Does good movie trailer with too many contoversy attract people to watch movie?

Sometimes a bad trailer can put off people into watching the movie. For example, I thought that the movie "Push" starring Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Chris Evans was bad because the trailer was so dull and I thought it was just another action movie but then when I watched the movie, it turned out to be a really nice movie with a very interesting storyline. I guess the bad trailer also affected the movie's box-office figures.

Personally, I never decided to watch any movie just based on the trailer. Usually I search about the movie's information first, preview/review. At the very least, I must know what is the movie's story all about. Then the second I looked at the cast and the producing staff/company. They can be a guarantee if the movie good or not, for example: I think Pixar or Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks will be a guarantee for a good movie. And the last comes the trailer, but I found most trailer don't really represent the movie so it is just as a last deciding factor. So far, I think every movie I watched worthed for every money that I have to paid.

You hit the nail on the head. There are too many trailers which make a movie out to be something that it isn't or just show all the best bits so that a movie appears better than it is. Take "Marley & Me" for example, the trailers made it out to be a typical romantic comedy but in fact it was a drama and so many people who watched ti were disappointed. These days I will watch the trailers but they will never be the main reason for me to watch a movie, I will do some research, read some reviews etc etc and then decide whether a movie is worth watching.

You are absolutely right.But some trailers just cannot focus on the subject matter of the movie and give a very wrong impression.One example that comes to my mind is FIGHT CLUB.The trailers of the movie made it look like a silly action flick.But on the contrary it had more soul searching material in it.Because of that trailer people who would have loved the movie did not care to see it in the theater while those who did not understand a single thing went to watch a nice action flick and were pretty bored.It is a great movie but is highly underrated. Coming back to your point about controversy, it is a very effective trend to publicize ones films.And the truth is it does attract people to theaters. If you want my opinion, I choose what films to watch in theaters myself.I like to watch casual flicks like transformers and wolverine in the theaters with friends just for pure entertainment.On the other hand I prefer watching movies like revolutionary road alone in my home do understand the inner meaning and depth of the movie.Trailers help me a lot in this respect.

I agree with you.In way too many cases,the movie trailers are made such that you think that the movie will be awesome and then we go to watch the movie and see that its not all that great.At other times, they don't market the movie well and we see the movie online thinking its not that great and it turns out pretty good. When I plan to watch a movie, I normally wait for a while, till the reviews are out and also ask my friends/relatives what they thought about it.Only then I go to watch them in theaters. There was a time when I used to watch most movies in theaters.But now its feasible to watch them at home and the tickets are way too expensive.

yes really it will attract the audience heart, because trailer contain only so intresting scenes only so definetely it will attract the audience face

hi homesphoppers! well, i must say controversies in movies do help in selling it out. i remember the movie adapted from the novel of dan brown. i'm sure you remember the da vinci's code. well, that movie had so many controversies and most of the religious were saying do not watch it. they caused such a huge ruckus that aroused people's curiousity. i guess that the controversies surrounding the movie made it a big hit.

I know that these things are done to attract the masses and its also true that too many controversy over a film does attract people.its a latest trend in bollywood so as to have a good opening at the box office since the films here do not last for more than one week or so.

yepp...trailers play a vital role in attracting people..sometimes as u said controversy is invoked..if u or ur faith is abused in controversy then i don think u ll watch the movie..so it all depends on what the controversy is created... and coming to best part of movie in a trailer..it happens that trailer is a summary of all best scenes of the movie..so chances are high that people are cheated..so its better watch a movie after taking reviews..

definitely yes for me. I have based my downloaded movies via trailer if I didn't like it I wont waste my time to download it. I used to watched movies in our home because its very expensive watching in the theater except if the movie is being big hit it intrigues me see it.