Have you ever benefited from not watching the trailers before seeing a film?

Well, I only watch the trailers in the theater, so I do get some info from that (and often wish I hadn’t) but I don’t watch trailers online, and often pick films because I like the cast or the tagline premise. It is better without the trailers, but for the silly movies I don’t care, I’m going purely for the silly fun (like, for example, Jurassic World)

You are being sarcastic, right?

Seeing a movie without having seen the trailer is always better.

The trailers obviously show only the best stuff in a movie, making it seem far more interesting than it usually turns out to actually be.

Yes, I do see trailers in the movies but often wish I hadn’t. They give away too much as in your citation of Room ( which I thought was brilliant, BTW.)

Is Room about a kid whose mother was abducted before he was born, conceived in rape by the abductor, and all he knows for the first 5 years is that one room?

Yup. It was a novel first.

I had mixed feelings about the book. It was a cool premise but much of it didn’t really make sense. He talked funny for one thing. Wouldn’t a kid learn to talk just like the only person he knows and that would be his mother? Did she refer to tables and chairs and appliances as though they were a proper noun?

@ragingloli has confused Room with The Room. Two different movies.
Some trailers give too much away, like Children Of Men, which had several plot complications revealed in the trailer, which lessened the enjoyment of the film.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was in the back of my mind as “a movie I know received great reviews and I should watch it someday.” From the title I thought it might be about Buddhism or some such.

I would never choose a scary movie with graphic violence and this sure was one.

Great movie, I really was wowed by it.

I just picked that up at the Goodwill store yesterday. It’s shaping up to be a good read.

The only thing I can benefit from a trailer is a temporary feel-good moment. I watch trailers in the cinemas, and I don’t get to watch most movies in the trailers.

I think it’s better that way.

I like the trailers. I figure they are a good indication of whether or not I should see the movie.

Bu they’re not really. The trailers always make it seem like the movie is interesting, and more often than not, it isn’t.

Well, not interesting to you perhaps, @Dutchess_III, but but I have been intrigued fairly often by trailers, and glad I’ve gone to their movies.
Sometimes, of course, I’ve been disappointed, but not that often.

The trailers are always interesting. That’s my point.

I’m pretty good at reading a trailer and knowing if the film is or isn’t for me. I don’t find all of them interesting. One example is the trailer for Terence Malick’s “Tree of Life” made me sure I would hate it; I couldn’t stand watching the overlong, pretentious trailer.

When the trailers show lot of loud explosions and crashing cars. I figure I won’t be interested.

It was your ”...more often than not, it isn’t” assessment that I was disagreeing with.

I’m pretty picky about what I consider to be a good movie. Many people are not.

I love to watch movie trailers. It gives me an idea if I want to watch the movie or not.
Probably 97% of the time, if I like a trailer, I like the movie.

So, what do you think of this trailer for this years “Jumanji” remake?

I like Dwayne Johnson.

What also annoys me is when scenes in the trailer don’t appear in the movie.
In the trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” you see one of the characters charging down a hallway shooting a machine gun while screaming. It isn’t in the film.

Everybody likes Dwayne Johnson.

@ragingloli

It looks mildly entertaining