10 Ways Trailers Are Secretly Ruining Movies

4. Showing Off The Final Set-Piece

Generally, I don't want a movie trailer showing anything of the final set-piece, or at least they had best disguise it in such a way that we don't know where it figures in the film. Unfortunately, too many film trailers, especially those of blockbusters, make it abundantly clear how things are going to end up; thus we feel that we've already seen the vast majority of the big "money shots" before we've even sat down in our seat. Take last year's epic trailer for The Avengers; so much of the trailer was devoted to showing off the New York fight, and though a lot of the best stuff - like Hulk rag-dolling Loki - was kept out of the trailers, it still didn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I want to be nervously excited about how the final showdown is going to take place; I don't want to know what it is ahead of time because it makes it easier to predict what's going to happen during everything leading up to it.