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100 Best Movie Trailers Of All Time

post #1 of 58
8/30/07 at 3:50pm
Thread Starter 
I figured this is a flimsy excuse to find links to awesome trailers. And that's fun, right?

Anyway, I'm gonna pick a smaller one that I just saw, for a movie I haven't seen.

1. Highwaymen

It begins with an isolated scene from the movie that honestly looks pretty fucking cool. I hear the movie's shit, but who cares? This is an exciting clip.
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post #2 of 58
8/30/07 at 3:55pm
Phantom Menace. That is all.
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post #3 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:01pm
Never seen the movie, or the show for that matter, but I always thought this trailer for Spongebob Squarepants was pretty brilliant.
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post #4 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:05pm
Some of those Smokin' Aces trailers were pretty fun, tricking people into seeing the movie...
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post #5 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:14pm
The trailer for Little Children is one of the best.
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post #6 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:17pm
Driven

Nightwatch
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post #7 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:22pm
The original Independence Day teaser with the White House exploding. I can't find the thing online.
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post #8 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:33pm
My vote goes to the "300" trailer with NIN music...hard to find another good combination of images and music that makes you hunger for the movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIPkfXNHfc

Honorable mention to the funny as hell "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" internet trailer...a parody of trailers in itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhJwJPZc1Y
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post #9 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:39pm
I could have sworn there was another thread like this, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

Anyway, Cronenberg's Naked Lunch had a damn great trailer.
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post #10 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Kent
Phantom Menace. That is all.
I came here to post that as well. Whenever I see the trailer, I'm still fooled into thinking it's for a movie I'd love to see.
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post #11 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by Virtanen
Nightwatch's latin american trailer was far better, at least for me...convinced me to see the movie in theaters.

http://www.foxlatina.com/trailers/nightwatch-3565/26/

Also, what the hell, I'll be the first one to admit to have been awed by this one when I first saw it in theaters, despite the end result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eOKvZMrD5Y
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post #12 of 58
8/30/07 at 4:55pm
The Magnificent Ambersons

Three O'Clock High

Brick

The Apple

The Long Goodbye
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post #13 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:17pm
It's unfindable on the net, but the Pearl Harbor theatrical trailer that was shown in theaters used Hans Zimmer's Journey to the Line (from the Thin Red Line). With no dialogue and that music, it made the movie look a googol better than it actually was.

I agree with the 300 trailer utilizing Just Like You Imagined by NIN.

Other great trailers not yet listed:
I thought the Superman Returns teaser (John Williams Krypton music and Brando voiceover) was pretty good

The Fountain theatrical trailer

T2 "This Time There Are Two" is a fantastic trailer, and premiered well before anyone knew the T-800 was the good guy (that was actually a secret until a week or two before the film hit in 1991)

Black Hawk Down (Dave Matthews - Space Between)
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post #14 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:20pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by MangyK9
The original Independence Day teaser with the White House exploding. I can't find the thing online.
is this it?

http://www.movie-list.com/i/independ...ay-teaser.html
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post #15 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:21pm
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Originally Posted by First Class 782
It's unfindable on the net, but the Pearl Harbor theatrical trailer that was shown in theaters used Hans Zimmer's Journey to the Line (from the Thin Red Line). With no dialogue and that music, it made the movie look a googol better than it actually was.

I agree with the 300 trailer utilizing Just Like You Imagined by NIN.

Other great trailers not yet listed:
I thought the Superman Returns teaser (John Williams Krypton music and Brando voiceover) was pretty good

The Fountain theatrical trailer

T2 "This Time There Are Two" is a fantastic trailer, and premiered well before anyone knew the T-800 was the good guy (that was actually a secret until a week or two before the film hit in 1991)

Black Hawk Down (Dave Matthews - Space Between)

Great list, i cant believe i forgot Superman Returns and The Fountain.
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post #16 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:23pm
I still like the movie. I unapologetically LOVE the teaser. EDIT: Beaten to it, but I've got a link. SO there.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZP9-1Nch95Q

Classic.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wvQOgdMarB0

Sigh.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dIGsVHd4OZw

I'm pretty on the fence as to whether this thing gives away too much (it kinda fucks the first half of the film), or sells the film just right, but it's still two minutes of pants-pissing intense.

If you haven't seen it, watch at your own discretion.

13 Tzameti
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post #17 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:47pm
I've already mentioned it in some similar/ identical thread, but this is about my favorite teaser trailer ever.

Just watch it and tell me you don't wanna rewatch the movie again. COME ON!! I DARE YOU!!
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post #18 of 58
8/30/07 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by ryoken
No, the one I'm recalling was a simple 30-second shot of The White House, with some voiceover, then BOOM, then Coming Soon. I hope I didn't dream that. Thanks for searching, though.
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post #19 of 58
8/30/07 at 6:06pm
The long, "Look Closer..." American Beauty trailer.

The full South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut trailer.

Moulin Rouge.

28 Days Later.

The Quiz Show teaser that was a scene from the film (albeit an alternate version) where David Paymer and Hank Azaria first put the prospect of cheating to Ralph Fiennes.

Leon (The Professional)

300 - shit yeah.

Revenge of the Sith - that shit almost made me cry the first time I saw it (the trailer, that is, not the film) "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!"

Independence Day is a brilliant example of how to sell a pretty shitty film to almost everyone, whereby reviews become irrelevant and you just have to see the film.

And hell, I'll say it. 1-18-08. Don't give two shits about how the film may or may not turn out, that's a helluva decent way to start an ad campaign.
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post #20 of 58
8/30/07 at 6:12pm
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Originally Posted by First Class 782
T2 "This Time There Are Two" is a fantastic trailer, and premiered well before anyone knew the T-800 was the good guy (that was actually a secret until a week or two before the film hit in 1991)
I much prefer the teaser. I remember first seeing this when I rented Total Recall as a new release. I almost shit myself.
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post #21 of 58
8/30/07 at 7:20pm
THIS!
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post #22 of 58
8/30/07 at 8:23pm
jurassic park
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post #23 of 58
8/30/07 at 8:58pm
The trailer for Bram Stoker's Dracula was pretty great.
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post #24 of 58
8/30/07 at 9:05pm
Yeah, Coppola's Dracula trailer had me about as excited as I could possibly get when I saw it in the fall of '92. Looking back on it now it's hard not to see Hopkins' hammy acting, but I still rank it as one of my favorites. The other one that stands out in my memory that gave me a desperation to see it was for Fight Club.
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post #25 of 58
8/31/07 at 12:55am
Incredibles Teaser

Little Children
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post #26 of 58
8/31/07 at 2:45am
Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdtmHhZd0I
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post #27 of 58
8/31/07 at 2:53am
I have always felt that the trailer for Elephant is the best two-minute movie ever created.
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post #28 of 58
8/31/07 at 3:29am
Bob Roberts (ends with an incredibly prescient joke at the end. The one about voting multiple times....)

Clerks/Pulp Fiction (cut by the same person)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... (may have been the teaser; it ends with the "Did you mean bomb Russia?" line)

Batman '89 teaser

Back to the Future teaser ("How far you headed?" "Oh...about 30 YEARS.")

F For Fake (9 minutes long!)

The Tin Drum
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post #29 of 58
8/31/07 at 9:32am
It was never released theatrically (I think it was done to promote the Return of the King DVD), but this trailer so perfectly captures everything that is great about the trilogy.
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post #30 of 58
8/31/07 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by Sharpel007
November 2004 seemed so far away when that trailer first hit. The Bond music is absolutely perfect.

And what kills me about the Hitchhiker and Superman Returns trailers is that they made it look like they'd gotten everything spot-on perfect and the films didn't live up to the promise (although I unabashedly enjoyed Hitchhiker's, it never reached the heights that trailer promised).
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post #31 of 58
8/31/07 at 10:27am
I'm shocked the thread went this far without this:

The Two Towers
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post #32 of 58
8/31/07 at 11:10am
I've always loved the trailer for The Long Kiss Goodnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuma1M09B0

I'm here at work, and actually, I can see the trailer, but I'm not allowed to turn the volume up here at my desk, so I can't hear the background music. But as I recall, it was "Suffragette City" by David Bowie (not sure if I'm remembering right). Anyway, I can't check that on this trailer till I get home and can turn the volume up on my own computer. If not, it might have been another version of the trailer, because I rememeber that. I love the part at the end when she's hugging her little girl and getting ready to light some explosives at the same time. She whispers to the kid, "Cover your ears...", then she pauses with the lit match, and says, "Hey - should we get a dog?" The little girl grins big, and nods her head, then covers her ears again before her mother lights the explosives. I just always crack up during that part.
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post #33 of 58
8/31/07 at 11:37am
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
I've always loved the trailer for The Long Kiss Goodnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuma1M09B0

I'm here at work, and actually, I can see the trailer, but I'm not allowed to turn the volume up here at my desk, so I can't hear the background music. But as I recall, it was "Suffragette City" by David Bowie (not sure if I'm remembering right). Anyway, I can't check that on this trailer till I get home and can turn the volume up on my own computer. If not, it might have been another version of the trailer, because I rememeber that. I love the part at the end when she's hugging her little girl and getting ready to light some explosives at the same time. She whispers to the kid, "Cover your ears...", then she pauses with the lit match, and says, "Hey - should we get a dog?" The little girl grins big, and nods her head, then covers her ears again before her mother lights the explosives. I just always crack up during that part.
Shit. I gotta spread some reputation first, but please note that you're awesome.

And whoever didn't recognize this music at the same exact moment it popped up on Hot Fuzz has so far lived a sad, miserable life.
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post #34 of 58
8/31/07 at 12:12pm
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Originally Posted by PsycheOut00
Shit. I gotta spread some reputation first, but please note that you're awesome.
I appreciate that, but instead of rep, just tell me if I was right about "Suffragette City" - is that the music in the trailer? I can't turn up my computer volume at work.
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post #35 of 58
8/31/07 at 1:05pm
Sorry, I'm not too much into Bowie, but I can safely say it's all "Who Are You" by The Who, plus generic action music in the final montage.

So if you're also bored at work you can picture William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger in the Jackson and Davis roles and enjoy something else entirely... different.
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post #36 of 58
8/31/07 at 2:03pm
Aaahhh.. could have sworn it was "SC", but thanks for listening to that for me.
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post #37 of 58
8/31/07 at 11:50pm
The correct answer, at least for the last ten or so years, is "Adaptation."
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post #38 of 58
9/1/07 at 12:05am
Adaptation had 100 different trailers?
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post #39 of 58
9/2/07 at 1:46am
Searching for Bobby Fisher

The Big Lebowski/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (both do great jobs at selling the films to the midnight crowds that have allowed them to become big successes over the years)
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post #40 of 58
9/3/07 at 4:02pm
SPIDER-MAN 2's international theatrical trailer was astonishing. The most perfect crystalisation of a blockbuster's themes and emotions, with a healthy dollop of spectacle. It made the movie look dman near Shakespearian.
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post #41 of 58
10/7/07 at 4:20pm
If you want to see some incredibly good and totally underrated/ignored trailers, go on Movie-List or Dave's Trailer Page and check out the ones for these movies:

-Carlito's Way
-Veronica Guerin
-Gods And Generals
-A Man Apart
-All The King's Men
-Angels In The Outfield

And the one everyone will remember, the main trailer for The Fellowship Of The Ring.
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post #42 of 58
10/8/07 at 12:18am
When I first saw Munich's trailer I was insane with anticipation.

Time will tell but the Jesse James trailer had me addicted to watching it a few times every day.
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post #43 of 58
10/8/07 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by Graham
Holy crap, i got goosebumps watching that.
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post #44 of 58
10/9/07 at 8:10pm
The trailer might me more unsettling than the movie.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=opWuhHspLBg

And I've always liked the Goldeneye teaser.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VmahNIGaZgo
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post #45 of 58
10/9/07 at 8:23pm
Man Who Fell To Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0sIrvLPsFU

Judgment At Nuremburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UeNV2L9ho

Kentucky Fried Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQG3qVZhhg
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post #46 of 58
10/9/07 at 8:53pm
All three Michel Gondry trailers (Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind) are great. I think the trailer for Science of Sleep got me so excited for the movie, it was a disappointment for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwLjXFBQj4

The trailer for Rewind has me hyped for the movie. I guess I never learn.

And for the nerd in me, I personally LOVED the long trailer for the most recent Harry Potter movie, even if the movie was a bit disappointing. Shit, I'm a dork.
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post #47 of 58
10/11/07 at 7:39am
This is just a normal trailer, but I've got to tell ya,
this movie had ONE FUCKED UP ENDING.

PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NQsCG1NwYg
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post #48 of 58
10/11/07 at 1:56pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by PsycheOut00
I've already mentioned it in some similar/ identical thread, but this is about my favorite teaser trailer ever.

Just watch it and tell me you don't wanna rewatch the movie again. COME ON!! I DARE YOU!!

I DO, I DO!!!
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post #49 of 58
10/14/07 at 1:35am
Great trailer, not so great movie.
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post #50 of 58
10/18/07 at 12:43pm
I just saw the trailer for Be Kind, Rewind and damn...I think it looks amazing. I think it just cut right to the core of movie love.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/bekindrewind/

Obviously, have no idea how the movie is going to turn out, but it looks promising.

Edit: damn you, Soul! Beat me to it!
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