the lights off.

I had a similar experience in the theater with the third Spy Kids movie trailer when it said "The new Spy Kids movie is so exciting, you'll have to cover your eyes......🤔.... to see it in 3-D!😱😱😱😱😱😱" I got so floored by that that I honestly forgot what movie I was seeing it with.😂

KZread also eats some trailers. Which in turn can hurt the box office numbers. I saw a trailer for Lisa Frankenstein and said "Oh that looks fun! when is it coming out." its been out for a month but I never even knew this movie existed or was coming out. No, I dont really go to the theater anymore for several reasons, but that still does mean unless you are Avengers status big name, your trailer wont get seen or will barely get seen. Also I dont really like watching trailers on youtube cause... why is it they have to play 10 - 20 seconds of the trailer before the actual trailer starts?

i first misread this as “Is youtube killing awesome?!?!l

FYI, The Flintstones house is still a functional house, (about a mile from me) viewable from I-280N. It's right in the middle of a "Rich White Lady" neighborhood and the neighbors HATE IT! 🤣 They've been trying to get it torn down forever, but the owner loves it.

I remember when I went to see FNaF, my theater was packed. And when the trailers started, people booed like there was no tomorrow. It was so loud that we were warned due to noise complaints, just from being annoyed by previews. So even nowadays, people can come together and have a reaction to seeing a trailer for the first time. I would have never seen those trailers, yet because of that screening I will remember those forever

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

Reminds me of when I saw No Way Home and we were all so excited for it to finally start till the Nicole Kidman ad started

What I miss most? Popping in a VHS and you have some trailers and then “now, your feature presentation”

I recall I once saw a trailer about vampires and a plot about the civil war era, it was awesome and got my attention, but once we got the name of the movie at the end, everyone was laughing in the theater! The trailer was for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Pretty sure they're not actually required to name a trailer "X Trailer" or "X Preview" here. In which case it's more the movie advertisers not knowing how to come up with interesting names that will draw people in without spoiling them about what they're going to see.

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. That is a trailer that overhyped me for that movie - I was expecting to see something beyond an LSD trip put to film, where Michael comes down to take this group of kids on an outerspace adventure to a planet inhabitated by insane claymation characters & a 1930's gangster city under threat from a spider army lead by Joe Pesci... the actual movie was just a montage of his childhood/early career then two short film/music videos. Not that they're not enjoyable, but I was expecting complete late-80's insanity of a 90 minute linear fantasy story from the mind of MJ. On the topic of trailers having community and connection with other people - game trailers can still definitely surprise an audience given they get often get held back for a showcase event on livestream, with no warning, and then you see chat go wild while the audience there goes mental. But the one thing I bloody hate today, are trailers for trailers.

Well…. Unless the thumbnails for the trailers do not give it away. I remember finding out about the trailer for Avengers Infinity War, they just choose the image of the usuals like Captain America, Black Widow, Black Panther, Hulk, and War Machine. You never knew what other characters will show up in the movie on the trailer until you click on it. That’s how it makes trailers online more exciting. Nintendo did their own way of revealing the trailer for The Super Mario Bros Movie in a clever way, they put the trailer on Nintendo Direct.

I'm not really sure one way or the other, although I'm definitely leaning toward the camp of "internet/youtube/streaming/subscriptions is killing entertainment for everybody in general". But you reminded me of the first Spider-man movie teaser, when the first half is just generic bank robbers and they're getting away in a helicopter and there is absolutely no indication of what this is advertising, and then the helicopter gets webbed up and THAT was the reveal. And it was amazing, even if it ended up being pulled for completely understandable (ahem, Twin Towers) reasons. It's definitely a trailer that needs to be a surprise AND you want to be with a crowd of people all reacting to the surprise. Honestly, I think part of the reason reaction channels are so popular is because we desperately miss that collective experience. To use a TV example, when I was a kid and TGIF was so huge, you watched it at home on your own for the most part, but you knew everybody else was watching it, too, and could talk about it at school on Monday (or at Saturday basketball games). Fewer viewing options meant everybody was watching the same thing, and that was part of water cooler talk, all that kind of thing. And there are definitely benefits to the way it is now, but we have lost that sense of collective experience, and I think it's too bad. Yeah, this is definitely veering toward "everything was better in the good ol' days" kind of talk.

Don't forget to mention one of the worst parts of the recent trailer game on KZread are the mini trailer BEFORE THE ACTUAL TRAILER starts. 🤦🏿‍♂️ When did that become a thing? They already have the audience's attention (obviously, we clicked & we're here). Then, they start flashing scenes from the actual trailer we're literally seconds away from watching--if mini trailer would get the hell out the way! We don't need a warm up, countdown, or hype for the hype.

@ericamcrae1610

28 күн бұрын

no, the worst is fake ai trailers that say they are the actual trailer. >.>

@FireMadeFleshII

27 күн бұрын

@ericamcrae1610 I did say the mini trailer was "one of the worst," but you're right, the fake "official" ai trailers are quite possibly THE worst 💯

I know its a bad Mario movie but god do I love that trailer. As a kid I was so excited. TMNT trailer dont even get me started. Batman? Oof the darkness and mistery. What a time...

The amount of trailers before a movie have gone up. I used to work in a movie theater about 10 years ago now and it was 20 minutes of trailers for a new movie and then it went down to 15 minutes after a week or two. Now it's 25 minutes, at least at this big movie theater chain. I've started going to smaller movie theaters because they show less than half the movie trailers.

Well, the loss of mystery on KZread is in those channels solemnly dedicated to movie insides, trailers, interviews etc. They do the most clickbaity titles and thumbnails to movies. Really hate that. It reminds me the situation with "Deadpool 2" when I saw it on Ryan Reynolds's channel and it had nothing: generic street background on thumbnail, it was titled "No Good Deed" and it made me so happy! And as soon as I click away, I get bombarded in feed by "Deadpool 2 trailer/Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin" videos. Needless to say, I felt like I dodged a bullet. And yeah, when you see the trailer in a theater it brings so much joy when you're in the audience. Which happened on "Spiderman No way home". Full theater of Marvel nerds like me and "Doctor Strange 2" trailer pops up... We gone insane in our seats!!! And after that last frame of evil Strange reveal trailer ends, I've never felt so many nerd minds racing building theories, making timelines etc. Total strangers to each other (ha, strangers, good one, me) but we were united in future excitement.

There were also times I didn't feel such a sense of community when watching trailers in the theater. There was a time when every family film seemed to have fart jokes in the trailer. Everyone else in the theater would be cracking up laughing except me. Then there'd be a bit of verbal humor and I'd crack up laughing, but nobody else did :D.

First of all, many of us STILL love that first live action Flintstones movie to this day. No way can you convince us that that film is awful still, much like the Grinch. Second, as someone thats always loved seeing trailerz before a movie starts in theaters, which is SO glad to see that I'm not the only one at all there, im glad someone has pointed that out about how KZread had made the appeal less surprising than it used to. I remember how much hype was built when 10 Cloverfield Lane surprised people with its trailer in theaters and how much it got talked about later on and to this day, it still ended up being the one i think of the most when it comes to going to the theaters. There's a lot about not having being spoiled so much about an upcoming movie when it pops up on KZread compared to just having that show up when you're in the theater. Heck, that still happens from time to time still, including most recently with Blumhouse and that Imaginary movie. Hate that i never got to see it in theaters when it was being played before FNAF started, but based on what I've heard about that one, it really does end up providing that experience that just can't be replicated at home. Even more so with Imaginary's case since to this day, to my knowledge at least, that Blind Teaser Trailer is STILL nowhere to be seen on KZread! It's just one of those occurrences where you just had to be there to experience it firsthand.

I remember the audience reactions for the teasers for both Tarzan and Mulan. I begged my mom to take me to see them and losing it when I did see them, I lost my mind when they showed them the teasers for Mighty Joe Young and Toy Story 2.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Well said, thank you so much for making this video and stating this kind of thing, which truly needs to be made more aware of! :-)

I also think there’s an art to movie trailers. But for me, I find myself liking them much less often than I used to. Because they’re sooooo formulaic now (for the most part). They almost always hit the exact same beats trying to appeal to the broadest audience possible. So now most of the time I just feel like my intelligence is insulted, because at this point they’re often very cliched.

I remember being really excited and blown away about Alita Battle Angel and Logan trailers and I still enjoy watching them to this day. When I go to the theaters though, I’m still excited by trailers, but there are so many commercials type ads today before the trailers that feels like it drags the length and at some point I just wanted the film to start. The commercials ads and movie trailers combined feels like Olaf’s Frozen Adventure before Coco.

Honestly one of my favorite trailer memories is when my parents and I saw Oppenheimer and the trailer for the new Exorcist movie came on, and my mom immediately looked away from the screen because she hates horror movies.

@samuelbarber6177

27 күн бұрын

The same thing happened with my friend when I saw Oppenheimer with him. My God, though, The Exorcist: The Believer, looked rubbish. And I don’t even really like The Exorcist all that much.

My two favorite theater trailer experiences was Batman 89, the audience cheered as it started and I didn’t know that Batman was coming out, and the Force Awakens teaser that starts with the desert scene. I thought it was a trailer for Mad Max Fury Road and it was a big surprise

Deadpool pretending to be Bob Ross and watching the Free Guy trailer is one of my favorite modern trailers

I'd love to see Doug do a video talking about: "VHS". I wonder if he's nostalgic for VHS. I most certainly am. Even though make no mistake, I do like DVD, and that definitely has its advantages over VHS, VHS was like this time capsule of movie watching. Whenever I watch a movie, I always make a point to watch the VHS previews/commercials, before I watch the actual movie. Yes, I know that's stupid, but to me, that was part of the experience was seeing the previews, and the commercials, and the home video logos before the movie started. I mean, who can forget the 80's Walt Disney Home Video logo with Sorcerer Mickey? Or the Paramount Feature Presentation logo? Or the Paramount Family Favorites promo with the Happy Days theme playing? There was just captivating quality to watching a VHS tape. To a point where even the FBI warnings were fun to watch, where as I always find myself skipping over them whenever I watch a film on DVD. So again, I wonder if Doug feels the same way. I'd love to see him do a video talking about his experiences watching VHS, and what are his favorite memories of watching VHS.

A recent trailer that surprised me was when Fox posted the trailer for Barbarian but titled the vid ‘Justin Long’s new movie’ and made it look like a wholesome family film ‘from the studio that gave you Alvin and the chipmunks’, until it revealed it was a gory horror movie.

The last great moment in watching trailers with an audience was the fake trailers before tropic thunder started.... I am not kidding 😂

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

What trailer was that?

Honestly my biggest concern is trailers spoil too much about the thing. So I try to avoid all marketing for things I want to see. I occasionally check out trailers for things I really want to see.

Nope! Always love seeing trailers here! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I remember seeing the Flintstones trailer before Jurassic Park. No uproar in the theatre though. Us brits were told to be quiet at the movie's. One of my best memories was my dad, still of the *theatre generation* giving a standing ovation after Independence Day ☺️👏

I appreciate what youre saying here Doug and to an extent i agree with most things youve said here. But there have been so many great nights with friends that i have had because weve all got together in anticipation for a new marvel trailer after being informed by reliable sources when the trailer is due to drop, especially for films like infinity war, endgame and deadpool. The hype was off the scale, and, far more appreciated to watch it with people who i know are just as nerdy as i am as opposed to a theatre full of people who probably could not care less about the material 😅

This reminds me of the marketing for the 1998 Godzilla movie. They didn’t show what Godzilla looked like in the teasers and just gave him descriptions of what he looked like on billboards or ads on a bus. The movie might have been poorly received but that was a super cool way to market it

One of my favorite trailers i have seen in theaters with an audience was the teaser for Spider-Man 3. When I saw the black suit for the first time, I lost it

I Blame the marketing department

Some good examples lately of movie trailers as an exciting surprise thing are when Smile debuted their teaser trailer during Top Gun: Maverick and that was it, you couldn’t find it on KZread or even any sort of page or site about the movie anywhere, all you knew was that a horror film called smile was gonna come out and you had to be at a certain screening to see it. And then there’s Longlegs which has its teasers on KZread, but no hint of the films name or production detail anywhere, you just have to see these teasers and figure out what the hell it is later. This examples are definitely a rarity now, but when they happen now they’re that much more exciting.

The closest I had to a crowd reaction for a trailer was when I saw the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer before Detective Pikachu. The entire audience groaned when they knew Ugly Sonic was about to show up at any second.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

Nobody reacted for the multiverse of madness trailer after no way home?

There are a lot of classic movie trailers. I have fond memories of seeing many in the cinemas. Some offer a short clip, some have no relevance to the film at all, but they more often than not enticed you to see it. We’ve had a few recent trailers that I’ve liked. Believe it or not, The Rise of Skywalker trailer first revealed in early 2019 got me super hyped for it (and I did enjoy the film), and the reveal trailer for the 2023 Mario movie as memed as it was.

I remember watching a teaser trailer for the Indiana Jones movie, the crystal skull movie. This was a big deal, of course, so it was exciting. But the teaser itself was super interesting! and I still can't find it online, to this day. It was a camera paning over a shelf with indiana jones stuff on. But it was the music that really made it work. It was just the little march part, that plays before the main melody. And it looped about four times and our brains just kept expecting the melody to start playing, but it never did. It made a huge impression on me. That teaser never made its way to youtube, weirdly enough. It just lives in my memory.

@samuelbarber6177

27 күн бұрын

That movie’s official trailer’s also great in my opinion. The shot of the silhouette putting his hat on with the music. Man.

My favorite has to be in 2019. Sold out theater to see an early preview of Lego movie 2. A trailer for an Anime movie comes on and it’s super dramatic… and then title is revealed, “I want to Eat Your Pancreas”. The theater burst into laughter, it was awesome!

this vid reminded me a lot of when you used to do editorials on the NC. You should bring those back! i really like hearing your thoughts on these little one off topics :)

Your description of the Titanic trailer kinda reminds me of back when I saw Return of the King in theatres, and before it they played what was essentially a trailer for the entire trilogy. And much like the Titanic trailer it was like 4 minutes long and basically just recapped the entire story to then tease what was gonna happen in Return of the King, similarly feeling like it was going "let's be real, we can show you as much of this movie as we want, we know we have your asses in the seats already!", and it is still one of the greatest trailers I've ever seen. Same goes for Fury Road. It took seeing that trailer on the big screen to realise that this movie was gonna be something special, and not just another flashy sfx car movie.

I used to love going to the cinema not knowing what trailers are going to show up. It felt exclusive, and like a nice surprise when an upcoming movie is announced. If they post the trailer online, it doesn't feel as "special" anymore. I honestly think they should show movie trailers and sneak peaks during the Oscars, similar to what they do at the Superbowl. Those are my thoughts anyway.

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

They do sometimes. They did for Little Mermaid last year.

I work at a cinema & we got a trailer for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part one before it released online, I played it for the first time just for me during an empty cinema session & it was very reminiscent of watching it on the big screen first & not seeing it online right away! It was so satisfying!

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

They showed the behind the scenes of the motorcycle scene on IMAX when I saw multiverse of Madness and that looked insane

I do miss being surprised by trailers before movies. I remember going to opening night for The Dark Knight and seeing trailers for Terminator: Salvation, Watchmen and Tropic Thunder. The crowd had a genuine gasp when the Terminator: Salvation and Watchmen trailers.

One of the *hypest* moments I've ever had in a movie theatre was going to see cloverfield and before the film there's a trailer with these people welding and a bunch of public domain audio about the space race starts playing like One Small Step for Man and such, and I start to get a little excited, I enjoy a good scifi romp. Then Leonard Nemoy's voice fills the theatre "Space..." and I was so pumped. For all I knew Star Trek was dead, and yeah it had only bee a few years since Enterprise was canceled but I wasn't on facebook with articles about a new Star Trek movie being in production being shoved in my face. That would never work with a KZread Trailer because you would have to put the title there.

I think another issue is that nowadays, especially after marvel, we see way more of a movie's behind the scenes and production even before the trailers. We hear about every casting decision, on set drama, delays, press tours talking about every detail, set leaks, etc. it used to be a trailer, outside big names, was the first thing you ever saw or heard about a movie. Plus companies release so many trailers and teasers they give away all their good stuff

I remember a couple years ago for No Way Home, the post credit scene was Multiverse of Madness’s first trailer and that was special because we never got to see it before that.

The unknown factor is certainly important. That's actually why I like watching reactions where people don't know what their editor sent them as an mp4 file. Blind reactions are the best. There was even a cool trick on an acapella music channel where the guys landed an impossibly cool cameo from a famous vocalist and had to be silent about it, so the first few hours after the video was released, it was titled "untitled.mp4" and had a black rectangle as a thumbnail. The react channels who managed to watch it without any spoilers had a blast. I would argue that spoilers in general are what's killing a lot of media, including trailers (hello shitty preview reels before the trailer begins), movies (not only do we have to worry about jackasses who watch it day 1 and immediately tell the entire Internet what happens, we also need to consider trailers themselves, where a lot of essential stuff can be spoiled, including crucial plot twists, like in Terminator 5), and basically anything. I have a superpower of catching spoilers for stuff I would like to watch on my own in the least likely places. Game of Thrones season 7 was spoiled for me (the day after that episode came out) by my science teacher in high school randomly in the middle of a lecture. That kind of stuff. I hate it with passion, I would really like to be able to watch stuff blindly, but alas.

YT is A GIFT for movie studios! Back then we didn’t „discuss“ a teaser, we just saw it. And now the studios just have to put some stuff out so to kick off aaaaaaall the YT videos about these short clips - and THATS the marketing in the end. Bc all those „creators“ (haha) NEED content to make content. And in the end 90% of these guys can’t add anything to the discussion, but that’s just the marketing that works in the 2020s

I remember after watching Captain America: the First Avenger, there's a part at the end after the credits where Nick fury is talking to Steve Rogers and Steve asks if he has a mission for him and fury says to save the world and then right after that they do a trailer for the avengers. It was quick very subtle didn't give you much detail you just saw quick clips and I remember the theater erupting cuz it was something that none of us thought was going to actually happen until we saw this trailer to see this is legit going to be happening was a crazy surprise. It was definitely one of those cool moments. The other one I remember that was a really great trailer with not much information was the first despicable me movie. I'll never forget watching the pyramid deflate and you don't get much information after that. But it got me and my family interested enough to want to know what this movie is about and was excited to see it

@Slicedude2004

27 күн бұрын

Same thing with the No Way Home post credit scene!

You know I do remember that growing up in the early to mid 2000's i would ask my parents why do we have to leave half an hour to the movies? They would say so we would get the best seats, or we would have to sit in the front row, theres nothing like that anymore

@bl3343

28 күн бұрын

Funny thing is, I actually prefer the front row unless it's IMAX or 3D. I want to feel like the screen is swallowing me whole. I've never understood why people sit so far from the screen, that they might as well have stayed home. I get it if you have kids, as you want a quick exit if they need to go to the bathroom, or the movie is too scary. But for adults without kids, why are you trying to make the movie less immersive for yourself? Another benefit to sitting up front is you don't have to deal with distracting people who chew with their mouths open or talk during the movie quite as much.

Being a room variously packed with people is the one thing I definitely DON'T miss from the movie theater experience. But the thing that finally put the coffin nail in my trips to the theater was all of them switching to assigned seating.

Great video Doug

Guardians of the Galaxy trailer created so much hype. Thankfully the movie itself was good.

Now that you brought it up, I WISH I could remember the audiences I was in getting hyped up after watching a trailer in the theater. The thing about watching trailers online is, free time permitting, you could watch them and analyze frame-by-frame as many times as you like. Nowadays I can't remember which trailers I saw with which movie if the movie left more of an impact (last one I saw: DUNE Part 2). A downside I noticed is when a trailer plays in an ad before a video I clicked on to watch (like some on this channel) and I slam on that SKIP button after the mandatory 5 seconds, then I forget to search for the trailer itself later! YT is not that good at suggesting trailers on its own.