Movie Trailers: To watch or not to watch?

If you've ever seen a movie in the theater, or watched television commercials you just might have come across a trailer for an upcoming film. Nowadays though it seems that there are more and more trailers that follow a theme of revealing too much information to the public. So much so that it almost renders itself pointless to spend the ten dollars to see it in the theater after you just watched a 2 1/2 minute unabridged variation of the film. While I know I am not the only one that feels this way about movie trailers, there is the other side of the fence. Some moviegoers need to have a majority of the key points of the film out on the table so that they can know if it is worth shelling out for them in the first place. So Directors are having to walk on the thin line of deciding just how much they want to show.

I stopped watching a majority of trailers to films I've not seen or heard of before because of this trend. Often looking them up later after I've watched the actual feature.

The trailer for Dream House leaves little to the imagination, while the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises was able to leave views on the edge of their seat wondering just what could happen next while sparing very little. You can check them out below, but I do warn you if you've never seen Dream House you should watch with caution since it does give away most of the key plot elements.





My question to you though is: When is showing too much, really just 'too much'? Do you have any trailers that you love because they don't spoil the film? Or are you one of the ones that enjoy knowing everything that happens so you know you won't be wasting your money??