Old Movie Trailers

Pigman

Does anyone else find it cool when a DVD of an old classic movie has a trailer on it and the trailer IS SO BAD that it makes you wonder 'how did this movie ever make any money if this was all the viewing public had to go on beforehand'?

Anyway, has anyone got any really bad trailer stories for good old movies (20 years+ old) that they've seen on DVD or elsewhere.

sceptre

Trailer for 12 Angry Men isn't too hot tbh

Old Bond trailers - when they re-released the movies on video a few years back they put the trailers on them. I found the one for "Diamonds are forever" particularly cat.

After seeing the trailer for Dr Strangelove, I'm amazed that anyone went to see it at all - it's basically a 3 min synopsis of the entire movie, including the end.

The only other "old" (over 50 years old) movie I have on DVD is "Asenic and old lace". Found that trailer particularly good considering the general wackiness of the movie.

Spiffing

Heh, you should see the North by Northwest trailer.

pauldeehan

The Mangnificent Seven had a terribly flat trailer that made me want to fall asleep.

sceptre

Originally posted by pauldeehan
The Mangnificent Seven had a terribly flat trailer that made me want to fall asleep.

There was a second one that just went "7, 7, 7" a lot. Apart from sounding like something Elmo would come up with, it was almost as bad.

The older trailers are wierd to watch now, compared to the recent ones.

Remember that guy with the really deep voice? When the trailer would start, all you'd hear is this guy (he must have featured on ALL the 80's trailers!) booming through the speakers, coming out with some philosophical thoughts..."Throughout the mists of time...(deep pause)...one man held the key to hope..." or some line like that.


The one for ghostbusters looks so old now and the everyone in it looks so young, it's wierd to watch now i think.

Spiffing

Originally posted by MoonHawk
Remember that guy with the really deep voice? When the trailer would start, all you'd hear is this guy (he must have featured on ALL the 80's trailers!) booming through the speakers, coming out with some philosophical thoughts..."Throughout the mists of time...(deep pause)...one man held the key to hope..." or some line like that.

LOL, I know what you mean

pauldeehan

Remember that guy with the really deep voice? When the trailer would start, all you'd hear is this guy (he must have featured on ALL the 80's trailers!) booming through the speakers, coming out with some philosophical thoughts..."Throughout the mists of time...(deep pause)...one man held the key to hope..." or some line like that.

Yeah, too true.

In a world, where order is chaos
Where freedom is slavery
One man fights for survival

His name... pauldeehan

sceptre

Originally posted by MoonHawk
Remember that guy with the really deep voice? When the trailer would start, all you'd hear is this guy (he must have featured on ALL the 80's trailers!) booming through the speakers, coming out with some philosophical thoughts..."Throughout the mists of time...(deep pause)...one man held the key to hope..."

Ha, that's Don LaFontaine. He's pretty infamous for the "in a world...." trailers. He's done about 3500 trailers and does about 80 voiceovers a day. Now that chap who did the Jurassic Park trailers is dead, he probably has the market to himself.

Karl Hungus

The trailer for The Lost Boys was dead cool.
And the guy with the deep voice does that too. Nice one.

Spiffing

Originally posted by AngelWhore
The trailer for The Lost Boys was dead cool.

Good movie

Caesar_Bojangle

Originally posted by sceptre

After seeing the trailer for Dr Strangelove, I'm amazed that anyone went to see it at all - it's basically a 3 min synopsis of the entire movie, including the end.

Most of kubricks movies are like that, judging by most of the trailers on the dvd box set i have, i cant remember which one exactly but i think 2001 was pretty much a brief summary of the film as it showed the final scenes and some other keys events happening.

Also the godfather 1+2 trailers were pretty shlt, if i had seen the trailers for the godfather 25 or so years ago, i wouldnt have gone to see it as it gave away a load of the story, it even showed the scene were the future don kills the cop and the other guy in the restaurant when he comes out of the toilet, i would have done a spoiler but the trailer showed it so. There were a load of major scenes given away in the 5 minute trailers that you could have guessed the rest.