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Movie Marketing Used to Be Fun. Now It’s Just Inescapable. — Ads are everywhere, and yet fewer viewers are aware of what’s coming out when. (www.vulture.com)
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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Thanks to my adblocking and no-live-TV lifestyle these days, I don't ever see ads and have absolutely no clue what's coming out unless a friend tells me about it.

If it's something remarkable, then I'll learn about it through social osmosis. Other things I might notice months or years after the fact.

I'm totally fine with this :)

Compared to when I was 14 and watched the trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers about a million times getting massively hyped after having committed to downloading the high quality version on a dial-up modem.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

I'm in the same exact boat, but I do miss movie hype and trailers. It was a sort of marketing I didn't mind at all. 20-years ago I'd go to Apple trailers and see what was going on. Now I'm clueless. The article reminded me of quite a few movies I need to download.

I only knew about Longlegs and Weapons because I saw a bit of hype on lemmy. Who knows what I'm missing? Forgot about One Battle After Another, but I really want to see it. Marty Supreme might be pretty cool, but the ads never made it to my face.

That sounds like a good thing, but again, I didn't mind movie marketing. It's just that we're so fucking inundated with ads that people like you and I turned it all off. Sad state of affairs.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social -1 points 3 days ago

I remember going to a movie for s friend's birthday when i was 8 and we all lost our shit seeing the trailer for Revenge of the Sith. But all the movies coming to theaters now are shit so i never go to any movies, which also means i have no clue how to figure out when a good movie is actually coming to the theater.