I was watching a movie earlier and I realized that every single trailer was pretty bad. So it got me thinking, which is the worst trailer you've ever seen? Which is the best?
Best: Magnolia
Worst: Anything that starts with "In a world."
the trailer for comedian was great, and it started with "in a world."
...there goes your whole theory :wink:
Yeah.. no shit.. speaking of the whole "In a World" thing, have you noticed that this new Antoine Fuquah/ Bruce Willis movie "Tears of the Sun" (what a shitty title) trailer uses every cliched, cheesy line available?
"It was a routine rescue operation,
But in a country at war with itself
everything can change
in a moment
Now, behind enemy lines
To complete his mission
he would have to make the ultimate choice"
Quote from: BonBon85Worst: Anything that starts with "In a world."
Or anything that has "...but all that is about to change."
One recent trailer that's really annoying me is the one for the hunted. its keeps flashing black frames for some reason. What the hell is the point of that? White frames i can understand, but black?
As for Tears of the sun, yeah, it is rpetty cheesy. I was starting to think Bruce Willis was becoming a pretty respectable actor, what with Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but then he does this.
Quote from: RecceOne recent trailer that's really annoying me is the one for the hunted.
Is it me or doesn't it look
exactly like "First Blood" told all over again?
Yeah, it does seem similar, doesn't it.
I'm getting pretty tired of all those attempted montages, too. They never seem to come out right. Darren Aranofski should make trailers. I'd watch a Darren Aronofski trailer.
Quote from: MacGuffinIs it me or doesn't it look exactly like "First Blood" told all over again?
HAH! Yeah... that's funny because when I saw that in the theater, I immediately turned to my wife and just said "Rambo 4"
All the trailers that use the same music. Specifically the one that goes "lets get a party goin..." and those gothic chants that lead up to quick cuts in the end of a trailer, check the current "The Recruit" tv spots and listen at the end, you will know what I am talking about. In every movie.
I jsut saw one of the daredevil trailers with an ending like that. But the cuts didn't even match with the score beats. The hell, it's nort hard to sync it. Impact cutting people.
one of the most amazing old trailers ever is the first half of the 'dr. strangelove' trailer. i forget who designed it (specifically chosen by kubrick), but the man was waaay ahead of his time, and it's a really, really cool technique. especially with the xylophone and stuff.
The Requiem for a Dream trailers were pretty good. Of course, it's pretty hard to make a bad trailer with such amazing footage, but still.
The actual movie was pretty bad, but the million dollar hotel trailer was pretty good. Maybe it's jsut cause i like U2, though.
I loovve talking about trailers (and I love cutting them too...any indie filmmakers want a trailer cut?)
My favorites (that I can think of right now)
THE SHINING (definitely the best)
Dark City
American Beauty
Clockwork Orange
Psycho
Recent trailers that were really good include The Ring teaser trailer, The Comedian and X2.
The trailer that I remember being the most pissed off at was for The Messenger. It was just a stunning trailer...and then the movie was such a let down. I was upset.
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Most teaser trailers are so much better than the other ones.
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Worst: Anything that starts with "In a world."
Of course there's always "until someone made it....personal." This seems to be a cop thriller favorite. I think the music-to-record-scratch is a favorite comedy trailer effect (especially for fish-out-of-water comedies).
I actually liked the T3 trailer. :oops:
The PhoneBooth trailer is fantastic.
Apart from the camp voice onthe other end of the phone anyway.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/phone_booth/
Quote from: life_boyI think the music-to-record-scratch is a favorite comedy trailer effect (especially for fish-out-of-water comedies).
I like in the trailer for the new Steve Martin movie when he's preparing for a date and opens the door and Queen Latifah's there being all black and the record scratch happens! HAHAHAHAHA!
It might have sounded like sarcasm, but it really does make me laugh.
I like the 25th hour trailer, but have a question. What is the song that plays towards the end of it? You can watch it over at www.movies.com.
I thought the trailer for Gangs of New York was excellent, as is the trailers for Magnolia and PDL. I have only seen the trailer for Boogie Nights once in the theater so I don't remember much of it.
saw adaptation aagin last night and the trailers were fucking terrible (including tears of the sun, baa) and i just wanted to punch the back of the guys head in front of me more and more as they went on. i realized somehting too. trailers are THE number one fucking reason people talk during the movie. When the lights go down, everyone gets quiet, right. then thetrailers come up. after about two, most people are whispering to each other. after about 4, everyones fucking TALKING. Then the movie starts, and people have already settled in to this dark talking fucking enviroment. there should eiher be less trailers, or have the lights stay on until AFTER ALL OF THE FUCKING SHITTY JOHN TRAVOLTA HAS TO SAVE SAM JACKSON FROM A MILITARY BASE WITH BENICIO DEL TORO HUNTING AL PACINOS RECRUITS THAT BRUCE WILLIS IS TRYING TO RESCUE BULLSHIT IS OVER.
Quote from: Lesteri realized somehting too. trailers are THE number one fucking reason people talk during the movie.
yeah but its fun to whisper a bit in between trailers "that looks cool", "that looks really sucky"
no, no, stop being nice and blaming the trailers. people need to keep their own damn mouths shut during the feature presentation. thats all there is to it.
Quote from: cecil b. dementedyeah but its fun to whisper a bit in between trailers "that looks cool", "that looks really sucky"
your right, people need to take responsibility for their own loudmouth jerkoff selves. but they wont, and trailers are only encouraging them. theyre conversation stimulators, man. imagine the beginning to 2001. the lights go down, the scren is black, theres the music...now imagine it with a bunch of shitty trailers right before it.
maybe they need to go after the movie.
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maybe they need to go after the movie.
That's where they used to be... why they call them "trailers".
but no one will watch them unless they are before it.
I like trailers, it's part of the experience. People are just rude, that's why they talk during the movie. Trailers have been in front of films for a long time now, you can't blame that.
What I hate about movies now is the fact that there are actual commercials in front of the trailers. These are ridiculous. HBO doesn't have commercials and that's cheaper than the theater. We pay for movies so we don't have to watch commercials... except now we do.
I'm planning on organzing a boycott of theaters that show commercials in front of the trailers.
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I'm planning on organzing a boycott of theaters that show commercials in front of the trailers.
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Fight the power, RK.
i haaaaaaate when trailers use the same music from other movies. for instance, truth about charlie using snatch music. it pisses me off for some reason.
also, i think going to the movies all the time and seeing the same trailers over and over makes me not want to see the film. i'm so sick of that life of david gale preview.
Quote from: Travis Bicklei haaaaaaate when trailers use the same music from other movies. for instance, truth about charlie using snatch music. it pisses me off for some reason.
also, i think going to the movies all the time and seeing the same trailers over and over makes me not want to see the film. i'm so sick of that life of david gale preview.
I hate it more. I was about to shit myself when they used the Requiem music in the LOTR trailer. That angered me.
I haven't seen a movie in a while and haven't seen the David Gale preview once ('cept for the 30 second ones during TV commercial breaks).
Trailers are previews for upcoming releases that studios use to get the word out months in advance, so, of course, the final mix and score compositions aren't completed yet or picture isn't 'locked' (also why temp music is used in preview screenings). It's also cheaper for studios to just buy the rights for use of a previous score for a trailer than to commission one. That's why you always hear the score from "Aliens" in practically every action movie trailer, or "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in every suspense movie trailer.
While the Requiem score in the TT trailer was a bit distracting, I imagine a lot of people didn't recognize it. That was a wonderfully cut trailer, in my opinion. And I appreciated the fact that they re-orchestrated the music.
right now, the best trailer that i can think of seeing is 'The Man Who Wasn't There' - it was so good, i watched it too much and knew the lines for the scenes of the movie that were in it, it was a little weird
Quote from: godardright now, the best trailer that i can think of seeing is 'The Man Who Wasn't There' - it was so good, i watched it too much and knew the lines for the scenes of the movie that were in it, it was a little weird
That happens all the time with kids movies. They show the trailers on TV non-stop, and the kids learn 4-second blurbs of music and song. Then, when you're sitting in the theater to see the whole thing, the kids all start singing along for the 4 seconds on music that they know.
Annoying as hell.
I need to stop seeing all these kid movies. I should hire a babysitter to take them or something.
When I was working in the projectionist's booth, I memorized all the words to the Ghost Dog trailer.
Buffalo '66 trailer is among my favorites.
Something that really pissed me off was the Magnolia "So Now Then" music used in the trailer for the new friggin' Mandy Moore movie. Who does she think she is?
Am I wrong?
Quote from: DendySomething that really pissed me off was the Magnolia "So Now Then" music used in the trailer for the new friggin' Mandy Moore movie. Who does she think she is?
Am I wrong?
I highly doubt that Ms. Moore cut the trailer herself. And since New Line is releasing her film as it did "Magnolia", they have the rights to use whatever music they want from their library of films.
See for youself. Click on pic:
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Also, "Waiting For Guffman" and "Best In Show" lovers. Click on poster for trailer:
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Oh man, I love watching good trailers. I'm such a nerd. I always do my own little previews with a couple of my favorite trailers, before I watch a DVD. They always make me want to watch a movie. Some people are really fucking good at making them. They made horrible trailers back in the 60's and 70's, they were so freaking long, everyone of them was like 3 minutes at least. Some of them show little bits of every single scene in the movie. There's no mystique to them at all, I'd say a lot of those are the worst trailers I've ever seen. Anyway...
The best trailers for awesome movies....
-25th Hour
-Adaptation
-Almost Famous
-All the Real Girls (can't wait to fucking see it)
-Amelie
-American Beauty
-A Clockwork Orange (a great old trailer)
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
-CQ
-Do the Right Thing
-Edward Scissorhands
-George Washington
-Jackie Brown (Pamela Grier is...Jackie Brown!)
-Magnolia
-The Man Who Wasn't There
-Pulp Fiction
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-Punch Drunk Love
-Requiem For a Dream
-The Shining
-They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (another one of the few great old trailers)
-Three Kings
Quote from: GhostboyI loovve talking about trailers (and I love cutting them too...any indie filmmakers want a trailer cut?)
My favorites (that I can think of right now)
THE SHINING (definitely the best)
Dark City
American Beauty
Clockwork Orange
Psycho
Recent trailers that were really good include The Ring teaser trailer, The Comedian and X2.
The trailer that I remember being the most pissed off at was for The Messenger. It was just a stunning trailer...and then the movie was such a let down. I was upset.
It would be so cool if you could cut a short little trailer for this 10 minute film I'm shooting in april. It would be cool if you could cut a 30 second teaser or something man. Just for my own enjoyment, it's not like I'm sending it into a film festival or anything. Let me know if your interested and maybe we can do that.
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Awesome trailer... thanks Mac... I love Christopher Guest, I'm convinced that in between films, he just sits in some cabin somewhere thinking of funny shit to say in his next film.
Quote from: RegularKarateI'm planning on organzing a boycott of theaters that show commercials in front of the trailers.
Someone is beating you to it, RK:
Lawsuit Against Ads Before Movies CNN reports on an effort to get commercials eliminated before movies in theaters:
High school teacher Miriam Fisch wants those four minutes of her life back -- and she thinks Loews Cineplex ought to pay for their alleged theft.
In a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois state court on behalf of all Loews patrons, the Chicago-area English teacher claims the theater circuit's policy of playing pre-film product commercials amounts to a deceptive business practice because the ads begin at the time advertised as the start of a feature movie.
The legal action reflects the reaction of many moviegoers jarred by the increasing prominence of onscreen advertising in theaters industrywide. In fact, the succession of such pre-movie ads now often lasts up to 10 minutes or longer in many venues.
Even many proponents of the trend say cinema advertising is best limited to a few minutes prior to the advertised showtime, but that often isn't the case. Part of the problem involves the time required to clean theaters between showtimes, which can leave too little time to present commercials before the advertised movie time.
"It is completely ludicrous to have moviegoers pay good money to watch commercials," said attorney Douglas Litowitz, who is representing Fisch in her suit. "They can do that at home for free."
The suit seeks "lost time" damages of up to $75 per plaintiff covered under a class action, as well as an injunction to force Loews to stipulate separately when its onscreen ads will run and when movies will play.
Litowitz said he may target other big chains with similar suits in the future. "We feel the most people would be best served by going after the biggest chains," he said.
Rest of article here, including a poll:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/20/film.movieads.reut/index.html
Some guy has filed a suit against the theaters in my area. I think his argument was false advertising because he claimed that the movies should start at the time specified instead of having to sit through all the commercials.
I think it is a bit overboard but necesary to get them to start the shit on time.
Well, I'm glad something's being done, but I don't like this tactic. It's just going to look like another Frivolous law suite. Like that guy that sued the theater because his movie started late.
Whatever happened to good old fashioned boycotts?
The commercials kind of piss me off. Why don't they play them continuously before the film time starts for people who get there early. I rather watch a couple more trailers in place of the commercials.
Lots of stuff about this in Ebert's latest Answer Man column (http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/sho-sunday-ebert09.html).
"If I were faced with 20 minutes of paid advertising before a movie, I would simply walk out and demand my money back. Commercials are fine when they underwrite TV or subsidize newspapers, which could not exist without them. But when I pay for a ticket, I am personally subsidizing the screening, and resent being made into a captive victim. I received an avalanche of mail on this subject, and cannot understand why advertisers would want to attract hostility toward their products by deliberately offending potential customers."
Something had to be done. If a lawsuit it requires, then a lawsuit it shall be. It's irritating to watch these commercials, especially 20 minutes of them and ESPECIALLY if you go to a lot of movies. Theaters are really starting to take customers for granted with their high ticket prices, high concession prices, sloppy technical presentations and these ads. By the time the movie starts, you're so pissed off, its hard to relax and enjoy it.
Favorite trailers: The Shining (elevator), A Clockwork Orange (William Tell), Magnolia (teaser).
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Whatever happened to good old fashioned boycotts?
im with you man, lawyers are the scum of the fucking earth, all these frivolous lawsuits are killing the spirit of the country, freedom of speech is even disappearing. people should start taking responsibility for themselves and try to actually change things instead of just juicing the system for a few bucks. AIDS would probably have been cured already if it werent for all those bullshit malpractice suits, all that shit is just holding everything back. What if Rosa Parks decided to sue the bus company instead of the boycott, what the fuck good would that have done?
Quote from: cbrad4dThe commercials kind of piss me off. Why don't they play them continuously before the film time starts for people who get there early. I rather watch a couple more trailers in place of the commercials.
They will, at least in Famous Players theatres, in Canada. They're setting up video projectors that will play a DVD cramed with advertising, which will replace the slide projector shows that currently play. As for the commercials, they'll still be there, but, for the most part, there's only one or 2, spanning all of 1 minute. Only around Christmas does it get really crazy. I've seen it go up to 10 minutes. I don't like it either, but you can't really blame the theatres. How would you react if Playstation drove up to your house with a dumptruck full of money so they could show a 30 second commercial before a film? They got to make their money somehow. Those big megaplexes don't pay for themselves, you know. Often times it takes over 10 and 15 years for one of them to make profit.
The commercials are also a bitch to maintain. The companies that pay for these adds are so annoying. They change their minds about what they want up or don't want up or in which order they want them practically every week. So, if you're a projectionist, you have to go around and take down all the commercials and put up the new ones, then they decide they want the old ones back or some shit and you have to do it all over again. Damn companies. We should be blaming them.
I remember there was a mitsubishi (sp?) commercial before a movie awhile back that had James Brown and the lyrics "stay on the scene, like a sex machine" and next time I went it was changed to "stay on the scene, like a lovin machine" in the exact same part
I'm a projectionist too, and those ads are indeed a bitch to deal with. On the other side, here's an article that was just posted on Yahoo...
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - High school teacher Miriam Fisch wants those four minutes of her life back -- and she thinks Loews Cineplex ought to pay for their alleged theft. In a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois state court on behalf of all Loews patrons, the Chicago-area English teacher claims the theater circuit's policy of playing pre-film product commercials amounts to a deceptive business practice because the ads begin at the time advertised as the start of a feature movie.
The rest of the article is here: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=business&cat=advertising_and_marketing_news
Hey Ghostboy:
http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=417&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
Keep an eye out for the post MAC made... the one that started this topic.
The two trailers I've watched the most were definitely Hedwig (about 100 times) and PDL (probably about 50 times). I probably watched them both a lot more AFTER I saw the films than before, just holding my breath, waiting for the videos (with PDL I just saw it in theaters a whole lot, but it looks like I'm going to have to d/l an academy screener now that I'm about to leave England and the DVD is delayed).
What about those trailers that show a whole bunch of scenes that weren't even put into the final version of the movie. That really pisses me off. And also when the movie ends up being completely different than the movie really is, its like they knew the movie was horrible, so they "false advertised" in the trailer to intise people to see something they the would never get.
Quote from: XeditorWhat about those trailers that show a whole bunch of scenes that weren't even put into the final version of the movie. That really pisses me off. And also when the movie ends up being completely different than the movie really is, its like they knew the movie was horrible, so they "false advertised" in the trailer to intise people to see something they the would never get.
Like Gus Van Sant's Psycho.
Quote from: XeditorWhat about those trailers that show a whole bunch of scenes that weren't even put into the final version of the movie. That really pisses me off. And also when the movie ends up being completely different than the movie really is, its like they knew the movie was horrible, so they "false advertised" in the trailer to intise people to see something they the would never get.
other than psycho, what movies do that?
I still know what you did last summer.
That took a lot longer to type than i thought it would.
Quote from: sphinxQuote from: XeditorAnd also when the movie ends up being completely different than the movie really is, its like they knew the movie was horrible, so they "false advertised" in the trailer to intise people to see something they the would never get.
other than psycho, what movies do that?
I'd say the Changing Lanes trailer was different than the final film. Not to say it was horrible and they marketed it to cover that up, just that they tried to draw a different crowd.
A lot of times trailers use clips not in the film to show more of the story in less time.
The funniest example of this is The Negotiator. There's a scene in the trailer where Kevin Spacey says something like "Now you have both of us to deal with" giving away the fact that Sam Jackson and he team up together towards the end. Thing is, that line isn't even in the movie.
Trailers I love:
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia (full trailer)
Black Hawk Down (the one with Moby in it)
Episode II (final trailer)
Punch-Drunk Love
Vanilla Sky
Man on the Moon
Ali (trailer 2)
Gangs of New York (trailer 1)
X-Men (trailer 2)
The Matrix (full trailer)
Dogma (full trailer)
Some great trailers:
Magnolia
Vanilla Sky
American History X
Saving Private Ryan
Road to Perdition
Punch Drunk Love
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
great trailers:
Magnolia (teaser and full)
American Beauty
Vanilla Sky
Se7en
Fight Club
American History X
Punch Drunk Love
Boogie Nights
Kill Bill
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Hey, is anyone else insanely disturbed by the trailer and the thought of "The Mask 2: Son of the Mask"? Also, the Jersey Girl trailer makes me want to vomit.
Hmm. The worst that I can remember??? "Free Willy". 8) The movie didn't do much for me, but I was dragged into the threatre being young. I just remember seeing the previews, earlier that summer, where it showed everything from the kid meeting the whale, the whale being stolen, the whale being rescued, and the whale being freed. I figure, why even watch the movie... I got the entire story from start to finish. Even CBS' 60 Minutes did a special on it, and movie trailers in general, and just about went off on how dumb it was. :roll:
The best??? Not sure. Maybe "Magnolia" or "American Beauty"... look closer. Gotta love it!
a facinating terrifying interview with a guy who works at a 'Trailer House' that makes me never want to watch a trailer EVER again. (for P).
http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=1443
I liked that interview but the interviewer didn't really seem to get the point. he kept on asking the same questions with his snide moral higher ground, a damn shame when he had such a good opportunity to ask other questions.
Quote from: pete on January 05, 2006, 08:46:14 PM
I liked that interview but the interviewer didn't really seem to get the point. he kept on asking the same questions with his snide moral higher ground, a damn shame when he had such a good opportunity to ask other questions.
The guy does go on and on about quotes, but it is a fun read. I liked the story about them videotaping audience reactions to Ella Enchanted and the homeless guy who watched the movie and complemented the special effects.