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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6278897" data-attributes="member: 13107">My answer is "it depends".The trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy mostly is OK.  There is nice background information which tells me what the movie will be about, and which doesn't really tell the plot.However, "mostly OK" is not "entirely OK".  The scene with [spoiler]Rocket Racoon shooting with abandon on Groot[/spoiler] is an apex scene, and should not be put into a trailer.  Also, knowing the plot in as much detail as has been provided is too much for me.  On the other hand, the bio's and character previews were quite nice.I do wonder if those same scenes will be present to the same degree in the movie.  Seems like a waste of screen time if the scenes are duplicated entirely.Aside from plot reveals, I find spoilers to be increasingly necessary so that I can gauge the character of the movie and of the story: Is the story one which I want lodged in my brain, or is it sludge which I'll need to carefully scrape away when the movie is over?  I find this particularly a problem in terms of gratuitous scenes of violence and/or cruelty, and to a degree, nudity or sexuality.  Is the story one where the writers / author make unconvincing or heavy handed shifts in which the authors take advantage of their role in defining the narrative for effect, but at the cost of making an ugly shaped story.Thx!TomB</blockquote>