Adverts Ruin Movies?

[Danny,]

Ive seen a quite large amount of films and recently ive felt that seeing adverts and knowing what happens in the film ruins part of the experience of watching it, for example

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the last film i watched was Rambo 4 and while i know it was pretty obvious he would go and try to save the missionaries i felt that it would of made the film better if you were left guessing as to whether he would go to save them or whether they would rat him out and they would come to kill him and those in his village but in the adverts we get told he does go after them trying to save the missionaries. while Rambo isnt a very good example i think you can understand what i mean from that, so does anyone agree or feel that adverts help you get into a move?

Edited by BobX (forum Moderator):- Please put any spoilers in spoiler tags.

[BobX]

Thanks for ruining that film for me, i might aswell have watched the advert

[Meti]

I really hate the adverts when i want to watch a movie

[Misawa]

Ive seen a quite large amount of films and recently ive felt that seeing adverts and knowing what happens in the film ruins part of the experience of watching it, for example

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the last film i watched was Rambo 4 and while i know it was pretty obvious he would go and try to save the missionaries i felt that it would of made the film better if you were left guessing as to whether he would go to save them or whether they would rat him out and they would come to kill him and those in his village but in the adverts we get told he does go after them trying to save the missionaries. while Rambo isnt a very good example i think you can understand what i mean from that, so does anyone agree or feel that adverts help you get into a move?

Edited by BobX (forum Moderator):- Please put any spoilers in spoiler tags.

Adverts during Rambo? That's just been released in the cinema...

[Danny,]

Adverts during Rambo? That's just been released in the cinema...

i dont mean adverts during the film, i mean like you see the film being advertised on tv with the plot pretty much in the trailer and it ruins the film when you watch it

[Smiddy]

It's called a teaser, you can't piece it together until you've actually watched the film, they use the eye-catching pieces to draw an audience in, unless they have established stars in which they usually just depict who they are.

[Slowpoke]

Film4 has a hell of a lot of adverts .

[BobX]

I am really proud of the way that Cloverfield was advertised, almost 100% internet based only releasing Television adverts within like 2 days of the film being released. Kept me researching more and more about it and then i became obsessed

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[Misawa]

i dont mean adverts during the film, i mean like you see the film being advertised on tv with the plot pretty much in the trailer and it ruins the film when you watch it

Oh right, I see what you mean. Well, they have to give away part of the story on the TV spots to draw people in. Annoying it may be at times, but that's what gets people amped for the film.

Regardless, who thought that there was a chance that Stallone would not go after the Christian Aid workers? The other three were terribly predictable, and Stallone sure as hell didn't write First Blood Part IV for story.