Notable Trailers: Difference between revisions

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A trailer is basically a short advertisement for a film. Usually borrowing small pieces of the film, it can be a problem to make one, sometimes harder to make than the movie itself. A good trailer encourages people to go see the film (or to rent or buy it if it's on DVD), but at the same time [[Trailers Always Spoil|shouldn't give away too much of the film]], and to be honest, [[Trailers Always Lie|should not promise things that are not in the film]] (with some exceptions; sometimes, to establish the conditions in a film, they'll add a scene of a few seconds that isn't in the film because the conditions existing are obvious and don't need to be repeated in the film.)

There have been some notable trailers where the trailer was an accurate representation of the content of the film, and neither lied nor spoiled the film. And perhaps some are notable for either being tremendously better than the film, or being tremendously worse.

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* The teaser for ''[[Super 8]]'' consisted entirely of a truck smashing into a train, something breaking out of a boxcar, and a few frames to kick-start a viral marketing campaign. Because of its ambiguity, it spread across the Internet like wildfire.

* The teaser for the American version of [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]] was a series of dark scenes with no dialogue and was scored to a [[Led Zeppelin]] song by [[Nine Inch Nails|Trent Reznor]] and [[The Yeah Yeah Yeahs|Karen O]]. It became one of the most iconic videos of 2011 and inspired numerous loving parodies and much admiration. It can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLvMg62RPA here].

* [[The ~~Hitchhikers~~ Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]] goes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I meta].

* [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]] goes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I meta].

* Watch the first trailer for [[The Terminator|Terminator2]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFXXB08RZk&feature=related and you just HAVE to see it the day it comes out in the summer...of 1991!] Note how it consists completely of footage made exclusively for the trailer without showing any actual movie scenes and only has one line of text. It definitely gets you pumped.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Super Smash Bros]]. Brawl'' has the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie02.html Nintendo World 2006 trailer], the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie070712a.html E3 teaser], and the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie071221a.html Subspace Emissary trailer]. And those are just the trailers that are ''not'' included in the game's movies section.

* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' has the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie02.html Nintendo World 2006 trailer], the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie070712a.html E3 teaser], and the [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie071221a.html Subspace Emissary trailer]. And those are just the trailers that are ''not'' included in the game's movies section.

* The internet, and half of the games industry, shat itself in amazement at the ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 2'' trailer, all the more so because dial-up internet was just coming into popular use and nobody could actually get their hands on it. The reaction probably cemented the importance of good trailer editing in the games industry from then onwards.

* Continuing down the video game theme: [[Your Mileage May Vary|no matter what you think of the series]], the epic trailer for ''[[Halo]] 3'' at E3 2006, complete with the orchestral song "Finish the Fight," is sometimes seen as a milestone for cinematic video game trailers.

* ''[[Dead Island]]'' went from a virtually unknown IP to one of the most talked about games on the Internet literally overnight thanks to its trailer (which didn't contain even one frame of actually gameplay footage).