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MatCauthon posted:Not a lot of trailers have stood out to me, but there are a few that I still watch sometimes because they just did such a good job of selling me on the movie. One is the long trailer for the recent Star Trek reboot. We should definitely talk about trailer music. The right choice of music seems to be incredibly important to making a trailer leave you (or me, at any rate) feeling the right way about the movie. It seems like Nine Inch Nails' music is made for or even made in the universe presented in Terminator: Salvation trailer. Then you have inspired use of The Prodigy's "Invaders Must Die" as the backdrop for hypercharged comic-book fights in the trailer for Scott Pilgrim Versus The World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUBVcit5VM and The Servant's "Cells" for Sin City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFLrTYKIXk. But then that Star Trek trailer (whose effectiveness is blatantly three-quarters down to the music) is "Freedom Fighters" by Two Steps From Hell, who you've never heard of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJm6b-o2pTM They seem to be an outfit dedicated to the production of trailer music. Other artists in this area are Zack Hemsey, responsible for "Mind Heist", for the Inception trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJqicM6x84 and Methodic Doubt. This one was for X-Men: First Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htAGR6UnJ6I Also Immediate Music, Future World Music, Audiomachine, somebody called X-Ray Dog (?) and others. This is a great little genre of music: generally fairly orchestral pieces lasting about two and a half minutes but with big, immediately enjoyable themes which quickly build to a climax. Trailer music isn't usually by the same artist as the movie's score (if it has one) and so doesn't usually find its way onto the movie soundtrack albums, which is disappointing in many cases. qntm fucked around with this message at 19:38 on May 25, 2012 |
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. I was never a fan of Star Trek growing up and aside from random snippets of TOS or TNG, I never watched any of the shows. I'd seen a few of the films when they came on cable at random times, but not because I went looking for them. I know a lot of people feel like it's just a random science fiction/action movie with Star Trek signifiers pasted on, or dislike Abrams take on the mythology, but the trailer (and the movie) got me into Star Trek in a way that nothing else did before. 
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Robert Denby posted:There's some fascinating stuff behind the first ever trailer for "Star Wars". I'm sure most goons are familiar with how much of a disaster the production of "Star Wars" was, from deserts destroying sets, to the film going overbudget and way overschedule. By Christmas of 1976, Fox had considered pulling the plug on the project several times, and things weren't helped when the above trailer played to bewildered audiences. You can't post all of those and not the first trailer for Episode I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hOlI9cg4o It's difficult to remember just how long the gap was between Jedi and Phantom Menace, and how big this trailer was as a result. This trailer pushed so many huge buttons: lightsabers, blasters, blaster sound effects, double lightsabers, C-3PO, space battles, Binary Sunset. In retrospect, everything that was wrong with the film is visible in the trailer too, but who noticed?
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Jun 6, 2012 17:59
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GonSmithe posted:Trailer for Robert Zemeckis'new live action film Flight was released today: That's how Zemeckis likes his trailers. He explicitly wants the whole story in the trailer so that audiences know what they're getting. The trailer for Back To The Future has everything up until the last lightning strike that sends Marty home.
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Jun 7, 2012 19:35
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So, these are a series of videos made by Kees van Dijkhuizen, who every year since 2008 has made what amounts to a single extended trailer for all the movies released that year. I was impressed with the editing and the musical cues and I came out the other end of these thinking "I want to watch every single one of these movies" so I thought they were good enough to be worth sharing. Cinema 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-QhpS_kIs Cinema 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5bc8zFUiQE Cinema 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SibpHD0Oc - this is the one which makes M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender look like it's worth watching Cinema 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1YmAtL-5ls
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Jun 19, 2012 23:16
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BlueBayou posted:It always bugs me that dude at the start tells Kirk to enlist in starfleet. If he becomes and officer, wouldn't he commission, not enlist? What's the difference? (The point I'm making is that I think a lot of people don't know there's a difference.)
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Jul 19, 2012 21:31
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justlikedunkirk posted:While this trailer is really just an excerpt from the film, it's still pretty loving incredible. The fun starts about a minute into it. I don't understand what this is about. Is it a marine life documentary or something? A fishing movie? I can find no information that isn't about some terrible action/horror from 1989. This is not a very good trailer.
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Aug 20, 2012 14:31
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Gonz posted:Oh my heavens. I actually had to go to Wikipedia to work out that what he's saying is "The 007 of Plainfield, New Jersey". Just putting that there in case anybody else has never heard of Plainfield, New Jersey and thinks he's talking about playing fields or something.
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Oct 5, 2012 11:45
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scary ghost dog posted:You probably made this mistake not because you've never heard of Plainfield, New Jersey, but because you're an idiot. It's like the 40th-biggest town in the state, I honestly have never heard of it. Is it supposed to be famous for some reason?
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Oct 11, 2012 15:36
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Gonz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46SycbqzGyA So what we're going to do is get an ageing action movie star to appear as an ageing action hero. And - here's the clever bit - in the trailer, they'll make a joke about how old they are. Nobody would ever expect it!
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Nov 9, 2012 14:54
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BlueBayou posted:Kingdom of Heaven as well. The movie was poo poo, but the trailers made it look so.freaking.awesome This?
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Nov 20, 2012 19:35
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teagone posted:I don't know, I got a decent grasp of the film from the trailer I think. Tom Cruise is one of the last humans on earth after decades of warring with an alien species. Despite winning the war, the human race bailed into space as a result of that interstellar confrontation leaving the earth in a state of desolation. Cruise is a repairman of some kind, fixing up drones that are (what I assume) cleaning up/prepping earth for the return of the human race. There also seems to be something to do with lost/recovered memories going on. Notice how Cruise's character has a memory of the pre-war world, despite that being sixty years ago. Then there's this woman he doesn't remember for some reason, plus the tagline.
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Dec 10, 2012 01:20
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Jewmanji posted:Why does Superman need to go dark? Because Batman did it and made +$2 billion? Um, yes?
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Dec 12, 2012 13:47
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qntm posted:So, these are a series of videos made by Kees van Dijkhuizen, who every year since 2008 has made what amounts to a single extended trailer for all the movies released that year. I was impressed with the editing and the musical cues and I came out the other end of these thinking "I want to watch every single one of these movies" so I thought they were good enough to be worth sharing. Quoting myself from way back because another year has passed. Here is Kees van Dijkhuizen's trailer for Cinema 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1r1tS464jE Apparently this will be his last one, which is a pity.
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Jan 1, 2013 13:57
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Primer's trailer for those who haven't seen it. I concur that this is not a good trailer. Just to start with, what is anybody supposed to make of the ERBP production company's logo? The first time I saw it (in the credits of Primer) I thought it was a diagram of the timeline or something. On the other hand, I'm curious as to how a "good" trailer for Primer would actually have gone, because it doesn't seem to me like there's an obvious route through that. So maybe Upstream Color is equally difficult to trailerise. I hope it is.
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ApexAftermath posted:Extended Iron Man 3 spot. The last 15 seconds of this trailer are just textbook. Look at that promise: "In this one Iron Man's got to do the impossible." Not just a bunch of stuff exploding and moving fast, not even some airy-fairy "nobody's ever done anything like this before", a cut-and-dry set piece with a hard numerical fact that he's got to beat somehow. And look how Downey sells the possibility that he can't actually do it. I love it when an action hero is uncertain about whether he can win. I'm desperate to see what happens next. This is a great trailer.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:56
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Zzulu posted:More robots, man. Pacific Rim Wondercon Trailer So I guess trailer narration is back?
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Apr 29, 2013 21:59
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degauss posted:Jesus, you guys are so right. It's been years since I've seen it, but still, how could I forget? I... I think I should leave. It's a tale as old as time.
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Devour posted:2001 + Apollo 13 + Prometheus 2010: Odyssey Two is specifically the book where they land on Europa and get killed by some sort of plant monster from beneath the ice. I forget whether that happens in the movie. E: point being, "alien monsters from beneath the ice" isn't totally inconsistent with "hard science fiction", if Arthur C. Clarke is anyone to go by.
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