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11-18-2005, 12:56 PM
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Great trailers and Lousy Trailers
Hey there- so your first introduction to a movie is through the trailer-- some have great trailers and others have lousy or uninspiring trailers-- Which trailers did the job and which ones fell short (print advertising can also be included)
I think that the Trailer for the new King Kong movie is fabulous.
The Village-- had good advertising-it kept you intrigued
Spanglish--(I just saw it on tv and was pleasantly surprised) had a trailer that didn't do the movie justice at all.
anyone else
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11-18-2005, 01:49 PM
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Worst -- Snake Eyes. It was a three minute film. I knew the premise, plot points and ending. I saw it on VHS a long time after it was released and it was like I had seen it already. A DePalma misfire.
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11-18-2005, 01:56 PM
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All of the lord of the rings trailers had me.
But think one of the best trailers and all around marketing of all time was The Matrix. All those what is the Matrix trailers had me man, I had to find out what the hell the Matrix was!!!!
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11-18-2005, 02:07 PM
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Worst is Robert Zemeckis. BOth "Castaway" and "What Lies Beneth" completely gave away all the twists in the movies. And than, to top it off, when asked about it, Z has the nerve to say that in this day and age, the audience wants to be told in advanced what well happen in the movie. What a schmuck!
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11-18-2005, 02:44 PM
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And than, to top it off, when asked about it, Z has the nerve to say that in this day and age, the audience wants to be told in advanced what well happen in the movie.
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Some people do, actually. My wife always wants to know who gets killed off, so she doesn't get emotionally wrapped up in them. Personally, I don't want to know because I like being surprised, and it kinda ruins things if I know.
As for great trailers, AI had a bunch of them that were pretty great.
Jason
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11-18-2005, 02:44 PM
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Great recent (last 10 years or less) trailers (regardless of actual film quality):
- The Mummy
- Batman Begins (teaser especially)
- King Kong (full trailer)
- Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
- Out of Sight
- LotR - all, but FotR and RotK especially
- Unbreakable
- Signs
- Underworld
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11-18-2005, 02:50 PM
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Lousy recent trailers (can't think of as many, I tend to wipe them from memory):
- Fantastic Four
- Underworld: Evolution
- King Kong Teaser (maybe not lousy, but not nearly as interest-raising as the trailer)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Pearl Harbor
- Spanglish
- Batman Forever
- X-Men (first trailer)
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11-18-2005, 02:51 PM
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The "Terminator 2" teaser with the assembly of the Terminator was a great one in my opinion.
I also think the trailer for "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was brilliant: "A film full of...noise"  but I'm a total Gilliam whore.
More recently, I thought the "Batman Begins" trailer was very effective.
And one good thing I can say about the Star Wars prequels is that they had kick ass trailers.
Too many trailers these days fall victim to the plague that some have already mentioned. They show you the whole plot! This especially sucks with thrillers as it drains out the suspense and the "wow" moments. But as George Clooney pointed out, the reason people went to see "The Perfect Storm" was to see the wave they had already seen. |
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11-18-2005, 02:54 PM
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I put the teaser and the trailer as two of the all-time greats.
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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11-18-2005, 03:00 PM
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I put the teaser and the trailer as two of the all-time greats.
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Not me. All it did was confirm my fears of the film being a string of Bayesque visual and dialogue cliches strung together....which it was.
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11-18-2005, 03:01 PM
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Yeah. I thought both theatrical Pearl Harbor trailers using the Thin Red Line music were amazing.
Then we saw the movie....
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