Best. Trailers. Ever. And the Worst!

Yeah I liked that trailer too, it took me forever to track down that song. Like I said, its amazing how many songs can make or break a trailer

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Originally Posted by The Dopefish

Remember when you saw Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace trailer for the first time?

Awesome.

That's what I thought of as well. That's probably the best trailer I can remember in recent years - as well as the best example of how a great trailer doesn't necessarily mean a great film... as we all soon discovered. *sigh*

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I actually remember seeing the trailer for the original Matrix, and that made me really want to see it. It may be kind of sad, but I ended up seeing the Matrix 27 times fully, and countless partial watches, and the awesome trailer is what started that whole process.

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My favorite has got to be 'Raging Bull'. I used the trailer to show a friend how just because a film is in B&W doesn't mean it sucks.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Knighthawk

I think alot of trailers end up being liked so much because they use some awesome music in them...that never even makes it to the film (The Two Towers, Chronicles of Narnia).

So true. I remember watching the trailer for Seven Years in Tibet. It had great music and when I watched the movie, I was waiting for the theme I heard in the trailer to pop up. Never happened. Turns out it was from another movie. Thoroughly disappointed. Don't remember enough of the movie to tell you whether I ended up liking it or not.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wasn't it Gladiator that used the music from Conan? Or am I thinking of a different trailer? All I know is that I was sitting there in the theatre watching a trailer, and all I could think is "This movie couldn't have even been bothered to use their own music?! Sad." I just can't remember the movie...

FELIPE NO

I remember the first Harry Potter Movie had some stupid trailer advertising it as if it were like a Rambo movie, The movie it self wasn't horrible but it looked in the trailers as if Harry Potter was some action hero.

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a few of the "best" trailers:

Matrix - when I saw this trailer for the first time in cinema, it blew me away

The Island (TEASER!!) - just perfect, doesnt spoil anything, perfectly cutted with the best chosen music

The Hills have Eyes - technical, this trailer is TOP

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake) - OMG OMG OMG, awesome. The mix between realism and the half finished footage is perfect!


game trailers:

The Getaway - the real filmed London chase is great and professional, nothing you expect from a videogame

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The trailer for the first Superman movie was great. And the teaser for Hulk was superior to the movie

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The trailer for Fellowship of the Ring, like, a year or more before it came out. I swear I heard O, Fortuna playing in the background.
Bad trailers, Dead or Alive, that part in the FotR trailer where they're like: hay, gotta wait another year to see the next movie, and another year after that to see the next! I also hated that for Bubba Ho-Tep. Good movie, crappy trailer.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

One thing I can say is that (almost) any movie that doesn't have "the voice" doing the narration...well, generally is a sucky movie. That's not to say that all movie trailers that have had "the voice" are good, but it is a pretty darned necessary requirement (this is of course only for trailers that have a narration voice).

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Has anyone seen the trailer for Brick?

apple.com/trailers

It's very cool, with the noir theme present throughout. I never would have thought Mr. Angels in the Outfield would make a good noir hero, but this trailer makes it seem like it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My favourite film trailers have to be those of The Matrix, and Spiderman. Spiderman especially; I just LOVED the track they had in the background. It was brilliant.

As for Game Trailers, my 5 stars goes to the Max Payne Trailers (for both 1 & 2).
Especially the trailer for MP1; my god, I must have watched it over 100 times in the first day I downloaded it. Amazing; I still watch it to this day.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Well, personally, I can't really crown A definitive trailer to be the best, but the Matrix trailers have always had good editing and some really cool tracks.

But I'd say FIGHT CLUB:

http://www.movie-list.com/f/fight-club.html

An awesome trailer for one of the best movies ever.

FELIPE NO

Edward Norton can narrate my movie trailer any day.

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Originally Posted by Knighthawk

I think alot of trailers end up being liked so much because they use some awesome music in them...that never even makes it to the film

I think that really true, because most trailer that I like are one with a good music that match the trailer, but sometime the trailer is 10x better than the movie (for exemple: Ultraviolet, I foudn the trailer very cool but the movie wasn't really good)

on of the trailer I remember I watch over and over, was the teaser and the japanese trailer of The Matrix: reloaded(love the music in the japanese trailer)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The Matrix trailer was pretty awesome.

Hmm I also have to say the Kill Bill vol.1 trailer was cool. Sin City had a great trailer also, but the movie wasn't AS good as I thought it was going to be ;(
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more, but right now I can't think of any.

As for worst trailer? Hands down the trailer for Bloodrayne.

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