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03-25-2003, 10:47 AM
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ok today trailers are just flash images and a voice saying either ; " Now get ready! Bla bla bla...or digitally re-mastered DTS sound, Never before seen scenes yada yada...
In the old days there were much more original, almost like a short film:
These per example; Psycho, All Kubrick's ( A clockwork orange, Dr. Strangelove and The shining ) Alien, Strange days(teaser)and most recently Fight Club PA with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Anymore ? And most importantly recently?
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03-25-2003, 10:49 AM
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"In a world..." 
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03-25-2003, 10:50 AM
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I thought the Matrix trailer was one of the most effective trailers in years. They were able to get a film with no stars to make $150 million, not to mention generate a huge following.
Body of Lies / Ridley Scott / Leo DiCaprio / Russell Crowe / Autumn '08
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03-25-2003, 11:54 AM
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I beg to differ... Keanu (whoa!) Reeves & Laurence Fishburne not stars?
Matrix did have some star power. No, it didn't have the cast of Oceans Eleven, but it did have some star-power.
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03-25-2003, 12:01 PM
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You must be thinking of commercials for DVDs...
The teaser and trailer for Pearl Harbor will be forever etched into my mind. I never got to see the teaser in a theater, but the trailer caught me so off guard because I didn't know it was coming (back in the day when I didn't check the internet to see what big trailers would be showing before what movie), I had tears in my eyes by the time it ended. Too bad the music was only licensed for theatrical distribution.
And to follow up on Nathan's comment...
"One man, one way..."
The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.
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03-25-2003, 12:06 PM
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This is one of the reasons I liked the Dinosaur trailer so much when it came out.
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03-25-2003, 12:14 PM
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How prevelant is that, really? I swear I've seen more parodies of it than I have seen actual uses.
One thing that always gets me is the trailers for foreign films that try to disguise the fact that the characters aren't speaking English. I always half-expect someone to come barrelling out of Brotherhood Of The Wolf yelling that they want their money back, because no-one told them that there'd be reading involved.
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03-25-2003, 12:36 PM
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Reminds me of the hilarious Comedian trailer ( http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html).
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03-25-2003, 01:14 PM
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The teaser for Lethal Weapon 4 was basically a short cut of the opening scene. Very funny and packed with action. The Dinosaur trailer was something to behold. They've done similar things with Finding Nemo. The first trailer was just a scene.
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03-25-2003, 01:22 PM
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Some of us don't consider 1995 ( Strange Days) and 1999 ( Fight Club) to be "the old days".
The truth is that most trailers are cut to one or more prevailing marketing formulas that are in vogue at the time, and every so often somebody does something different. It's been that way for decades, and I'm sure it will continue.
If you want to see a great example of a formula trailer from "the old days", check out the Criterion DVD of All That Heaven Allows.
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03-25-2003, 01:34 PM
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Great new trailers (note, may be totally independent of the quality of the film itself):
The Ring - especially the teaser. The close of the test-tone scream is indelible.
Ice Age - teaser
Fight Club
The Fast and the Furious - especially the one with the only real dialog being Vin Diesel saying "Let's go for a ride".
Star Wars : Episode 1 - Especially the A trailer
Dreamcatcher - the initial teaser. Great flashes of scenes with the ending words of "show you you things you've never seen". Goosebumps.
The Matrix - Doesn't give away all of the greatest effects.
Those are the ones that came to mind immediately
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