 Originally Posted by CrazyKid.kiTTie
Its not because of his critisism, its just that made the webpage and I'd rather have him talk to me about the site and not with Reese, because he and I are dealing with other things, he deals with the movie, I deal with the sites. Thats why I have a link to my email for others to email me to well tell me about the site. Its just he needs to get his facts straight before he can truely critisise anyone.
The trailer is on the site and is intended to promote the movie. It's an easy assumption to make that Reese either cut the trailer personally, supervised its creation, or approved its use. I can't be expected to know who did what; that's a bit unfair, don't you think? It is Reese's movie and the trailer reflects on him as well as the film. I pointed out that, IMO, it did a disservice to the film (and, by default, to Reese as director) and pointed out why it was flawed and how to improve it. Trailers are an important marketing tool, and if you release bad ones out there, you will lose sales and draw criticism.
Every movie I've ever seen that has included metal on the soundtrack has suffered as a result, and completely unnecessarily, from Agento's Phenomena to Dead Men Walking. There is an exception, and that is for good metal, rock, punk, whatever, to be placed in the main or end titles, but kept out of the film proper and in its advertising. Look at The Cave; they had Nemo by Nightwish, a beautiful goth-metal song, but they stuck it in the end titles where it did not affect anyone's enjoyment of the movie. Dawn of the Dead '04 had Down With The Sickness and some other songs on the soundtrack but they were relegated to the titles.
The vast majority of people who stick metal into their movies are young and/or operating under the delusion that it makes their movie more "extreme" when all it does is give viewers a headache and make them reach for the remote. No one will bother to listen to loud music they hate, they won't listen to the lyrics to reflect on the songwriter's message, or whatever. They will scream, "ARGH! This song sucks! Fast forward or shut this movie off!" I can't tell you how many movies have gone from merely bad to unwatchable because somebody just had to insert scenes of their favorite band into the movie, or put songs that didn't belong on the soundtrack.
Your film will be better if you stick to horror music. Again, I bring up NotLD 30th Anniversary Edition as an example of ruining a movie with bad music. Or the silent vampire classic Nosferatu (1921) scored by Type O Negative. It just doesn't work. It takes people out of the moment, out of the movie, and makes them focus on the music, not the scene. It's one thing to have the song playing in the background on the radio or MTV or whatever, then shut it off. That works, because it lets you know something about the characters who are listening to it--like the Michael Madsen ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs (not metal, but still applies).
At your budget level, you're not going to be able to afford to license good music, so your best bet is to use either stock music or hire/convince someone with talent to do it. And the band on that trailer are NOT who you should be using--that kind of music will badly date the movie--artistic quality (or lack thereof) aside.
If you care anything at all about making this a good movie, you'll at least consider the possibility that I'm right and not scream, "You just a**-raped me, you're a Nazi!"
Will music choice ultimately save NotLD '07? The answer is probably not, but it sure the hell can't hurt. Look, you guys are young and have taken on a monumental challenge, not just making a movie, but remaking a classic with a microscopic budget. On the one hand, I applaud you for getting out there and making a movie. On the other, I'm upset that you are remaking one of my favorite movies, regardless of motives, because what I've seen so far looks about as good as a Todd Sheets backyard movie. That's my opinion and it must be a majority opinion, because you turned off comments on YouTube and are flipping out whenever someone criticizes or questions your decisions. Granted, some of them have been mean, maybe unfair, but you are messing with people's dreams, with a movie that gives their lives meaning, and you are gonna catch hell for that, regardless of how your movie turns out. If it ends up good, then some of that vitriol will vanish, and NotLD '07 may earn some grudging acceptance.
In the end, it's your movie, do what you want, but you shouldn't discount constructive criticism out of hand and try to shift blame. If you've got some 17-year-old metalhead cutting your trailers, this is what you're going to get: inexperienced, shoddy work, no matter how enthusiastic or well-intentioned. He may be a great guy (and I'm sure he's cheap, as in free), but he ain't any good at cutting trailers, at least not yet.
I think your best bet for a trailer that will win people over is to do a slick 30-second spot (60-seconds, tops) that crams as much zombie action as possible with scary instrumental horror music. Really build tension and horror. All this long, drawn-out stuff with words on the screen is not working. It's NotLD, you don't need to rehash what everybody already knows. Cut the trailer to the beat of the music. I'm sure you can put something halfway decent together. You've got all the zombie crowd scenes--those are your one big strength, it makes your film look bigger in scope that most SOV backyard movies.
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Look at the NotLD 30th anniversary edition--they added crap music to that and got trashed for it (among all their other mistakes, like ever doing the new edition in the first place). 
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