Hey there Trailers community members!
Our little group has over 300 members now; plenty of folks watching it to make a meta/discussion thread worth while.
So who am I, and who are you?
I’m a middle aged film nerd with a background in technology who really appreciates the art form of a well-crafted trailer. Always did. That, and I’m simultaneously frustrated by their existential relationship to commercialism and advertising. There’s a blurry line between this kind of content that effectively functions as “novel, entertaining news” vs “look at this new thing to buy”.
Back in the 1990s, if you were an American with basic cable service, the E! cable network had a 30-minute weekly show called Coming Attractions that showed nothing but upcoming movie trailers for all kinds of movies, all different studios. While it wasn’t perfect, it was a great venue for getting that content (and let’s be clear: ads) in front the very rarest audience: people who actually WANTED to see it.
And that’s basically why I wanted to create this community. The velocity of global film production has exploded. There’s so much interesting stuff out there to watch! Yet, at the same time, the notification pipeline for getting the word out about these films has completely broken down. Every studio has their own website, their own social media vectors, their own streaming services and YouTube feeds. And I genuinely don’t care about the vast majority of the content those sources generate. I don’t want to see clips or interviews or behind-the-scenes peeks for everything - jettison the filler, just show me the trailers.
And that’s what this community is meant to be: a distillation of hundreds of media sources, just pulling out the stuff that I wanted. And if I’m sorting through it all for my own satisfaction, I might as well share it with others. And I love that Lemmy has community level RSS feeds. Interoperability is sexy.
I’ll save the discussion of my methodology and experimentation with automation for a future community post, but just know that the link aggregation is mostly a manual process at the moment, but one that I’m eager to make more efficient as time goes on.
So anyway, enough about me. Who are you?? Introduce yourself!
Introduce yourself——9 up votes and no comments
Yeah I loved coming attractions, because even if the movie was way out of my lane it was fun to see how they pitched it.
I’ve never found that trailers give away the movie, we kinda know that the bad news bears are going to win. That’s not the point; we want to enjoy the journey.
I’d even love to see a sister sub, for trailers older than a few years
I’m not against having a “throwback weekend” event where we post our favorite old classics. That sounds fun!
And I figured this would be a pretty quiet group. Generations of being told “no talking during the movie” takes its toll.
Hello!
Not coming so often, I mostly see it when Lemmy shows a crosspost between here and [email protected]
And that’s basically why I wanted to create this community. The velocity of global film production has exploded. There’s so much interesting stuff out there to watch! Yet, at the same time, the notification pipeline for getting the word out about these films has completely broken down. Every studio has their own website, their own social media vectors, their own streaming services and YouTube feeds. And I genuinely don’t care about the vast majority of the content those sources generate. I don’t want to see clips or interviews or behind-the-scenes peeks for everything - jettison the filler, just show me the trailers.
It seems like a very nice reason to get this community started!
On my side, I’m a movie fan trying to get more movie content to Lemmy, to change from the usual tech, memes and news. I guess I’ll come here more often, good luck with this community!
I’m a serial lurker, but I’ve been wanting to say thank you for putting this community together, and doing all the hard work to keep it going! I appreciate the wide variety of trailers you pick out; it’s a nice mix of mainstream stuff and more niche things I wouldn’t otherwise know existed.
