It has Oscar nominations, yet I have not heard of it and it has been out for over a year. Of course I am referring to Beasts of the Southern Wild. Coming out of Sundance last year, it was praised by critics everywhere, but never had a wide release, so most people don't know what this movie is about. I've watched the trailer a couple of times and from what I see, it is reminiscent of The Land Before Time. I know that may feel like a stretch but based on the trailer, a disaster happens and a kid must find away to persevere through a tough time in order find a better life. That sounds like the same movie.
In this case, I have a problem with movie trailers in general. Sometimes you get a trailer that down plays the greatness of a movie, and sometimes you get all the action sequences to make it feel big, but really isn't. Then there are trailers like Silver Linnings Playbook where the first trailer made it out to be a humble feel good flick and then the final trailer made it seem action packed with upbeat music and more action scenes. These contradicting views on a movie can make it confusing to pinpoint what the movie is exactly about.
Then in the rare case, you get a movie like Midnight in Paris where the trailer tells you nothing about the premise of the movie other than it's a Woody Allen film and you will like it if you like his kind of story telling. Some people like going into a movie not knowing what it's about, but as for most of us, we tend to go consistently with what we like and don't see a movie we haven't seen trailers for that we didn't like.
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