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best all time TRAILER

In the Star Trek department, definitely the teaser for The Undiscovered Country was awesome, with Christopher Plummer's voice over. The 3rd one for the new Star Trek movie was incredible.

The first trailer for Superman Returns, with Brando's voice-over and John Williams' "The Planet Krypton" cue from the original movie was excellent. I also liked the trailers for the remakes of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as Kingdom of Heaven & Casino Royale.
 
As far as teaser's go, i'd say Ironman. Star Trek trailer would be First contact and the new one. Another trailer I liked was Dark Knight, Clerks 2, Young Guns 2 and Tombstone.
 
I've always loved the trailer for Fellowship of the Ring. Gandalf on the bridge at the very end still gives me chills. I think that was the moment I knew that those films would actually do justice to the books. Along the same lines, the LOTR Supertrailer featuring footage from all three movies is great.

Titanic and Black Hawk Down had good trailers. I also like The Phantom Menace trailer.

As for Star Trek trailers, I can't really think of a bad one, but the final trailer for XI was amazing, and I also really liked the Nemesis trailers. The FC teaser that was just the Enterprise flying through the borgified Starfleet emblem was cool.
 
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.

Not quite. The Living Daylights was very well received critically and did excellent at the box office. Licence to Kill was also very critically well received, but did poorly at the box office due to an already crowded summer (1989) and a poor marketing campaign in the United States (the film preformed very well overseas). Plans were already in full force for The Property of a Lady, Dalton's third Bond movie, for a 1991 release before legal troubles hit. Also Dalton was still intending to play Bond for what eventually became GoldenEye until he dropped out after becoming tired of waiting and no longer wanted to do the role.
 
The Living Daylights was very well received critically and did excellent at the box office.

Are you sure? It only grossed $51 million, the nineteenth highest grossing film of 1987. I mean, Moonraker made more ($70 million).

Licence to Kill was also very critically well received, but did poorly at the box office due to an already crowded summer (1989) and a poor marketing campaign in the United States (the film preformed very well overseas).

Are you sure? License to Kill only made $34 million, and has a standing of 71% at RottenTomatoes, certainly not bad, but not great.

Plans were already in full force for The Property of a Lady, Dalton's third Bond movie, for a 1991 release before legal troubles hit. Also Dalton was still intending to play Bond for what eventually became GoldenEye until he dropped out after becoming tired of waiting and no longer wanted to do the role.

Dalton only got the role of Bond because Pierce Brosnan was unavailable because of his comittment to Remington Steele. He hasn't been remembered that greatly, either.
 
The first trailer for Superman Returns, with Brando's voice-over and John Williams' "The Planet Krypton" cue from the original movie was excellent.

This one falls into the "pissed myself with excitement" category!

Also, the 2nd Dark Knight trailer, the "Why so serious?" one. It's probably the most quotable trailer of all time. That trailer was included on the I Am Legend DVD. I think I watched that DVD more for this trailer than I did the actual movie.

The World Trade Center Spider-Man teaser. While I can understand pulling that one from theaters post-9/11, I still wish they had included it on the DVD.

The final Star Trek (2009) trailer. "James T. Kirk was a great man. But that was another life." The line implied a more epic tone than I think the movie itself achieved.

And I enjoy nostalgia trailers, so I'd also like to mention the 1st trailer for Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I love the way it begins with old Ben Kenobi's voice over from A New Hope. "For a thousand years the Jedi were the guardians of peace & justice in the galaxy. Before the dark times. Before the Empire. A young Jedi named Darth Vader--who was a pupil of mine before he turned to evil--helped the Empire hunt down & destroy the Jedi Knights. Vader was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force." In addition to all the footage from the previous movies, it also had some great teases of footage from the new film.

To a lesser extent, I'll also nominate the 1st trailer for Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I love how it uses footage from each of the 1st 3 movies.
 
The Fellowship Ring trailer was classic. Really got me excited for the movie... and impossibly it held up to that promise!
 
The Fellowship Ring trailer was classic. Really got me excited for the movie... and impossibly it held up to that promise!

The FOTR trailer was the first video I ever downloaded from Kazaa back in the day...it took a week of intermittent downloading over a 40k dial up connection! I watched it to death once I finally got it...
 
Are you sure? It only grossed $51 million, the nineteenth highest grossing film of 1987. I mean, Moonraker made more ($70 million). Are you sure? License to Kill only made $34 million.
International box office has always been the center of gravity of the Bond series, so you really need to focus on the worldwide gross rather than the domestic gross. Moonraker may be regarded as a weak Bond film by most fans and critics, but it was a smash hit. It's the highest grossing of Roger Moore's Bond films at $210.3 million worldwide. Moore then delivered $202.8 million with For Your Eyes Only, $187.5 million with Octopussy, and then dropped to $152.4 million with A View to a Kill. Dalton's The Living Daylights was successful in bringing the gross back up close to the $200 million level, bringing in $191.2 million. Licence to Kill then dropped to $156.2 million, with a particularly poor domestic performance, but it was still a profitable film and the producers were willing to go ahead with a third Dalton Bond film until the legal troubles hit. Brosnan and Craig's tenures as Bond have, however, led to much bigger box office revivals for the series than Dalton's.
 
As far as teaser's go, i'd say Ironman. Star Trek trailer would be First contact and the new one. Another trailer I liked was Dark Knight, Clerks 2, Young Guns 2 and Tombstone.

Good picks..

I also remember liking the trailer to TOOTSIE and TERMINATOR 2...and yeah, Ironman was a cool trailer too...

Rob
 
The Living Daylights was very well received critically and did excellent at the box office.

Are you sure? It only grossed $51 million, the nineteenth highest grossing film of 1987. I mean, Moonraker made more ($70 million).

The film also made 191 million worldwide on a budget of 40. That's success to me. Also, Moonraker had the extra "Star Wars" advantage.

Licence to Kill was also very critically well received, but did poorly at the box office due to an already crowded summer (1989) and a poor marketing campaign in the United States (the film preformed very well overseas).
Are you sure? License to Kill only made $34 million, and has a standing of 71% at RottenTomatoes, certainly not bad, but not great.

Yes, I am sure it did poorly in the US because of a lousy marketing campaign and crowded season.

Regardless, having one Bond movie preforming below expectations wasn't going to do the franchise in.

Plans were already in full force for The Property of a Lady, Dalton's third Bond movie, for a 1991 release before legal troubles hit. Also Dalton was still intending to play Bond for what eventually became GoldenEye until he dropped out after becoming tired of waiting and no longer wanted to do the role.
Dalton only got the role of Bond because Pierce Brosnan was unavailable because of his comittment to Remington Steele. He hasn't been remembered that greatly, either.[/QUOTE]

How Dalton got the role isn't of question. If Bronson was in TLD and LTK, those legal troubles still would have halted the series and chances are the films would have preformed about the same.

It is also worth noting that the producers were trying to get Dalton as Bond since the early 70s and was always a front runner for the role.

I don't know what you mean by him not being remembered that greatly. True, he didn't have the long stream of films that Connery or Moore had, so he gets lost in the muddle. But his preformance as Bond was generally well regarded by critics and fan circles. Average viewers who don't know much about James Bond seem to assume that his movies were creative and finical flops and that was why he was "fired", which is horribly not the case.

I've been noticing that Dalton's films have been getting a renewed interest in the wake of Craig's Bond films which doesn't surprise me, considering Dalton's take is very much like Craig's take on the character.
 
The Living Daylights was very well received critically and did excellent at the box office.

Are you sure? It only grossed $51 million, the nineteenth highest grossing film of 1987. I mean, Moonraker made more ($70 million).

The film also made 191 million worldwide on a budget of 40. That's success to me. Also, Moonraker had the extra "Star Wars" advantage.

Are you sure? License to Kill only made $34 million, and has a standing of 71% at RottenTomatoes, certainly not bad, but not great.

Yes, I am sure it did poorly in the US because of a lousy marketing campaign and crowded season.

Regardless, having one Bond movie preforming below expectations wasn't going to do the franchise in.

Plans were already in full force for The Property of a Lady, Dalton's third Bond movie, for a 1991 release before legal troubles hit. Also Dalton was still intending to play Bond for what eventually became GoldenEye until he dropped out after becoming tired of waiting and no longer wanted to do the role.
Dalton only got the role of Bond because Pierce Brosnan was unavailable because of his comittment to Remington Steele. He hasn't been remembered that greatly, either.

How Dalton got the role isn't of question. If Bronson was in TLD and LTK, those legal troubles still would have halted the series and chances are the films would have preformed about the same.

It is also worth noting that the producers were trying to get Dalton as Bond since the early 70s and was always a front runner for the role.

I don't know what you mean by him not being remembered that greatly. True, he didn't have the long stream of films that Connery or Moore had, so he gets lost in the muddle. But his preformance as Bond was generally well regarded by critics and fan circles. Average viewers who don't know much about James Bond seem to assume that his movies were creative and finical flops and that was why he was "fired", which is horribly not the case.

I've been noticing that Dalton's films have been getting a renewed interest in the wake of Craig's Bond films which doesn't surprise me, considering Dalton's take is very much like Craig's take on the character.[/QUOTE]

Aside from TOMORROW NEVER DIES, which to me is one of the best Bond movies of all time, the rest of Brosnan's 007 movies were, IMO, dreadfully boring, or stupid, or a combination of both. I like Brosnan as Bond, just not the stories and pacing of the bloated 007 movies he did.

Rob
 
Thanks to everyone for correcting me on the Dalton/Bond era. I grew up on James Bond with Pierce Brosnan so my knowledge is a tad limited.

Out Of My Vulcan Mind wrote:
International box office has always been the center of gravity of the Bond series, so you really need to focus on the worldwide gross rather than the domestic gross. Moonraker may be regarded as a weak Bond film by most fans and critics, but it was a smash hit. It's the highest grossing of Roger Moore's Bond films at $210.3 million worldwide. Moore then delivered $202.8 million with For Your Eyes Only, $187.5 million with Octopussy, and then dropped to $152.4 million with A View to a Kill. Dalton's The Living Daylights was successful in bringing the gross back up close to the $200 million level, bringing in $191.2 million. Licence to Kill then dropped to $156.2 million, with a particularly poor domestic performance, but it was still a profitable film and the producers were willing to go ahead with a third Dalton Bond film until the legal troubles hit. Brosnan and Craig's tenures as Bond have, however, led to much bigger box office revivals for the series than Dalton's.

I get what you're saying. I have to admit I'm surprised Moonraker was such a hit.

Torg wrote:
I don't know what you mean by him not being remembered that greatly. True, he didn't have the long stream of films that Connery or Moore had, so he gets lost in the muddle. But his preformance as Bond was generally well regarded by critics and fan circles. Average viewers who don't know much about James Bond seem to assume that his movies were creative and finical flops and that was why he was "fired", which is horribly not the case.

Well, whenever I hear discussions about Bond, and who is the best Bond, Timothy Dalton usually falls to the wayside. I guess you can say that his tenure was cut short thanks to the legal troubles, so he didn't have time to build a successful stream of films like Connery, Moore, or Brosnan (you could argue the same for Craig, that is, if his third film doesn't go into production, how will people remember him years later). I've only seen License to Kill out of Dalton's films, and I have to admit I wasn't impressed. Dalton just seemed to lack a certain charisma in the role.

I've been noticing that Dalton's films have been getting a renewed interest in the wake of Craig's Bond films which doesn't surprise me, considering Dalton's take is very much like Craig's take on the character.

Really? At least Craig has some charisma. I think Dalton was just too stoic and flat in the role, but that's just my opinion. I think also another thing is that Craig had much more to work with in his two films so far than Dalton did in his. I mean, Craig was able to approach the character in a way no one has been able to, since he wasn't really inheriting the baggage of the twenty films that came before. He could bring a new spin and a new perspective to the role, and I think that allowed him some flexibility.

I also think one of the biggest things why I prefer Craig over Dalton, and certainly Craig over Brosnan or Moore, is that Craig has been able to mix a certain cold-heartedness with vulnerability, which is a difficult task, but he does it seamlessly in my opinion. Dalton, to me, could never do that, but maybe that's because of the material he had to work with.

That and License to Kill felt too much like a generic action film. I know that's the same complaint Quantum of Solace gets, but at least it felt "Bondian" with the technology and the globe-trotting. License to Kill honestly felt too homogenized, or too "American", if that makes sense.
 
I also think one of the biggest things why I prefer Craig over Dalton, and certainly Craig over Brosnan or Moore, is that Craig has been able to mix a certain cold-heartedness with vulnerability, which is a difficult task, but he does it seamlessly in my opinion. Dalton, to me, could never do that, but maybe that's because of the material he had to work with.
I think Dalton managed that mixture of cold-heartedness and vulnerability pretty well in The Living Daylights, a far superior film to Licence to Kill in my opinion. The Living Daylights is leaner and meaner than the Moore films, but it still feels like a Bond film. Licence to Kill feels like a big budget extended episode of Miami Vice with Bond filling in for Crockett and Tubbs. You should definitely check out The Living Daylights sometime, JA.
 
I also think one of the biggest things why I prefer Craig over Dalton, and certainly Craig over Brosnan or Moore, is that Craig has been able to mix a certain cold-heartedness with vulnerability, which is a difficult task, but he does it seamlessly in my opinion. Dalton, to me, could never do that, but maybe that's because of the material he had to work with.
I think Dalton managed that mixture of cold-heartedness and vulnerability pretty well in The Living Daylights, a far superior film to Licence to Kill in my opinion. The Living Daylights is leaner and meaner than the Moore films, but it still feels like a Bond film. Licence to Kill feels like a big budget extended episode of Miami Vice with Bond filling in for Crockett and Tubbs. You should definitely check out The Living Daylights sometime, JA.

I will. Thank you for the recommendation. I totally agree about License to Kill. I guess it was a bad first time to become acquainted with Timothy Dalton as Bond. I'll give him another chance with The Living Daylights.
 
^Please do, it's a really good Bond movie. And as OOMVM said, an actual Bond movie and not a Miami Vice episode.
 
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