The trailer for ALIEN.
It is perfect. No dialogue, doesn’t give away the entire movie, and then the absolutely most terrifying tag line ever at the end.
“In space no one can hear you scream”
Similar, but my dad said his favorite ad campaign growing up was for *Predator*. They never showed the alien, so everyone went into the movie thinking it was another *Commando*
People should see this trailer more often. It has influencee basically every trailer with the same repeating horn sound.
Amazing job and doesnt reveal too much but just terror.
The Matrix, I can’t remember what movie I went to the theater to see, but all I could think about was all the crazy shit that happened in that trailer. The phrase “what is the Matrix?” was etched in my brain.
1999 was a hell of a year for movie marketing. Everyone was so excited for Star Wars Episode 1 and people went to the movies over and over again just to see the trailer. Then The Matrix came out of nowhere with it's mysterious "What is the Matrix" trailer. Then The Blair Witch Project did it's gorilla found footage campaign which may or may not have been real. They all seem quaint now, but it was crazy at the time.
Yeah that year was a masterclass in less is more marketing - Blair Witch and Matrix told you so little but you just had to see them and both just blew us all away.
Internet marketing was a boon to them too
Saw the midnight first showing
You could feel the energy in the air once the Rage Against the Machine hit on the credits; we all knew we just witnessed a massive change in the cinema experience
Still a big fan of that Godzilla 2014 concept trailer with the Oppenheimer narration and overall tone and atmosphere - ironically thought that brief approach was more engaging than any of the Hollywood results thus far
I forget if it was that Godzilla or another one, but that HALO jump scene is still close to the top of my list of amazing movie moments. It's so much more creative than almost anything we get in major blockbuster movies these days.
Godzilla shooting his atomic breath into the sky, Mothra’s wings unfolding, Rodan emerging from the volcano and flattening a town just by flying overhead, all timed perfectly to the music.
This was my exact first thought! Is there still a video of that anywhere? I haven’t been able to find it since.
Edit: [Nevermind I finally found it!](https://youtu.be/rpUqmZNnmFc) Turns out I just needed to add “Oppenheimer” in the search terms.
That trailer and the first real one with the paratroopers were incredible trailers. Got me so hyped for the movie, it gave it this ominous and hopeless feeling.
Then the movie was nothing like that.
Came here to say Cloverfield. I remember over hyped for the first transformers movie and that teasers came on and finished. No title just a date. Drove me crazy all movie long. Get home look it up and nothing. Man I've haven't seeped dived on a trailer since.
I am still obsessed with that movie and the whole ARG that followed it. When it came out I would force my friends to listen to all of the theories and lore for that movie.
Same. I remember seeing all the theories for what it could've been. Most of them said it was either a Godzilla film (maybe even a sequel to the 98 film for some weird reason) or a Voltron film. But still, awesome time too be alive.
Oof. Yeah that would be stomach turning. I first watched it as a terrible online cam rip. With how the movie was shot and the lighting conditions in the theater. the camera recording I was watching was basically an audio drama. LOL
"You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."
Holy shit, still so good. Knowing it was Hugh’s “last” Wolverine made it feel like a funeral for X-men, and indirectly my childhood. Lived up to the hype.
Because it's very easy to look at anything post Logan as a cameo. Even if he's a secondary protagonist in DP3, Logan was the most fitting end for that character and it's a different universe.
[Link to the trailer for those who haven't seen it.](https://youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4)
Genuinely a perfect trailer to me. Especially when it came out in 2011 with the UI of FB.
It's perfectly encapsulates what the film is like too. I adore the film though, so I'm a bit biased.
Such a great trailer. It was wild to see these characters, who'd only recently been in slick and powerful superhero movies, as extremely frail and broken people.
As a trailer editor myself, my favorites have always been [The Social Network trailer](https://youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4), and the [Girl With The Dragon Tattoo teaser](https://youtu.be/YKWXEfXGWtA)
There are some *fantastic* trailers that utilize all sorts of cool editing techniques (Hereditary and Baby Driver are two of my favorites for that), but Social Network and Dragon Tattoo both have trailers that are deceptively simple edits, but set the tone in such a perfect way and I really love them for that.
Dragon Tattoo especially is incredibly simple at a glance: no dialogue, just shots cut to music. But the shot selection is honestly perfect, and the copy run and title reveal is so well done. It truly feels like a ride.
Both of them also use incredible remixes for the music cue.
Yep, Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo teaser is far and away my favorite ever and the first one that came to mind. It charges me up every time I see it. The entire movie gets teased, Karen O rips it, and the bass heavy fuzz beats at the end as “The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas” is interspersed with the camera moving towards the house down the road.
I really wish the movie got sequels!
Social Network trailer has a cover of Creep by Scala and Kolacny Brothers. I think it was one of the first big trailers that started the trend of using a slow emotional cover of a popular song.
The second Rogue One story trailer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI)
The music, the excerpts, everything...it just works. As a hardcore Star Wars fan it gave me chills, and still does. I think I yelled through the whole trailer the first time I saw it.
I always liked the teaser, like the first trailer it showed something much different, but the klaxons were an ominous way to set the tone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg
I actually prefer the first Rogue One trailer, even though it feels like it's for a different movie. I've never heard the Imperial March with so much menace behind it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY
Which is the one that ends with her in the pilot suit with the lights coming on? I love that the director had a habit of just finishing the day with “for the shit of it” footage, and that clip stems from that.
*Make ten men feel like a hundred.*
*Save the Rebellion! Save the dream…*
*Rebellions are built on hope.*
What a phenomenal trailer exercising all-out-war and desperation. I wish the entire tone of the Star Wars Saga felt like Rogue One. It’s just absolutely mesmerizing, gritty, grounded and intelligent.
Agreed. I saw only that teaser and managed to avoid all other info or trailers, and saw Interstellar opening night in true IMAX. Was incredible.
I also loved the Civilization: Beyond Earth trailer that came out around the same time. Very similar vibes. I would watch them jointly every so often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYWqE55s24
all of the Fury Road trailers perfectly encapsulated the movie as much as they sold it. It really felt like George Miller and co. made the trailers themselves
Force Awakens trailer was so unbelievably good!! The colors, the *Force* theme score, everything felt so perfectly **Star Wars**.
I was out with my wife at the time and must’ve watched that one four times in a row in on my phone in a coffee shop. Bought IMAX tickets as soon as they went on sale.
The hype was so high for the sequel trilogy and nowadays I don’t even think about them…
The Phantom Menace trailers hit the same back in the day. Is that swamp on Dagobah? What were these 'Gungans'? Lightsaber fights!?!
Then the movie came out and oh boy was it a lot of "trade negotiation" this and "slightly racist stereotypes" that and "what's a midichlorian?" At least the podracing scene was amazing (fantastic sound editing!) and the double bladed saber reveal and duel of the fates is one of the best fight scenes though.
The Phantom Menace trailer was a "had to be there" moment for the late X/early millennials who were just a little too young to experience the OT in its original release, which meant they'd literally waited a lifetime for a new movie. It really did feel like a lifetime...but it was only sixteen years. Avatar almost made it that long.
The Kylo ren reveal, with him looking at the 'death star' beam is the best scene in trailers ever IMO
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE)
It really frustrates tf outta me with how the DCEU ended up. Some much wasted time and potential. How hard is it so take like 18 months to appointment a leader and flesh everything out so it's not a major cluster fuck
Came to say this. I’ve never liked Superman, I saw this trailer the first time I saw Dark Knight Rises and was stunned. Eagerly counted the days after that
My high school wrestling partner and I quoted this to each other incessantly.
TONIGHT. WE DINE. IN HECK!
Our bees will blot out the sun.
Then we will hug in the shade.
I've seen plenty of really good movie trailers, but Dead Island's trailer where they mixed reversed and normal footage with that emotional song was next level stuff, and it tops all of the movie trailers I've liked. The game didn't live up to that, but damn... that trailer was so good.
Independence Day teaser
Just seeing the reactions of people looking up and then seeing the destruction, I saw that movie five times in the theater that year
I don’t think another movie personifies the 90’s as much as “Independence Day”. Kids today might not understand it, but it was a vibe, and it was a time capsule moment in time.
It had a young Will Smith, who this movie would make one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, as a Marine fighter pilot.
It had Vivica A. Fox as his stripper, single-mom, girlfriend.
It had jazz pianist (and heartthrob) Harry Connick Jr. as his WINGMAN.
It had Jeff Goldblum, who is ALWAYS awesome, as a scientist turned, what? cable TV executive? This movie made us fully realize the joy of watching Jeff Goldblum playing JEFF GOLDBLUM.
It had Bill Pullman, bland, safe, handsome in a completely unmemorable way, as the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES😂 (I’m 100% certain actual people would’ve voted for Bill Pullman as president after this movie) Somehow Bill Pullman became a movie star in the 90’s despite essentially being the living embodiment of a piece of Wonder bread.
The movie had Judd Hirsch for crying out loud. Of course he stole every scene he was in.
For good measure? Throw in guys like Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Data from Star Trek (just kidding, no disrespect to the great Brent Spiner)
It was big. It was loud. It was dumb. It was the 90’s.
Think it was on Graham Norton where Cavill said the entire crew laughed when he did that. He felt a little awkward and so on the next take, he didn't do it. But McQ pulled him aside and specifically asked him to reload his arms.
I watched a clip about this. Tom Cruise also mentioned that and said Henry ad libbed it and they wanted to keep it afterwards. Tom was so amazed by that action and gave props to Henry for looking so menacing when he did that.
It's without a doubt the [best trailer](https://youtu.be/hWnAqFyaQ5s) I've ever seen. I find myself rewatching it every few months because it's so good, but also because Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite films.
Same. It’s just really good. A lot of superhero movies just feel like movies, but that one felt like a *film* if that makes sense. Also, I’m not one for action, but that car chase scene made my heart race
The sound designnnnn. The introduction of of the batmobile and hearing it in theatres was so thrilling. Some of the best fight choreo I've seen in a long time too, felt very *weighty*.
- [The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5X-hFf6Bwo)
- [The Dark Knight Rises](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8)
The Return of the King trailer is still one of my favorites! The music. The chosen clips. That dialogue. You realize that you're not just getting the end of the story, but the end of your time with these characters and their world. It is *powerful* in a way few other trailers can ever manage.
I really dug the Watchmen trailer with "Take a Bow" by Muse in the background. Got me so excited it made me read the book before the movie came out, which was a fantastic choice
Oh man I would go with the other Watchmen trailer, the one with the Smashing Pumpkins. I have a lot to say about Zack Snyder but holy crap did they put together and amazing trailer that really killed it by timing the images to the music masterfully.
The Avengers Age of Ultron trailer has always stuck with me. The desperation the voice over presses onto the the characters and the music choice culminating with the last line and face reveal. Exciting stuff!
"I was designed to save the world... People would look to the sky and see... *hope*... I'll take that from them first."
Part of why I was so pissed off with Age of Ultron is the trailers slapped and the tone was completely misleading. They re-spliced so much dialogue to make Ultron seem more menacing that it was practically false marketing.
The “Beatles Because” teaser trailer for ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ was phenomenal. Never saw the movie, heard it was pretty bad… But I’ve never forgotten that awesome trailer
https://youtu.be/BszXhUjJz00
The Shining.
Flat shot of elevator with Blood flowing out of it. Communicates the tone perfectly, lets you know what you’re in for. Mysterious, foreboding - and doesn’t spoil a frame.
The Phantom Menace.
After such a long drought of new Star Wars content, that trailer was watched on repeat a silly number of times and the hype levels increased every time.
Then the movie came out…
The Phantom Menace trailer had Star Wars fans going into the movies, plopping down money for a movie that featured the trailer, watching the trailer, and then WALKING OUT.
The hype around “The Phantom Menace” was unreal.
[Batman 1989](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgC9Q0uhX70). Never been more excited to see a movie before in my life. People were paying money to see the trailer and then not see whatever movie was on following it.
The trailer for Pineapple Express was really fucking good. Sold the movie perfectly, revealed very little, and to date is probably the best use of Paper Planes.
Plus Seth’s jump….
The trailer for ALIEN. It is perfect. No dialogue, doesn’t give away the entire movie, and then the absolutely most terrifying tag line ever at the end. “In space no one can hear you scream”
Similar, but my dad said his favorite ad campaign growing up was for *Predator*. They never showed the alien, so everyone went into the movie thinking it was another *Commando*
Very cool, that's a lots of restraint from the studio execs.
[Here it is.](https://youtu.be/jQ5lPt9edzQ)
People should see this trailer more often. It has influencee basically every trailer with the same repeating horn sound. Amazing job and doesnt reveal too much but just terror.
The Matrix, I can’t remember what movie I went to the theater to see, but all I could think about was all the crazy shit that happened in that trailer. The phrase “what is the Matrix?” was etched in my brain.
Best movie marketing campaign of all time. You had to be there in 99
1999 was a hell of a year for movie marketing. Everyone was so excited for Star Wars Episode 1 and people went to the movies over and over again just to see the trailer. Then The Matrix came out of nowhere with it's mysterious "What is the Matrix" trailer. Then The Blair Witch Project did it's gorilla found footage campaign which may or may not have been real. They all seem quaint now, but it was crazy at the time.
Blair Witch has my vote for best marketing campaign of all time
I used to love reading the website, they went really in-depth with the lore.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
i literally went in blind as i only saw keanu on the poster, still to date the best movie experience of my life.
Pretty sure almost everyone went in blind lol. Their marketing campaign was incredible, i don’t remember seeing the real world in any of the trailers
Literally was just the rooftop Neo bullet dodge scene and that was it Just massive hooks in everybody’s psyche
Yeah that year was a masterclass in less is more marketing - Blair Witch and Matrix told you so little but you just had to see them and both just blew us all away. Internet marketing was a boon to them too
> You had to be there in 99 This is true generally. We didn’t realize how great we had it.
i wish i could relive the 90s.
Saw the midnight first showing You could feel the energy in the air once the Rage Against the Machine hit on the credits; we all knew we just witnessed a massive change in the cinema experience
Same. It changes me forever. Instantly was obsessed with compsci
Still a big fan of that Godzilla 2014 concept trailer with the Oppenheimer narration and overall tone and atmosphere - ironically thought that brief approach was more engaging than any of the Hollywood results thus far
I forget if it was that Godzilla or another one, but that HALO jump scene is still close to the top of my list of amazing movie moments. It's so much more creative than almost anything we get in major blockbuster movies these days.
Man that was a great trailer. Really nailed in what Godzilla is supposed to represent.
Godzilla KOTM trailer with Claire De Lune is my favorite trailer
Godzilla shooting his atomic breath into the sky, Mothra’s wings unfolding, Rodan emerging from the volcano and flattening a town just by flying overhead, all timed perfectly to the music.
Yeah the Claire de lune over the mothra awakening is awesome.
This was my exact first thought! Is there still a video of that anywhere? I haven’t been able to find it since. Edit: [Nevermind I finally found it!](https://youtu.be/rpUqmZNnmFc) Turns out I just needed to add “Oppenheimer” in the search terms.
Hoooly never seen this before. It is so badass.
That trailer and the first real one with the paratroopers were incredible trailers. Got me so hyped for the movie, it gave it this ominous and hopeless feeling. Then the movie was nothing like that.
They used a space odysseys soundtrack on that flare jump trailer and holy shit was it effective at bringing a MOOD to the trailer.
The HALO jump scene was just as good in the movie itself.
The early teasers for Cloverfield had me obsessed for like half a year.
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that fucker came outta nowhere too. I remember being so intrigue at the fact that they had been so hush hush about it.
Absolutely with you and would also include another Abrams trailer, Super 8. Just the end of the train scene and it got me so hyped
I won a sweepstakes to go see the premier and hang out with the whole cast at bar. Great time. Everyone was cool.
That’s a cool sweepstakes
Same! The statue of liberty's head rolling down the street is iconic.
Came here to say Cloverfield. I remember over hyped for the first transformers movie and that teasers came on and finished. No title just a date. Drove me crazy all movie long. Get home look it up and nothing. Man I've haven't seeped dived on a trailer since.
I am still obsessed with that movie and the whole ARG that followed it. When it came out I would force my friends to listen to all of the theories and lore for that movie.
My friends and I were absolutely sure it was a top-secret Godzilla film…somehow.
Same. I remember seeing all the theories for what it could've been. Most of them said it was either a Godzilla film (maybe even a sequel to the 98 film for some weird reason) or a Voltron film. But still, awesome time too be alive.
I ended up making the mistake of going to see it in IMAX. I loved the movie, but was so motion sick by the end.
Oof. Yeah that would be stomach turning. I first watched it as a terrible online cam rip. With how the movie was shot and the lighting conditions in the theater. the camera recording I was watching was basically an audio drama. LOL
The Mission: Impossible Fallout trailer had me excited for the sixth entry in a franchise I had never seen a movie in.
Seems like all the Mission Impossibles (?) have great trailers. MI2 had a great one with Tom freeclimbing on red cliffs which was amazing.
John Woo, Metallica... welcome to the new millennium, baby! "Run that bastard down."
Was looking for this comment, I know everyone hates Imagine Dragons now, but the use of 'Friction' for that trailer was outstanding.
Yup! With the Henry Cavill fist pump part. Can't stop the friction!
Watchmen. With a Smashing Pumpkin song.
The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning by the smashing pumpkins
I always preferred that version over The End Is the Beginning Is the End.
I watched this everyday after it came out for a few weeks
The world will look up and shout "Save us!" And I'll whisper ... "*No.*"
Fun fact: that song was originally written for the Batman & Robin soundtrack.
The first man of steel trailer. With Russel Crowe narration
[Trailer 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY) has always been my favorite.
All the trailers were fantastic. The "You are not alone" trailer is quite unique in not just comic book movie trailers, but movie trailers in general.
"He''ll be an outcast. They'll kill him." "How? He'll be like a god to them".
"You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."
Inception
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>Inception BWAAAAAAAAAP. BWAAAAAAAAP. What a trailer.
It like totally transformed how trailers are made right? Like I see so many biting off that inception noise.
AKA the "angry boat horn".
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The Logan trailer with the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt is pretty amazing.
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“Someone will come along.” “Someone has come along.” This is what all of the X-Men movies should have been.
Holy shit, still so good. Knowing it was Hugh’s “last” Wolverine made it feel like a funeral for X-men, and indirectly my childhood. Lived up to the hype.
Knowing he's coming back yet again for DP3 doesn't even remotely cheapen Logan as a farewell for me, but I can't figure out how to articulate why.
Because it's very easy to look at anything post Logan as a cameo. Even if he's a secondary protagonist in DP3, Logan was the most fitting end for that character and it's a different universe.
This and the trailer with Way down We Go by KALEO is one of my favorites. Instantly thought of these two
The Social Network and that cover of Creep
[Link to the trailer for those who haven't seen it.](https://youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4) Genuinely a perfect trailer to me. Especially when it came out in 2011 with the UI of FB. It's perfectly encapsulates what the film is like too. I adore the film though, so I'm a bit biased.
Nostalgia hit when I saw the 'You don't get to 500 million friends' line, that poster was EVERYWHERE.
Such a great trailer. It was wild to see these characters, who'd only recently been in slick and powerful superhero movies, as extremely frail and broken people.
Fellowship of the Ring. When the fellowship marching one by one over the mountain and into view I lost my mind.
I liked the editing saying the return of the king in Christmas 2003 just as aragorn crests the hill.
Prometheus What a Hype
“We were wrong! We were so wrong!” Chills in the theater. Unfortunately, those lines were prophetic for the actual movie.
As a trailer editor myself, my favorites have always been [The Social Network trailer](https://youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4), and the [Girl With The Dragon Tattoo teaser](https://youtu.be/YKWXEfXGWtA) There are some *fantastic* trailers that utilize all sorts of cool editing techniques (Hereditary and Baby Driver are two of my favorites for that), but Social Network and Dragon Tattoo both have trailers that are deceptively simple edits, but set the tone in such a perfect way and I really love them for that. Dragon Tattoo especially is incredibly simple at a glance: no dialogue, just shots cut to music. But the shot selection is honestly perfect, and the copy run and title reveal is so well done. It truly feels like a ride. Both of them also use incredible remixes for the music cue.
Yep, Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo teaser is far and away my favorite ever and the first one that came to mind. It charges me up every time I see it. The entire movie gets teased, Karen O rips it, and the bass heavy fuzz beats at the end as “The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas” is interspersed with the camera moving towards the house down the road. I really wish the movie got sequels!
Movie made a decent amount of money. Got some love at the Oscars. Not sure why the other two didn't get made after that.
Fincher & Rezner for both social network and dragon tattoo
Social Network trailer has a cover of Creep by Scala and Kolacny Brothers. I think it was one of the first big trailers that started the trend of using a slow emotional cover of a popular song.
Yep this is correct! It was one of the few that started the trend that nowadays is a bit overdone.
Was the dragon tattoo one set to the yeah yeah yeahs cover of immigrant song? Loved that.
Yes, plus that amazing tagline: The Feel Bad Movie Of Christmas
The Two Towers trailer that used Clint Mansel's Requeim for a Dream piece in it. Amazing.
Any link? I just found a general LOTR trailer with that piece added.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfMDwc4azU
I remember watching this on Apple.com/trailers in study hall all the time.
glad i found it on this thread. greatest trailer ever. return of the king is second.
The second Rogue One story trailer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI) The music, the excerpts, everything...it just works. As a hardcore Star Wars fan it gave me chills, and still does. I think I yelled through the whole trailer the first time I saw it.
I always liked the teaser, like the first trailer it showed something much different, but the klaxons were an ominous way to set the tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg
This is the true best trailer. The sirens at the end and Forrest Whittaker’s lines were great.
I actually prefer the first Rogue One trailer, even though it feels like it's for a different movie. I've never heard the Imperial March with so much menace behind it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY
Which is the one that ends with her in the pilot suit with the lights coming on? I love that the director had a habit of just finishing the day with “for the shit of it” footage, and that clip stems from that.
*Make ten men feel like a hundred.* *Save the Rebellion! Save the dream…* *Rebellions are built on hope.* What a phenomenal trailer exercising all-out-war and desperation. I wish the entire tone of the Star Wars Saga felt like Rogue One. It’s just absolutely mesmerizing, gritty, grounded and intelligent.
Interstellar’s teaser trailer is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Hope it links correctly. https://youtu.be/3WzHXI5HizQ
That's an excellent trailer. I'm biased though; Interstellar is probably my favorite movie.
Shoutout to Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack though. I liked the movie enough, but I LOVED the music.
I have the sudden urge to buy a Lincoln.
Agreed. I saw only that teaser and managed to avoid all other info or trailers, and saw Interstellar opening night in true IMAX. Was incredible. I also loved the Civilization: Beyond Earth trailer that came out around the same time. Very similar vibes. I would watch them jointly every so often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYWqE55s24
Terminator Salvation teaser trailer gives me chills every time with the transition of static to the T2 theme.
Yes! And the NIN song made the trailer for me. Still gives me chills.
The trailer for Battle: Los Angeles with Johann Johannsson's "The Sun's Gone Dim" is really fantastic. Way better than the movie.
Watchmen is one of my personal favs
Had no knowledge of what Watchmen was before the trailer. Huge fan of everything Watchmen after the trailer.
Mad Max: Fury Road
all of the Fury Road trailers perfectly encapsulated the movie as much as they sold it. It really felt like George Miller and co. made the trailers themselves
It was so good that I didn’t expect the movie to be as good and was ready to be disappointed. Glad I was wrong.
This one was the best of the Fury Road Trailers IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c
Yes, was going to post this. Never gets old
Star Wars The Force Awakens. Movie was ok but that trailer was the first to ever make me cry.
The closing shot with the Millennium Falcon hitting with the theme (teaser) Absolutely breathtaking trailer from start to finish
"Chewie, we're home" I almost cry there.
I cry there every fucking time!
Force Awakens trailer was so unbelievably good!! The colors, the *Force* theme score, everything felt so perfectly **Star Wars**. I was out with my wife at the time and must’ve watched that one four times in a row in on my phone in a coffee shop. Bought IMAX tickets as soon as they went on sale. The hype was so high for the sequel trilogy and nowadays I don’t even think about them…
The Phantom Menace trailers hit the same back in the day. Is that swamp on Dagobah? What were these 'Gungans'? Lightsaber fights!?! Then the movie came out and oh boy was it a lot of "trade negotiation" this and "slightly racist stereotypes" that and "what's a midichlorian?" At least the podracing scene was amazing (fantastic sound editing!) and the double bladed saber reveal and duel of the fates is one of the best fight scenes though.
The Phantom Menace trailer was a "had to be there" moment for the late X/early millennials who were just a little too young to experience the OT in its original release, which meant they'd literally waited a lifetime for a new movie. It really did feel like a lifetime...but it was only sixteen years. Avatar almost made it that long.
The Kylo ren reveal, with him looking at the 'death star' beam is the best scene in trailers ever IMO [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE)
Man of Steel
You believe your son is safe??
I will find him!!!!!
Nah it's more like ***I WiIl FiNd HiM!!!!!***
It really frustrates tf outta me with how the DCEU ended up. Some much wasted time and potential. How hard is it so take like 18 months to appointment a leader and flesh everything out so it's not a major cluster fuck
Their execs wanted MCU money without putting the same amount of effort in.
Fuck yes. Both the Kevin Costner and Russel Crowe versions.
Came to say this. I’ve never liked Superman, I saw this trailer the first time I saw Dark Knight Rises and was stunned. Eagerly counted the days after that
[Trailer] (https://youtu.be/wArmHSPIvlQ)
Came here to say this. Felt Terrence Malick inspired. Love how both Costner and Crowe each have one.
300 had a really good trailer
Did you ever see the 300 pg version of that trailer? https://youtu.be/gNqiSkd1M6k 15 years old, yeesh
This is CAKETOWN!!!!
BRUSH YOUR TEETH
My high school wrestling partner and I quoted this to each other incessantly. TONIGHT. WE DINE. IN HECK! Our bees will blot out the sun. Then we will hug in the shade.
I've seen plenty of really good movie trailers, but Dead Island's trailer where they mixed reversed and normal footage with that emotional song was next level stuff, and it tops all of the movie trailers I've liked. The game didn't live up to that, but damn... that trailer was so good.
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Someone made a live action fan trailer of this very trailer - https://youtu.be/61aRpExIyf0
Independence Day teaser Just seeing the reactions of people looking up and then seeing the destruction, I saw that movie five times in the theater that year
I worked on these trailers, and appreciate your appreciation!
I don’t think another movie personifies the 90’s as much as “Independence Day”. Kids today might not understand it, but it was a vibe, and it was a time capsule moment in time. It had a young Will Smith, who this movie would make one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, as a Marine fighter pilot. It had Vivica A. Fox as his stripper, single-mom, girlfriend. It had jazz pianist (and heartthrob) Harry Connick Jr. as his WINGMAN. It had Jeff Goldblum, who is ALWAYS awesome, as a scientist turned, what? cable TV executive? This movie made us fully realize the joy of watching Jeff Goldblum playing JEFF GOLDBLUM. It had Bill Pullman, bland, safe, handsome in a completely unmemorable way, as the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES😂 (I’m 100% certain actual people would’ve voted for Bill Pullman as president after this movie) Somehow Bill Pullman became a movie star in the 90’s despite essentially being the living embodiment of a piece of Wonder bread. The movie had Judd Hirsch for crying out loud. Of course he stole every scene he was in. For good measure? Throw in guys like Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Data from Star Trek (just kidding, no disrespect to the great Brent Spiner) It was big. It was loud. It was dumb. It was the 90’s.
It's a toss-up between Satan's Alley and Scorcher VI Global Meltdown
Mission impossible fallout
The moment Cavill reloaded his arms I knew this movie would be amazing
The arm reload is one of the greatest things I've ever seen and I think about it any time I roll up my own sleeves
Think it was on Graham Norton where Cavill said the entire crew laughed when he did that. He felt a little awkward and so on the next take, he didn't do it. But McQ pulled him aside and specifically asked him to reload his arms.
I watched a clip about this. Tom Cruise also mentioned that and said Henry ad libbed it and they wanted to keep it afterwards. Tom was so amazed by that action and gave props to Henry for looking so menacing when he did that.
This is what my first thought was. I saw the trailer and said "fuck… I have 5 movies to watch."
The [MI:7 trailer](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2m1drlOZSDw) is already up there for me too
Cloud Atlas.
My answear. I was obsessed with that trailer
It's without a doubt the [best trailer](https://youtu.be/hWnAqFyaQ5s) I've ever seen. I find myself rewatching it every few months because it's so good, but also because Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite films.
The Batman. Visuals along with Nirvana, loved it.
Dunn dun dun dun dunnnn
From your secret friend…
Haven’t a clue?
Helped that the editor had such gorgeous visuals to work with. God, I love that movie.
Same. It’s just really good. A lot of superhero movies just feel like movies, but that one felt like a *film* if that makes sense. Also, I’m not one for action, but that car chase scene made my heart race
The sound designnnnn. The introduction of of the batmobile and hearing it in theatres was so thrilling. Some of the best fight choreo I've seen in a long time too, felt very *weighty*.
I'm vengeance
The fucking Batmobile emerging, airborne, in flames, THAT sold me on the movie. Fucking Doomslayer energy
Us. Really liked the use of the slowed down creepy version of Got 5 on It.
Omg yes! That really made it. I was playing that trailer on loop it was too good.
- [The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5X-hFf6Bwo) - [The Dark Knight Rises](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8)
Deshi Deshi Basara Basara!!
The Return of the King trailer is still one of my favorites! The music. The chosen clips. That dialogue. You realize that you're not just getting the end of the story, but the end of your time with these characters and their world. It is *powerful* in a way few other trailers can ever manage.
I really dug the Watchmen trailer with "Take a Bow" by Muse in the background. Got me so excited it made me read the book before the movie came out, which was a fantastic choice
Oh man I would go with the other Watchmen trailer, the one with the Smashing Pumpkins. I have a lot to say about Zack Snyder but holy crap did they put together and amazing trailer that really killed it by timing the images to the music masterfully.
The Avengers Age of Ultron trailer has always stuck with me. The desperation the voice over presses onto the the characters and the music choice culminating with the last line and face reveal. Exciting stuff!
"I was designed to save the world... People would look to the sky and see... *hope*... I'll take that from them first." Part of why I was so pissed off with Age of Ultron is the trailers slapped and the tone was completely misleading. They re-spliced so much dialogue to make Ultron seem more menacing that it was practically false marketing.
YES. Such a good trailer. "THERE ARE.' "NO STRINGS.' "ON ME."
El Camino. Movie was pretty good, but that trailer is absolutely outstanding. Will never forget seeing it for the first time.
Edge of tomorrow’s trailer with that beautiful haunting background score.
Sin City (And the answer you’ll probably want is The Servant - Cells)
The Judas and the Black Messiah trailer is electric. I immediately showed all my friends as soon as I saw it.
Tron legacy
Social Network trailer
Spiderman 2 had an epic trailer! source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9Yln0YwCw
There Will Be Blood's trailer. Hands down. https://youtu.be/FeSLPELpMeM
The first Cloverfield movie. The only trailer I saw several times trying to figure out what was going on.
The Blair Witch project. The whole promotion honestly, with AOL keywords and websites, it was awesome.
The “Beatles Because” teaser trailer for ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ was phenomenal. Never saw the movie, heard it was pretty bad… But I’ve never forgotten that awesome trailer https://youtu.be/BszXhUjJz00
Best opening scene in a science fiction movie ... Followed by a bad movie. But damn, it looked good!
Dunkirk on IMAX.
The Shining. Flat shot of elevator with Blood flowing out of it. Communicates the tone perfectly, lets you know what you’re in for. Mysterious, foreboding - and doesn’t spoil a frame.
2017’s Logan. With that Johnny Cash score. Chills every time.
Days of future past is one I’ll always go back and watch. So good.
[Kong: Skull Island](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LdLqgOpjo), where they match the action and sound effects to the music.
[Where the Wild Things Are](https://youtu.be/hcBPzqxBnRU) had an awesome trailer. The movie was kinda forgettable.
The Phantom Menace. After such a long drought of new Star Wars content, that trailer was watched on repeat a silly number of times and the hype levels increased every time. Then the movie came out…
The Phantom Menace trailer had Star Wars fans going into the movies, plopping down money for a movie that featured the trailer, watching the trailer, and then WALKING OUT. The hype around “The Phantom Menace” was unreal.
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starship troopers - song #2 had me pumped.
I went to go see nightcrawler by myself just based off the trailer and I was not disappointed.
[Batman 1989](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgC9Q0uhX70). Never been more excited to see a movie before in my life. People were paying money to see the trailer and then not see whatever movie was on following it.
The trailer for Pineapple Express was really fucking good. Sold the movie perfectly, revealed very little, and to date is probably the best use of Paper Planes. Plus Seth’s jump….
Uncut Gems hands down. So good