Trailer & Patience

Every day, every week we seen to have new films, new trailers and new leeks upon us from studios or otherwise and I wish it would stop. You may think that is a strange though for an admirer of film but honestly it’s not; as I don’t want a teaser for a trailer that will be released in a weeks’ time (yes I’m looking at you ‘Jurassic World’) as believe it or not I can wait a week.  And worse than that is when studios decide to release clips and information years ahead of the film’s release is stupid as once you start giving us information you can’t stop yourself from giving us more. So you end up like Watch Dogs (yes I know it is a game) building up great expectations and then when we finally get our hands on the final products it is CRAP!!

Now don’t you dare get me wrong I want to see a film trailer as much as the next guy but I want the trailer to be a reflection of the films progress. So by all means release a trailer for the film if it is near completion or release; like Age of Ultron which is a full trailer about 6 months before the film’s release. And this trailer contains enough to please us with it but equally not too much to reveal all of the film’s plot points and themes. Yes we saw a Hulk Buster amour (or whatever it is called) fighting the Hulk but we don’t know why. Did the Hulk go bad? Did Tony join with Ultron? Does Ultron now have control over the Iron Man suits? Or you do and I missed the memo as other than the films I know diddly squat about the comics.

But then on the other hand I really looked forward to the release of the Age of Ultron trailer to be released on the Friday before Agents of Shield but not necessarily to watch that. Then someone goes and leaks the trailer online, you would think this is a good thing but then Marvel had to release an extra clip which would have been better left in the film than released early but that’s what happened. So now we have one less surprise in the film and then the guy who leaked the trailer is at the bad end of Marvels lawyers; so if he has any money left to afford a computer he will learn to be patient for a trailer.

So maybe after reading this you will reconsider how you view film trailer releases by studios or otherwise. 

Goodbye.