Cheaply Emotionally-manipulative bad movies/trailers, or 'emotion porn'

[AuthenticM]

Hollywood makes a lot of these, but I think a lot of them don't get much marketing or are relegated to direct-to-DVD business. But sometimes, these movies have a lot of push behind them, and you see their trailers attached to big movies. And goddamn do these fuckin' trailers make my eyes roll.

I'm talking about stuff like that Wonder movie. I haven't seen it, and it very well might be a good movie, but jesus christ that trailer makes it look like utter fuckshit.

Remember Radio? Same deal.

The movies' premises, the music used in the trailers, the cheap one-liners by the characters, the shit text put in the trailers. All... ugh.

I'm also pretty sure that a significant portion of these movies are about a person who's 'different' from the rest of the population, and the story's about everyone learning to overcome prejudice and discrimination. It's all well on paper... but man, these trailers sure as hell don't make me want to watch them.

"We're not the ones who've been teaching Radio; Radio's been teach--" KIIIIIIILLLLLL MEEEEEEEE

 

[Broken Joystick]

Collateral Beauty was so guilty of this


edit: shit I didn't even realise they did the name drop at the end lol

 

[Prompto]

Pay It Forward

 

[Musubi]

Strictly movies? Because first thing that popped into my mind is literally anything by David Cage.

 

[jon bones]

these all make me laugh and they all make my wife cry

i think they're pretty successful at piquing interest amongst the target demos

 

[Lunaray]

Aren't most trailers designed to be emotionally-manipulative? They're 1-2 minute long advertising pitches created specifically to psychologically hook us into paying to watch it.

Unless by cheap you mean exploiting cliched tropes? Because that I can get behind.

 

[wenis]

This is Us is an egregious case of it.

Crash (not the cronenberg one, the best one) I fucking hate that movie so much.

 

[julia crawford]

Man that's a lot of words to say lame.

 

[Ottaro]

This is Us is an egregious case of it.

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Yep, first thing I thought of. For me, those commercials had the opposite effect of what the network intended I'm sure.

 

[potam]

The American Sniper trailer is S-tier

 

[Speevy]

Have you read "Wonder"? That's what it's about.

 

[saenima]

This is Us is an egregious case of it.

Crash (not the cronenberg one, the best one) I fucking hate that movie so much.

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But Cronenberg's IS the best one.

OT - Trailers for shit like American Sniper and such, full of slowmotion american flags and a sweeping score are the bane of my movie going experience. It's like an overdose of jingoistic cheese. The worst cheese.

 

[TheBeardedOne]

This is Us is a fantastic show. One of the best on TV.

I also liked Pay it Forward

Collateral Beauty could be hit for this for sure, but those are better.

 

[wenis]

But Cronenberg's IS the best one.

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I agree! As fun as the back of a thigh!

 

[FireSafetyBear]

Collateral Beauty was so guilty of this


edit: shit I didn't even realise they did the name drop at the end lol

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Don't get the outrage at this film.

I personally enjoyed it.

Same for people who claim It Comes At Night was false advertising.

 

[Playco Armboy]

War of the Planet of the Apes was a lot of this, especially the

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death scene with that one grunt ape that travels with Caesar when they escape from their ransacked home.

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[Feral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBw8RB1H54
do I win?

 

[mac]

Same Kind of Different as Me



Get ready

 

[TheBeardedOne]

Don't get the outrage at this film.

I personally enjoyed it.

Same for people who claim It Comes At Night was false advertising.

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I didn't dislike it, myself, but it's definitely guilty of this.

 

[wizard]

Lars and the real girl, Dancer in the Dark, English Patient.

 

[Einchy]

Same for people who claim It Comes At Night was false advertising.

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I liked It Comes At Night but the trailers didn't represent the movie for what it was.

 

[Blue Sky Noise]

The Shawshank Redemption basically felt like this to me, I have no idea about the trailer tho

 

[JakeD]

Anything with Solsbury Hill in the trailer

 

[broncobuster]

Anything with Solsbury Hill in the trailer

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[saenima]

More on point, i know exactly what you mean OP. It's generally weak oscar bait and Meg Ryan comedies/dramas that i associate the most with it. Stuff like this:

 

[TheBeardedOne]

I liked It Comes At Night but the trailers didn't represent the movie for what it was.

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Agreed. They really didn't. A friend watched it thinking he'd like it because of the trailers, but ended up hating it and blamed them.

I saw it in theatre, with a close friend I grew up watching horror/movies with, and we both liked it.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

 

[B33]

The Good Dinosaur

 

[Puck Beaverton]

The Mist ending is hilarious in what it tries to do

 

[Kinthey]

 

[Catdaddy]

They have their target audience though. But yeah get tired of the same trailer with different actors and different story. And it gives you the info needed to know not to see it.

 

[Turin]

I'm not sure what the trailers were like for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close but goddamn did that movie desperately try to make you feel things. Maybe a good movie to watch for anyone going through Adderall withdrawal though.

 

[Kongroo]

The trailer for "Heaven is for real" makes me gag at how corny and emotionally manipulative it is. I mean, look at this shit.

 

[AuthenticM]

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I got around to watching some of these and oh my god this is so on point and it even uses the fucking music from that Radio trailer I put in the OP.