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Tango01  | 18 Jun 2013 3:57 p.m. PST |
"We had to, of course—pick our favorite trailer of all time, that is. It wasn't an easy decision. Besides the 150-plus trailers we analyzed for this story, we've seen thousands in our lifetime. Many stink; some are great. A few are even better than the movies they're teasing. (Two recent examples? Previews for Cloud Atlas and that Zack Snyder talking-owl movie, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. You might even forget the bad reviews and see the films. Don't.) And that's the thing: You can't judge a trailer by its movie. Nobody loved the Star Wars prequels. But the trailer for Phantom Menace? "A phenomenon," says Keith Johnston, author of Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology. "People flocked to cinemas in November 1998 to see that trailer—not the film it played in front of!" We asked Johnston, along with the rest of our academy of experts, what they'd pick as their best-evers. From there, we proposed a final 10…"
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| jpattern2 | 18 Jun 2013 6:07 p.m. PST |
Nice find, and awesome trailer picks. |
| Great War Ace | 18 Jun 2013 6:12 p.m. PST |
Well, that could wind up killing a lot of time. I did watch Alien trailer again, and "Little Children", hadn't heard of that one, looks suspenseful, in a giving into temptation and comeupance sort of way. But they did say the movies sometimes are not up to the trailer, maybe that was one of those?… |
| jpattern2 | 19 Jun 2013 6:12 a.m. PST |
I remember seeing the Alien trailer in the theater all those years ago. As the title was slowly spelled out, followed by all those clips from the movie, I got goosebumps. When the movie was finally released, I was worried that it wouldn't live up to the trailer. Boy, was I wrong. |
| Tango01 | 19 Jun 2013 11:00 a.m. PST |
Glad you had enjoy them boys. Amicalement
Armand |
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