the worst:
Gone in 60 seconds (should have made it 60 seconds)
U-571- (I've seen this pice of shit trailer so many times I actually DON'T want to watch the movie)
Frequency (I screened it for the sneak- the movie is actually a 2 hour version of the trailer)

and the absolute worst!

The Patriot!!
F@#$cking 2:50 tells the whole F!@#CKING story, and halfway through uses the music from the ROMEO MUST DIE trailer... WHAT ARE THESE MONGOLOIDS THINKING!!!????

garrarararrrr...
 

I'm getting so, so, so tired of the little comedic stinger at the end of ALL trailers nowadays. You know where someone will cut together an interesting looking trailer, flash the title, credits and then WHAM they hit you with some stupid little "supposed to be funny" clip that just elicits groans from the audience. In horror movies, this is of course that one last 2 second shot of the killer attacking some girl as she screams. How lame. I feel like cutting those last shots out.
 

The fault lies with the promotion departments of the studios who approve these things.

I agree with Brad, Disney is the worst. They also started the nonsense of putting the release dates in the middle of the trailer ("This June 9th, experience the adventure...") as if the entire audience in the whole world is going to see the movie in one day.

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Mike Blakesley
www.goforsyth.com/roxy

eventually it becomes like Niagra Falls, you live there for a while and then you just don't hear it.
 

Two great trailers of recent years are Road Trip and The Fast and the Furious

Road Trip? That trailer has a segment of my all-time favorite hit record -- "I Think I Love You".

The Fast and the Furious? See my review of the movie. Brad will agree, won't he?

Mitchell C: I've come across a situation similar to yours. Once I saw the trailer for Big Momma's House twice in a row I think it was before Love & Basketball.
 

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I'm getting so, so, so tired of the little comedic stinger at the end of ALL trailers nowadays.

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Bow your head!
 

When i worked in second run and dollar houses in the mid-80s I would end up editing the hell out of trailers that had embedded release dates in them because it is just so freaking LAME to be advertising films that have visual and audio announcements stating "This Christmas" or "Coming Thanksgiving"...in MARCH

As a matter of fact i avoided running any trailers at all in the dollar house because I didnt think it was right to be: a) advertising films that we might or might not ever play, and if we did it would be several months down the road and b) almost always had the release dates embedded in them somewhere (before i would get into the editing part). and c) giving the competition free advertising. In one of the dollar houses I was FORCED to play the attached trailer (if the film still had one by then) with any film with the sole exception of if the trailer was for a film we had already played.

Lets have trailers without all the release dates, give subrun a break... hell, I am surprised that trailers arent adding the projected video release dates into their trailers in first run! Even Fox had released some 'Cast Away' trailers advertising its VIDEO release date back in May!

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Aaron

The release date problem would be solved if they'd just put the release date at the very end of the trailer, in silence. Would have more impact that way, too, IMHO. Then subruns could just cut that part off.

Ky, Jesse: That trailer for My Dog Skip was originally cut when WB planned a limited release. The March date got embedded after WB decided on a wide release after all.
 

Here's another thing: the teasers are usually more interesting than the trailers themselves. Why not just go to 30 second teasers? Aside from making the lives of managers and projectionists easier (you don't have to pack 30 minutes worth of crap on the front of a two hour movie and then still figure out how in the hell to get 5 show times a day) having only quick teasers might force some of those idiots who arrive late all the time to get to the theater EARLY, get their refreshments and plant their big butts in their seats before the lights go down!
 

Why can't studios get it through their heads that this will suffice. The Mission to Mars teaser I remember people raving about...Once the full trailer and movie came out it was a different story altogether. But geez, just think if they'd left it with the teaser.

How does somebody get the job of a trailer cutter? Because I want it! Sign me up.
 

Movie Voice Man is Don LaFontaine. Jim Cutler sounds a lot like him, and does voiceovers for ESPN and Judge Mills Lane, among others.
 

I like 2 minute trailers. I like trailers that look like mini-movies (Dinosaur). But most of all, I like teasers. I agree that some trailers give away the movie. Alot of comedies, for example, Shallow Hal, have the funniest parts in the trailer, and then you'r dissapointed when you see the movie. But the movies usually do have some kind of ending that isn't given in the trialer.

My favorite teasers: Monsters Inc, Ice Age, Star Wars EP II, Star Trek: First Contact.
 

Dwayne likes Optimus Prime.
 

While Disney-owned ABC parrots US gov't propaganda as "news", Disney-owned Touchstone Pictures doesn't pay close attention to trailers.

This phenomonon of one guy getting every single VO job in the entertainment market is not making the other hundreds of voice-over artist very happy. The guy drives around in a limo drinking champaigne (and probably eating sandpaper strips), going from one recording studeo to another, ALL DAY LONG. I do some voice-over work occasionally and I can't tell you how maddening it is to hear this guy's gravel throat on promo after promo after promo -- you can't get away from him. Of course it's nice that the guy was able to parley such a successful career out of such a old, gutteral sound (me, I'm thinking Faust), but damn, dude, give someone else a chance. And BTW, Don, watch your back if you ever come to Brooklyn.
 

I use Letraset graphics products that work very well for just this situation. The product is a thin strip of black flexible material with adhesive backing that is the exact width of the soundtrack.

Next you play the dated trailer, and using a grease pencil, touch the film on the base side when the date is spoken and release it when it is finished. It would be great to have one of those stand-alone optical playback units that you can plop down on the rewind bench and roll back and forth like we used to do editing reel-to-reel audio tape -- but I have to settle for threading up in the projector -- so be it. Sometimes it takes a few plays to get it exact, but once you get the knack, it's easy. Next you just lay the tape over the soundtrack for the length of the grease pencil mark and wipe the mark off. We did this recently on a trailer for the STARWARS trilogy trailer in which each release date was announced for the three films. It worked so well that you almost didn't notice the second or so where the sound went mute.

Arthouse guys are dogs....we have to make everything and anything we can get our hands on work. Don't get me started on making 1 sheets from any existing material, even old LP soundtrack album covers, and scanning it into a computer, working it in Photoshop and then tiling out the 12 sections to an inkjet printer, glueing all the 8.5x11 sheets together to make a fairly passable 1 sheet.