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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-05-2001 06:54 PM

WRT Troma Pictures -- is there by any chance a trailer for "Killer Condom"? If so, I'd love to see it. I've never seen the film, but I have recently read a teriffic book called "King of Cannes" (by Stephen Walker)...it in, "Killer Condom" is mentioned several times and sounds like an archtypical B-picture, but one which would make for a great trailer.

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Joseph Pandolfi
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posted 04-06-2001 03:07 PM

PEARL HARBOR The 3:00 trailer is my favorite for this year. DRIVEN comes in a close second for best use out of all the speakers in the house. Last year it was SCARY MOVIE which won for the most chuckles out of the audience.

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Josh Jones
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posted 04-08-2001 01:57 AM

I guess groove should get a vote for its kick ass techno track. I guess the movie wasn't that great though.

Josh

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Rachel Kovacs
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posted 04-10-2001 01:15 AM

I do love the Pearl Harbor trailer....at least, I loved it the first four hundred ga-jillion times I saw it... I think the Lord of the Rings trailer kicks major ass...also:
*Blow--both the teaser and the trailer
*Billy Elliot
*A Knight's Tale (not a fantastic trailer, but I've been a Heath Ledger fan for awhile, and I love the use of the song "Dragula" at the end)
*Moulin Rouge
*Freddy Got Fingered (if for nothing other than the "Daddy, would you like some sausage?" towards the end)
*Evolution--more teaser than trailer
*Stir of Echoes

There are plenty more, but it could take awhile, and I need sleeeeeep...

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Aldo Baez
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posted 04-12-2001 01:07 AM

The Pearl Harbor trailer, I remember building up the teaser for the first time last summer. "Oh pearl harbor cool" when I first saw the japanese zeros flying across the baseball field my jaw dropped. Then the second longer trailer came with the thin red line music. Man that has to be the best trailer, has anyone seen the newer pearl harbor trailer that has the different music? Its so awful, there's no climax or anything like with the other music. They've butchered it

. I've seen that trailer probably hundreds of times already and I never get tired of it, I also like watching the audience reaction.

Gladiator trailer, man that just got the blood pumping.

U-571, The Talented Mr. Ripley was also a really good trailer. And I LOVED the Chicken Run Mission Impossible 2(CI2:CHICKEN IMPOSSIBLE) spoof trailer. Hahhahaha makes me laugh just thinking about it.

The newer Mummy Returns trailer (with all the armies fighting) is good too.
But the best trailer that surprised people the most that I've seen is the Godzilla trailer with the fisherman fishing Godzilla out. Oh my god. The audience went NUTS, I mean, popcorn flying and everything.

The Exorcist rerelease trailer was also pretty good.

Geez, I better stop now but I love love love trailers and seeing the reactions. Maybe I should get into trailer making or something.
Oh, Has anyone seen the second trailer for A.I.? It's beautiful, absolutely breathless. Sigh. ok I'll stop now,

Aldo

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Rick Long
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posted 04-15-2001 04:33 PM

The trailer I liked was one most of you are probably too young to remember: "Cool Hand Luke" (1968).

Strother Martin, playing the straw-boss of a southern prison road crew was heard to mutter no less than 4 times the famous line, "What we got here, is failure to communicate!" Interesting that it was used only once in the actual feature.

Still, the line seemed to reflect the times perfectly.

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Jonathan Worthing
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posted 04-19-2001 10:18 AM

My dad had one on the back of his car. That was a nice one, it was small green & wobbled at 60MPH.

(KEEP TAKING THE MEDICATION )

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Mitchell Cope
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posted 04-20-2001 05:10 PM

"Goldeneye" (SCOPE) long version is terrific. Lots of cool cuts over and over again. Great classic Bond theme music.

"Pearl Harbor" (SCOPE teaser)... terrific, jaw dropping. I have not liked the subsequent trailers as much, though. Too much unrelated visuals like FDR speaking into microphone. For me, it scares me that the movie might not be as good as the teaser. I did like following one of the bombs down to a ship's deck and then having it shown with the deck on its side in the water with sailors hanging on for life (shades of Titanic?).

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Aaron Haney
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posted 04-21-2001 12:18 PM

The trailers for "The Matrix" did a good job of building interest in the movie without giving away too much. Good quotes, too: "You have to see it for yourself.", and of course, "Whoa."

I hate trailers that give away too many plot details, such as the longer ones for "Cast Away" (Oh, so he gets rescued? Don't need to see the movie now!), the trailers for "What Lies Beneath", and the worst offender of all time -- "The Negotiator" (the last thing you see is Kevin Spacey cocking his gun and saying "Now you're going to have to deal with both of us" -- thanks for giving away the biggest plot twist in the movie!)

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Bill Carter
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posted 04-23-2001 12:05 PM

Troma usually does video to film transfers (sometimes crummy ones) of their trailers... but only on the stuff that they have 35mm prints of. The features they make themselves are shot 35mm, but a lot of the low/no-budget stuff they pick up for home video was never finished on film.

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Demetris Thoupis
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posted 04-26-2001 03:25 PM

Hello All,
Personaly, I think the best trailer NOW is PEARL HARBOR the "bomb camera follow up" trailer. Everytime I see it my hairs jump up like monkeys!!!!! It's just SO PERFECT. The music, and everything. I even cried twice when I saw it - (don't know why). But of course people don't remember all the old goodies - old trailers I mean. Who remembers INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE or TERMINATOR 2 trailer. Ages and Ages ago. Of course for me the BEST BEST Trailer so far is the teaser of TOMB RAIDER THE MOVIE. Who saw it???
Ciao for now
Demetris Thoupis
"FOR STRENGTH AND HONOUR"

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Bryan Nikaido
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posted 04-30-2001 03:36 AM

am i too late for this thread?? d'oh!

anywho, faves would be:
road trip (redband) "this is some good shxt!"
dark city (tv teasers: music was niiifty)
final destination...

gwah.. too tired to think of any others..

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 04-30-2001 08:34 AM

Definately the Blues Brothers. It has all the out takes that were sniped out of the final release. I have a very long 70mm of it someplace......has an odd track setup to it. Not the normal 6 track or 5.1. It looks great and makes me wish they had made at least a few 70mm prints of it. Unfortunately all they ended up making was 4 track mag 35.
Mark @ GTS

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Brad Miller
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posted 04-30-2001 09:49 AM

Aaaaaah yes! The 70mm Blues Brothers trailer. I had forgotten about that one. I've got a print of that too. I think it was 5 minutes, maybe even 6 minutes long. I can't remember the specifics since it has been so long since I ran it, but I do remember something weird about the track. When I get things up and running, I'll dig it out and project it again. Great trailer!

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-30-2001 10:05 PM

One of my most favorite trailers is the teaser trailer to "Total Recall". I saw it for the first time attached to the 70mm print of "Glory" (shown at New York's Gemini Twin). I saw it again a couple months later on the front of a 70mm showing of "Mountains of the Moon."

It is a very simple, but well designed from a graphical standpoint. And the 70mm version of the teaser contained one of the best "fly-by" effects I had ever heard up to that point. The camera POV flys over the Mars surface toward a black pyramid in the distance and these two moons shoot right by you as the narrator finishes the phrase, "how would you know if someone stole your mind?" Really incredible effect.

I was sorely disappointed to find only a 2 channel mix of the teaser trailer on the "Total Recall" DVD.

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