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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
10/13/06 5:07pm
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RE: The Trailer Park
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I'd like to ask a question of all of you Amphitheatreans. (Is that a word?)
What is the most effective movie trailer you've ever seen?
What trailer was so good that it made the movie a "must see" for you?
A movie that you had no previous knowledge of...but the trailer just
HOOKED you?
(Let's exclude the giant franchises with built-in audiences like SW and LOTR
because it's almost inevitable you would go to see those films.)
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
10/13/06 5:33pm
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Good question.
My usual experience with trailers: The film looks very interesting. I decide to see it. And then the trailer goes on. And on. And I see exactly how the movie will play out and no longer want to see it. 
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
10/13/06 5:44pm
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And I see exactly how the movie will play out and no longer want to see it.
That's my general experience as well. Are we the only two? 
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FitKisto88
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Date Posted:
10/14/06 10:17am
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JohnWesleyDowney posted:
I'd like to ask a question of all of you Amphitheatreans. (Is that a word?)
What is the most effective movie trailer you've ever seen?
What trailer was so good that it made the movie a "must see" for you?
A movie that you had no previous knowledge of...but the trailer just
HOOKED you?
The trailer for Out Of Sight (Stephen Soderbergh 1999) was one of the best I've seen, clever use of freeze frames to punctuate the action, dialogue which made you interested in the characters and use of Isley Brother's classic "Fight the power" for the soundtrack.
The trailer for The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson 2001, which also used classic pop tunes, was a very good mood-setter as well.
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_HothWampa_
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Date Posted:
10/15/06 6:54am
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my all time favorites:
gangs of new york
jarhead
the hours
kill bill (teaser trailer)
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Adaptation
Sin City teaser (hated the movie though)
Finding Neverland
Closer
Garden State
Joyeux Noel
Cinderella Man
Kingdom of Heaven
Austin Powers 2 (Teaser trailer B)
Brokeback Mountain
Moulin Rouge!
The stepford wives teaser
Almost famous
Spiderman 3-teaser
The Insider
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Zaz
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10/15/06 7:03pm
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I remember the "Jarhead" one--that was good.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
10/25/06 1:34pm
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I absolutely HATE the trailer for SAW III. It's so self-congratulatory. You'd think
these people were creating a series of cinematic masterpieces like LOTR or something. These are mildly clever horror films about torture and sadism. If only we could put the filmmakers and the marketers through the grotesque scenes featured in these films. 
I also predict that like Grudge II, Saw III will make a fortune.
As long as the trailer promises more of the same, people will suck it up.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
11/4/06 9:41am
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If you're going to be a Grade-Z film producer (and these movies aren't directed, they are merely assembled), don't pretend you're not.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
11/6/06 8:14pm
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I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank
the producers of STRANGER THAN FICTION, the new Will Ferrell
movie for their wonderful trailer. Overlong and terribly unfunny,
this trailer goes on and on and on, reveals all and made me certain
I would be nuts to spend money on a movie ticket for this tripe.
Leaving nothing to the imagination (not that they had much to begin
with) this trailer is almost a textbook case of how NOT to make a
trailer. I would have been more likely to buy a ticket to see
STRANGER THAN FICTION if they had put a simple black and white title card
on the screen for 30 seconds that said:
OUR MOVIE STARS WILL FERRELL,
IT'S PRETTY FUNNY,
PLEASE BUY A TICKET!
But no, they had to tell me of their premise and beat it into me,
over and over, and show me all the people they bought to try and
prop this puppy up (Will Ferrell and Dustin Hoffman? Oh how the
mighty have fallen) and show me the story developments in
excruciating detail. Please dear God. Do the people in marketing
that made this trailer have ANY concept of how to intrigue an
audience? Have they ever heard of the word "subtle"?
Okay, I'm through venting.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
11/8/06 1:40pm
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Looks like the Spiderman 3 trailer is going for an all-time
record viewership. I wonder though, is is too early for a
2 and a half minute trailer for a movie due out in May?
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
11/16/06 8:24am
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Why do they make them so damn long? I don't know how many times I've been really intrigued by a movie only to decide not to see it because the trailer goes on and on and on.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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11/16/06 2:11pm
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Why do they make them so damn long? I don't know how many times I've been really intrigued by a movie only to decide not to see it because the trailer goes on and on and on.
I think it's because of something director Sydney Pollack once said about the film business:
"In this business, common sense is almost non-existent."
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 10:13pm
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No kidding. What did you think of the OOTP trailer?
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The Bigger Fish
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 10:17pm
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Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Independence Day are the ones that stick in my memory. Independence Day is the only movie that didn't live up to the trailer's promise.
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leia_naberrie
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 10:38pm
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Zaz posted:
And...moving right along.
Pet Peeve: the trailer features a very funny joke. You see the movie and realize that it's the only funny joke in the entire movie.
LOLOL!
As for a movie trailer that has become a must-see, I must say it would be the teaser trailer for Spider Man 3. I tend not to watch the theatrical releases if I can help it (I hardly go to the movies anyway, so it's easy to avoid them).
As for a movie trailer that I believe gave a major twist away, I have to point the PotC 3 trailer - which also ruined the movie for me. Showing The Kiss in the trailer was a big mistake because it gave away a major plot twist. (Sort of on par with the example someone gave above about revealing Willis was a dead man in Sixth Sense).
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