When Movies Don’t Live Up to the Trailer
3rd January 2008
David Pogue is distraught.
Actually, I’ve given up on watching movies. I just watch the trailers — for free — on the Internet, because typically the best parts of the movie will be in the trailer, almost by a law of nature; they want you to see it, so they show you their best stuff.
If it’s really any good, your friends will tell you about it, and you can buy the DVD later — which will have the director’s cut and half a metric ton of supplemental material, for about what you would pay to watch the lame theatrical release in a theater.