Hey, just curious, what are some of your guys' favorite movie trailers? What do you think is an excellent representation of promotion and editing techniques, while at the same time not telling the story in the film, but drawing audiences to see more?

Two trailers stick out in my mind as some of the best, and I thought were edited beautifully...

Chicago
Men In Black II

One of the worst trailers Ive seen recently, however, is the one for that new Peter Pan movie.

So.. what you guys think?

BTW, the best place to view all movie trailers from the latest upcoming films to archived trailers as far back as the early ninties, go to:

apple.com/trailers

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

I liked the preview to Peter pan. I also think that the movie itself will be awesome. I loved Hook. Hope this one's better.

My favorite previews> Judge Dredd (teaser), Stargate, Fifth Element and Dark city.

I liked the Trailers for Pearl Harbor (teaser), The Mask of Zorro, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to name a few. The first Matrix trailer also was good.

As for recently, I really liked Hildago's trailer and Open Range.

Thomas Verrette
tommy21485@earthlink.net
Imperial Pictures

my own biased opinion

kill bill

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The trailer for pirates of the caribean was good and the movie KICKED ASS!

I just read this article on Kill Bill that sounded horrible. Not so much the movie, but Mirimax's handling of it. They're cutting it into two parts and releasing them separately because Quentin didn't want to cut anything out of his 3-hour-plus script. Damnit, Miramax...

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I would definitely say that Pearl Harbor had one of the best trailers I have ever seen before. If the movie lived up to the power of that trailer, then it could have been something great, but alas...

We can't stop here, it's bat country!

Oh man, the Kill Bill trailer is great. The bass riff during the intro is too catchy for words.

I have to say that the very FIRST trailer for Episode I was really an exemplary example of the perfect trailer.

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I don't want FOP godammit, I'm a Dapper Dan Man.

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yeah, i read that too, i don't really wanna pay twenty bucks to see the WHOLE movie...but i will.

best trailers:
charlies angeles: full throttle (the one with AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" was really well done and edited. I don't wanna see the movie, but the trailer made it seem cool)

Bad Boys II (Most the trailers for this movie look cool, i also don't wannasee the movie considering one preview played a long sequence of that car chase on the highway where all the cars crash. big mistake showing too much, i might have seen it if they didn't show most the scene)

Kill Bill (because Quentin Tarantino kicks ass, that's why.)


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I love the teaser trailer for "Blow" -- it's still my favorite.

As stated before, the Kill Bill trailer was the ****t! Uma Thurman can kick my ass anyday...but any trailer that A) doesn't give away the whole plot B)over emphaisizes little parts (like the Spy Kids 3 one which makes George Cloonly look like the star) or C)is drawn out and boring. Trailers should hit you hard with action (not all the action) and be set to good music. It needs to leave you wanting more.

-Thomas Chalifour

Writer/Director/Actor Extrodinaire
Tommy Boy Productions

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Yeah, if you even watch the "Pulp Fiction" trailers you'll notice that it makes it seem as if the movie is an action movie...but it's not. It's all in the music, selection of dialogue, and scenes. Pulp Fiction trailer was scored to the title music "Misirlou" by Dick Dale and it totally made the whole thing just exciting to watch...you hear the song, Samuel L. Jackson yelling, and people just walking around...the music choice is important.

Kill Bill will be different though, QT isn't trying to disguise his movie, it's gonna be totally awesome with action and shi t

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Pearl Harbor had excellent trailers and editing. I loved the Black Hawk Down trailers as well, I coudlnt get that damn Moby song out of my head.
I thought Bad Boys II had a good trailer, it really got the mix of laughs and action down perfectly.
Oh and major props to Matrix Reloaded, you almost didnt make it look like the ****tacular piece of ****in **** that ****ty excuse for a film it was.

best trailer?

SCRAY MOVIE 3

damn that one kicks ass, seriously cant wait to see the movie, I love those old school zucker films

Memento is probably one of my favorites. The whold semi-second word flashes were kind of neat, and I liked the way the tension climbed up, exploded, then became bizarrely calm. MEMENTO RULES.

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damn that one kicks ass, seriously cant wait to see the movie

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Aarrrrggghhhhh!
I hate these films! It says on the cover for the original "No mercy, no shame, no sequel"

No sequel! NO SEQUEL! And now they've made two of them! Arggggh!

Anyways, back to the original question, I like the trailers for Gladiator, Road to Perdition, Catch Me if you can and Ned Kelly, but theres plenty more out there I could name!

I think the teaser for Pearl Harbor was amazing. Way better than the movie.

I personally love this Resident Evil 2 teaser being shown before Underworld. I guess it helps that I've been wanting to see this movie since the last one ended. Typically I don't like teasers because they're usually way too short with little footage of anything; but, I do like teasers like the RE2 one because they at least created orginal footage for it and it was the length of a normal trailer. As far as actual trailers, couldn't tell you, they're the best thing ever until the movie itself comes out then they're long forgotten.

-Elliott

Scary movie looks like it's going to suck, but I like the trailer. Why?

The part with Michael Jackson.

Funny as hell.

Kill Bill trailer is the only one that really sticks out in my mind.

"Don't breathe or I'll kill you!"

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Originally posted by pgPyro:
Scary movie looks like it's going to suck, but I like the trailer. Why?

The part with Michael Jackson.

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They're taking that out of the movie, I think because he threatened to sue.