“Any descriptions of goods and services, given by a person acting in the course of a trade or business, should be accurate and not misleading.
It should be noted that to commit an offence, the description must be false to a material degree, e.g. has a significant impact on a purchaser’s ability to enjoy and/or use the goods/services, or a significant effect on their value.“
So many times I have been caught out by a trailer that shows a movie to be one thing and then when you see it, it’s another. I think that these types of trailers should be reporting under the trades description act as I am paying for a product that turns out to be something different to what was described to me.
Some films have trailers that complement a movie, ones that help you to know what the movie is, but without giving too much away. Others however are just rubbish and can give too much information or hardly anything. A trailer that gives you too much can make you say ” Do I really need to go and see the movie now” where as one that gives you nothing can make you say ” there was nothing to make me want to see it” and if either of these have happen then the trailers has failed. There are trailers that like to con you and treat you like mug, they show something that appeals’ to you, but when you watch the film, the bit you like isn’t even in it.
All trailers should give a sensible amount of information in a trailor and maybe strict guidlines should followed. That way people like me won’t feel hard done by the next time we go to the Cinema.
