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Clickable Emoticons	Airbusjack wrote: > [quote=Eret,(time=1405098374)]I've gone back and forth on this but I think > I'm now firmly on the side that they should have kept it a secret. I think > it would have been really cool if they hadn't shown her at all, not even in > her mask stuff. No hint of her, nothing. I know she plays a large role in > the movie but I think they could have easily avoided it in the marketing if > they tried. It would have gotten people talking the same kind of way Hans > in Frozen did, which worked really well in that movie's favor as far as > word of mouth. [/quote] > > That is actually a good point. I didn't see Frozos but, in the Godzilla > 2014 film, the adverts shrouded Godzilla as a mysterious figure, rather > then revealing all of him all together. Then when i saw the film [spoiler] > there were actually 2 Other monsters not revealed in the trailer > [/spoiler] and that made the film more exciting and surprising. > > [quote=Eret,(time=1405098595)]By the way, when I saw it with my dad and his > girlfriend, who hadn't seen any trailers, they were shocked that it was his > mom and thought it was a guy before she took off her mask, which I'm pretty > sure is what the filmmakers were going for in the first place. They loved > her introduction because they had no idea she was coming at all. Its a > shame that got lost on everyone who saw any of the trailers.[/quote] > > Lucky father of yours. I have been lurking at the Grapevine but when the > clips began to appear i did my best to avoid them. I did that with the > first HTTYD and by avoiding the clips and trailers it made the movie > experience frackin' amazing. :) > > If Valka was completely anonymous I would of believed that the mask > character was actually Drago, especially when hiccup called Valka a dragon > trapper and Drago to see of she responds.
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Eret 13 Jul 2014, 19:13

RealHousewifeofBerk
13 Jul 2014, 22:24
I saw one review saying that they didnt think it was that smart of a move before seeing the movie, but after watching it and seeing
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Stoick die
, they actually thought it was smarter because that was an even bigger spoiler and that it would have been too much to shock the audience with the fact that his mother's still alive, and then the minute they start to get used to that, *BOOM* another shock. But I don't know, maybe double shock would have made the emotions more powerful, or maybe it would have been too much for audiences to digest all at once, and then the movie could have been panned for being too unpredictable and haphazard? I can definitely see both sides to that.

I don't know if I agree with that reviewer that the shock of Stoick's death makes up for the fact that we weren't shocked by Valka. They're timed so far apart in the movie that the two plot twists wouldn't be stepping on each others toes, I think. The only way revealing Valka could have been a good thing is if there was another plot twist involving her, like if it turned out she was lying or something. But there wasn't, because just the fact that she showed up at all should have been shocking, but unfortunately it wasn't because they spoiled it.

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