Surprise!... not.

I am a FIEND for The Office. I've adorned my school books with their company logo, Dunder Mifflin, and even made some Dunder Mifflin name badges for myself, just to get the full effect. There's a character, Ryan, played by BJ Novak who has a role in Inglourious Basterds. I got so excited when I saw the trailer that he was going to be in it, so I rightfully got the DVD.

Quite a disappointment (the character, not the movie). Novak had probably a total of ten minutes in that three-hourish time span when I thought perhaps it would have been double (or triple!). The system duped me. Then I realized, "what system won't?"

It's a shame that all movies filter almost every funny/memorable part into the trailers. Once you go see the movie, it's not as funny anymore. After seeing the trailer 562 times, the anticipation builds and the expectation falls. You may pretend to laugh the same way you did when you saw the trailer, but it's as false as the movie's plot. Trailers pretty much give you the best part of the movie, minus the detailed fluff, then subliminally convinces you to unconsciously pull a twenty from your wallet and deposit it at the theatre counter. Though some movie trailers are well done (AVATAR!), it makes the movie surpass the trailer by twenty million percent. But most of them haven't hit the mark as sharply as Avatar did...