While moviegoers are long past the days of rushing to the movie theater to make it to their seats before the listed showtime, AMC is now giving a courtesy heads-up that’s hard to miss. Previews and various advertisements have almost always come before movies in theaters, and that aspect won't ...
I actually thought this was a response to my comments in the trailer thread, lol. Having not read the book, I don’t know where a good cut off would be. Having not suggest an alien at all? Alien contact revealed, but not much more? Some replies say there’s still a lot more, so maybe this isn’t ruined “enough”? If the trailer had only shown him without much of any plot revealed, would it attract enough viewers who knew nothing of the book?
It’s a tough decision, and there will always be upset people. The goal is to get tickets, so whatever marketing research deems will work the best wins.
I think having encountered the alien structure would have been enough after it docked with his ship, with the voiceover of meeting an alien. The actual alien encounter would have been so much better only revealed in the film IMO, but as you said, what I think is best may not sell tickets
Yeah. I get it.
But when I did the book, I went in completely blind. There’s zero indication it’s going to involve extraterrestrial intelligence until suddenly it does. I loved the surprise and feel sad that so many moviegoers are gonna be robbed of that experience.