Make one trailer for the preview months or years in advance in theaters during another movie’s showing and then make a preview for regular tv during commercial breaks soon before it’s actually showing in theaters.

That shouldn’t be too hard, right? You’d think these companies would be smart enough to do that, so we wouldn’t feel so fucking cheated, like with Walk Hard. And how do they decide what constitutes a “deleted scene” for inclusion in the DVD “special features”? I mean, seriously. So much was cut that was in the trailer of “walk hard”, but there’s only 5 deleted scenes, and none of them correspond to the stuff in the trailer. It’s madness! The deleted scenes fuckin suck, too. Some funny movies have 10-20 deleted scenes.

I really wanted to see that part where Dewey Cox said “It doesn’t taste like Cox unless I say it tastes like Cox.” Do these idiot producers even realize how misinformed viewers are when trailers come out 1 or 2 months before the showing in theatres? or do they just not watch tv and commercials? be

The question is why are they made that way? They certainly don’t have to be. Long gone are the days where you actually splice together film to edit a trailer or a movie. With today’s technology you can edit together a trailer in hours (let alone days or weeks.) By the time the trailers hit the screens, they pretty much know what is going to be in the film.

A company is hired to do the trailer. The movie isn’t finished in the slighest. They get a whole ton of footage and are told to “make something out of it.” They do. The trailer gets made. By that time, the movie is actually being edited. Scenes get dropped, different angles get used, dialog is re-recorded, everything changes. The trailer companies work with nearly raw, barely edited footage.

THAT is why trailers are different from the finished product. Duh.

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