Oh I wish I hadn't watched that trailer!

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There are lots of reasons I don’t like watching trailers. Too often they give too much away, or they make a good movie look bad, or they make what turns out to be a bad movie look good.

Sometimes, though, I hate watching a trailer of a film I knew very little about, see the trailer, get all perked up and super-excited, then find out the film isn’t going to be released for months! I think I hate those trailers most of all, because I HATE waiting for movies I can’t wait to see!

Case in point. Nine.

NINE! Oh my goodness GOD! SWOON!

I knew a little about it: the next Rob Marshall (Chicago) film, stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day Lewis, and lots of other great people that I’d heard about months ago but then forgot about, but I had no idea what the plot was or even that it was a musical.

I just saw the trailer. OH MY GOD!! NINE!! If this movie is even a fraction as awesome as the trailer, it’s going to be a helluvan awesome film, and might just do a Chicago at the Oscars next year too.

The cast:

Daniel Day-Lewis
Nicole Kidman
Penélope Cruz
Marion Cotillard
Sophia Loren
Judi Dench
Kate Hudson
Stacy Ferguson (yep, that Stacy Ferguson)

Ok, I am glad I watched the trailer, but now my anticipation is through the roof, and it’s not coming out until November! I’ve only watched the trailer twice and I’m not going to watch it or any other clips again before I see it on the big screen. I want what I’ve seen to fade (but not the anticipation) so it’ll be fresher for me opening day. Hell, I’ll go to a midnight show if one’s available.

There are tons of great movies coming up, so I have a lot of trailers I have to avoid. No way am I watching the trailer for The Road. I’ve managed to stay away from Where The Wild Things Are too. They both don’t come out until October and I don’t want to make myself suffer. I’ve caught the teaser for Inglourious Basterds at the theater, but at least it comes out in August, not so long to wait. I don’t want to see the actual trailer though, so if I’m a captive audience in the theater I’ll have to do my fingers-in-ears-eyes-closed-humming-softly thing.

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I thought you were talking about 9, which I am hugely in anticipation of.

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Me too…and everything said above about “Nine” can be said about my excitement for “9”.

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The big summer movies always seem to start advertising the previous fall.

This is also the case with video games. And they get delayed. I’m currently waiting on God of War III. Release November 2009. Trailer came out a few months ago.

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Yeah, I was very confused for a bit ‘That cast doesn’t sound right…November? The hell?’ Then I googled and all was clarified.

Bad planning, really, releasing a movie named Nine two months after one named 9…

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On another note, I hated the trailer for Management, with Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, but liked the movie a lot, especially after thinking about it for a while (suffering through Angels & Demons might have had something to do with it too). It’s not the best of the year, or Top 10 at the end of the year material, but I did think it was very sweet and quirky and full of surprises. It’s a tiny indie film that’s getting pretty bad reviews, and I can see why, did I mention it’s quirky? A lot of people don’t like quirky, but it worked for me.

I HATE HATE HATED both the teaser and the trailer for Star Trek, but thought the movie was fantastic, and can’t wait to see it again.

I hate the trailer to Away We Go, but I’m pretty sure I’ll like the actual movie and will see it very soon after it opens, if not on opening day.

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Actually, for me the problem with trailers that come out so far ahead of schedule is that I lose excitement by the time it’s going to come around.

I’m really psyched for Nine. I’ve saw the musical once and was fascinated. Very good music, too.

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Oh yeah! I forgot about 9 in the heat of the moment, but I’m chomping to see that one too. I do love that trailer.

Except for weirdos like me, who see just about everything, the demographics aren’t going to overlap that much.

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I was confused at first too. Then I got all sad. “Nine is going to be a musical? No way I want to see that.”

Then I found out there’s a movie called “Nine” and all was right with the world.

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Who is Stacy Ferguson? I’ve never heard that name before. I looked at the movies she was in on IMDB and nothing stands out as being particularly memorable. :confused:

“Nine” looks great! I’m very curious to hear what Daniel Day-Lewis’s singing voice sounds like!

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Stacy Ferguson

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Oh! Fergie!
I’ve never heard her real name before.

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If you don’t want your heart broken, don’t read this spoiler…

Sony has actually never come out and said the game is coming this year and have hinted more than once that it’s not actually coming until sometime in 2010

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Another problem with showing trailers so far in advance is that you forget that the movie is coming out. You can easily miss a film in theaters. And at the video store you have to remember that you wanted to see a movie that hasn’t been on the brain constantly.

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Just curious, because I don’t feel like looking it up at the moment, but isn’t “Nine” inspired by or based on Fellini’s “8 1/2”?

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It is indeed!

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Yes.

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There’s other reasons why I hate having seen trailers. For example, the trailer to Mr. Bean’s Holiday (shut up, I’m using it to make a point) already had all the fun bits. Since I watch a lot of movies in the theater, I’d seen it three times or so. While watching the movie, I was constantly anticipating ‘ah yes, here comes THAT part I’ve already seen, and now the thing on the bike…’

And there’s the trailers that give away the premise and plot point (pretty much a given, nowadays) so you spend the first third of the movie waiting HOW they are going to set up that the guy and the girl who hate eachother’s guts will spend the rest of the time snowed in with the in-laws.

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Oh fer criminy’s sake … just go watch the Fellini. It plays at art-house and rep theatres all the time.

Avoid the glitzy Hollywood remake, the borrowed-from-other-musicals music, the not-really-a-singer-performers (yes, Miss Black-Eyed-Peas, you too) and the hype, hype, hype.

Fellini’s film was brilliant. Can’t we just leave it at that?

thwartme

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Oh, fer criminy’s sake…just go read the Decameron. Modern reprintings can be found in most libraries.

Avoid the pop culture Shakespeare remakes, the borrowed-from-Shakespeare films, the not-really-the-printed-word actors and the hype, hype, hype.

The original book was brilliant. Can’t we just leave it at that?

My point being, adaptation is a respected method of bringing media that are no longer “in” into new popularity. Getting all huffy about adaptation is kind of snobbish.