10 Ways You Get Tricked Into Seeing Movies
Did you actually want to see these?
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. But a close second is tricking you into seeing a movie you didn't want to. Unless you're a cinematic masochist (although judging by the success of the Transformers some of you must be) you never want to see a genuinely bad movie. There may be the odd moment of ridiculousness you can laugh at (Nicolas Cage wearing a bear suit and punching women), but that's overpowered by the boredom or anger a terrible movie instills (the rest of The Wicker Man remake). But movie studios, being the devious fellas they are will happily have you suffer if it means they can get a slice of the box office and will be less than honest to make that happen. Whether it's rather subliminal, or unbelievably obvious, there's a whole toolbox of tricks that can be used to make audiences end up willingly handing over their hard earned cash for a cinematic atrocity. Today we intend to show to what extent marketing will go to, highlighing ten little tricks they repeatedly play. Not all the movies in the examples are bad, but the techniques are certainly devious. Some you may know, some you may not, but you've probably fallen for them all at some time or another.