Yea. That's kind of the thing with this movie: viral marketing. Part of that being hidden clues and whatnot in the trailers.

I can definitely understand what you mean. I was thinking about that too. I tend to lead more towards "pain in the ass" anymore. It's like: Ok, we get it. You're cool and mysterious and like viral marketing. Stop. Show us something worthwhile, not something that just has us hunting for clues.

If we use a joke as a metaphor, mainstream blockbuster movies typically give us the overview, then they give us the set up, leaving us wanting to hear the punchline so to speak. With Abrams, he just gives us the lead-in story and makes us have to search around for clues as to what the set-up might be.

The problem with all this viral stuff is it gets tiresome. I'm not growing interest in the movie. I'm simply growing interest in finding out where the viral marketing is going.

I dunno I like it for these types of movies. It adds to the feeling of the movie. For example Cloverfield we all badly wanted to the monster, simply because of the marketing. This one has a magical feel to it, and thats how the marketing is. For all we know its ET2. We badly want to see what was in the train, what they were filming, etc...These clues will give us a glimpse of that, but not tell us and I like that.

Its like opening a present. All the stuff before opening the present is what makes it so fun.

And honestly he is a film maker, he is there to tell a story, to give us an experience. He isnt there to make money, and thats what should be on any TRUE film makers mind.

That would be super awesome if it was ET 2 but I don't think we're lucky enough to get anything like that in our lifetime. I need to get me ET but the non-edited version. The one where he says penis breath and the friend licks his finger and pretends to stick it in the mothers bum.