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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 6/18 9:42pm Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978 - Date Edited: 6/18 9:45pm (1 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
	The Superman Returns teaser is quite elegant, one of my all time favorites. My favorite Superman trailer, though, is the Superman: Special Edition trailer (a rerelease that sadly never went past test screenings and went straight to DVD). Using the last shot of the distressed Superman screaming as he takes off up at the camera is fantastic and chilling. That '78 trailer is quite interesting, though- it reminds me of the ESB teasers using publicity stills and concept art. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Spiderfan Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/18 10:00pm Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978
	The 78 one loses me based with the naration style. I get (again) that they are selling it on very little and trying to make the most of it but the history lesson just becomes dull and uninteresting to me very quickly. The later trailer Quest posts feels too gimicky to me. Its the cliched superfast cuts to try to intensify things. And worst of all it ends on the part of the movie I hate the most: Superman's temper tantrum. -----signature----- Brain and Brain! What is Brain?!
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 6/18 11:34pm Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978
	See, I love that pat of the movie- it humanizes Superman, and if you didn;t know that he was going to be able to fix it , it was a very dark moment that changed your idea of what the movies would do- then your idea is restored a few minutes later ). The narration hurts the SE trailer a bit, but I think it works well. Another thing against the '78 trailer is half of it- the last, and most important, half is the same as the earlier posted teaser with the cast, just with the real music and logo. But, the first half basically cycled through the cast with photos and narration...so the second half redundantly does the same thing with just words. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/19 2:43am Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978 - Date Edited: 6/19 2:48am (2 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	For me, the narration in this one is one of the best thing's about it. It places Superman in historical context, but let's us know he's about to be taken to a new level. Superman Trailer 1978 2nd Quest's comments on Zaz & trailers are well written, but I think a tad exaggerated. -----signature----- Namaste.
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 6/19 10:22am Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978 - Date Edited: 6/19 10:22am (1 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
	I keed, I keed. ...Zaz would obviously be annoyed that the trailer spoils the surprise that Clark Kent is Superman. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/19 2:03pm Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978
	The2ndQuest posted: I keed, I keed. ...Zaz would obviously be annoyed that the trailer spoils the surprise that Clark Kent is Superman. It DOES do that, doesn't it? Horrors! Of course, anyone who's been conscious since 1938 should already know that. -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/22 9:36pm Subject: The Trailer Park: Superman 1978
	Stanley Kubrick's dark comedy about atomic war was promoted with an unusual trailer. Dr. Strangelove Trailer from 1964 -----signature----- Namaste.
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Sven_Starcrown Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 6/23 1:19am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
	Who made the trailer? -----signature----- Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/23 2:02am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
	Sven_Starcrown posted: Who made the trailer? Since this was the original theatrical trailer released by Columbia Pictures, I would guess it's the result of a collaboration between Kubrick and the marketing department, though I do vaguely recall something from the DVD about him hiring a guy to help him with marketing who was doing some unconventional things in advertising at the time. -----signature----- Namaste.
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goraq Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 6/23 2:11am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
	You can definetly see Kubricks hand in the trailer. -----signature----- ,,Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing. ,,
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/23 2:22pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) - Date Edited: 6/23 2:31pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	goraq posted: You can definetly see Kubricks hand in the trailer. I'm sure you're absolutely right goraq. He was famous for being totally hands-on from a film's inception to it's final marketing and exhibition, right down to which theatres it played in. He drove a lot of people crazy because of that intense involvement. Dr. Strangelove Trailer -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/24 8:25pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
	BTW, Strangelove itself is showing tonight on TCM. -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/27 12:14am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
	Last call for comments on the Strangelove trailer. The Unusual and Artistically Daring Dr. Strangelove Trailer How in the world a major studio ever let this one out of the barn, I'll never know. -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/28 8:27pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) - Date Edited: 6/28 8:32pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	Since this movie came out twenty years ago this month, I wanted to get this trailer in before the end of June. This trailer was able to crush a lot of controversy about the Batman movie of 1989. Some of you may recall there was quite a stink when it was announced that Michael Keaton was going to play Batman. Fanboys of the time were outraged because they leaped to a conclusion based on a false premise. They assumed that since Michael Keaton was famous for comedy, that the movie was going to be in the tradition of the Adam West TV series, with lots of campiness, totally played for laughs. That's not at all what the filmmakers had in mind. This issue became such a big deal, it reached the front page of the Wall Street Journal, with some in the investment world claiming that Warner Brothers was damaging one of it's most valuable assets, the rights to Batman, by turning it into a silly comedy. The trailer was hastily assembled to quell some of this talk. And it worked, I can recall seeing the trailer in theatres and seeing audiences applaud and cheer, especially when the Batmobile first appeared. It created a huge buzz, and when it was released it became the # 1 film in America for 1989. IIRC this was one of the first trailers released where people were buying tickets to other films, just so they could watch this trailer. The trailer itself is awful, one of the worst ever presented here, choppily edited. Yet it did the job, sloppy as it was. It got people excited about the film. 1989 Batman Trailer What is your opinion of this trailer? -----signature----- Namaste.
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 6/28 10:17pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Batman" (1989)
	I like the choppy editing. It's effective. There is something instantly engaging about this drastic shift in sensory stimulus -- loud to silent, action-y to irony, dark grimness to colorful clowning -- that works a kind of magic on the viewer's mind. The trailer created a buzz, just as it was intended to do. And note, despite or beyond the filmmakers' evident effort at showing action scenes and gritty urban "realism", that there are moments of subtle comedy in the trailer, not all of them centered around the Joker. On that note, I want to point out that in my experience in the fan community at the time, our concern wasn't that Keaton's presence meant the film was going to be a comedy. If you had been following the development of the property, you knew Burton and Warner Bros. had committed to the "dark" bent of the recent comics. Our concern was simply that Keaton was wrong for the part: too short, for one thing (which I still believe he was), and not intense enough. We were wrong on that last score, and blessedly so. -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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