How The Marketing for Terminator 2 Ruined An ALL-TIME GREAT Reveal...

[HHR]

I was far too young to recognize any of this, but this is fascinating.

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/670-terminator-2-and-the-worlds-biggest-spoiler/

....this time around, the T-800 has a different role. But the film plays out in a way designed to obscure that fact from the audience. In voiceover narration, Sarah Connor (Hamilton again) explains that just as in the first Terminator, the malign future AI Skynet sent an assassin back in time to destroy John Connor—now a 10-year-old, played by Edward Furlong—to prevent him from becoming a future leader. Just as in the first Terminator, Connor’s human-resistance faction sent back a protector to keep him safe. And right up to the moment the two clash, the audience is meant to see Schwarzenegger as the same heavy he played in the last film, and his opposite number, the advanced-tech T-1000 (played in some scenes by Robert Patrick, and in others by a digital effect, which was also groundbreaking at the time), as the hero sent to rescue John.

A variety of clues lead audiences astray. .....

And none of it mattered, because in 1991, when Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, the marketing campaign gave the whole game away.
.........

Trailers fukking suck.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Trailers and Behind the Scenes special ruin movies by revealing too much, imo, which is why I avoid them for movies I'm really looking forward to see.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I just remember when the teaser trailer dropped I was
...the marketing was on some other shyt..

shyt was epic

 

[HHR]

Trailers and Behind the Scenes special ruin movies by revealing too much, imo, which is why I avoid them for movies I'm really looking forward to see.

Ditto. If I see more than one or two before a film, the experience is lowered for me. The 3 minute trailer for "Gone Girl" I saw this weekend made me so angry.....I don't think it gave anything away, but it definitely showed actors who I didn't know were in the film.

I understand WHY studios need to market like this, but it can be hard as hell to avoid.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I was far too young to recognize any of this, but this is fascinating.

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/670-terminator-2-and-the-worlds-biggest-spoiler/



Trailers fukking suck.

But it doesnt matter at all because nobody felt spoiled nor did it derail box office performance at all
Budget$94[2]–102[3] million
Box office$519,843,345[3]

Opening in 2,274 theaters in the United States, Terminator 2 earned $54 million during its Fourth of July opening weekend, $3 million behind Batman (1989) during its opening five-day weekend. One theater chain owner was reported as saying "But nothing since Batman has created the frenzy for tickets we saw this weekend with Terminator. At virtually all our locations, we were selling out well in advance of showings, and the word-of-mouth buzz out there is just phenomenal."

buzz and 'spoilers' made it the biggest grossing movie of 91.

 

[FlyRy]

T2..still a top 3 theatre experience for me.. i was like 6 and i still remember it VIVIDLY

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

But it doesnt matter at all because nobody felt spoiled nor did it derail box office performance at all
Budget$94[2]–102[3] million
Box office$519,843,345[3]



buzz and 'spoilers' made it the biggest grossing movie of 91.

And it was R rated. James Cameron DA Gawd!

 

[Diunx]

It was 91 these kind of movies were actually marketed towards kids and we kids didn't give a shyt about spoilers back then, no one did really unless it was really big stuff like Psycho or Star Wars, this "any plot detail is a spoiler" shyt didn't start until the internet became mainstream.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I was far too young to recognize any of this, but this is fascinating.

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/670-terminator-2-and-the-worlds-biggest-spoiler/



Trailers fukking suck.

this sounds good but the t-1000 murdered a cop in the first 2 seconds we saw him... i don't think anyone thought he was the good guy

 

[Jazzy B.]

Movie was ahead of it's time and still holds up today despite being over 20 years old. Cameron the gawd

 

[Ricky Church]

Judgement Day is the best movie out the whole franchise.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

i never saw the first terminator until years after seeing the 2nd one. So it really didn't impact me the way if i guess it would if i saw the first one
but i'm sure the writers mustve been looking like when they saw the trailer spoiled their big twist

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

i never saw the first terminator until years after seeing the 2nd one. So it really didn't impact me the way if i guess it would if i saw the first one
but i'm sure the writers mustve been looking like when they saw the trailer spoiled their big twist

i mean was it a big twist though? It reveals itself early in act 1...its not a big reveal; its a major plot piece but "Come with me if you want to live" isn't a final act climax secret...arnold as a good guy is WHY people wanted to see it

 

[GzUp]

this sounds good but the t-1000 murdered a cop in the first 2 seconds we saw him... i don't think anyone thought he was the good guy

I did

 

[ORDER_66]

I didn't really care about the trailer. The story was off the chain reguardless of the twist.