Here at the Movie Blog we often post about trailers that we are impressed with or that we think you just might want to see. The Artform of putting a trailer together can sometimes build hype for a movie you didnt want to see, or tug at the heartstrings and make you want to see it more. Yeah sometimes they are posted on YouTube or some other service and get taken down, but shit happens. That’s what you get for not checking this site every day. Get over it.
John recently posted about how the Prestige Trailer got him pretty pumped up to see that movie, and how the second trailer kinda ruined that buzz for him. John told ME about this movie and I was excited. Im glad I didnt see the second trailer first, or I might have thought John was kidding. Let me tell you, with that cast, that director, and that first trailer? How can you NOT see this movie. Come on, its Batman vs Wolverine.. and they are Victorian age magicians! And it also has Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
A poorly made trailer can kill a movie. Years ago, there was a movie called The Musketeer. The trailer had me so hyped with the swordplay and the action. Too bad the movie was like a route canal for your eyes. Someone needs to pay the guy who made that trailer a lot more money. I am sure that was the ONLY reason that movie got ANYONE through the doors.
All that being said, there are a few things that we just expect from trailers. On that note, I present you with:
And Edward Norton.
The Return of the King, Kill Bill Volume 1(teaser),and Sin City(teaser) are the best trailers I’ve seen lately.
Thats funny, I read a very similar comment on a seperate message board about this trailer.
The Father of The Mother of all trailers is the trailer that Seinfeld made for his movie Comedian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s pure genius and fun!!!!!
I checked it.
It appears to still be working.
Erm … broken link.
LOL, loved it!
The funniest & best trailer I ever saw was the one for Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedian. It basically featured “Mr. Voice” in a recording studio making fun of all the standard voice-overs you hear in trailers. Although as a marketing tool, I don’t know if it worked, because I don’t think the film did that well at the box-office, but god-damn! it’s hilarious.
Very funny! Thanks for a mid-day belly laugh!
You are correct in saying the trailer for “Musketeer” wasn’t great and looked too MTV-ish with a dash of Woo Ping. It looked stupid. I avoided the film theatrical January 2001 run because of the trailer, and I was convinced it was a pile of dung, depsite the presense of Tim Roth.
I caught up to the film on DVD months later.
It was a stupid pile of dung, and the trailer actually made it look better than it really was.
Very Funny!!!
Pretty good.
I just wanna mention to people, look at the thread starter. Everytime someone calls Rodney John, a little bunny dies…
*beep* hilarious.
Norddeth the music in the beginning is Ennio Moricone(sp?)’s original theme for The Untouchables.
It’s possible they are similar, but there is no doubt that it’s The Untouchables. It’s the only gangster-themed theme I can think of set to a german beat.
route canal?
Untouchables may have sampled the music, but it originated in Once Upon a Time in the West.
Nord
Well done.
Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLnoLmCqT30 for another trailer joke.
The first music is the theme from The Untouchables.
I liked the excessive mentioning of actors alot.
Pst.
Not John.
Just sayin.
Pretty good stuff. It was kinda fun to name all the movies he got his shots from. An even deeper disembodied voice would have REALLY done it for me, comedy wise and maybe slightly better timing. Thanks for sharing John.
Nah, not Untouchables. Once Upon a Time in the West. That was Charles Bronson playing that harmonica.
And that trailer wasn’t as funny as the guy who made it thinks it is. It was amusing though.
Nord
Its The Untouchables isn’t it?
Oh lord, that was great. The music at the start is really familiar… its on the tip on my tongue. This is going to drive me nuts all night.
J