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Oh, back when we could go to the movie theaters....remember those days? Like a year ago? Well, we're hoping that the days of spending way too much money on a bad movie will be back soon. But when that day does come how will you know if the movie is going to be good or not?
Someone on Reddit recently asked users "Waht are some subtle 'red flags' that tell you a movie isn't worth watching?," and plenty of people were more than happy to chime in.
Such “red flags” include:
- "If you don't laugh once at a trailer for a comedy, don't bother watching the movie."
- "If the trailer has blurbs from reviews, I always check to see who wrote each review because — for really bad movies — they will often put multiple blurbs from the same good review."
- "If the ads for it say, 'Critics are calling it laugh-out-loud funny!’ It’s almost always garbage."
- "If it's clearly just a 'star vehicle.' Like, if all the hype around the film is about one star's 'riveting performance,' but there's no corresponding critical praise for the story, directing, special effects, etc."
- "The release date tells you everything you need to know. For instance, the only movies that go into wide release in January or February are: Oscar bait that got limited releases in December in NY/LA to qualify for the Oscars, a romance or two the Friday before Valentine's Day, and crap that the distributors are assuming will bomb."
- "I love Hall and Oates, but if 'You Make My Dreams Come True' is used in the trailer for a movie, it's likely going to be trash."
- "I've found how bad a movie is is exponentially proportional to how many helicopters are in the trailer..."
- "When there are long voiceovers to set up the story or to advance the story. It means either the writer sucked or they couldn’t get the scenes quite right. So the editor had nothing to work with."
- "If I see boobs in the first 10 minutes. I've watched a lot of really bad movies and one surprising thing they all have in common is that they have a naked woman some time early on.”
- "If you find out that they didn't screen it for critics, you know it's going to be really bad."
- "When you feel the preview showed you basically the whole movie."