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What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by proprioception@kbin.social to c/movies@kbin.social

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Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever expansive industry of movie trailers that mostly give away the entire plot of the film? How did Hollywood crush the Movie Trailer?

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[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

That's a good idea.

I'm often looking for something to watch though, so I do watch trailers sometimes. If it's something I want to see I try to only watch like, the first 1/3 of the trailer.