I was watching some trailer spoofs and thought, how awesome would it be that if the official trailer of a particular movie was nothing like the actual movie. Of course it has to be done well, but imagine the viral marketing! It’s like completely throwing a curve ball at the audience. These days, movie trailers reveal too much of a movie and you basically know the story and can pretty much guess the ending. It’s quite seldom a good trailer gets released that’s enough to entice me, but not ruin the story.
I mean just look at these trailers:
They’re just awesome and completely screws with your mind. Of course they’d might have to be a bit more tactful since if I saw that Mary Poppins trailer, I probably wouldn’t take my children to go watch it. Would you choose the family movie (The Shining) over the scary movie (Mary Poppins).
Speaking of trailers, you ever go into a Costco or Sears or Best Buy and think to yourself, they could definitely put much higher quality content on the screen to display the awesomeness of their HDTVs instead of some DVD or those stupid TV guides that tell you why an HDTV is better than a standard TV. It probably is easier to control the multitude of TVs from a central location if they all use the same inputs, probably regular composite video, since all TVs have that input. I mean if you play really good HD content, the image quality speaks for itself! If I were to ever have a store that sold TV, I’d just be looping all the free HD movie trailers over and over. Of course, only those rated for everyone.