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Originally Posted by Noclevername
Yes, but that's different; Star Wars (the first) actually delivered on the coolness it advertised. But most of the time, the ads are the coolest part of a film.
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That's ex post facto. It just had to sell itself on 'the coolness' to make you want to see it as a kid, right? Unless you had to be enticed by an informative roundtable discussion of it's scientific merits and the soundness of it's imagination("...in 12 parsecs"!).
I agree, the ads can often be the best glimpse of a feature film(certainly with trailers constructed the way they are currently, they
are meant to be a microcosm of the mother-film! They surely give away most plot points anyhow in the service of assuring audiences what they expect to/hope to/will see.).
Kids want to see movies very often because, quite simply, they look cool. Where's the harm in seeing something that doesn't get the imprimatur of
Did I do myself a grave disservice by actually seeing stuff like THE SWARM, ORCA, KING KONG, LOGAN'S RUN or NIGHTWING(go David Warner!) in a real theater? I don't think so. Was my moviegoing childhood better for not being culturally burdened by boxofficemojo, rottentomatoes or endless internet jibberjabbery? Probably.
Not every film can be STAR WARS. And before you saw that, you couldn't be sure it was either.
Man, when did you folks lose such touch with your inner child? Of course, photorealistic mammoth herds chasing little humans is pretty damn cool looking. Why people can't fess up to it, is headscratching. And would I watch Doug McClure and Peter Cushing battling pteradactyls on strings in a theater today? You betcha!