best all time TRAILER

[RobertScorpio]

Movie trailer, or, coming attactions. We have all seen zillions of 'coming attactions' for a movie. What movie trailer do you think is the greatest of all time and why? What sets it apart from the average trailer; and more importantly. Did it help put people in the seats?

Also...since this is a Trek site, what is your favorite STAR TREK trailer of all time as welll?

So..all time trailer
and..all time best TREK trailer...

and who knows? Maybe their the same in your opinion

Rob

 

[Gepard]

Easily the Trek XI trailer. Just fantastic all around. The editing, the music, the energy, it has it all.

 

[sidious618]

The Two Towers trailer was excellent as was the Revenge of the Sith trailer.

 

[Kibbin]

I'm a big sucker for teaser trailers, the ones that don't use any footage or anything from the movie. Spiderman for me with the twin towers ended up being a better movie than Spiderman One, same with Transformers with the alien robot on mars (though that never screamed Transformers) I do like it better than the movie we got, though I dislike Transformers 1 more than Spiderman 1, but I'm betting off topic.
As for Star Trek well I'm going to have to go with the being built enterprise for the latest one. I'm too young to remember most of the Trek movies hitting theatres (I was around for Generations) but I can't recall any of thouse trailers really grabbing me, they all seemed a bit bogt standard few clips dramatic voice over etc etc

 

[JacksonArcher]

The last Star Trek trailer was pretty damn good. The music, editing, everything, as mentioned above, was fantastic. Star Trek Nemesis, despite being a medicore movie, had some good trailers, too.

The banned Spider-Man teaser trailer featuring the WTC was also really epic. I had no idea it was a trailer for a Spider-Man movie until the giant web. I think the audience I saw it with felt the same way, too. I remember at the time thinking it was a trailer for Swordfish 2.

The original GoldenEye trailer was also a blast. Pierce Brosnan's technical first line as Bond, "You were expecting someone else?", was a hoot, and the entire explosive montage of action sequences was thrilling, to say the least. After the Timothy Dalton films put 007 on the respirator, it was a great way to say, "James Bond is back".

Honorable mentions: the original teaser for Watchmen, the teaser trailer for Unbreakable, the original teaser for Cloverfield, and some classics for good measure: the trailer for Psycho, with an appearance by Alfred Hitchcock, and the trailer for Dr. Strangelove.

 

[Mooch]

I thought the first trailer for Pearl Harbor was pretty cool.

 

[Kegg]

Citizen Kane frequently gets attention for being a good movie, but the excellent trailer isn't mentioned half as much as it should be.

Hitchcock's trailers are generally pretty good (can't beat Hitchcock just pimping his movie, can't you?) but my favourite is easily The Birds.

It's hard to fault Delicatessen, either.

 

[IndyJones]

Not the best of anything, but I always liked the start of the First Contact teaser.

 

[Kibbin]

Not the best of anything, but I always liked the start of the First Contact teaser.

See as a bit of a Nerd I didn't like that trailer for its recycling of All good things, Generations and a spot of Voyager off the top of my head. To use footage straight from the film fails to impress me to lift footage from old episodes etc puts me in a bad mood, especially seen as the last trek movie was already lifting footage in the main feature itself. (Don't get me wrong I love the movie FC itself)

I think Jackson put their finger on why I like these movies they get me guessing, they get me thinking, what is this movie, who are they, whats going on? thus I want to see the movie if only to find out.

 

[JacksonArcher]

Not the best of anything, but I always liked the start of the First Contact teaser.

Ah, I love that trailer. The bits from previous episodes does annoy me, but the opening voice-over narration, the music from The Undiscovered Country (one of the best Trek film scores of all time, in my humble opinion), and the way it is cut is just great.

 

[Warp Coil]

The best Trek trailer is definitely the one from ST'09. Simply amazing. Surprisingly, NEM also had really good trailers (both the teaser and the theatrical trailer). It made the film appear much stronger and interesting than it actually was.

 

[Too Much Fun]

A recent favourite is the trailer for "The Dark Knight". I must have watched that thing like 50 times at least and I never got tired of it. I'm biased because I'm a big Batman fan, but even I wasn't, I think I'd still find it quite enthralling. So many cool, quotable lines, and lots of intriguing visuals. I was quoting lines from it with my friends for MONTHS.

I love the trailer for "Clueless" because it plays my favourite song of all-time against some very nice, colourful visuals of all the lovely and kooky characters in the movie and their wonderful physical comedy and the trailer for "X2" which introduces its awesome and eclectic cast still gets me pumped up every time I see it.

One of the cleverest trailers was the one for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which was way meta, as it actually defined what a movie trailer is while demonstrating the definition through its visuals at the same time! It was way better than the actual movie too.

 

[Mr Light]

The Watchmen trailer was absolutely amazing, the one done to the song. It set such an amazingly high bar I ended up being just a little underwhelmed by the movie. I also remember watching the Phantom Menace trailer over and over and over in 1999

 

[JacksonArcher]

A recent favourite is the trailer for "The Dark Knight". I must have watched that thing like 50 times at least and I never got tired of it. I'm biased because I'm a big Batman fan, but even I wasn't, I think I'd still find it quite enthralling. So many cool, quotable lines, and lots of intriguing visuals. I was quoting lines from it with my friends for MONTHS.

I didn't want to mention that because I'm also a big Batman fan and I didn't want to appear biased, but at the very least the trailer for The Dark Knight (the first theatrical trailer, after the first teaser trailer with the Joker card and voice-over narration) has to be the best trailer of 2008. Or was it first released in 2007? I forget. Regardless, from beginning to end, it was extremely well-crafted. "You've changed things. There's no going back. Y'see, to them, you're just a freak...LIKE ME!". Sends shivers down my spine.

...the trailer for "X2" which introduces its awesome and eclectic cast still gets me pumped up every time I see it.

The second theatrical trailer for X2 is very good, but I think I prefer the original teaser trailer more. Taking moments from the end of X-Men (Magneto: "Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night. That they'll pass that foolish law and come for you. And your children..." Xavier: "It does indeed...") and intercutting them from moments of the sequel was ingenious. I still get goosebumps every time Magneto says, in the trailer, "The war has begun", and then the date -- MAY 2ND 2003 -- clanks on the screen one part at a time... It's really well done.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

- The best Trek teaser trailer was for ST:VI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RERAc0ipha0


- The best Trek theatrical trailer was the third Trek XI trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETDE0VGJY4


- The best non-Trek teaser trailers were for Terminator 2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3ggae8-Ec

and Godzilla:

http://www.movieplayer.it/trailer/1861/godzilla-teaser-trailer/


- The best non-Trek theatrical trailers were for Watchmen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3orQKBxiEg

and The Matrix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM5yepZ21pI

The Matrix was the one that blew me away the most when I first saw it, since I had never heard anything about the movie being in development before seeing the trailer, which was amazing looking and unique at the time. It definitely inspired me to go home and look it up.

 

[IndyJones]

Not the best of anything, but I always liked the start of the First Contact teaser.

See as a bit of a Nerd I didn't like that trailer for its recycling of All good things, Generations and a spot of Voyager off the top of my head. To use footage straight from the film fails to impress me to lift footage from old episodes etc puts me in a bad mood, especially seen as the last trek movie was already lifting footage in the main feature itself. (Don't get me wrong I love the movie FC itself)

I totally understand what you're saying, that's why I hedged and said that I liked "the start of the...teaser".

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I can't pick one trailer that stands out as the best of all time, but some great trailers that spring to mind are:

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill

Sin City

Watchmen

Little Children

Alien

There Will Be Blood

Magnolia

 

[Trekker4747]

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The Spider-man WTC trailer was pretty darn awesome. That's the Spider-man movie I wanted to see.

 

[Broccoli]

After the Timothy Dalton films put 007 on the respirator, it was a great way to say, "James Bond is back".

Dalton's films were not the reason why there was a six year break between films. Legal issues over the ownership of the Bond film franchise was the reason why there was a six year break between films.

 

[JacksonArcher]

After the Timothy Dalton films put 007 on the respirator, it was a great way to say, "James Bond is back".

Dalton's films were not the reason why there was a six year break between films. Legal issues over the ownership of the Bond film franchise was the reason why there was a six year break between films.

I am aware of the legal troubles that transpired in the six years between films. Dalton's films, if memory serves me correctly, were not well-received. License to Kill, Dalton's last film as Bond, was a critical and financal flop, last I remember.