Here's a thing I hate: Piece of shit Trailers.

This movie could very well be the best movie of all times, I can't really say since I never watched it, however, this horrible trailer REALLY doesn't make me want to watch it. Which is the opposite of what a trailer is supposed to be.

There's 3 categories of trailers: Shitty trailers (like this one) because they say absolutely NOTHING about the story of the movie or the characters, spoiler trailers which basically tell you the whole movie (these are also a p.o.s.), and then there's regular, normal, acceptable trailers.

And... self-masturbatory much? The whole trailer is disconnected images, which tell you nothing, cut with critics' opinions on the movie.

there are also two parallel seperate categories of trailers
trailers that attempt to summarise the story of the film, ending up being a jumble of scenes pasted together
and trailers that attempt to convey the mood of the film
there's many films that don't have a clear linear story or a story that is irrelevant to the content of the film
like the fountain or antichrist or dancer in the dark, etc
any summary of the story would be an insult for the art of emotion and themes the film contains between the bulletpoints of traditional narrative

the distant suffocating mood this trailer portrays to me makes me want to see it
the imdb summary;
"An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest."
"A compelling and unforgettable portrayal of life within the maze prison at the time of 1981 IRA hunger strike."
doesn't tell much either

the director should really change his name though

If you can't glean anything from both the trailer and the tags (they are there for a reason) well, I'm sorry but you're likely an idiot. (not you shole)

Haha. When I first saw a write-up of this movie, I was like "Steve McQueen made a movie?" Yeah, Shole, he does need to change his name.

Borderline dupe
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hunger-Trailer