Whatever happened to "behind the scenes" pre-release info?
- Thread starter Ian Keldon
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Sheesh.
If anything, I feel there's too much pre-release info out there to the point that it's too easy to get spoiled and harder not to when it's everywhere. I managed to not look at anything for NuTrek before the movie was released and I felt I was better for it as I didn't know what to expect. It's part of the movie-going experience for me. We're a spoiled generation when it comes to movie details. We want to know everything to the point that there's no surprise.
So J.J. just says, no, keep your money. I am unconscionable and unprincipled?
What does that mean in this reality?
So J.J. just says, no, keep your money. I am unconscionable and unprincipled?
I think that we'll never know. ^^^
Too much bitching by those wanting to find something to complain about is bound to put some folks off, but with the possibility of a book, e-book, web series or some such is possibly a factor as well. People are willing to pay to see that kind of thing if there’s no other way of getting hold of it – and an interested fan base is a difficult cash cow to ignore.
Realities are always more complex than the history that gets told. If I recall correctly, people did not buy color tvs because of Star Trek, but ratings for the show were quite high amongst people who had color tvs, as opposed to being quite low amongst people who had black and whites. At the time, however, very few people had color tvs - they were the early adopters of the 60s, i.e. tech geeks, so it's not a big surprise that they had a lot of crossover with an SF show.
The letter campaign mattered at the time, as did the high ratings for people with color tvs, as did the fact that TV Guide (at the time THE arbiter of TV information and criticism for the general public) has always had a lobbering love affair with Star Trek and probably a half dozen other factors that we can never know about. So many people are involved in these decisions and they are so sensitive to so many variables that trying to attribute them to this or that is probably always going to miss the mark.
Really??? I've read sites like AICN since they started (15+ years ago) and I can tell you that we today find out a LOT more about films in production than we used to - on average.
Everything and everyone being online has just led to that naturally. I think instead you have have gotten used to too much information access, so when certain production (naturally) try to cut down on pre-release info, you have a visceral reaction.
But it is NOT a valid reaction, IMO. Some film productions are always going to be more secretive than others, but on balance there is more information out there than ever IMO.
Yep, exactly. There are so many sites dedicated to reporting specific info, like the Trekmovie website for example, a medium which simply wasn't available back in the day. The internet's made it a little too easy in my opinion, and it's a lot harder to stay away from spoilers when it's talked about everywhere.
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