Black Panther Forever. First trailer made it on my music playlist.
The Phantom Menace.
Groups of highschool kids flooded into the local computer store to watch the Quicktime .mov load 1 frame at a time over the ISDN line in 1999. And of course the first 20 seconds of the trailer was literally fog, keeping us on the edge of our seats.
You didn’t even need the trailer. The teaser poster was cooler than the whole movie. 9 year old me was fucking stoked just seeing this:
My friend and I went to watch Analyze This because we knew that they would show the trailer there. Luckily the movie itself was good as well.
I especially loved the poem trailers. Each character had a short trailer reciting a poem. I liked Maul’s and Shmi’s the most.
I would argue that Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film) was not as good as the trailer lead me to beleve. Specifically the trailer with Clair de Lune by Debussy. Like they hit some of the beats I was looking forward to, but the I disagree with the execution. Ultimately, I felt the movie rang a tad hollow.
Lots of style, good ideas, lack of meaningful substance.
Man of Steel had an amazing first trailer that included the music from the crying scene in Fellowship of the Ring after Gandalf falls to the Balrog.
I think Man of Steel is a better movie than it gets credit for, but the trailer is legit great.
Man of Steel trailer 3 is still tops for me, I posted it in this thread. When MoS was released I was so delighted, but after the initial awe wore off, in hindsight it was a disappointing Superman movie for many reasons (mostly the hope that Supes embodies). The most recent Superman movie by Gunn is the Superman movie I’ve wanted every since the original Superman the Movie with Reeve.
I hear you, but weirdly enough I feel the opposite! I do get that the hope and optimism part was severely lacking in MoS, and it’s more present in Gunn’s new movie. But I kinda think of Superman as the wooden goodie-two-shoes of the JLU animated series, and to me Henry Cavill did that better than David Corenswet did. I feel like the Superman from Gunn’s movie is kinda underpowered and a little too “normal quirky funny nerd guy” rather than the straight-edge force of nature I feel like JLU Superman is. I feel like MoS almost got that, but then injected a bunch of sadness and desaturation which brought it down a bit
Eh, I wouldn’t say that. I’ve heard people say that Corenswet was underpowered but he was literally fighting a clone of himself, if anything he was even more powerful than Cavill’s version by having to fight himself and with Lex having created an algorithm to counteract Supes’ moves. Cavill fights a Kryptonian that hadn’t had the long term exposure to the Earth’s yellow sun like he’d had his entire life. I liked Corenswet’s quirky-ness and felt he embodied a more good natured and hopeful version of Clark. Don’t get me wrong, I still felt that Cavill was a good Superman, but that his potential was squandered by poor writing.
I get it works in the context of the plot, the characterization just didnt work for me. When I say he’s underpowered, what I mean is I wish there were more moments where he’s SUPERMAN and not just a super guy. There weren’t many of those WOW moments, to me, where you and all the other characters are just astounded by his raw power. He struggles through the whole movie and that’s just not the version of Superman I like, I guess.
The JLU animated series version is more how I see Superman so that’s kinda the model I judge the live action movies against
I get it, I’m a big fan of Superman the Animated Series and the whole Timm era too. But I’m more partial to a more human Superman, the new animated My Adventures with Superman and this new movie encapsulate that perfectly for me.
Eh, I still think he was pretty damn impressive. I mean he literally lifted an entire Kaiju and a skyscraper and taking on the Planet Watch contingent like a hot knife through butter.
But yeah, everyone has their favorite version of Supes, some people like Dean Cain, other like Tyler from Superman and Lois. Personally there’s something to like from every iteration for me, but I’m a HUGE Superman fan myself.
I’m more partial to a more human Superman
You just found the words for me, thanks! I’ve had trouble explaining to people why I didn’t love the most recent movie. I guess I prefer God-Superman rather than human Superman. I’m glad you liked this rendition though – here’s hoping Supergirl is good too!
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Man I love that trailer. I probably watched it like 30 times. It was perfect. Then I saw the movie. And I was sad.
Three…movies…
For an otherwise 350-page book.
I’m still not over that. My solution to the Hobbit mess was, go for broke and make one 3-hour film. If the LOTR movies were long and got extended editions, why not Hobbit? No it got 3 whole movies and so much stuff got crammed in there that honestly shouldn’t have been in there in the first place.
Wtf was tauriel? I get it, diversity. But she was completely unnecessary
Or why Azog was there, a character who died out many years before the Hobbit journey even began. Like was Smaug, the Necromancer and the Goblin King not enough for antagonists? That’s quite stacked if you tell me.
- Battle LA
- Man of Steel
- Terminator Salvation
- Cloud Atlas
- Godzilla 2014
The trailer with the HALO jump is the only scene in the movie worth watching.
Finally pick any Zack Snyder movie.
View from the Top.
I saw it when I was in my twenties with a friend because we (two mostly straight guys) thought we were going to see the latest silly Mike Myers movie. And then it turned out that he was barely in it! They just took all his scenes and put them in the trailer! The actual movie was a very dull romcom staring Gwyneth Paltrow and some guy who I don’t remember being in the trailer at all.
When it ended, we walked out of the theater and just said to each other ‘What the hell was that?’.
Also, I think Shallow Hal kind of falls in this too. I don’t recall the trailer being great, but it had to be good enough that it got me to see that terrible movie.
Also, I don’t know if this qualifies, but I remember that The Cable Guy staring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick was the first time I saw a movie and realized that a trailer can be misleading. They deliberately promoted it like The Mask and Ace Ventura. I think I was like 12 when I saw it, and it creeped me way the fuck out.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually a better movie than people remember, but the misleading promotion was a great way to ensure the movie didn’t find its audience.
Can’t find it but I was almost positive there was a trailer for 9 set to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRh_koli9E
I was gonna say 9 as well, but I only remember the Coheed and Cambria trailer
Will Smith turned down The Matrix for this movie…
Probably for the best. I just can’t imagine Will Smith being Neo.
Man of Steel trailer 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY
I cannot understate how shit Luc Besson’s Jeanne d’Arc film was. At least, in my memory. I know, I know; everyone’s got an opinion. These are my two cents. This movie really let me down.
The first teaser, which gave absolutely nothing away, was excellent. The cast was solid. I thought, cool, Besson is doing a period piece.
Wow, it was dog shit. Dustin Hoffman’s role helped. But barely.
It was up for international awards. Milla Jovovich went for a Golden Raspberry.
A History of Violence. One of the few times I wanted my money back.
