Anders Wright Did an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
The first few lines….
The red band trailer isn’t new, but you used to only see them in front of seriously rated-R movies. Basically, it’s a trailer that is intended only for audiences 17 and up. One thing that’s happened recently, though, is that the studios are cutting more red-band trailers—named so for the red “restricted” band that appears before the trailer itself—and putting them online. We started to see the phenomenon earlier in the year, mostly with comedies—Knocked Up had a red-band trailer, and so did Superbad, both for language, naturally. But in recent months, the trailers are getting the band for the violence in them. Here are a few of the trailers I’ve bumped into in recent months (Beowulf has an intense one I haven’t seen yet). You may need to verify your age before viewing, and I should say at the outset that none of them are for the squeamish. (more…)