I’m not one for scary movies.  Its not that I am afraid to see them, its just that they bore me.  They seem even more predictable than a romantic comedy.  Usually, I think I have a good “Spider Sense” when it comes to those types of films.  When I see a trailer, about 95% of the time, I can say with certainty, “Well that’s gonna suck”…and it does.  After that, I am also usually on par with how film does at the box office as well.  Aside from the trailers (whose ‘magic’ I wrote about in a recent post), the #1 indicator which almost confirms that the movie will bomb…

As anyone who sits in a theater watches a 2:30 trailer before their movie starts can attest to, the Trailer Industry is nothing short of pure magic.  It can simultaneously whip an unsuspecting crowd into a frenzy, or repel even the most patient and trustworthy fan of any genre or series.  Whether or not its a predictable trailer or something new, for that small duration of time even lamest film imaginable could be spun to look like the second coming of Christ, or vice-versa.  Sometimes after seeing a crappy movie which looked good in the trailer, I have to ask myself, “Did it happen again?  Did I just get led…

As anyone who sits in a theater watches a 2:30 trailer before their movie starts can attest to, the Trailer Industry is nothing short of pure magic.  It can simultaneously whip an unsuspecting crowd into a frenzy, or repel even the most patient and trustworthy fan of any genre or series.  Whether or not its a predictable trailer or something new, for that small duration of time even lamest film imaginable could be spun to look like the second coming of Christ, or vice-versa.  Sometimes after seeing a crappy movie which looked good in the trailer, I have to ask myself, “Did it happen again?  Did I just get led…