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I don't mind if the text describes something I will read anyway in the first charpter or two... Like "Hercule Holmes and his sidekick Barnaby Watson go to africa for a vacation and find a dead body on the bus! Which of the passangers could be the murderer?" and then, after that, the mystery begins.

What i really really hate is "a book with a plot twist in the end that'll make you reread the whole book again!" ... why do I need to know that there will be a plot twist? Now i'll expect it, and know that the 'obvious' murdeder isn't the one guilty of murder, but some twist will change everything.

Same for the movies... where the trailer has enough spoilers to see how the movie ends and who the murderer is.... it sucks... and it's not even a columbo-like movie, where you see the murder in the first scene, both you and Columbo know who the murderer is 2 minutes in, and you just wait to see how he "gets him"...

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I think a movie trailer should be a mini-prequel to the movie, with no footage from the movie itself.

Hooo boy that makes the fans ANGRY! :D

Some people get _so_ into a movie that they literally memorise every trailer. Then they actively try to find the scenes from the trailer while watching the movie.

And if those don't match, they'll shout at the Internet.

Case in point: Rogue One had shots in the trailer that never made it to the final movie (charging through the beaches and the Tie-fighter rising to meet Jyn in the tower). People went berserk.

But I 100% agree with you, they should shoot the trailer scenes separately and not have any of them actually in the movie just to keep it interesting.

I don't watch movie trailers anymore, maybe it's nostalgia but nowadays they are absolutely awful and full of spoilers, as if spoilers were a feature and not a bug. I guess it has something to do with how the movies themselves are put together. The use of stupid plot mechanisms such as "multiple dimensions" to be able to kill a character and then revive them again, or use multiple disposable versions of the same character for a few minutes at a time, etc. I guess if you don't care about such blatant cheating in the movie itself you won't mind a bad trailer.

That said, my approach nowadays is to consider watching a movie as a kind of risk-taking. I watch the movie without knowing or expecting anything; sometimes it will be worth it, sometimes it won't, but when it is, then DAMN is it worth it! On the other hand, if I watch the trailer then I know for sure that it will not happen. So... I take the risk.

>What i really really hate is "a book with a plot twist in the end that'll make you reread the whole book again!" ... why do I need to know that there will be a plot twist?

obviously book jackets exist for marketing purposes, I'm supposing there is a market of people who like to know that there will be a tricky plot twist so they can see if they can guess.

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