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MovieTickets.com Super Bowl Trailers Audience Impact Poll

Wired.com reports on the Super Bowl trailers that aired yesterday as rated by 550 MovieTickets.com viewers.

Apparently Tim Burton's Alice and Wonderland was the most memorable movie trailer of the day, followed by Robin Hood,Shutter Island and The Wolfman. The last place trailer was The Backup Plan, a romantic comedy.

The other two trailers that faired poorly were two films with racebending in them: Third-to-last was Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time followed by a second-to-last in memorability: The Last Airbender.

It's just an informal poll, but this is a site that sells movie tickets...

On the other hand, the fact that the TLA trailer played after the coin-toss may have meant that people weren't paying as much attention at the time. The other movies all come out before Airbender, too, imho. But at least in one informal poll, Airbender didn't make too much of an impact.

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[info]tinkwings17_817

February 8 2010, 22:37:08 UTC 2 years ago

This doesn't surprise me. Aside from the racebending of both, the trailers make them look ridiculous and give no tie-in to the stories anyway.

TLA was just a bunch of random scenes that make no sense to people who don't even know the show and was just in a poor spot to begin with. I only caught the last two seconds of it.

Also, PoP just pisses the gamers off (me included). Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince is ridiculous.

[info]guardians_song

February 8 2010, 23:11:33 UTC 2 years ago

Also, PoP just pisses the gamers off (me included). Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince is ridiculous.
Wait, they did what? *checks online*

...I'll second the "ridiculous". *facepalm*

[info]dkwrkm

February 8 2010, 23:55:29 UTC 2 years ago

TLA was just a bunch of random scenes that make no sense to people who don't even know the show

Idk, I think they decided to highlight the four kinds of bending precisely to hook people in. Ooh, that's an interesting and different way of doing things, that sort of reaction.

Rest of your comment gets a big WORD.

[info]tinkwings17_817

February 9 2010, 00:23:32 UTC 2 years ago

hehe thank you.
Idk, I think they decided to highlight the four kinds of bending precisely to hook people in. Ooh, that's an interesting and different way of doing things, that sort of reaction.

True but it could have been so much better. The actual bending seemed to go by so fast that, if I wasn't a fan and expecting it, I would have missed it. Maybe they should have given a certain amount of time to each character/element? Show more of Aang and Zuko. People need the hero and villian shown.
The story is basicly the same of any epic fantasy that they really don't need to focus on the cliches of it. The last of his kind and forces of darkness and whatnot.
Maybe the actual trailer will focus more on bending and the characters.
They can tie the scenes together to create the same basic outline without it seeming like every other so-so fantasy that rips off LotR and Star Wars.

I'm not expecting much from this movie. Just want them to get the bending right.

Wow tl;dr. I apologize. I just like good trailers.

[info]jedifreac

February 9 2010, 00:41:19 UTC 2 years ago

It would have been really cool if they had done a live action quasi-remake of the opening credits with Katara's narration. I always felt that "Water, Earth, Fire, Air, long ago, the Four Nations...etc..." gave people a pretty clear idea of the story and showcased all the bending efficiently.

[info]tinkwings17_817

February 9 2010, 00:56:21 UTC 2 years ago

Now that would be epic in 'live-action'!

You wouldn't even need to actually see the cast. All the focus is on bending and Aang. Perfect.

[info]sidepocket_pro

February 9 2010, 06:32:18 UTC 2 years ago

I would have made that the first trailer for the movie.

[info]lucky_starr17

February 9 2010, 20:28:25 UTC 2 years ago

Honestly, that would have been one of my first trailers too.
Hook in the old fans that would recognize the opening sequence and intrigue new viewers with a clear (yet awesome) summary. Much better than you're the chosen one in a world of ~darnessss~
Even if he cut the more humorous sequences with Aang from the opening and replaced them with darker and edgier, I think it still would have proved less...generic.

I think it's another example of M.night attempting to make this adaptation his own, and distinctly set it apart from the series. :/

[info]dkwrkm

February 8 2010, 23:59:08 UTC 2 years ago

To continue my streak of negativity, I thought all of the trailers sucked. They just all looked the same, used the same palette, the same music.

I don't know how people came away actually being able to differentiate between them...

[info]erikonil

February 9 2010, 00:46:23 UTC 2 years ago

That's a good point and I think is shows the problem (one of many) that M Night's direction has had on the story. If they had kept the colours more like a Chinese epic, it would have stood out. If they had Chinese music (even generic Chinese music) it would have stood out.

As is, it's just another effects movie that has nothing new and original with it.

Anonymous

February 9 2010, 01:22:28 UTC 2 years ago

No "story", no memorability!

I'm not surprised-- since the other trailers had CONTEXT, aka they referenced their sources/stories-- so the audiences knew the Alice, Robin Hood, Wolfman trailers were for movies ABOUT Alice (in Wonderland), Robin Hood, (Were-)Wolfman, etc.

OTOH, The POP and the Racebender movies tried to wow audiences GENERICALLY with their CGI/visual effects WITHOUT giving them a distinctive/memorable idea of what they are watching....

I guess they expected people to go "err, that was nice... whatever it was"-- and then eagerly check out the movie?

[info]mrcab

February 9 2010, 04:51:07 UTC 2 years ago

Either way: \o/
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