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More and more frequently, movie trailers
are better than the movies they're promoting. As they've become
increasingly adept at short-handing a feature-length plot, and
increasingly unconcerned about revealing all the elements of said plot,
they play like accelerated shorts, complete with a story arc and
emotional climax, ruining plot twists and funny-the-first-time-you
hear-them jokes. They're trailers for people who hate surprises.
David Edelstein, in his New York review of the new Terminator film (aka, the film where Christian Bale lost his shit), demurs from revealing... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)