There's a fabulous show on some channel called All About Trailers. It is exactly what it says it is - a few hours each week with nothing but movie trailers. You see, I'm one of those crazy people who actually likes going to the movies and sitting through 20 minutes of upcoming movie trailers before the real show actually starts. Based on some of the movies I've seen recently, the trailers are the best part of the evening.
Lately, while I've been watching All About Trailers, I've noticed something. Today's episode featured about 12 trailers in the time that I was watching it. In those 12 trailers about 6 of them were horror movies. That seems to be the majority of all movies these days - blood, guts, gore and horror. And my question for the movie makers of America is why?
Why do we need so many scary movies that are basically the same scary premise, over and over again? I'm a big old scaredy-cat so I hate even watching the trailers. You can imagine how much this ruins my All About Trailers viewing. Let's just say there's a lot of eye covering.
Then there's the subject of money. Why is all this money being spent on scaring people? I know lots of people like them, but they can't be all that profitable. I'm almost positive that lovely Rom-Coms or bio-pics about wonderfully interesting people or just really good mysteries have got to make more money than crappy scare-fests. At least, I have to hope they do. Where's the next great "Love, Actually" or the next "Lord of the Rings" series? That's what I'm anxiously awaiting, if only to be able to watch All About Trailers again without covering my eyes.
Afterall, the world is scary enough as it is - what with the possibility of President Trump and all - why do we need to pay to be terrified? We should be scared enough as it is!
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