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The conversation extends to the manipulation of public perception through trailers and marketing. They note how trailers have degenerated into tools for deception—either revealing too much or creating false expectations—contrasting recent trailers’ overhyped or misleading nature with classics that maintained mystery. The panel supports that a good trailer leaves viewers intrigued without spoiling essentials, citing 28 Years Later as a prime example of effective teaser filmmaking.
They criticize Disney’s Ghostbusters reboot (2016), framing it as emblematic of a larger cultural shift where consumer dissatisfaction stems from the woke agenda inserted into media, rather than a genuine critique of the films themselves.