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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 1531812" data-attributes="member: 8158">I dunno, maybe it's just me, but how can one action movie's trailer be good and another trailer can be bad when every trailer is made the same way? First, you have the slow, tension-building cut-scenes where get some chinese-fortune-cookie style narration. Try to say something poignant, something profound. "For every shoe, there must be a sock....for every sock, there must be a foot..." That sort of thing.Once mood has slowly built up to a head, we're treated to the five-second-long hear-a-pin-drop, bated-breath moment. The background score holds on a single note or stops altogether.Then suddenly, BOOM, BAM, BANG, ZIP, ZING, BLAMMO! We get the ADD-style blitzkrieg montage of half-second-long cuts of people running, punching, kicking, lunging at the fourth wall, falling from ridiculous heights, dodging explosions and bullets, zipping through traffic, and (this part is mandatory) at some poiint something must leap through the air, be it a motorcycle jumping from one rooftop to another or a stagecoach hurtling across a partially-collapsed bridge. Of course, the actual movie doesn't contain this much condensed action, which is a good thing because more than 30-seconds of this and somebody sitting near you will have a seizure.Then with abrupt finality you punctuate the trailer with one little bit that supposedly encapsulates the entire spirit of the movie. For a lot of movies, it's some cute one-liner, but sometimes they try to go for cool-factor instead and we get a nice pose from the hero.Am I the only person who's so jaded by this utterly homogeneous formula that it kills any sense of surprise or wonder?</blockquote>

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