Discuss: Which Trailers Are You Sick Of?
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Paramount, Focus Features, George Clooney, Trailers and Clips
I'm grateful for this Friday, because that's the day that The Men Who Stare at Goats comes out and I can stop seeing its trailer relentlessly attached to anything and everything I see (and given that I try to see most anything and everything out there, it's really only a 'me' problem, I suppose). One night, I had myself a triple feature and saw the preview not one, not two, but three times; as a pal put it, he had "more than a feeling" that I was getting sick of it.Before that, it was a summer of Taking Woodstock time and time again, and it would already seem that Shutter Island's move to February will insure that I'll be sitting there, trying to piece the thing together for the next three months when not perfecting my New England Leo impersonation.
So, whether currently or in your own formative years, what trailers have you been just absolutely burnt out on? Did you and your friends quote along with them as they played? Were you actually ever turned off from seeing a film because you had it advertised to you too much? Come on, let it all out...
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11-03-2009 @ 9:30PM
Nick said...
Last year I recall "Doubt" playing incessantly, and I've definitely noticed an abundance of "Goats" too, ditto on "An Education," I know I've noticed and been annoyed by more but for some reason I've blocked them out.
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11-03-2009 @ 9:40PM
Troy said...
Gamer was the worst offender for me. Every single movie, TV show I'd watch, there was a trailer or an ad for that flick. Weirdly, I've only seen the Men Who Stare At Goats trailer online.
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11-04-2009 @ 12:03AM
Gholson said...
I'll be so glad when A CHRISTMAS CAROL hits. It's been on every single movie I've seen in the past three months, including horror stuff like SAW VI. ENOUGH ALREADY.
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11-03-2009 @ 11:13PM
EatingPie said...
Christmas Carol, I second that.
I *hate* Zemekis' animation company's style. And then Jim Carrey as scrooge? Having seen Patrick Stewart do the live reading/performance, it's just torture watching Jim Carrey over-the-top with horrible animation.
Good news is it's out soon, and will go away.
-Pie
11-03-2009 @ 11:37PM
Bubbameister33 (Confused by Fanboyism) said...
Damn Pie, I see you everywhere. Small internet I guess.
11-03-2009 @ 10:17PM
Kevin said...
The Box has been annoying the crap out of me for the better part of a month. I've seen a lot of Up in the Air and It's Complicated as well.
It's not complicated, Nancy Myers, it's simple: I won't be seeing your movie.
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11-03-2009 @ 10:21PM
Tony le Stephanois said...
Shutter Island, seriously tired of that one...it seems like it left for a little while and is now back again in full force. Maybe if I hadn't read the book it would remain intriguing, but knowing what happens, the trailer is becoming tedious to say the least.
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11-03-2009 @ 10:41PM
MCW said...
Shutter Island was the one, and it's starting to creep back in, but now, without a doubt, the trailers for THE BOX cheapen it to the point of leaving nothing to the imagination (I once thought it was going to be mysterious, but from what I've accidentally seen, it looks more like a run of the mill suspense thriller at this point).
I try to mute my ears, but haven't been able to (when around someone else's TV). I really don't want to see any more of the film until I watch it on the Blu-ray director's 6-hour cut.
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11-03-2009 @ 10:52PM
Kyle s said...
I don't know the cause but when i went to see paranormal activity last night, the preview for The Lovely Bones played twice, but with the trailer for the fourth kind in between them. Either an employee screwed up are they are really pushing that movie. But i certainly have no interest after that.
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11-03-2009 @ 10:54PM
Hoosh said...
The Box, I have seen it twice in the past commercial break, both times happened before I was even finished with this article. It looks terrible, and Cameron Diaz has only one line but her accent makes me cringe every time I hear it/
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11-03-2009 @ 11:20PM
Jay Seaver said...
"Old Dogs". What's worse is, I would often see it back to back with "World's Greatest Dad" or "From Paris With Love", proof that Williams and Travolta can do so much better.
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11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
Creep said...
Old Dogs, oh god. I can't wait till that ones dries up in the theaters and disappears on blockbuster shelves. So annoying.
11-03-2009 @ 11:49PM
Kevin said...
Anybody else wishing that Goss had said "Not once, not twice, but Thrice!" instead of not one, not two, but three times? Double points for anyone that can name the reference.
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11-03-2009 @ 11:51PM
William Goss said...
Lost on me, Kev.
11-03-2009 @ 11:56PM
Kevin said...
Ha, its pretty random; I'd be shocked if anybody gets it. Not even relevant really, just something that jumped out at me. Quick hint...Softball.
11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
Eric H said...
C. Montgomery Burns
11-04-2009 @ 12:38AM
Rich said...
Since I spent all day Sunday watching football and baseball on fox I've already gotten my fill of the new Avatar trailer. Fox made this big deal of the trailer premier right before kick off, but then felt the need to show the whole trailer during every other commercial break.
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11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
juwan808 said...
Law Abiding Shitizen! I had to actually sit through it again this past weekend. It already came out and no one saw it and I still have to watch the trailer? What the WHAT?!!
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11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
NP said...
I don't have cable so I only see trailers when I watch them online or...in the movie theater, and the theater I've gone to a lot recently has been playing the trailer for Pirate Radio alllll the time, and I'm sick of it. If I have to hear Philip Seymour Hoffman phone in the line "I don't give a hootenanny about your limey laws" one more time I'm gonna throw something at the screen.
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11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
Tor said...
I wasn't sick of this trailer, but, so help me God, the trailer for "Son of Rambow" played in front of freaking everything in early 2008. "In Bruges", "Rambo", "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins", "Vantage Point" (don't judge me)...everything.
Ironically, the one movie it didn't accompany was "Be Kind, Rewind". Seriously, if ever there was a perfect match of trailer and movie, that was it. Oh, well...
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