Every big production that is a step above Transformers is hailed as a masterpiece these days. I don't know how the movie majors can convince critics to write what they do, but I'm sure it's marketing. I'll go to watch this movie anyway (the director is an interesting one) but I'm quite confident it's just formulaic commercial crap (you could see it from the trailers, really).
While I agree that I don't often find critical acclaim overlaps with my personal opinion on the quality of films, I don't think you're giving this movie a fair shake :)
Trailers are not edited by the director. The goal of trailers is to get posteriors into plush seats, and if you want 100% of your target audience to come out, anything short of "formulaic commercial crap" in the trailer is going to hurt the movie.
I'm more inclined to treat the trailer as marketing (as that is what it quite literally is) than a newspaper critique (as much as I often find them devoid of substance or meaning).
Of course, you're right. Still I am very suspicious. A couple of things that put me off in the trailer and that can't be purely due to the trailer marketing factor: snowy white and desert red environments have been added to the rainy metropolis one (they both are a cliche of recent science fiction movies) and, more importantly, the Jared Leto character, who seems to play a main role and be obviously evil, in a way no character in the original was (except for the bad cop, but he was small fry himself anyway). The simple, clear cut division of good and evil is always a trait of the dumbest blockbusters (and of the dumbest american politics, btw).
Anyway, I'll go watch it and I hope I'll like it, though I think the odds are quite low.
Sounds like he is just saying movies today are held to a much lower standard.
The biggest successes of the last decade or more have been superhero movies that are basically just special effects extravaganzas.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying mindless action movies (I enjoy them myself) but let's not pretend that the current glut of original productions in favour of endless comic book adaptation sequels and bad remakes of foreign movies represents anything more than a lowering of standards and a lack of originality and creativity in Hollywood.
Trailers are to movies what titles and summaries are to newspapers articles: eyegrabbers.
As others pointed out, trailers are edited in order to make people want to see the movie, not to give an idea of what the movie is really about. They mostly put stronger scenes in there so that a movie with just 2 minutes of gunfire or fighting will appear as an action movie. I never watch trailers for that reason and would rather wait to hear other people I trust reactions.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 29.1 ms ] threadTrailers are not edited by the director. The goal of trailers is to get posteriors into plush seats, and if you want 100% of your target audience to come out, anything short of "formulaic commercial crap" in the trailer is going to hurt the movie.
I'm more inclined to treat the trailer as marketing (as that is what it quite literally is) than a newspaper critique (as much as I often find them devoid of substance or meaning).
Anyway, I'll go watch it and I hope I'll like it, though I think the odds are quite low.
The biggest successes of the last decade or more have been superhero movies that are basically just special effects extravaganzas.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying mindless action movies (I enjoy them myself) but let's not pretend that the current glut of original productions in favour of endless comic book adaptation sequels and bad remakes of foreign movies represents anything more than a lowering of standards and a lack of originality and creativity in Hollywood.
He would be right.
Trailers are to movies what titles and summaries are to newspapers articles: eyegrabbers.
As others pointed out, trailers are edited in order to make people want to see the movie, not to give an idea of what the movie is really about. They mostly put stronger scenes in there so that a movie with just 2 minutes of gunfire or fighting will appear as an action movie. I never watch trailers for that reason and would rather wait to hear other people I trust reactions.