Dean sez:
> I have a general rule about trailers, that
> the more they show the weaker the film is
> believed by the company to be.

The only "rule" is that SFX takes longer than actual filming, so the early
trailers tend to focus more on the stars. In some cases, the effects in a
key scene is finished out of sequence in order to facilitate the trailer.

The most obvious example of this was Jurassic III where the dinosaurs
weren't shown as late as one week before the film's release. There were no
surprises -- we'd seen them before and knew they were there -- but the
scenes were unfinished until just before the film's release.

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