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Message: [QUOTE="What's His Face, post: 374621, member: 125725"] Allow me to rebuttal: It's Winter 1993. The first trailer of the next Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is just shown for the first time in theatres. Audiences know what to expect. This is [I]his[/I] movie, he's the star - obviously. The first scene shown of the trailer is twenty seconds of him and Tom Arnold goofing off each other. Then we see Jamie Lee Curtis spin-kick a dozen terrorists in their face while dual-wielding uzis. Then a scene with Arnold driving a convertible from behind. The next clip is Vanessa Williams shooting a railgun from inside a harrier jet. Then the title card: "[U]The Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie.[/U]" So...who's the star? What's the point of putting Arnold's name in the title if the trailer, the device used to encourage hype to watch the movie, is showing him taking a backseat role in said trailer to other characters? Yes, he will [I]most likely[/I] be the star of the movie, but you sure wouldn't know that from the trailer, would you? THAT'S how I see this Mario movie trailer. Does that mean I want Peach & Rosalina to take a backseat themselves? No, and don't go putting words in my mouth stating that I do. What I [B]am [/B]stating is that the movie trailer did a piss-poor job highlighting the actual title card stars in favour of other characters who "just so happen" to be female, for the sake of a "stronk woman need no man" sales pitch to the viewers. Even Toad is taking the backseat even though he's shown travelling alongside Peach. And we all know that Toad is a great character as he's been playable in plenty of games, too. Which is what prompted my earlier statement that some folks are flying off the handle over, but is one I will defend and not back down from. Or, to give another example: If the movie were called "[U]The Super Princesses Movie[/U]" and the trailer was exactly this, I wouldn't care that the trailer is portrayed as "Action Chick Flick #5,074"...[I]because it's Peach & Rosalina's movie.[/I] That's them in the title card. But when you have "action chicks" who are the [I]only[/I] ones shown in a trailer to do [I]any [/I]action scenes for a movie that has someone else's name in the title...yet the title characters themselves aren't shown doing any derring-do of their own [I]or [/I]along side them? That makes me roll my eyes and call it out for what it is. [/QUOTE]

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