Best Movie Trailers of All Time

Fox Hound

Decided To create this Thread for people to upload their Fav/funniest/bizarre Movie trailers ever made!!

hope this works

cowboyBuilder

I'll never forget seeing this as a 11 year old kid

Just pure awesome!

Teasers always the best, no plot lines leaked.

Theboinkmaster

Phantom Menace was an awesome trailer. Shame about the film itself.

SuprSi

I was blown away the first time I saw the Matrix trailer. I had no idea what it was about until then, and ended up watching it 4 times in the cinema!

The best trailer I've seen in recent years is for Man of Steel;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY

It sets the scene, has brilliant music and doesn't give too much away. Shame the movie wasn't quite as good.

Slydice

Has to be the Force Awakens trailer.

It was awesome. Like even the music was made by fans from what I understand.

Sure look at some of the top comments:
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...and it was epic, like people went into this after listening over and over to mass disappointment and years of bemoaning the prequels.

and this trailer delivered and in spades:
- it looked more like the originals
- it delivered enough to satisfy the fans
- it delivered enough to satisfy the public
- and like.. it has this moment where it seems like it's just about to end but then pushes to give you... the audience... just a sliver more just to be even more awesome

and all with that epic fan generated music in the background...

Like.. I grew up a trekkie but was also general scifi and star wars fan but even I could see how much was given to their audience in it.

And the trailer:

Slydice

oh and I forgot to include that at the time it was delivered after their teaser trailer which showed a crashed Star Destroyer and had that nod to the originals with Han and Chewwie

HAN :-(

That felt like a big deal. The fans looked really happy and I mean like what more could they show... but then they went and released the trailer. I mean like... it didn't even re-use the AWE of the crashed Star Destroyer... it was all like.. yeah, we know you know

Chain Smoker

Only one springs to mind immediately

Giacomo McGubbin

Chain Smoker

Thought of a few more

Another one like the Shining in that the director's name carries so much cred it's allowed to completely stray from conventional trailer structure:

Personal favourite

Before its release I'd've included Fury Road, but to be honest with that film's direction they'd've struggled to have made a trailer that wasn't f*cking amazing.

3rdDegree

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

I'll never forget seeing this as a 11 year old kid

Just pure awesome!

Teasers always the best, no plot lines leaked.

As far as I recall, Cameron sent Stan Winston off on his own to make a teaser trailer, and this is what he came back with. Great trailer!

cowboyBuilder

Interstellar teaser was amazing - enough to give an idea of what it was about - but again nothing given away.

Collie D

Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey. Showed all two or three of the funny moments of that particular film

Fox Hound

Great Job, Keep them coming!!

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adgp0v_mfTk

Penn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLvMg62RPA

Like a good trailer should, it shows you enough bits of the film to intrigue you and make you want to see more, without actually giving anything away (or at least nothing that you could figure out without prior knowledge of what happens). Also has great music.

Banjaxed82

That speech. C'mon. Take my money, said a younger me!

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girSv9UH_V8

cowboyBuilder

This is is is a great one of The Abyss
Maybe a bit spoilery, watch the film first ..

humanji

I immediately thought of the Watchmen trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUjMO_k9IF8

I thought it was brilliantly edited together with the music and really gave a feel of the almost overly melodramatic vibe of the film. Got me really excited for the film and I must have watched the trailer over and over on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw61gCe2oqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBGeErufQdY

jones

humanji wrote: »

I immediately thought of the Watchmen trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUjMO_k9IF8

I thought it was brilliantly edited together with the music and really gave a feel of the almost overly melodramatic vibe of the film. Got me really excited for the film and I must have watched the trailer over and over on Youtube.

Say what you will about Snyder but he's some man for visuals

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY

Staying with the super hero theme.....I think all the abuse Heath Ledger got when people heard he was going to be the next joker quickly stopped after this awesome first look of him dropped!!

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hP9D6kZseM

This is in my Top Five Fav Films of all time!!! love this movie....Nolan is a genius

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbCbwP6ibR4

I think 80s films made the best Trailers

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdENmefJRpw

no cation needed

Endaaaagh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BddDCZwWkw0

cowboyBuilder

Gregorym2 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbCbwP6ibR4

I think 80s films made the best Trailers

Whats the story with the terminator music ?

Fox Hound

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Gregorym2 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbCbwP6ibR4

I think 80s films made the best Trailers

Whats the story with the terminator music ?

Hahah I never Noticed...good spot

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtBkR3pGVQ

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvnD2EIIuk

Fox Hound

Chain Smoker wrote: »

Only one springs to mind immediately

If you are going to have a Stephen King Film you have to include this one also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMspVKv56vQ

Wedwood

This was shown in the cinema in before 'Revenge of the Jedi' became 'Return'

Fox Hound

Wedwood wrote: »

This was shown in the cinema in before 'Revenge of the Jedi' became 'Return'

I did not know this....And I call myself a star wars fan...I should be ashamed of myself

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2j4oWdQtU

Who Can forget this classic!!

D'Agger

There's been some phenomenal teaser trailers in the past few years, my only gripe is that Hollywood will never adopt a 'less is more' approach and have just one trailer, leaving people hanging for more. After The Dark Knight Rises 2nd trailer I basically stopped watching more than one - Teaser only - this being one of the first movies I employed the strategy for and I loved both the trailer & the movie itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM

Honorable mentions to Interstellar, The Dark Knight & Man of Steel which have already been posted

Fox Hound

D'Agger wrote: »

There's been some phenomenal teaser trailers in the past few years, my only gripe is that Hollywood will never adopt a 'less is more' approach and have just one trailer, leaving people hanging for more. After The Dark Knight Rises 2nd trailer I basically stopped watching more than one - Teaser only - this being one of the first movies I employed the strategy for and I loved both the trailer & the movie itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM

Honorable mentions to Interstellar, The Dark Knight & Man of Steel which have already been posted

I'm pretty sure its Christopher Nolan's director style, I would imagine he is very involved in what his teasers would look like....The Build up to Interstellar was amazing. Nolan is a genius at creating hype.

Fox Hound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bim7RtKXv90

Something about a Spielberg trailer that always hits the nail on the head!!! "Clever Girl"

D'Agger

Gregorym2 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure its Christopher Nolan's director style, I would imagine he is very involved in what his teasers would look like....The Build up to Interstellar was amazing. Nolan is a genius at creating hype.

True - The Dark Knight Rises trailers were so poor though he completely removed the shock factor

with the football field being leveled

by putting it in the trailer - could not wrap my head around why that was let in....I'm being extra careful spoilering it here even though it's in the trailer because I wouldn't want to píss off anybody by alluding to it!

The teaser for Dunkirk is also top notch, there's alot to be said for matching images from the film to a beat/drum as per the Skyfall trailer above

Fox Hound

D'Agger wrote: »

Gregorym2 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure its Christopher Nolan's director style, I would imagine he is very involved in what his teasers would look like....The Build up to Interstellar was amazing. Nolan is a genius at creating hype.

True - The Dark Knight Rises trailers were so poor though he completely removed the shock factor

with the football field being leveled

by putting it in the trailer - could not wrap my head around why that was let in....I'm being extra careful spoilering it here even though it's in the trailer because I wouldn't want to p ss off anybody by alluding to it!

The teaser for Dunkirk is also top notch, there's alot to be said for matching images from the film to a beat/drum as per the Skyfall trailer above

I agree, I think after the Dark Night he prob wanted to show something Big!!...like how do you top the Joker :-)

cowboyBuilder

^^ That's why the teaser was great for DKR

cowboyBuilder

Can't believe I forgot this , Lord of the Rings teaser trailer, this came out around Summer 2001, and I remember being so excited for it, but at the same time thinking Christmas 2003 is ages away for the complete trilogy

Arghus

I remember some of the early teasers for Prometheus were excellent. Full of dread and atmosphere and they managed to keep the plot fairly mysterious. Of course, the main problem was even after seeing the film your questions like, "what is that about" still remained -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byZkbNB3Jw

Not quite a trailer, but some of the early teaser stuff involving Fassbender in character as David turned out to be better than the film as a whole -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJs7uluwlU

Fox Hound

Arghus wrote: »

I remember some of the early teasers for Prometheus were excellent. Full of dread and atmosphere and they managed to keep the plot fairly mysterious. Of course, the main problem was even after seeing the film your questions like, "what is that about" still remained -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byZkbNB3Jw

Not quite a trailer, but some of the early teaser stuff involving Fassbender in character as David turned out to be better than the film as a whole -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJs7uluwlU

I liked this film, I have been reading a lot of threads lately on boards that a lot of people hated this film??...I liked it a lot!! but I was never a massive Aliens Fan,....is it the alien fans that hated this film? or am I the only one that liked it? :-)

cowboyBuilder

Gregorym2 wrote: »

I liked this film, I have been reading a lot of threads lately on boards that a lot of people hated this film??...I liked it a lot!! but I was never a massive Aliens Fan,....is it the alien fans that hated this film? or am I the only one that liked it? :-)

For me it was just a huge dissapointment, and didn't really feel part of the Alien franchise.
The creatures in it were just crappy and the "Xenomorph" at the end was a joke - an insult to the
true Giger like creatures from the other movies.
Having said all that - visually it's a really nice film and the performance from Fassbender is great.
Plotwise it's a mess though (Damon Lindehof was a writer what can we expect ?) - I have a lot of hopes for Alien Covenant next year, it should be the proper Alien prequel we want - and Damon Lindehof is not involved.

Fox Hound

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Gregorym2 wrote: »

I liked this film, I have been reading a lot of threads lately on boards that a lot of people hated this film??...I liked it a lot!! but I was never a massive Aliens Fan,....is it the alien fans that hated this film? or am I the only one that liked it? :-)

For me it was just a huge dissapointment, and didn't really feel part of the Alien franchise.
The creatures in it were just crappy and the "Xenomorph" at the end was a joke - an insult to the
true Giger like creatures from the other movies.
Having said all that - visually it's a really nice film and the performance from Fassbender is great.
Plotwise it's a mess though (Damon Lindehof was a writer what can we expect ?) - I have a lot of hopes for Alien Covenant next year, it should be the proper Alien prequel we want - and Damon Lindehof is not involved.

The cast was very good, it looked amazing....ok so the main alien wasn't great, BUT we already have the Queen in other alien films so to recreate that would have just been poo. I think they wanted to stay away from any reference to alien movies to protect the ending. I didn't know this was an alien movie until the end...I must have been the only person that didn't know this...maybe that is why I enjoyed it

Arghus

Gregorym2 wrote: »

I liked this film, I have been reading a lot of threads lately on boards that a lot of people hated this film??...I liked it a lot!! but I was never a massive Aliens Fan,....is it the alien fans that hated this film? or am I the only one that liked it? :-)

Not to get too off topic, but just to reply what you said - I think Prometheus wasn't a wholly bad film - it was visually spectacular, Fassbender's performance was amazing, and it had some ideas at least, which is more than you can expect from a lot of effects heavy blockbusters - but it was disappointing and frustrating.

Disappointing, because it promised a lot: the people involved, the film series it was referencing and the early trailers seemed to suggest that they were doing a lot of things the right way, enough to give hope for the future film anyway.

Frustrating, because in execution my view is that they botched it quite badly. I really thought that they should have decided whether to make a standalone sci-fi story, or to go whole-hog into the origins of the Alien universe. As it turned out they smashed what felt like two different films together in the hope that it would all work and were left with a script that was littered with endless unanswered questions and complete dead ends, two dimensional characters, events that made no sense... a real mess.

Take for instance, the geologist and zoologist? characters. They arrive on an alien planet, which contains evidence of life and geology unknown to science - seem unconcerned by this. During the first foray outside they decide they are getting the heebie jeebies and make moves to head back to the ship - disregarding all the amazing things literally all around them that should be making men of science such as themselves weak at the knees. They then get lost - despite there being a seemingly idiot proof tracking and mapping system. And - most stupidly and plainly contradictory of all - after being previously seemingly terrified of the environment, one of them then decides to play tickles with a clearly very dangerous and pissed off alien lifeform...What? There were dozens of story beats like that in Prometheus, moments that made me go, "what?", "why?" and - most of all - "who wrote this?"

Prometheus wasn't terrible but it was one of the most unsatisfying films I'd ever watched.

cowboyBuilder

^^ Perfect summary.

wezzopalooza

Imagine sitting in the cinema back in 1973 and then this comes on. Sweet Jayziz!

DMcL1971

The best trailers I have seen in the last few years, were those for Suicide Squad. They really caught my imagination and got me interested. It was coupled with a great print campaign also. I was more looking forward to this movie than any other film this year. I even downloaded the Suicide Squad comics so I would be better informed. I watched other David Ayer movies like End Of Watch and Fury. On thE basis of those movies I was sure this was going to be fantastic.

However after seeing it...........

It was by far the biggest disappointment I have had in the cinema for a long time. In this case the trailers are far better than the film itself.

PressRun

The Shining and Exorcist ones are great. Totally simple ideas.

The Alien one is very good too. Makes great use of sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGAHtWV7Ua8

bradolf pittler

"Soon the whole world will know my name"
Never was i more excited by a trailer then when i saw this.
Mind you i was 11 at the time.....