Chief Rum
01-17-2006, 12:00 AM
I am annoyed by movie trailers a lot, but some just push the envelope more than others. Two of them are on frequently at the moment: Annapolis and When A Stranger Calls.
The first one starts out with me wondering what the big fricking deal is about Annapolis anyway. I'm not saying it's not, but my guess is it is not common knowledge. Usually when people think of military academies, they think of West Point first anyway. So right there, you have a military movie that apparently doesn;t involve war or action, but hazing in school? And then you replace Gossett Jr. and Gere with Tyrese Gibson and James Franco? Yeah, that's compelling. Oh yeah, and toss on annoying music/sound effects and some of the most boring clicheed lines I have heard, ouch.
And the second one sounds like a combination of "Hostage" and the opening scene of Scream and every crappy slasher flick from the last 20 years. Every time they get to the part where the girl picks up the phone and screams "Stop calling me!", and the cop at the other end says "Get out! We traced the call and it's coming from inside the house!", I want to scream along with the girl, it's so freakin' stupid.
Oh yeah, and the best part is they play each of these trailers every other commercial break on every channel I happen to be on.
These could be Oscar winners for all I know, but I will never see them because an awful marketing approach and/or trailer makes me completely negative about them.
The first one starts out with me wondering what the big fricking deal is about Annapolis anyway. I'm not saying it's not, but my guess is it is not common knowledge. Usually when people think of military academies, they think of West Point first anyway. So right there, you have a military movie that apparently doesn;t involve war or action, but hazing in school? And then you replace Gossett Jr. and Gere with Tyrese Gibson and James Franco? Yeah, that's compelling. Oh yeah, and toss on annoying music/sound effects and some of the most boring clicheed lines I have heard, ouch.
And the second one sounds like a combination of "Hostage" and the opening scene of Scream and every crappy slasher flick from the last 20 years. Every time they get to the part where the girl picks up the phone and screams "Stop calling me!", and the cop at the other end says "Get out! We traced the call and it's coming from inside the house!", I want to scream along with the girl, it's so freakin' stupid.
Oh yeah, and the best part is they play each of these trailers every other commercial break on every channel I happen to be on.
These could be Oscar winners for all I know, but I will never see them because an awful marketing approach and/or trailer makes me completely negative about them.