Sunday, November 16, 2008

Top five movie trailers

Movie trailers! Maybe its the editor in me that finds them so interesting. Or Maybe its just the ADD. Anyhow lets debut my favorite movie trailer!

5. Burn after Reading. The song. The atmosphere. The big bold lettering. This is perhaps the funniest trailer I have seen in a while. Unfortunately this was one of those films that ended up not living up to its trailer.

.4 Eyes Wide Shut. This trailer is the definition of Art House cool. The song that plays over this trailer has to be one of my favorites. I also adore the complete lack of dialogue in the trailer. Also the big bold lettering happens to be a favorite of mine. Then that piercing close up of Nicole Kidman....

4. Bedazzled. So what if its a silly comedy. It highlights all the best parts of the movie and employs a kick ass ac dc song at the end. That. Is. All.

3.American Psycho. This trailer is both scary and stylish occasionally introducing humor into the equation. Although the actual film is far more humorous then this trailer and less of a conventional horror movie.

2. Margot At the Wedding. This trailer perfectly capture exquisite bitchinessof the movie. More Kidman!

1.It combines one liners, a plot outline and a great song at the end. A cynical Christmas classic. Best. Trailer.EVER.

1 comment:

Josh Greenberg said...

This was an ingenious idea for a blog post! I would've never thought to do something that! I seldom find trailers memorable but its interesting that you remembered all of these. Actually, my favorite part of going to the movies is the previews.

This post actually made me jot down a few titles I'll have to get from Netflix. Anyway, about movies not living up to their previews, I thought Ice Harvest (your No. 1) was just that. I had never seen the preview for it and as I sat watching it, I thought "Ugh is this that really crappy movie I saw with Jeremy like two years ago?" And VUALA! There it was! I really liked the preview but I really hated the movie.

Anyway, GREAT BLOG IDEA!