Best trailers ever... - Page 2

Oddly enough I watched both again back-to-back last night. I like the 2046 trailer, but ITMFL is pure Art. Before watching it I could never believe it possible to make a trailer out of nothing more than three minutes of nervous sidelong glances. It deserves to be classed as a movie alone.

Adaptation is still king, but I really like the internet trailer for RENT and the teaser for The Lion King. Having your entire trailer be one of the musical numbers from the movie worked really well in both those cases, I think.

Femme Fatale - The French trailer. The footage is sped up to show the whole movie and then at the end, "You've just seen Brian de Palma's new film. You didn't get it? Try again."

Dawn of the Dead (2004) - The editing makes it a treat. There's a nice build up, some shots of the zombies, and then the screen burns out like a film reel. At the end, the undead rub their hands over screen.

Heat - The first instance of "God Moving..." by Moby appearing in a trailer, and to see the Voiceover Guy pimp the collaboration of Deniro and Pacino actually works for the film rather than against it.

X2: X-Men United - The second trailer. Using Stromberg's music from Trinity & Beyond works to great effect here. Plus, the "Mutant Roll Call" is exciting.

Spider-Man - The World Trade Center teaser. Couldn't have come at a worst time but it worked.

Jarhead - All for "Jesus Walks".

The Lost World - The teaser. The T-Rex just seems...apropos.

Alien - The camera pans over a landscape, and then finally an egg. It opens, and you're treated to a montage of scenes of the movie set to some rather interesting ambient music. Sets the tone instantly.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 - The teaser. "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" is a great track, and supplanting it over scenes from the movie while words indicate that it's the fourth movie by Tarantino. So fun.

Dark City - Doesn't actually give away what the movie is about but the tone and music are achieved to great effect here.

I should add that after attempting to find a link for this online, the US version (criminally truncated) sucks like nothing I've seen suck before.

Yeah, I forgot about Jarhead. The use of Jesus Walks there was so great, I actually went out and bought that album.

I hate it when foreign movies get some particularily atrocious trailers for US distribution, especially with English voiceovers.

There are some standouts though. The Beat That My Heart Skipped comes to mind.

I'm sorry but this is a fucking outrage. The UK trailer runs for the entire length of the record, has no shitty voiceovers and no shitty text.

Can anyone point me to the original? Please!

I thought the Once Upon a Time In Mexico trailer was absolutely stellar, though I was a bit disappointed in the film.

Before Sunset as well, and that one did live up to it, and then some.

I just went through my own collection of quicktime trailers, and here's some of my other favorites:

Hard Boiled: Close to four minutes long, just a jump-out-of-your-seat exciting as fuck opera of blasting guns and flying debris. Nobody does debris like John Woo. Perfectly edited too, just ratchets up the suspense.

http://www.movie-list.com/h/hardboiled.shtml

Big Fish: Love the use of Ice Dance from Edward Scissorhands here, that's one of the absolute greatest pieces of movie music ever composed. This trailer is just chock full of beautiful shots and fantastic moments.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_p...fish/high.html

Below: What a fucking trailer, I can't believe that distributors and theatre chain owners could watch this trailer and still decide to abandon this movie like they did.

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=below

Bubba Ho-Tep: Big fan. Nothing beats Ossie Davis, Bruce as Elvis, and the glorious montage at the end of this trailer, topped off with the dignified walk down the Hall of Heroes. Just poifect. Unfortunately I can't find a good link to it, but you should be able to find it on Kazaa Lite K++.

Gods And Generals: The movie was lousy, but this is one helluva trailer. Great music ("Taxi Ride" from the Bone Collector soundtrack), excellent editing and choice of shots, makes you wish whoever edited this edited the movie as well. I always remember how good of a reception this trailer would get from audiences in theatres, it makes me surprised it did as poorly as it did.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/god...t_480x200.html

Hellboy: The concept of Hellboy is a tough one to explain and give credibility, but this trailer more than does the trick of selling itself to jaded and critical audiences. Just full of money shots, and does an excellent job of introducing all of its characters.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_p..._trailer1.html

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: An oldie but goodie, just superbly edited and set to music during a time when most trailers were random scenes thrown together with little rhyme or reason. Wonderful use of the soundtrack, and gotta love "A Film Of Sergio Leone" at the end.

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.p...ebadandtheugly

Does anyone know where the LOTR trailers are still available for download?

This year I think the "Walk The Line" trailer was well done.

Short-time lurker, first-time poster!

I loved the Batman and Robin trailer, I really did. And considering I feel B&R is the worst film of all time, I'd say it has the largest trailer-to-film suck ratio.

Any other horrible movies have great trailers? It's easy for good movies to have good trailers; much like quoting a great movie. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

So, hit me with it. Find that nugget of gold buried in the manure that is bad films.

Pearl Harbor without question.

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.p...heringstrilogy

Cool, a lot of the links still don't work, but using that one mirror site I was able to finally get the Two Towers trailer complete with Requiem For A Dream score. God I love that trailer.

I have to agree with TPM. That trailer rocked. The teaser for the 2 matrix films in front of "Clones" was good.The Lord of the Rings trailers were good. I really liked Spiderman 2's trailer for nothing else than the music. M Night Shyalaman has great trailers in the fact that he gives very little away. I like that.

Worst trailer of all time? Freakin' "Cast Away". Damn you Robert Zemekis. You gave away the whole damn movie in the trailer. I sat there thinking "no he DIDN'T just do that. It was literally the Cliff Notes version of the movie including the last act. STILL pissed over that one. I honestly think he believes his audience to be stupid. He did the same thing for "Polar Express" but after seeing the movie I understand he was doing me a favor.

I'm going to say the one for Disorganized Crime. My reason is simple, see I saw the trailer then saw the film, hated the film. Then a year passes by and it comes to First Choice (HBO in Canada in the 80's and early 90's). The trailer is played and my reaction to it was "boy that film looks good, but I swear I saw it and it sucked". That has been the only trailer that made me want to see a bad film again.

I willl champion 'Alien' over 'Aliens' to my dying day, but I've got to say the teaser for 'Aliens' REALLY grabbed me by the short and curlies...yes, it's the same Goldsmith score as the 'Alien' teaser, and, yes, there is no dialogue...but for a sequel it truely got the adrenaline pumping! The barest glimpse of the Queen was worth the price of admission alone (God knows what I was watching at the time...)

I suddenly hate Gunga Din and his entire family tree.

That terrified me as a child.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Just 5 minutes from this restaurant.

Yes!!

Heh. I've read about that trailer for years, and never seen it. (Guess you needed to be a kid in the 70s to get freaked out by it.)

Someone mentioned Batman and Robin earlier, and I've got to agree: yeah, the film looked passable when using that triumphant Elfman theme. (It was effective enough that I was dumbfounded when my friends told me how godawful the film was.)

Speaking of Bats, the first Batman teaser was phenomenal. No music, no logo (instead of the logo, there was a 'COMING THIS SUMMER' at the end), just the footage (roughly about the same as the one on the DVD). Saw it once as a kid, and blown away. It's pretty crappy when they spend five minutes talking about it on the DVD documentary, yet don't include it (or any of the Bat-teasers) in the box set. (And strangely enough, it's never popped up online, as far as I know.)

Gotta agree with GoldenEye, but have been feeling a great vibe from the Casino Royal trailers too.

The first Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Teaser Trailer!

It was the first and only time a studio/filmmaker dared to show the audience behind the scenes stuff from the shooting in progress.
It was just a cool feeling...like you as an Indy fan were part of the family.
I don't know of any other movie that dared to do that.

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but Kubrick's Strangelove trailers were fantastic. Just a weird collage of sounds and text, and very brief snippets of footage.

How was that again..."If God had created the Devil, put him in the sea and gave him teeth".

I remember hearing the music to that, recognizing it, and not being able to place it (sounds like a Batman-ish movie score). Then while watching a Heavy Metal concert dvd with a buddy of mine, Dimmu Borgir came on. I jump up and shout: "That's on the Hellboy trailer!" He didn't believe me and I bet him $30 bucks it was. I remembered the HB trailer was on the Once Upon a Time in Mexico dvd, we popped it in, and I was 30 bones richer.

The entire trailer uses intros & themes from various Dimmu Borgir (an operatic-style black metal band) tracks. But it sounds right out of a gothic comic book movie.

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And with my 600th post, I will agree with quite a few people here and say that the Phantom Menace is, to me, the best trailer evar.

I remember going to see the Matrix with that bad-boy attached to it. I remember getting mad goosebumps (still do sometimes when I see it on the DVD). I guess the one thing it has against it is that it was misleading.

I always liked this trailer from Goldeneye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUNP9xrOBd4

Hey, I just rented that movie from Netflix about a month ago. Very freaky!

Yes, look what I just found:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html